TempleHome
TempleHome is an online destination that helps people redesign their homes in order to transform their lives. It offers design content and solutions, provides cost saving recommendations, connects consumers and retailers, and creates a community. It addresses the underserved junction of two large on and offline marketplaces: home improvement and self improvement. TempleHome's design recommendation engine creates a personalized journey for people to examine the items in their home, explore their relationship to them, and make smarter purchasing decisions.

The Company will be launching its alpha content destination site (SoulSpace.com) and integrated beta shopping engine (TempleHome.com) in 2010.

Background
Renowned architectural conservator and designer Xorin Balbes experienced success at an early age but it left him unfulfilled. In search of a deeper meaning in his life he embarked on a journey of self discovery that fundamentally changed his perspective about the role that design plays in our daily lives.

In 2000, Xorin launched the architecture and design firm TempleHome, a name chosen specifically to reinforce his strongly held belief that if people treated their homes with the same reverence that they treated other sacred spaces they could achieve beauty and peace in all areas of their lives.

Xorin discovered that the process of exploring the interior design of a home can lead to a new and enriched understanding of an individual's real "interior design": the way they think, dream, live, love and perceive the world. This was true whether someone was a renter or a homeowner, upgrading to a new house or downsizing after a divorce. He named this design philosophy SoulSpace.

The SoulSpace process teaches people how to listen to the messages inherent in the way they have unconsciously created their homes so they can recreate their spaces to support the lives they want to lead in order to feel fulfilled, nourished and strong. Once renters and homeowners face their belongings, confront their fears, un-clutter their spaces, and discover their personal truths, they can harness their creativity, transform their homes and their lives and find refuge, renewal and splendor within their own four walls.

As clients began to share their personal success stories and sought him out for further insight, Xorin expanded SoulSpace into a 7 step process that would guide users in how to approach home design and renovation in a completely different way; from assessing their current space, to releasing those things that no longer serve them to imaging the possibility of what comes next. He designed it to work as a balance of inspiration, self-discovery and practical solutions for any budget, any time, anywhere.

Much like Xorin's own journey of discovery, SoulSpace represented the intersection of home and self improvement with a stirring call to action, "transform your home, transform your life."

In 2009 Hollywood talent agency William Morris Endeavor began representing Xorin and a book and television deal soon followed, partnering him with leading production company Magical Elves, creators of numerous financially successful and critically acclaimed reality television programs including Project Runway and Top Chef.

At the same time, Xorin assembled a team of design, retail/marketing and technology executives to launch a digital platform for TempleHome that would redefine the retail experience by producing a deeper emotional connection to design.

Team
TempleHome's founders and senior management has over 75 collective years of experience with skill sets in home and self improvement, interior design, philanthropy, creative marketing, media and start-up development.

Xorin Balbes, Co-Founder and Chairman, is an award-winning architectural conservator, lauded designer and philanthropist with an impressive succession of redesigns and renovations over the past 25 years. His personal journey has demanded that he constantly look at all that he has acquired and understand his connection to the things and people that surround him. This has encouraged him to develop his own philosophy for home design entitled SoulSpace. The process was born out of the discovery of a deeper purpose and meaning in his life, and his aspiration to share this deeper, more soulful way of living with others.

Tim Nett, Co-Founder and President, has been recognized as a marketing visionary throughout his 20 year career. He is a multi-award winning creative marketing executive and a member of the Motion Picture Academy who served for 6 years on the Advisory Board and as a producer of the Key Art Awards. In 1994 he founded Trailer Park Inc. Under Tim's leadership as CEO, Trailer Park became the largest entertainment marketing company in the world. Additionally, he is a founding member and former board member of the Association of Entertainment Marketing Agencies (AEMA). They were acquired in 2005 by Lake Capital, private equity, and continues to serve on the board. AMPAS.

Noam Dromi, Co-Founder and COO, is a media and technology strategist specializing in cross platform communications programs for corporations, brands and entertainment companies. He has served as a senior level executive overseeing digital media initiatives at companies including Craig Murray Productions, Time Warner and Mandalay Entertainment Group.

Adrian Sexton, Strategic Advisor, is Co-Founder & CEO of New Medici LLC, a media strategy and lifestyle network. Prior to, he was Executive Vice President at Participant Media, managing the pro-social company's expansion into global media. He co-founded TAG Strategic, a strategy agency with clients Qualcomm and LivePlanet. He headed Lionsgate's digital division, managing its 8,500 title library. Lionsgate's market cap rose from $60 million to $1.2 billion during his tenure. Sexton was New Media Director at MediaPact, a $500 million media management and capital firm which took over management of Lionsgate.