HORNER SCIENCE GROUP - Key Persons
Audrey's life and career experience spans across several decades and most continents. After eight years in the US-inbound tourism business, she moved into the museum field, first in the United States and then in the United Kingdom. A role in major gift development and public relations for the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University led to a long and exciting career at the Natural History Museum in London, where she established and operated two successful commercial businesses: Touring Exhibitions, and Planning and Design Consulting.
Audrey is well known across the museum world and attraction industry sectors as a trusted advisor and catalyst for bringing people, ideas, projects, and partnerships together. She is an experienced international museum specialist with a powerful reputation for working with all types of organizations in the creative industries to market, develop, design, and operate successful and authentic cultural exhibits, attractions, and destinations. Adept at creating business opportunities for museum products and services, Audrey effectively acts as a bridge between industry sectors and serves as a cultural intermediary for projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
In 2013, Audrey opened her consulting practice, Audrey O'Connell + Associates, which has advised the United Kingdom's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, commercial clients in the Middle East, museums, and technology infrastructure developers. Setting up Horner Science Group with Jack is a natural fit for Audrey, commercially and creatively, and an exciting next step in her career.
Jack Horner's Dinosaurs is the original and inspiring brand launched through our company, Horner Science Group LLC (HSG). With our science, business, and creative skills, we work closely with investors and partners to spark interest, understanding, and passion for dinosaurs and science in children of all ages and backgrounds from around the world.
Jack Horner's mission is to share his deep insights into the life and times of dinosaurs by creating entertaining and educational experiences for dinosaur fans. He does this visionary work while continuing to unearth new dinosaur and scientific discoveries with his students, colleagues, friends, and partners.
HSG is developing an exciting platform for virtual and media experiences and exhibitions. We are also licensing Jack Horner's Dinosaurs and its attention-grabbing sub-brands to partners who share our sense of discovery and adventure.
Jack Horner is a world-renowned paleontologist, acclaimed for his fieldwork and research on dinosaur growth and behaviors, his discoveries of the first dinosaur eggs and embryos in the Western Hemisphere, and his unearthing of the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting and parental care among dinosaurs. An important dinosaur discovered in Montana was named after Jack in April 2017: Daspletosaurus horneri (Horner's frightful lizard).
A technical advisor for the Jurassic Park movies, including the Jurassic World sequel in development by Universal Studios, he is also the inspiration for the series' lead character, Dr. Alan Grant. Jack is always in demand: his TED talks attract millions of viewers, his lectures draw big crowds, and his books and scientific publications are widely read.