LIGHTSTAGE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Co - Founder and Co - CEO, William Morris Endeavor IMG

Ariel Emanuel serves as co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor IMG, one of the world's leading talent agencies. He represents an elite array of artists across every entertainment platform and, along with partner Patrick Whitesell, spearheads all company initiatives. Emanuel and Whitesell played a pivotal role in WME's formation, orchestrating the largest talent agency merger in history when they partnered the Endeavor and William Morris firms. Emanuel co-founded Endeavor in 1995 after holding senior agent positions at ICM Partners and InterTalent. A graduate of Macalester College, he currently sits on the boards of Live Nation and MOCA.

Job Titles:

• Co - CEO of William Morris Endeavor IMG

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• CEO and Co - Founder of

Brendan Eich is widely recognized for his enduring contributions to the Internet. He is the co-founder and CEO of Brave Software (https://brave.com/) and the Basic Attention Token (https://basicattentiontoken.org/). Brave Software's fast, privacy-oriented browser, combined with its blockchain-based digital advertising platform, is reinventing the Web for users, publishers, and advertisers. Eich previously served as CTO, then CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. Prior to that, he co-founded the Mozilla project (1998) and foundation (2003). While at Mozilla, Eich helped launch the award-winning Firefox web browser (2004). Eich is also the inventor of JavaScript (1995), the Internet's most widely used programming language. He holds a bachelor of science in math and computer science from Santa Clara University and a master of science in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Executive Chairman and Former CEO, Google Inc
• Member of the President

Since joining Google in 2001, Eric Schmidt has helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. As executive chairman, he is responsible for the external matters of Google: building partnerships and broader business relationships, government outreach and technology thought leadership, as well as advising the CEO and senior leadership on business and policy issues. From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google's chief executive officer, overseeing the company's technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University as well as a master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. Eric is a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology and the Prime Minister's Advisory Council in the U.K. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a fellow in 2007. He also chairs the board of the New America Foundation, and since 2008 has been a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Vice President Emeritus and Consultant, IBM

Irving Wladawsky-Berger retired from IBM in May 2007 after 37 years with the company. During his time at IBM, he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments that are critical to the future of the IT industry. Since then, he has collaborated with colleagues at IBM on a number of initiatives including Cloud Computing and Smarter Planet. In March 2008, he joined Citigroup as Strategic Advisor, working on innovation and technology initiatives including the transition to mobile digital money and payments. Irving holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago.

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Founder and Partner of the Gilder Technology
• Founder and Partner, Gilder Technology Fund

George Gilder is the Founder and Partner of The Gilder Technology Fund. He is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington and is the Founder and Chairman of Gilder Publishing, LLC. He has been a Director of Wave Systems Corporation since 1993 and is a Member of Executive Committee. George served as a Director of K12 Inc. and was the Chairman of the Lehrman Institute Economic Roundtable. George is the author of several books, including Life after Television, Microcosm, The Spirit of Enterprise, Wealth and Poverty and, most recently, Telecosm. He is also a contributing editor to Forbes Magazine and was the recipient of the White House award for Entrepreneurial Excellence from President Reagan.

Job Titles:

• CEO
• Chairman
• Founder

Jules sets the strategic direction and vision for the company, and is the chief architect of OTOY's technology roadmap. Prior to OTOY, Jules created the web's first 3D video game platform and licensed the software to Macromedia, Disney, Warner Brothers, Nickelodeon, Microsoft, Hasbro and AT&T. Hailed by technology writer George Gilder as "the most inventive software engineer he has ever met," Jules has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, CNN Money, and All Things Digital.

Job Titles:

• Co - Founder
• CTO

Malcolm designs and develops OTOY's core IP. He has pioneered many GPU technology breakthroughs in compression / rendering. Prior to developing OTOY's GPU codecs, he created the leading lossless compression algorithms for text files, PDFs and x86 binary data. He has 20 years experience in software development and holds a BSc in Mathematics from Massey University.

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Artist

Beeple is Mike Winkelmann, a graphic designer living in Charleston, SC, USA who does a variety of digital artwork including short films, Creative Commons VJ loops, everydays and VR / AR work. He has done work for Apple, Space X, Nike, Coca-Cola, Adobe, Pepsi, Samsung and many more. After he began releasing a set of widely used Creative Commons VJ loops he has worked on concert visuals for Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Childish Gambino, Imagine Dragons, One Direction, Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Zedd, Skrillex, deadmau5 etc,

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Chief Technology Officer, Lucasfilm ( 2007 - 2011 )
• Visionary Product Leader

Richard Kerris is a visionary product leader at the forefront of entertainment and technology. With a career spanning Apple, Lucasfilm, and Amazon/AWS, Kerris has the unique combination of marketing savvy and product wizardry to bring new ideas to life. At Apple, he directed developer relations and also managed Final Cut Pro, Logic, and Aperture. At Lucasfilm, he served as CTO, managing R&D, IT, and IS. With a present focus on AI, VR, and AR, Kerris has given keynote addresses at nVidia GDC, Asia Broadcast, China Joy Expo, and multiple Apple WWDC presentations. Kerris also serves on the Bay Area Board of the Visual Effects Society.

Job Titles:

• Member of the OTOY Advisory Board
• Chairman, President and CEO, IBM Corporation ( 2003 - 2011 )

From January 2003 through December 2011, Sam Palmisano was chairman, president and chief executive officer of IBM. Under his leadership, IBM achieved record financial performance, transformed itself into a globally integrated enterprise and introduced its Smarter Planet agenda. Sam began his career with IBM in 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland. In a 39-year career with IBM, he held leadership positions that included senior vice president and group executive of the Personal Systems Group, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Global Services, senior vice president and group executive of Enterprise Systems and president and chief operating officer. Sam is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and currently serves as senior advisor to IBM, as well as, Chairman of The Center for Global Enterprise.