CONSCIOUS CREATIVITY - Key Persons
The c3 welcomes Alice Billman to the role of Program Director. She will be working on securing grants and creating new programs for the c3 to execute.
Like all c3 team players, Alice brings a wealth of interdisciplinary skills with a passion to promote art, science and culture to elevate community and global consciousness. As an artist first and foremost, the negotiation of space, timing, awareness, musicality and grace impressed indelible and transferrable skills into her work as an Executive Director making every program, event and collaboration a well-executed, memorable performance. For twenty-five years, her agency successfully used both cutting edge and ancient arts as a platform for programs fulfilling community needs and inspired participants to live empowered through newly discovered expression. Alice is thrilled to support c3 in their efforts to incentivize, educate and inspire humanity with art, socially responsible projects and innovative media.
Job Titles:
- Producer
- Marketing Advisor
Alison Savitch is a producer in all aspects of multi-media entertainment; from blockbuster live-action movies & television to theme park attractions for the worlds leading parks to special venue production. She specializes in producing and supervising digital media including VFX, animation, and themed entertainment worldwide. Ms. Savitch was the longest standing Chair of the Producers Guild of Americas New Media Council, and the Visual Effects Committee for the entire PGA and the Board of Directors for the Producers Guild, Advisory Board of Gnomon School of VFX, founding Board Member of the Visual Effects Society, and New Media liaison to the First Lady's Joining Forces Task Force.
Savitch is known for her innovations in transmedia for feature films, TV, theme park entertainment, animation, motion capture, and all aspects of new media and 3D stereoscopic platforms. Her producing and supervising credits include: Green Lantern, Conan the Barbarian, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Piranha 3D, The Poseidon Adventure, Messengers, Rise, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Harold & Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay, Bangkok Dangerous, Alexander, The Abyss, Dracula, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Grudge & The Grudge 2, Aliens of the Deep, The Matrix, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Highlander: Endgame, The Imposter, Scary Movie, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The Shadow, Beowulf, The Faculty, Dogma, Arachnophobia, The Last Action Hero, and the Mortal Kombat franchise.
Savitch is known for her innovations in Theme Parks, Animation, Visual Effects, Motion Capture and 3-D stereoscopic production. Most recently, she produced and supervised the animation and visual effects on numerous major theme park attractions, including an all CGI stereoscopic movie for Hershey Park, Star Trek: Borg Invasion a- stereoscopic ride/attraction film for Paramount's Theme Park Division and the Walt Disney Company's #1 ride ever. "Mission Space" at Epcot Center as well as one of Euro Disney's top attractions ARMAGEDDON, based on the blockbuster movie to name a few.
Savitch produced both Mortal Kombat features. Each one opened number one in the box office as they went on to gross nearly $200 million worldwide. She also produced Mortal Kombat's Animated series that was #1 on USA network, as well as Mortal Kombat, The Journey Begins, a direct to video animated special that ranked #1 on the Billboard Kid Vid sales and rental charts, in which Ms. Savitch pioneered the use of Motion Capture and went on to further develop Motion Capture for some of Hollywood's most memorable and technically advanced moments on film. Savitch continues to develop and produce top trans-media properties across the media spectrum.
Savitch was and is also involved in developing the launch of a new era in a 3D stereoscopic process for the main stream market place, including a complete 3D stereoscopic production studio as well as various museums and alternative venue Productions.
Job Titles:
- Treasurer
- Director of Montessori of the Village
Barbara Waddle currently serves as the Director of Montessori of the Village in Westlake Village. She's been a Montessori teacher and director at the primary and elementary levels. Her goal is to foster quality Montessori programs internationally and develop a new curriculum to enrich the traditional Montessori program in the areas of creativity and emotional intelligence.
Her specialties include: Montessori teacher training, staff supervision and training, administrative support, classroom environment development. and curriculum enrichment.
c3's Minister of Culture and Artist Liaison Hello, Barry Goldberg here. I am a native Angeleno multi-media producer and artist. I focus on the inevitable positive revolution brought unto humankind's attaining awareness, consciousness, culture……. bandwidth.** As a music producer and recording engineer, my clients include artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Smashing Pumpkins, Kitaro, Snoop Dogg and Marilyn Manson. I have had the great experience of being an educator, teaching recording studio production for the extension program at UCLA. I am...
