2010 Oscar nominee Peter Muyzers is currently consulting with SkyLab HQ on VFX integration throughout the post-production workflow.
Muyzers is former COO and VFX Supervisor at Image Engine where he built the business to the success story it is today. Peter oversaw the VFX on Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” and “Elysium” as well as early development on “Chappie” and, more recently, Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper.”
Prior to that, Peter honed his skills at MPC in the UK where he worked on multiple feature films including Tim Burton’s “Corpse Bride” and the first three Harry Potter films.
Mike is a two-time HPA award finalist who has worked on over 100 films in his career. He enjoys swimming, riding and running and believes that one of the best things you can do to improve yourself is to listen carefully.
Mikes admires the work of Christian Vincent and the heroism of people like Pat Tillman and Patric Knowles. Given the chance to play a character of his choice in a film, Mike says it would be a toss-up between James Bond and Willy Wonka.
Darcy serves as Vubiquity’s Chief Executive Officer. Vubiquity, the leading global provider of premium content services, supplies content for on demand and linear viewing on any viewing device. The company works with video service providers and content owners in 37 countries, reaching more than 100 million households.
Prior to joining Vubiquity, Darcy was President, Technical Operations and CTO at Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Darcy is a veteran of three Olympics for CBS Sports and a three-time Emmy winner for technical production and engineering. As a multinational Patents holder, she serves on advisory boards of technology companies and universities.
Darcy holds an MBA with concentration in finance from Fordham University and honors for work in the field of electrical engineering from her undergraduate alma mater, Temple University.
Marc DeBevoise is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Interactive’s Entertainment, News and Sports division. In this role, he oversees CBSi’s leading sites including CBS.com, CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com. DeBevoise is also responsible for CBSi’s digital content distribution strategies, and the development of both original and show-based digital video content, applications and games.
DeBevoise joined CBSi from premium subscription service Starz, where he was the Senior Vice President of Digital Media, Business Development and Strategy. At Starz DeBevoise was responsible for the company’s overall digital strategy and the digital initiatives supporting its film, television and digital original content properties. He also led the generation, evaluation and execution of business development, strategic investment, and growth opportunities for all of Starz’ business units.
Prior to joining Starz, he held various roles at NBC Universal, in both Digital Media and Business Development, and worked in the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at JPMorgan.
DeBevoise has been recognized as one of Cynopsis Media’s “Most Intriguing People” for 2013, AlwaysOn’s “Power Players in Digital Media” for 2013, Home Media magazine’s “Digital Drivers” for 2011, The Hollywood Reporter’s “Digital Power 50” for 2010, and Multichannel News’ “40 Under 40” for 2009.
He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, on the Executive Council for Internet Week New York, and the Board President of The Door, a non-profit organization providing youth development services.
He received his M.B.A. with distinction in Entertainment, Media & Technology and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business and his B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Tufts University. He lives in New York City along with his wife and their two children.
As a director of research at Parks Associates, Brett Sappington leads Parks Associates services research team, including access and entertainment services, digital media, OTT, cloud media, video gaming, and technical support services. Brett is an expert in worldwide television and broadband services. His personal research focuses on the activities and trends among operators and the market forces affecting their businesses. Brett is a regular speaker and moderator at international industry events.
Brett has spent over eighteen years in the industry as an analyst, executive manager, and entrepreneur. Previously, he founded and served as vice president for Teligy, a software company specializing in software for wired and wireless communications systems. Brett established new divisions for networking and audio/multimedia software for Intelligraphics. He has also been involved in the development and marketing of early-market products for 802.11 wireless networking, VoIP, and other technologies.
Brett holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in high-tech marketing and a BA in physics from Baylor University.
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE: International Digital Living Trends, Television Services (IPTV, cable, satellite/DTH, terrestrial/DTT), Broadband Services, Multiscreen Services, Value-added Services, Cloud-based Consumer Services, Set-top Boxes, Residential Gateways, Electronic Program Guides, Video Search and Recommendation, Video Metadata, Middleware, Technical Support Services
Megan McGough Christian is the Production Manager for the PBS weekly public affairs documentary series, FRONTLINE. Under adverse time and technical conditions Megan is responsible for coordinating and problem-solving numerous technical and workflow issues that arise on a weekly basis. Working with incredible teams at FRONTLINE and OutPost at WGBH, she helps ensure the highest standards of quality for FRONTLINE content across multiple distribution platforms.
Siân Fever is a London-based short form offline editor for broadcast, marketing and corporate content. She has a proven strength in music programming and branded content. Her clients include: Universal, Xbox, Sony BMG, Microsoft, Red Bull, Ford Mondeo, MTV, The Disney Channel, AOL, Natwest, ITV, Channel 4, The Mercury Music Prize and The Olympics.
Siân is the co-organizer of Geek Feminism at Nine Worlds GeekFest, and sits on the board of governors of the Guild of British Film and Television Editors (GBFTE).
As SVP of Fullscreen’s strategic content group, Bryan Thoensen leverages Fullscreen’s experience in youth culture, and its strong relationships with brands and distributors, to build unique formats and mult-platform content experience for a number of the company’s partners.
Prior to Fullscreen, Thoensen served as director and head of brand content at Hulu, where he built the division, and oversaw the creation and distribution of industry-leading projects like Chipotle’s “Farmed & Dangerous,” “My Side of the Sky”, “The High Road with Mario Batali,” and Subway’s “The 4 to 9ers.” As a vice president in the brand marketing and digital divisions of The William Morris Agency and WME, he conceived and executed award-winning entertainment marketing strategy for blue-chip brands like Nestle Purina, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Hilton Hotels, Hewlett-Packard, Best Buy and Saks Fifth Avenue. Thoensen began his career in investment banking and also spent time in the partnerships group at Miramax Films.
Gavin Douglas is the Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder of iPowow, the market leading web-based application that enables television viewers to seamlessly, naturally and individually interact with any program genre, through polls, games, quizzes and various other participation experiences. He provides both strategic vision and day-to-day management of the company, which has enjoyed dramatic growth in the past year with such networks as ESPN, NBC, Lifetime, USA Network, Fox and more.
He is a multi-award winning media producer and TV format developer with 17 years of experience in both content production and new format development across a variety of media platforms. He wrote, produced, directed and/or edited more than 30 television series in 10 countries.
Jonathan has been actively involved in emerging media for nearly twenty years, and has been an innovator in media research for over a decade. Jonathan directs research and analytics across both TiVo’s core DVR and advanced television platform business and TiVo Research and Analytics (TRA), a wholly owned subsidiary of TiVo focused on measurement and optimization of media efficiency. He joined TiVo in December, 2011 as Vice President, Product & Business Development for TiVo’s Audience Research & Measurement group, where he worked to expand and update TiVo’s groundbreaking Stop||Watch and Power||Watch audience measurement products.
Prior to TiVo, Jonathan managed the design and deployment of the AT&T AdWorks / comScore cross-media (TV+online+mobile) research effort (http://crossmedia.att.com). In 2009, he co-founded what is now Aerify Media (http://aerifymedia.com), a digital media buying platform (DSP); from 2005-2008 he build and managed the Media / Entertainment / Technology practice at Iconoculture (http://www.iconoculture.com), a future-focused consumer insights and advisory firm. In 2003, Jonathan founded Anonymous Media Research, where he developed patented single-source crossmedia audience measurement tools based on audio fingerprinting / pattern matching technology (US patents 8,296,791 and 8,510,768, issued 10/23/2012 and 8/13/2013, respectively; others pending).
From 1993-2003, Jonathan spent ten years as an entrepreneur and consultant in the emerging Internet business, initially in San Francisco. in 1993 he co-founded Hotwired, the first banner-ad-supported Website from Wired magazine. He also cofounded Cyborganic (http://archive.cyborganic.org), a (too-)early social media startup. In 1995 he joined the launch team at CNET (http://cnet.com), the first integrated Web / TV programming venture. He then joined the pioneering online community the WELL (http://well.com), where he led product development of a Web-based online community tool. In 1997 he joined Scient as a strategy consultant; by 2001 he had moved to New York and was leading Scient’s eMarkets team, responsible for building venture-funded startups, for the eastern US. Jonathan left Scient in 2001 to join Sawyer Media Systems, a venture-funded online video production and digital asset management platform startup.
Jonathan holds a Ph.D. in Communication Theory and Research from Stanford University (1995) and an A.B. in Philosophy from Harvard College (1988). He is the author of a still-widely-cited paper on virtual reality (“Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence“). Jonathan originally hails from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and currently lives in the East Village of New York City with his wife, two daughters and two cats.
