PRODUCER & DIRECTOR

Gary Yost led the team that invented Autodesk 3ds Max, the world’s most popular 3D visual effects production system, and is an award-winning filmmaker with unique expertise in the combined fields of computer imaging, filmmaking and immersive storytelling. He founded the WisdomVR Project in 2018 with Ram Dass as the inaugural subject and is the president of the board of directors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Yost

DIRECTOR & EDITOR

Adam Loften is a documentary filmmaker producing award-winning 360/VR films and multimedia stories that highlight pressing social and environmental issues. His projects have screened at film festivals around the world and have been featured on PBS, National Geographic, Emergence Magazine, The Atlantic and the New York Times. https://www.adamloften.com/

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Rolf Berteig is a co-inventor of Autodesk 3ds Max, the world’s most popular 3D visual effects production system, and has been developing tools for 3D content creation since 1992 with a special focus on real-time rendering and shader creation, inverse kinematics, geometry optimization and modeling of natural phenomena. Rolf has years of background building 3D tools in the Unity VR programming environment and is the lead engineer for the WisdomVR Voyage into the Virus experience. (would be good to point to thingamajig if possible) https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolf-berteig-798b543

SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION

Drew Berry is a cell biologist and biomedical animator who creates beautiful, accurate visualisations of the dramatic cellular and molecular action that is going on inside our bodies.  Since 1995 he has led biomedical animation within the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia. His animations have exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Royal Institute of Great Britain and the University of Geneva. In 2010, he received a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Berry

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

James Prudente is formerly the Director of Special Projects at HTC… (need to produce a bio here that has some relevance… we can wait until Thingamajig is out and can point to that and discuss that project due to its relevance.) https://store.steampowered.com/app/972510/Thingamajig/

3D ANIMATION

Andy Murdock, founder of the CGI house Lots of Robots, is a multi-Emmy-nominated visual effects supervisor and animator with over 30 years of experience in the field of 3D animation and scientific visualization. His work with National Geographic and the Discovery Channel on over a decade’s worth of film projects has been the ideal preparation for the virion simulations for Inside COVID19. http://www.lotsofrobots.com/

INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Amy Pinkerton is an instructional designer at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Center for Teaching and Learning. Amy provides public health instructional design experience and course development knowledge to the WisdomVR team, and serves as the liaison between the production team and outside educators.  https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-pinkerton-41b7b37a/

CELL BIOLOGY, LIFE SCIENCES

Scott Eliasof, PhD is the team biologist, with over 25 years of experience as a leader in the field, including as Senior Scientist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Director of the Biology Platform at the Broad Institute and Chief Scientific Officer at Cerulean Pharmaceuticals. Scott’s deep experience with using new technology to discover molecular pathways fundamental to cell and disease biology provides in-house knowledge fundamental to the scientific accuracy of the WisdomVR work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotteliasof/

MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN

James Jackson is a producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has spent the last five years creating critically acclaimed content across musical genres and artistic disciplines. A constant creative force James has composed music for a wide range of artists and artistic companies, from rappers and pop artists to dance and theatre companies, to composing feature-length film scores. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yassou

CHERYL JAGODA, board member

Cheryl joins the WisdomVR foundation board, bringing her time, talents, and a wealth of experience from a variety of leadership roles in the nonprofit sector. From fundraising to strategic planning to branding, Cheryl draws from her nonprofit experience at the Marin General Hospital Foundation and years in education as a Senior Administrator at Independent Schools throughout the Bay Area, years in the High Tech Software Industry at Autodesk and the decade she ran her own event management business. https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryl-jagoda-76687a1/

DAVID LAWRENCE, board member

Foundation board member David Lawrence is a designer, producer and media artist with over 30 years of expertise in digital media. His early work in the 1980s at Lucasfilm Ltd. includes pioneering research and production of innovative multimedia projects that launched the interactive digital world we take for granted today. He is a co-founder of Public Matters, a multidisciplinary nonprofit with expertise in public art, education, new media, community building and youth leadership development, and is an advisory board member of Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhlawrence

REBECCA TREDWAY, treasurer

As foundation Treasurer, Rebecca Tredway Ward brings a wealth of experience to the job of managing the 501(c)(3) nonprofit status of the WisdomVR Project Foundation. Her previous roles include Manager of Finance at the Walt Disney Company, Controller at Turner Broadcast System, Director of Finance at Autodesk Entertainment, Chief Operating Officer for Mental Images, Inc, and more recently co-founder of the Professional Independent Consultants of America. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-ward-08680b11/

ANDREW STANLEY PEKOSZ, PhD, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/1972/andrew-stanley-pekosz

WILLIAM MOSS, PhD, executive director, International Vaccine Access Center and Professor of Epidemiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

https://www.jhsph.edu/faculty/directory/profile/497/william-john-moss