Bill Scott, even as a child, has had a fascination with fractals - mathematical graphs or visual representations of chaos theory. It has been through fractal technology that Bill has evolved a growing appreciation for the process of creation and the perfect order of all things created (i.e. chaos theory). It is no wonder that Bill was attracted to EEG biofeedback, the brain being a complex system and brainwaves the communicating interface. Attaching sensors to different parts of the body allows electrical signals to be detected: heart waves are called EKGs, brainwaves are called EEGs. These signals carry important data about the condition and states of these two organs, which in turn can be fed back to these organs, resulting in improved functionality.
Bill has been recognized in the field of EEG Biofeedback with accomplishments such as:
Yielding an unprecedented 79% success rate with Native American alcoholics as principal investigator and first author of an addiction research project, inclusive of collaboration with Dr. Eugene Peniston. The Psychiatric Times published a feature article interviewing Bill.
Improving the musical acumen of students at the Royal Conservatoire the results of the research project has since been incorporated in the school's mandatory curriculum.
Contributing a chapter on alpha-theta EEG biofeedback in Jim Robbins' book, "A Symphony in the Brain"
Was published in the January 2000 issue of Clinical Electroencephalography (EEG), an official journal of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ECNS).
Presenting at the American Psychiatric Associations annual conference the results of a large controlled study (n=121) on poly drug abusers at CRI-Help.
Teaching over 2,000 EEG biofeedback practitioners around the globe since 1996.
Contributing to the efforts of Narcotics Division of the American Embassy in South America with the intention of replicating the use of successful protocols in Latin America.
Collaborating with Dr. Lobsang Rapgay (Director of the UCLA Biobehavioral Medical Clinic) as co-investigator of a study on BrainPaint's effect on Attention Deficit Disorder at U.C.L.A.'s Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Enter BrainPaint. Seeking a more effective medium to provide feedback to the brain, Bill married his understanding of fractal technology with his understanding of EEGs. Just as in chaos theory, BrainPaint gives the brain a playground with which to manipulate three objects, subsequently forming infinite patterns and beautiful fractal images. The adage, hindsight is 20/20, comes from a collective appreciation of our ability to learn, adapt and evolve to a higher state of functionality after an encounter. Alternatively, BrainPaint gives your brain a canvas with which to playfully and safely experience different states of being. The brain, as with all living organisms, seeks a state of homeostasis, favoring that which is most efficient and stable, hence improving brain function. We experience this fine tuned brain function as being more present, harmonious and joyful.
In addition to brainwave performance training, BrainPaint images have been recognized for their art. W Magazine, February 2007, featured an article detailing a session with Bill at the exclusive Moonview Sanctuary and the editor published three of his own BrainPaint images.
Many notable scientists and philosophers, Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle, Socrates and Plato to name a few, believed that beauty is harmony made visible. Bill's intention for BrainPaint is to help people create a life more in harmony with their true nature and purpose.
Celia Black has been sharing the exceptional work of extraordinary people with the rest of the world for more than 20 years. Working with some of the most innovative and creative individuals in technology and entertainment, she's helped create their personal brands, promoted their works; books, films, music or inventions, and established them as thought-leaders, change-makers and luminaries. Today, Celia aims to harness the power of this incredible network, to catalyze it as a force for global good. She's also a contributor to Thrive Global, the Huffington Post, cofounder of KurzweilAI.net, a founding member of Singularity University, an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) and a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.
Daniel L. Gaylinn, Ph.D. is a psychological assistant under the supervision of Dr. Serlin, a media maker, research scientist, author, and educator. He serves as the Executive Director for the internationally recognized professional Association for Transpersonal Psychology (ATP), where he oversees the publication of the world's premier peer-reviewed Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, and annual transpersonal psychology conferences. Topics of these conferences include the elucidation of ultimate states (also described as peak experiences,...
