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Yves Béhar is the founder of fuseproject, an integrated design agency dedicated to the development of the emotional experience of products and brands. Béhar's designs span diverse industries, such as consumer technology, furniture, sports, lifestyle and fashion. He has created well known products, such as the Jawbone Bluetooth headset, the Slingbox media player, and the One Laptop Per Child. Clients include Herman Miller, MINI, Nike, Microsoft, Swarovski, Birkenstock, Toshiba, Sony, Target, and Coca-Cola.

Yves has most recently been recognized as one of TIME Magazine's 25 visionaries for 2007. He is also a recipient of the prestigious National Design Award for industrial design awarded by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian museum. Other awards have been received from IDEA/BusinessWeek, Red Dot, ID Magazine, and D&AD, and his work can be found in the permanent design collection of the NY MoMA, SF MoMA, the Munich Museum of Applied Arts, and the Chicago Athenaeum Museum.

Prior to founding fuseproject in 1999, Yves held the position of design leader at frogdesign and Lunar design in Silicon Valley, developing product identities with clients such as Apple, Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics.

Jason Bloom is an award winning director of motion pictures and television whose credits include the feature films Bio Dome, Overnight Delivery, and Dead Simple. He recently filmed multiple episodes of the critically acclaimed television show Veronica Mars for the CW.

Ron Frankel is President and Founder of Proof, Inc., the market-leading previsualization company based in Los Angeles, CA. Ron began working in previsualization more than a decade ago, as Creative Director at Pixel Liberation Front. There he introduced such directors as David Fincher, Steven Spielberg and Darren Aronofsky to the use of previsualization.

Since founding Proof in 2003, he has been a driving force behind the development of previs beyond its roots in technical planning for visual effects, to serve directors, DPs, production designers and art directors as well. Ron is currently Co-Chair of the Previs Committee, a cross disciplinary panel composed of members of the The American Society of Cinematographers, The Art Directors Guild and the Visual Effects Society. The goal of the committee is to document best-practices for previsualization and to chart the future of visualization techniques employed in the film production process.

Peter Frankfurt serves as Creative Director and Managing Partner of Imaginary Forces, the multidisciplinary communications, entertainment, and design firm he co-founded in 1996. Most recently, Frankfurt was the Creative Director on the "Mad Men" main titles, the Spike TV and Lifetime network branding projects, the film titles for "The Number 23" and "Charlotte's Web," teasers for "Transformers" and "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," and commercial campaigns for Pontiac, Sears, Nokia, and Nike. In the area of experience design, Frankfurt has overseen projects ranging from dynamic signage for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City to interactive online communities, including the highly-successful MTV Virtual Laguna Beach. As a filmmaker, Frankfurt has produced several movies, including: "Juice," "Boys," and the Blade trilogy, which are based on the Marvel comic book character.

Frankfurt's work has been honored by numerous organizations including: The British Design and Art Directors Club, The New York Art Directors Club, The Clios, The Association of Graphic Artists, and The Association of Independent Commercial Producers. His work is included in the permanent collection the NY MoMA.

Adam Gervin is an experienced technology entrepreneur, and a member of the founding team of Caustic Graphics. Adam was Vice President Business Development for the Company from pre-funding to October 2009, and currently serves as a strategic advisor.

Adam led the Global Product Marketing effort at Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI), growing it into a diverse $200M business. Adam previously served as Vice President Marketing and Business Development at VerdiSoft Corporation, a mobile consumer startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and now the cornerstone of the Yahoo Mobile business group. Adam ran Consumer Business Development for Onebox.com, an IP consumer messaging company sold to Openwave Systems in 2000.

Adam received his doctoral degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, and his B.S. at Yale College.

Greg Lynn, founder of Greg Lynn FORM, has been at the cutting edge of architecture and design culture for over 20 years, and is a consistent visionary and early adopter of industry changing technology. In 2005, Forbes Magazine named him one of the ten most influential living architects.

His designs have been exhibited in both architecture and art museums, including the permanent collections of the MoMA, CCA, SF MoMA, as well as special exhibits at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the Pompidou, Beyeler, Cooper Hewitt, MAK, MoCA, NAI, Carnegie, ICA, and Secession museums.

TIME Magazine named Greg to the list of "100 Innovators of the Next Century" in 2001. He received the American Academy of Arts & Letters Architecture Award in 2003, as well as numerious professional awards from AIA and Progresive Architecture. His Korean Presbyterian Church of New York was officially listed by the NYC Landmarks Commission as one of the thirty most important buildings built in the last 30 years.

Alex McDowell's career as a production designer spans two-plus decades of award-winning music videos, television commercials, and animation and feature films. Notable amongst his body of work are "The Terminal," the largest architectural set ever built for film, and the "Head on the Door," a music video for The Cure featuring the band inside a wardrobe, the smallest set ever built. He has designed for Steven Spielberg ("Minority Report" and "The Terminal"), Tim Burton ("Corpse Bride'" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"), David Fincher ("Fight Club"), and Terry Gilliam ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"). He has recently completed design of "Watchmen" for director Zack Snyder (300), and his first fully animated feature "Bee Movie."

He is currently in alliance with DreamWorks Animation again as production designer for a new long term digital stereo animation project, and he continues to work on the next generation of immersive design projects - whether film, animation interactive, or live. He is also involved in projects under the auspices of Matter Art & Science, a networked group of artists, designers, scientists and engineers he founded in 2000. In 2006 he was designated a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the Arts. He is chair of the ADG Technology Committee and is co-founder of the 5D Conference, the first international forum for designers and creators across all narrative media.

Sean Naughton is a creative consultant who connects the world of Hollywood visual effects with the technology of next-generation gaming systems. Sean brings rich knowledge of the feature film and television industry, and has previously worked with many accomplished directors, including David Fincher, Wim Wender, and Peter Greenway. In 2003, he joined Microsoft Games Studio as cinematics director, and has previously consulted for Activision on its True Crime Franchise.

Ric Neil is a visionary veteran of the gaming industry and currently head of production at D2C Games, a casual games startup. Ric founded D2C Games with long-time colleague Scott Orr, the original designer of the all-time best-selling Madden game franchise, and listed as a "gamemaking god" by Wired magazine in 2001.

Prior to D2C Games, Mr. Neil worked at AMD in their console gaming division where he managed the technical relationships with the game development studios. Previously, he was with Microsoft, where he led the creative effort behind NFL Fever for Microsoft Game Studios. In addition, he managed the technical relationship between game publishing leader, Electronic Arts, and the Xbox division. Prior to Microsoft, Ric led the Madden and James Bond franchise production teams at Electronic Arts for over a decade.

Ryan, one of the company’s founders, brings an extensive knowledge of designing digital systems and nearly a decade of experience in the field of video compression and image processing. His past work spans video compression techniques at Shannon Communication Systems and VOIP at Dialpad.

Before co-founding Caustic and later becoming a board of advisor member, Ryan was a lead engineer in Apple’s video conferencing group, where he developed software algorithms for Apple’s award-winning iChat AV and led firmware development for the iSight camera.

Max Sims is an award-winning designer with an extensive computer graphics background. His work has appeared on the covers of ID, Rana magazine and The Architecture of Cyberspace. In 2004, he received the Medical Design Excellence Award and Industrial Design Excellence Award for the Natus Algo 3i, which is used to help medical professionals screen a newborn's hearing.

Max is currently Assistant Professor for 3D Modeling and Rendering at Cogswell Polytechnical College, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Academy of Art University (AAU). Max Sims has worked for Alias (now Autodesk) where he lead the software effort enabling console game authoring. Max is the author of the critically acclaimed Inside Maya, the definitive user's guide to Autodesk Maya. Previously, he was the President for the San Francisco/Bay Area Maya users group.