Anthony Brown - Managing Director of Business Development - Seven Group

In 2001, Anthony co-founded Seven Group and by 2003 Seven Group had established themselves in Digital Media by designing a complete animated feature studio for Mainframe Entertainment. Since then, Seven Group has become a leading integrator for building Special Effects, Games, and Animation Studios and has provided innovative solutions for some of the most important studios in these fields.

Doug Binkley - Marketing - Seven Group

Doug B. has been a part of the Seven Group team for the past 5 years. He holds numerous achievement and recognition awards from renowned organizations such as American Express, Apple, Rogers, IBM and Hewlett Packard. Doug’s lifetime of successes has always been based on dedicated hard work combined with understanding, planning, creativity, service and integrity.”

Doug Campbell - President - Spin West VFX

Doug C. is the president and founding partner of SPIN West Visual Effects (VFX) in Vancouver Canada, where he is a leading VFX Supervisor for the Film and Television Industry. Having graduated from Sheridan College, Classical Animation in 1981, Doug is now one of Canada’s most experienced VFX artists having more than 27 years in the business.

Ian Verchere - Producer - Creative Director - Faculty, Masters of Digital Media Programme

Ian has been involved in the creation and production of over 40 video games including Beavis and Butt-Head, a recent inductee into the Classic Video Game Hall of Fame. He sold his first screenplay to Disney in 2001, and helped bring Jackie Chan to the video game world in an exclusive world-wide deal for Radical Entertainment, a company he helped found in 1991. Currently, Ian is the creative lead for PlayStation’s virtual world Home.

Michael Matrick - Tech Business Advisor

Michael, President and Co-Founder of 90 Degree Software, has more than 14 years’ experience in the enterprise software market. At 90 Degree Software, Michael was responsible for defining the company’s overall strategic objectives, including executive leadership, sales, international partnerships, product marketing and support.

Kay Gruenwoldt - Head of Title Marketing, North America - Nokia

Kay heads the North American Marketing Team for NOKIA Games Publishing. Kay joined Nokia in 2004 as a Producer for the European Games Publishing division, and then in 2006 he took over Global Industry Marketing for N-Gage. With a broad background in the games industry for more then 14 years that includes Marketing, Sales, Design and Development positions, Kay brings a breadth of experience to his role.

Kelly Zmak - President - Radical Entertainment

Kelly is President of Radical Entertainment, a video game developer located in Vancouver. He is responsible for overseeing the studio’s operations and product development. Kelly joined Radical in 2005 as Chief Operating Officer and was then promoted to President in 2006. He brings with him over 20 years’ experience in the video game industry spanning across multiple roles ranging from production to operations and management.

Tarrnie Williams - General Manager - Relic Entertainment

Tarrnie is the GM of THQ Canada Inc. (Relic Entertainment) and has been with Relic since 2005. Previously, he served in senior production roles at EA LA from 2001-2005 and at EA Canada from 1992-2001. His first industry job was as a designer at Distinctive Software in 1989. Tarrnie is passionate about creative people, collaboration and agile development, the technology of learning, the power of trust, and life/work quality.