David Wexler (aka dr. StrangeLoop) was born in 1985 in Santa Cruz, CA. As the son of Academy Award nominated Sound Mixer Jeff Wexler, and Academy Award winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, he grew up deeply interested in the power of sound and image, and the interplay between them, and the other senses. When he was 21, he founded a media-production / think-tank to research mystical states of consciousness, and implement that research into emerging media. His films have been screened around the world at festivals, on television, and in colleges. He is a VJ and graphic designer, collaborating with world-renowned hip-hop innovators like Flying Lotus and SamiYam, an accomplished experimental musician, and an event organizer working in Los Angeles.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Posted in Advisory Board
Dr. Howard B. Esbin is the creator of Prelude, a 21st C. learning game. Prelude is used in schools, community agencies, and workplace training internationally. Its design is informed by his research on social learning, imagination, and positive psychology. He founded Heliotrope, a social enterprise to promote Prelude and related research. Howard also has two decades of senior management experience in the private sector, international development, and philanthropy. His work has been published by the International Labour Organization, Education...
Dr. José M. Ramos holds a Doctorate from Queensland University of Technology in Global Studies and Strategic Foresight. He has taught and lectured at Swinburne University of Technology on Strategic Foresight and Sustainability Strategies, and currently teaches Futures Practice through the University of the Sunshine Coast and the National University of Singapore. He is Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies, and is on the editorial board of the journal Futures. He has extensive journal publications in the area of futures / foresight, focused on linking foresight with action and innovation. Through Action Foresight he has over a decade of experience facilitating workshops, applied research, multi-media production, the art of strategic conversation and dialogue, presenting and designing educational curricula. He is originally from California from Mexican American and Indigenous ancestry, now residing in Melbourne Australia with his wife De Chantal and son Ethan.
Job Titles:
- Technology, Science & Consciousness
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Senior Staff Member of a Presidential Commission
DUANE ELGIN is an internationally recognized, speaker, author, educator, and media activist. His books include: The Living Universe, Promise Ahead, Voluntary Simplicity, and Awakening Earth. With Joseph Campbell and other scholars, he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man.
Duane has worked as a senior staff member of a Presidential Commission on the American Future looking ahead from 1970 to 2000, and as a senior social scientist with the think-tank SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies of the long-range future; for example, Anticipating Future Global Problems (for the President's Science Advisor).
He is also a passionate media activist and, over the past twenty twenty-five years, he has co-founded three non-profit and non-partisan organizations working for media accountability and citizen empowerment.
Duane received an MBA from the Wharton Business School, and an MA in economic-history from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006, he received the international Goi Peace Award in recognition of his contribution to a global "vision, consciousness, and lifestyle" that fosters a "more sustainable and spiritual culture."
His website is: www.DuaneElgin.com
Job Titles:
- Hanub Ku Screening / Performance
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Technology Director
- Media and Entertainment Engineer
Ed Lantz is a media and entertainment engineer, inventor, scientist, artist and entrepreneur. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer and leading authority in large-format digital cinema and immersive experiences for mass audiences, and continues to nurture the development of the "fulldome" medium which has surpassed IMAX's installed theater base by replacing film and analog star projectors with large-format interactive computer graphics projected onto domed screens. Other areas of expertise include cable television,...
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. is an evolution biologist, futurist, author, speaker and consultant on Living Systems Design. Showing the relevance of evolving biological systems to organizational design, she travels as a speaker in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. She makes television and radio appearances in addition to live speeches and workshops. Dr. Sahtouris is a citizen of the United States and of Greece, with a Canadian Ph.D. She did her post-doctoral work at the American Museum of Natural...
Eric Matthies is an award winning producer and director specializing in documentaries, video installations and special features for DVD's. He is also on the Board of Directors for Equal Chance, a micro-finance scholarship fund in Ghana, and The Center For Conscious Creativity. His company, EMP Inc. has produced documentary content for dozens of films and games.
Working in North, South and Central America, Africa, Australia, Asia, Russia and Western Europe, Eric has also produced an array of documentary projects on diverse topics including sustainable transportation solutions in Africa, musician biographies, jazz theory, volcanoes, AIDS, poverty, diamond mining, Jonestown and skateboarding. Along with partner Tricia Todd, a separate company was created to facilitate the non-commercial side of EMP?s productions. Project Lab is the documentary division of EMP, Inc. The goal of Project Lab is to give production support to documentary film makers and help them bring their film to reality. Project Lab documentaries have been screened in festivals around the globe and received nominations for awards in film making excellence, social justice and technical merit.
Frank Don is a professional astrologer based in Monterey, California, with a worldwide clientele. Don is the author of the books ‘Color Your World' and ‘Earth Changes Ahead', seminal works on the psychology of color and on geophysical and atmospheric changes respectively. Featured in The New York Times Magazine and other periodicals, Don is credited with various accurate forecasts including the advent of terrorism on US shores, the dotcom implosion, the housing bubble bust and the increase in ferocity of storm systems with intensified localized fronts.
His website / blog address is: www.frankdon.com.
Gary Tomchuk, CFO/COO is a leader in the Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS) market, bringing together 28 years of experience in marketing, business development, sales, technology and management. Gary has helped launch several companies in this industry, serving in executive roles including: CEO of Ethical Markets Media, Director of CSRwire, President and cofounder of BroadcastHealth.com, and COO of Passionate Living Media.
He has also worked with companies such as Healthy.com, Deepak Chopra's MyPotential.com, Akesis Naturals, ConvergenceHealth, EcoKat BioFuels, Whole Life, and Inspired Media.
Gary's involvement started in 1995 when he founded Awareness Marketing, a consulting firm specializing in integrated health, personal growth and natural products in 1995. He brings to LOHAS the skills he earned in the computer industry, where he won industry recognition, including two PC Magazine's Editors Choice Awards. His efforts contributed to the growth of Syncro Corporation to #173 on the Inc. 500. Gary helped launch MicroWarehouse's fastest growing, highest revenue catalog. Working with several startups has given Gary a full-range of skills in starting, developing and running a company.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Founder and CEO of Futurist
- Founder and CEO of Futurist.Com
Glen Hiemstra is the Founder and CEO of Futurist.com, a website visited by people from 120 nations each month. An internationally known futurist, author, speaker and consultant, Glen has been consistently looking ahead.
Before the Internet was even a public network Glen studied how it would change human and organizational communication. In the mid-1980`s he was describing the coming economic growth of the Pacific Rim countries. Glen told audiences about global warming and climate change…in 1987. He previewed nanotechnology…in 1989, and described genomic science and biotechnology even earlier. Glen wrote about the age wave and the end of classic retirement…in 1995. By 2001 Glen described the coming energy transformation as the greatest economic opportunity of the next half-century. As early as 2006 Glen told people why the debt bubble would burst, as it did more than a year later. Before the Internet was popular Glen had the foresight to register Futurist.com.
To deal with breakthrough trends like these Glen helps large and small companies, educational institutions, government agencies and communities re-think their future vision. This is why audience members for Glen`s keynote speeches and clients for his long-range planning say things like, "Once you hear Glen Hiemstra speak, the future will never look the same." A writer as well as a speaker and consultant, Glen is the author of Turning the Future into Revenue: What Businesses and Individuals Need to Know to Shape Their Future (Wiley & Sons 2006). Previously he co-authored Strategic Leadership: Achieving Your Preferred Future.
Glen has served as a technical advisor for television shows and pilots set in the distant future. This work has included NYPD 2069, a pilot with Stephen Bochco producing, Century City, a Universal-CBS series, and a pilot attempting to revive Lost in Space. Glen has also appeared in various documentary programs and series. Glen is a Consulting Producer for the new transmedia property Visions from the Edge, set to launch in partnership with Bridge Arts Media, LLC in the Fall of 2012.
Glen has worked with leading companies, government agencies and organizations across a wide variety of domains. These include Microsoft, The Home Depot, Adobe, Ernst & Young, PaineWebber, ShareBuilder, Ambrosetti (Italy), Club of Amsterdam, SONAE (Portugal), Northern Telecom, REI, Weyerhaeuser, Hewlett Packard, Novo Nordisk, U.S./Mexico JWC, APAX Partners, Atlanta 2060, Tulsa 2025, City of Longmont, Idaho Transportation 2030, Michigan DOT 2030, FHWA Advanced Research, Eddie Bauer, Procter & Gamble, ACE Hardware, IHOP, John Deere, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Lexis Nexus, Land O Lakes, Mass Mutual, Mutual of Enumclaw, ING, Colorado League of Cities, and others.
As a recognized expert in preferred future planning, Glen is a popular keynote speaker who can zero in on emerging trends in a variety of fields. Glen goes beyond simple trend analysis to discuss the opportunities that we all have to shape the preferred future.
Each day visitors come to Futurist.com and Glen's blog for provocative snapshots of emerging ideas, trends, and technologies. Glen recently founded, and curates a new site on visions of the future, DoTheFuture.com. Glen can be followed at twitter.com/glenhiemstra.
In a first career, Glen was an award-winning educator; he has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Human Interface Technology Lab at the University of Washington, which worked on virtual and augmented reality technology. Glen was educated at Whitworth University, the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Tracie. They have three adult children.
As a singer with sparkling vocals, Jahna Perricone weaves the old with the new to create a transcendent classical world groove! As songstress, songwriter and vocal meditation teacher, her spiritually exciting sound has been featured in films, television and live concerts; including performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Fashion Designer Sue Wong's extravagant Los Angeles Fashion Show for L.A. Fashion Week and featured live sets on The Global Village radio show at KPFK 89.3fm. Her singing is featured in the opening title for ‘Mythic Journeys' with Tim Curry and the ‘Y Yoga Movie'; and Jahna's single, ‘Flower Duet' from her solo album ‘In The Balance', was featured on Showtime's drama series, ‘The L Word' and charted No. 1 on iTunes as the top download from ‘The L Word: The Third Season Soundtrack'. In addition, her singing is featured in the ‘Journey of Seven Bowls' album series; ‘FRESH' CD with DivAria, and the ‘Vital Voices Kennedy Center Awards Ceremony' soundtrack. She also co-wrote ‘Enlighten-Up', featured song in the film ‘Enlighten-Up' and winner of Best Narrative from Elevate Music and Film Festival. She is the singer in the internationally acclaimed video, ‘Legend of Zelda Movie Trailer', which was viewed by over 2.5 million viewers in its first 24 hours, and was ranked as the #3 Digg story in the world! Recently she's teamed up with her husband and fellow artist, Michael Perricone, presenting concerts and sound meditation workshops at ‘Bhaktifest', ‘Shaktifest', ‘Tadasana', ‘Conscious Life Expo' Festivals and with the MARC institute/UCLA and Director Diana Winston. She is currently working on her next solo album. To learn more, visit her at www.jahnamusic.com and www.omstream.com.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director of the Millennium Project
Jerome C. Glenn has a BA in philosophy from American University, an MA in Teaching Social Science - Futuristics from Antioch Graduate School of Education (now Antioch University New England), and was a doctoral candidate in general futures research at the University of Massachusetts.
Jerome C. Glenn is the Director of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) of the World Federation of United Nations Associations and the Executive Director of the American Council for the United Nations University. He is the co-author with Ted Gordon of the annual State of the Future of the Millennium Project for the past ten years.
He has 35 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Forecasting Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, and his own firm, the Future Options Room. He has addressed over 200 leading universities and corporations around the world on a variety of future-oriented topics.
Second generation Chicago born artist, Joshua Elias' work is widely collected. Recent inclusions are at the Rand Corporation, Charles Weingarten Annenberg Foundation, as well as numerous private collections throughout the U.S. and in Europe. Recent works exhibited at the Liz Gordon Gallery in Los Angeles New paintings featured at the Kohler Home of the Future at the TED CONFERENCE in Long Beach California, as well as a special ECO exhibit at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 in Park City Utah Two seminal double-sided paintings were...
Job Titles:
- Executive Director
- Founder
- Vice Chairman
- Fellow for the Society of New Communications Research
- Producer, Writer
Kate McCallum is a producer, writer, transmedia consultant, novice futurist and artist who has had the good fortune of a diverse career in the creative arts and entertainment industries for over 35 years. Kate served as a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA) National Board for three years, and as a Board Delegate on the PGA New Media Council for six. She was also the recipient of the 2019 PGA Marc Levy Award for Distinguished Service, and helped spearhead the PGA SIE: Social Impact Entertainment Task Force. Kate is also a member of the TV Academy Television Executive Peer Group and Interactive Peer Group, and the WFSF: World Future Studies Federation.
Kate was appointed as a Fellow for the Society of New Communications Research and in 2009 was invited to found and Chair a Global Arts and Media Node for The Millennium Project which was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 2,500 people since the beginning of the project selected by its 35 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in its annual "State of the Future," "Futures Research Methodology" series, and special studies. Kate co-designed and facilitated a global survey addressing "The Arts and Entertainment 2020" and contributed a chapter summarizing the findings in the "State of the Future" 2011 report.
c3's Founder and Executive Director, Producer, Writer "Over 35 years of professional experience in the the arts and the entertainment industries together with a deep interest and study of human potential, consciousness research and future studies has been my inspiration for the creation of c3: Center for Conscious Creativity and the mission we seek to accomplish. I hold an MA in Consciousness Studies and have been a student and practitioner of creativity, future trends in the arts and media, and meditation for over 40 years. As...
Kathy Eldon was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She graduated from Wellesley College and has since worked as an art teacher, television presenter, magazine editor, journalist, media consultant and a television and film producer in Kenya, England and the United States. She is the CEO and Co-Founder, with her daughter Amy Eldon, of Creative Visions Foundation. The Creative Visions Foundation supports people, especially the young, who use media, technology and the arts to create awareness of social, environmental or humanitarian issues and effect...
LeVar Burton has been capturing the admiring attention of both audiences and his industry peers for three decades, and continues to enjoy a longevity truly rare within the industry. His deftness in avoiding stereotype continues to be a hallmark of an incredibly diverse career. Whether acting, directing, producing or writing, LeVar has demonstrated, over time that he can do it all.
As if following some implausible Hollywood scenario, LeVar's first professional audition, while pursuing his undergraduate studies at USC, led to his being cast as Kunta Kinte in the acclaimed miniseries ROOTS. The phenomenal success of ROOTS launched his career as an actor, and more importantly, earned his performance as KUNTA KINTE, lasting status as a worldwide icon representing the indomitability of the human spirit. What followed were starring roles in a string of television movies, including ONE IN A MILLION: THE RON LEFLORE STORY, DUMMY, GRAMBLING'S WHITE TIGER, THE GUYANA TRAGEDY and A ROOTS CHRISTMAS: KUNTA KINTE'S GIFT. Among his early feature film credits are LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, with acclaimed writer/director, Richard Brooks and THE HUNTER, the final motion picture of the icon of cool, Steve McQueen.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio
Ms. Danilovic is the Founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, a developer, owner and operator of transmedia companies. Through Hollywood portfolio, Ms. Danilovic launched and helped develop several transmedia companies and serves as the CEO and Director of Infiom, served as the President, CEO and Director of Ultralivetv, serves on the Board of Directors of Reframeit (Observer), and the Board of Directors of Alphabird.
Ms. Danilovic was the EVP Business Development for transmedia entertainment company NTN Buzztime, Inc. (AMEX:NTN) and VP Business Development, Content Aggregation and Programming for MediaZone, broadband video company owned by NASPERS/MIH media conglomerate. She also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP, which developed about two-dozen digital media companies. The companies Ms. Danilovic helped develop received institutional funding from KPCB, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank, North Star Ventures, HP, and Intel.
Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber's Mandalay Entertainment and was on the management team of the venture fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment, investing in media companies worldwide. Ms. Danilovic also worked for Michael Milken's Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. She serves on the Board of Directors of c3, the Arts and Media Node of the Millennium Project, served on the New Media Council of the Board of Directors of the Producers Guild of America, and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
She previously served on the Board of Directors of Tim Draper's Zone Club and was a member of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. Mariana earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, with a Minor in Biomedical Engineering from University of California, San Diego.
Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director Ms. Danilovic is the Founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, a developer, owner and operator of transmedia companies. Through Hollywood portfolio, Ms. Danilovic launched and helped develop several transmedia companies and serves as the CEO and Director of Infiom, served as the President, CEO and Director of Ultralivetv, serves on the Board of Directors of Reframeit (Observer), and the Board of Directors of Alphabird. Ms. Danilovic was the EVP Business Development for transmedia entertainment...
Job Titles:
- CEO of Vortex Immersion Media
Mark is CEO of Vortex Immersion Media, the world's leading designer of transformative 360 immersive entertainment experiences. Dubbed "Community VR," Vortex live concerts, stage shows and experiences feature surround video & audio, spectacular visual effects and real-time interactivity.
Mark spent his early career around Wall Street as principle with Firms such as UBS Paine Webber and Wellington Shields & Co. has been a guiding force within several start-ups, takeovers, and turn-arounds; Inktomi Corporation (acquired by Yahoo!), Emmy Award winning Teranex (video processing), Mesh Networks (mobile wifi, acquired by Motorola,) Theseus Logic (clock-less semiconductor) Skycross (award-winning antenna technology) Zeros & Ones, Inc. (digital convergence) and ONEHOPE Wine (cause commerce.)
Mark is also an inspirational speaker, producer & Co-Host of The LIFE CHANGES Radio Show and Live Event Series focused on sharing and embracing "change" in order to "do life better." Having experienced extraordinarily large ups and downs along with all of the life lessons in between, Mark has learned that wisdom is gained through experience. The successes are fun and empowering yet personal growth and expansion comes from the setbacks and struggles. He teaches that this is where the real insightful magic is discovered and authenticity ultimately realized.
Mark's contributions have led to numerous awards as an entrepreneur and inventor including; A Prime Time Emmy for technological innovation in film and television processing, R&D 100 award (The Oscar's of Inventing) and Businessweek Magazine Product of the Year.
c3's Creative Advisor I am a multi-faceted artist, and die-hard perennial philosopher. My interests in artistic expression are deeply connected and committed to what I consider simply higher and wildly more imaginative notions of the meaning of this thing we call "consciousness" as well as human evolution and participation in something greater than ourselves. I have been an artist my whole life. I started writing poetry at a very early age, as well as taking to the drums and making music quite naturally. In the mid to late...
Michael Perricone started out playing guitar and bass at age ten. He played in all the requisite bands in high school. While in high school, he formed a sound company, which got him the chance to record one of the local bands in a commercial studio. This opened his eyes to recording and producing, and opened them wide.
At age 19, Michael moved to Hollywood, took an assisting job in a 24 track studio and within a year became a mixer for major film and television music. Since then he's recorded everybody from Joe Walsh and Alice Cooper to Johnny Mathis and Kermit the Frog. He also found a home in orchestral recording. Not being content with just music, he branched out into sound design for T.V. and film. He has sound edited, supervised or mixed hundreds of hours of television and dozens of features.
In 1985 he co-founded Interlock Studios in Hollywood, which he ran successfully for 17 years averaging over $1 million in annual revenues until he sold the company in 2002.
After the sale of Interlock, Michael served as Director of Audio Post for Threshold Sound for 6 years, until he got the calling to hang his own shingle again.
On June 1st 2009, Michael launched his newest facility, Lotus Post, a 6-studio sound and video facility in Santa Monica, CA. He is also the president and founder of Omstream.com, an online music destination site.
Michael Perricone, C.A.S. CEO, Lotus Post Michael Perricone started out playing guitar and bass at age ten. He played in all the requisite bands in high school. While in high school, he formed a sound company, which got him the chance to record one of the local bands in a commercial studio. This opened his eyes to recording and producing, and opened them wide. At age 19, Michael moved to Hollywood, took an assisting job in a 24 track studio and within a year became a mixer for major film and television music. Since then he's recorded...
Multi award winning filmmaker Mikki Willis is a virtuoso of positive energy and talent that spans mediums. He developed his writing and directing skills as a member of a prestigious theater group. Mentored by veterans, he directed weekly stage readings featuring legends of stage and screen. In the early 90s he founded and directed the New York/Los Angeles Theatre of the Arts. Concurrently, Mikki formed Reign Dance Entertainment, a production company that specialized in direct response television. As a director Mikki Willis is recognized...
c3's Community Communications Catalyst and Editor, FutureVision Newsletter My purpose in life is to inspire, empower, and support others to their highest self-actualization through consciousness and the arts, and in my own artistic expression to bring forth greater consciousness through the media. I started acting at the age of 4 and was immersed in all aspects of theatre throughout my childhood. I turned to music in my teens and started writing songs and singing in clubs at the age of 15, as well as touring the Midwest with my... read more
Job Titles:
- Secretary
- Founder of Sacred Crossings
Rev. Olivia Bareham, founder of Sacred Crossings, is a teacher and an ordained Minister of Healing. She holds bachelors degrees in Education and Natural Theology in Sacred Healing and is a certified Death Midwife. Olivia's experience in the fields of auxiliary nursing, elder care and hospice volunteering inspired her to investigate a more meaningful and personal alternative to traditional funeral practices. "At the event of death and for a few days following, there is a window of opportunity for great healing to occur. I noticed that when the...
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Founder of MYTHWORKS
PAMELA JAYE SMITH is a mythologist, author, international consultant and speaker, and award-winning producer-director with over 30 years in the media industry. She has worked on projects ranging from major Hollywood studios to wildly independent companies, always enjoying the process of helping to bring creative ideas to worldwide screens.
Founder of MYTHWORKS, Pamela Jaye brings the power of story and Applied Mythology to individuals and organizations in many arenas including media, consciousness & spirituality, education, business, non-profits, and the military.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Director of Talent Management for the University of Southern California
Roberto serves as Director of Talent Management for the University of Southern California. He has been advising c3 on organizational development and talent management. He is also working on strategic relationships and has supported c3 with recruitment. Roberto began his career on Wall Street in 1979 as a Recruiter for one of the largest banks in the world. He spent the next 15 years in Human Resource leadership positions at several Fortune 500 companies. In mid-1990 he began working for the Walt Disney Company as its first Manager of Employee...
Stéphan Choinière is a world-class acrobatic dancer and aerial artist, also accomplished as a gymnast, circus act choreographer, stunt man, and model. He created and performed the featured duo "body2body" in over 1000 shows for Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas production, Zumanity. As a 10 year veteran and principal performer with Anti-Gravity, Stephan appeared in such esteemed venues as: The Metropolitan Opera House, Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall for MTV's Video Music Awards, as well as performing nightly at the award ceremonies of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. He is proud to have been a featured entertainer at special events for George Lucas, Richard Branson, George Soros, and Paul Newman.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- President of Geller Media International
Valerie Geller is president of Geller Media International, a broadcast consulting firm working with news, talk, information and personality programming for radio and television throughout the world. In the past 17 years she has worked with more than 500 stations in 27 countries.
She is the author of three books about radio: Creating Powerful Radio: A Communicator's Handbook for News, Talk, Information & Personality and The Powerful Radio Workbook: The Prep, Performance & Post Production Planning. A third book, the revised and updated edition of Creating Powerful Radio: Getting, Keeping & Growing Audiences is available now from FOCAL PRESS. www.creatingpowerfulradio.com
Geller's Creating Powerful Radio work and her books have been translated into several languages, including Bulgarian and Albanian.
With more than 30 years of experience, Geller works with commercial and public broadcasting in the USA, Europe and throughout the world.
In the United States, she leads Creating Powerful Radio workshops, works one-on-one coaching on air presenters, DJs, news reporters, writers, anchors and producers, talk show hosts, programmers and managers and consults national, regional and local radio. Named by Radio Ink magazine as one of America's "Most Influential Women in Radio," Ms. Geller is a much in demand speaker, seminar leader and keynote and conference presenter.
Some recent Geller Media International clients include: In England: London's LBC 97.3 Talkback radio and News Direct; The BBC (BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Leeds, among about a dozen regional BBC stations Geller Media works with throughout the UK) In Canada: Rogers Media including Toronto's 680 News, The Fan and CHFI -FM, Australia's ABC-including stations 702, Sydney, 774 in Melbourne, and various other ABC Local Radio Stations including Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Darwin, Newcastle, Canberra and ABC networks: Networked Local Radio, Classic FM, Radio National, NewsRadio and Triple J; Singapore's national Radio Corporation of Singapore; In Kenya: Nairobi's Nation FM; Kagiso Media and the SABC in South Africa, RFM in Portugal, WOW in Florence, Italy; and Sweden's Sveriges Radio.
Among other stations, networks and programs Geller Media has worked with, led workshops and seminars for, or currently consults, include: