# Israel L'Heureux

> Israel L'Heureux is the founder and CEO of Touchpoint Restaurant Solutions, publicly listed as Touchpoint Restaurant Innovations. He previously co-founded Redline Networks and held founding CEO and CTO roles. His documented work includes web acceleration, digital asset distribution and restaurant-ordering systems, following studies in Product Design Engineering at Stanford.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Touchpoint Restaurant Solutions
- **Organizations:** Touchpoint Restaurant Solutions / Touchpoint Restaurant Innovations, Redline Networks, Dell, Daimler, BMW, Home Shopping Network / Internet Shopping Network
- **Education:** Stanford University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Redline Networks, which had more than 350 enterprise customers at the April 2005 acquisition announcement., Co-inventor on granted patents addressing web-resource acceleration and digital asset distribution., Founder and CEO of Touchpoint, providing restaurant ordering and operations technology.

## Career timeline

- **1989-1993** — Studied Product Design Engineering at Stanford University.
- **1993-1995** — Worked at BMW Group; public career profile identifies a project management role.
- **—** — Held online commerce and strategy roles at Dell and Daimler and consulted for Home Shopping Network / Internet Shopping Network.
- **2000** — Co-founded Redline Networks; served as founding CEO and CTO.
- **2004** — Web resource transfer acceleration patent US6834297B1 granted to co-inventors Christopher Peiffer and Israel L’Heureux.
- **2005** — Juniper announced Redline acquisition at approximately $132 million in cash and assumed stock options; acquisition completed May 2.
- **2011** — Digital asset distribution patent US7996882B2 granted August 9, naming Israel L’Heureux and Christopher J. Peiffer.
- **2012** — Filed restaurant-ordering application US20140214465A1 with Mark D. Alleman; published July 2014 and subsequently listed as abandoned.
- **2014** — Public executive profile records start as Touchpoint CEO and founder in June.
- **2020** — Server-side HTTP translator patent US10587733B2 issued March 10, naming Israel L’Heureux and Mark D. Alleman.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Redline Networks, which had more than 350 enterprise customers at the April 2005 acquisition announcement.
- Co-inventor on granted patents addressing web-resource acceleration and digital asset distribution.
- Founder and CEO of Touchpoint, providing restaurant ordering and operations technology.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/touchpointplus

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