Tom Hartle is the founder of CoherentRx, a healthcare technology company that produces Patient Education Genius and other healthcare communication applications.
In 1995, Hartle founded Hour Media, which publishes Hour Detroit - a Detroit lifestyle magazine and website, with business partners John Balardo and Stefan Wanczyk. Crain's Detroit Business named Hartle as one of the magazine's 40 under 40 in 1998.[1]
In 2000, he sold out of the company and launched Hartle Media with then partner Heather Hartle. Hartle Media launched 7x7, a bimonthly San Francisco lifestyle magazine and website, in 2001.[2] In 2004, Hartle Media bought California Home + Design, a California home and garden magazine and website, with partner, the McEvoy Group.[3]
In 2006, Hartle Media partnered with the McEvoy Group to buy Spin Media, publisher of Spin, a music magazine and website. Hartle served as president of Spin until February 2010.[4] In April 2010, he co-founded Bandwdth Publishing, an app publishing house devoted to the arts and sciences. Bandwdth Publishing creates educational products for app-enabled devices. Titles include: Bygone Days, an American history app for the iPad,[5] the Bandwdth Artist Dashboard for the Samsung Smart TV, KoЯn and Uproar Tour apps for the iPhone, a KoЯn SMS program, and a app for the iPad, a virtual art gallery complement to the documentary of the same name.
Hartle is an alumnus of Boston University and Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan.