ADVISORY

ADVISORY

Senior advisors who offer their guidance to RTC.

COUNSELORS

CURATORS

FRIENDS OF RTC

Mariana Acuna Acosta
SVP Global Virtual Production and On-Set Servicers – Technicolor

Matt Allard
Direct of Alliances & Solutions
Dell Technologies

Roy C. Anthony
SrSo Architect, Omniverse, Media & Entertainment
NVIDIA

Girish Balakrishnan
Special Projects, Creative Services
Netflix

Elizabeth Baron
Founder
Immersionary Enterprises, LLC

Gamma Basra
Head of Visualisation
Foster + Partners

Jacques Bled
CEO
Illumination Mac-Guff

John Canning
Dir. Developer Relations – M&E, AEC, D&M
AMD

Nick Cannon
CTO
Walt Disney Animation Studios

Rick Champagne
Global Media & Entertainment Industry
Strategy and Marketing
NVIDIA Corporation

Lisa Cooke
Producer
Tippett Studio

Doug Cooper
President | Executive Producer
Grey Fox Productions

Paul Debevec
Director of Research, Creative Algorithms and Technology at Netflix

Chris DeFaria
Founder
Keylight

Diana Diriwaechter
Post Secondary-Director
Epic Games Education

Erin Dusseault
Product Lead – Virtual Production
AWS

Chris Edwards
CEO
The Third Floor, Inc

Barbara Ford Grant
M+E Executive | CTO | Industry Advisor

Daniel Frith
Chief Creative Officer
London Dynamic

Gilles Gaillard
Co-Founder
Animaj

Nicolas Gaume
Executive Chairman
Orbite

Buzz Hayes
Global Lead Media and Entertainment Industry Solutions
Google

Christina Heller
Developer Strategy
Meta

Pol Jeremias-Vila
Lead Rendering Engineer – Netflix | Co-Founder – Beautypi

 

Anton Kaplanyan
VP of Graphics Research
Intel

Jeff Kember
Senior Director Product Management Omniverse for Showroom EBC
NVIDIA

 

Connie Kennedy
Virtual Production | Creative | New Technologies Film and TV

Robert Legato
President
Ktm Productions, INC

Sandra E. Lopez
Tech Exec | GM | CMO | BOD | Futurist

Barbara Marshall
Global M&E Industry Lead
HP Inc

Will McDonald
VP, Engineering
Unity

Alex McDowell
Co-Founder & Creativer Director of Experimental Design

Oliver Meiseberg
Vice President RenderMan
Pixar Animation Studios

David Morin
Industry Relations – Epic Games | Executive Director – Academy Software Foundation

Jeffrey A. Okun
Visual Effects Supervisor / VES Treasurer & VES Past Chair
VES

Tony Parisi
Metaverse Pioneer. Entrepreneur, Investor, Author, Musician, Composer

Amy Peck
Founder/CEO
EndeavorXR

Ken Perlin 
Professor of Computer Science – NYU Future Reality Lab FR

Jan Pinkava
Director – Animationinstitut Filmakademie
Baden-Württemberg

Brian Pohl
Technical Program Manager /
Previs Supervisor

David Prescott

Solomon Rogers
Global Director of Innovation
Magnopus

William Sargent
CEO
Framestore

Mike Seymour
Lecturer, Researcher Digital Humans & Writer : MOTUS Lab (DDGR) USYD & fxguide co-founder

David Sproxton
CBE,  
Co-founder and Trustee – Aardman

Rick Stringfellow
Fellow, Head of Visual Content
Electronic Arts

Steve Sullivan
Chief Product Officer – Arcturus | Venture Partner
Spatial Capital

 

Sebastian Sylwan
Director of R&D, Production Technologies, Netflix

Natalya Tatarchuk
Chief Technology Officer
Activision

 

Alice Taylor
Executive, Studio Technology / Head of StudioLAB
The Walt Disney Studios

 

Marco Tempest
Creative Technologist
NASA
& Extended Reality Lead Consultant Accenture

 

Neil Trevett
Khronos Group President and Vice President of Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA

Martha Tsigkari
Head of Applied R+D, Senior Partner
Foster + Partners

Ed Ulbrich
Media and Entertainment Executive, Business Advisor / Consultant, Producer, Lecturer

 

Nancy Ward
Executive Director at Visual Effects Society
 

Karl Woolley
Head of Realtime
Framestore

 

Emeritus Members

Molly Connolly
Former Director, Strategic Alliances & Solutions, Client Product Group
Dell Technologies

Eric Roth
Former Executive Director
Visual Effects Society

In Memoriam

Olivier Dauba
VP Editorial
Ubisoft