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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Jean Chung, President, Better Communications & Consulting: For the last 10+ years, Jean has extensively worked with government and public sectors in Korea, including Korea IT Promotional Agency (KIPA), and Gyeonggi Digital Content Agency (GDCA) and Korea Communications Commission, to name a few, by providing consultation and speaker arrangement services. Jean is a firm believer, advocating that Korean Americans should play a pivotal role in fusing U.S. entertainment forces with Korea’s dynamic digital industry. In 2007, she planned and organized “Gyeonggi- Hollywood Connection,” focusing on U.S.- Korea collaborations in computer graphic and animation industries. In May 2008, she launched the first Korea sessions at Digital Hollywood, a premier business conference in the U.S. attended by digital media, IT and creative industry executives. As a Korea session organizer at Digital Hollywood conference, she has presented, and will continue to, model cases in which Korean and U.S. entertainment business professionals get benefited from partnering relationships. As a history major (Ph.D. candidate in Modern European History at UCLA), she has always thought about what are the moving force in history. She has talent in enabling people to see the big picture in times of changes.

Phillip Christon, Founder & Producer, We World Entertainment: Phillip Christon is a critically acclaimed, award-winning writer/director with a career spanning over two decades in mainstream Hollywood and Independent feature film production for virtually every major studio including Paramount Pictures, Universal, Warner Bros., New Line and Fine Line Cinema, and Columbia TriStar, in addition to Superbowl and Oscar contender commercials for DDB Needham, Leo Burnett and TBWA/Chiat/Day, as well as groundbreaking music videos for Sony, Arista, Maverick and Virgin. Upon graduating summa cum laude from the UCLA Film School, Phillip quickly began working with a host of the industry’s most prestigious filmmakers, ranging from Gus Van Sant, Bill Condon, Gore Verbinski and Oliver Stone to top photographers Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston and Annie Leibovitz, as well as a “Who’s Who” of A-List celebrities spanning the actor/pop-star/athlete gamut, from Keanu Reeves and Madonna to Michael Jordan. As both writer and director, Phillip’s personal projects have premiered, toured and been awarded at major film festival circuits throughout the world, including Cannes, The Seattle International Film Festival, The Hamptons International Film Festival, the Weis Film Festival, Austria and L’Etrange Film Festival, France. His newly formed motion picture production company, We World Entertainment is currently producing a slate of six independent feature films fueled with the mission of eradicating stereotyping in mainstream Hollywood entertainment by targeting, representing and engaging the unified global audience.

Jane Kagon is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future. For the past decade, Jane has been a pioneer on globalization and digital technology issues focused on the nexus between education and entertainment. She is a media and education/entertainment advisor to among others: the Japanese Vice Minister of International Affairs; the UN Bureau correspondent for China Central Television (CCTV); the City of Cannes, France; the UK’s South East Media Network (SEMN); Screentraining Ireland (FAS government agency); Kim chi Ha, Korean national poet, philosopher and political icon; the Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Law (The Center for Law & Global Justice) and; the Rwanda Cinema Center. In addition, Jane is a founding member of the Digital Hollywood University Project (DHUP) a subsidiary of Digital Hollywood, the premier U.S. digital media conference. DHUP, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, is a consortium of educators and domain experts in the media sector, collaborating on next generation learning models. She is also a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future and Honorary Fellow of the National Advisory Board of the Desantis Center for Motion Picture Industry Studies. Currently, Jane is assisting in the organization and development of the RFK Digital Media and Social Justice Community Learning Center in Los Angeles (“RFK thru 12”) to foster the legacy and values of Robert F. Kennedy and to serve as a model for future digital media community labs around the United States. Jane has written articles on media and education for such diverse publications as the “Korean Times”, “Japan Spotlight” and the “UCLA Bruin” and has lectured on media, culture and the entertainment industry at venues around the world, including the Japanese Diet Media Committee, the Beijing Film Academy, the World Culture Forum (Seoul Korea), Screentraining Ireland and the West Coast Asia Society. At UCLA, as the Director of the Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts Department in the University’s Continuing Education Division, Jane managed one of the most highly acclaimed professional entertainment training programs on media, supervising approximately 500 courses per year. She initiated innovative technology based programs to address the changing realities in both the educational field and the entertainment industry. Jane positioned the Department as the central hub in a global network of educational institutions, governmental agencies and media companies supporting the next generation of content creators and media entrepreneurs. For her contributions to UCLA in the international arena, Jane was inducted in 2006 into the honorary UCLA society, The Order of the Golden Bruins. Prior to joining UCLA, Jane was a long term Hollywood production and development executive, working as Vice President of Production for Michael Douglas, at Fox Studios among other Hollywood Majors, as well has having been an independent film producer and a writer for animated children’s series (Disney) serious games (McGraw Hill Interactive) and sci-fi web series (The IdeaLab). She began her entertainment industry career as a lawyer, representing screenwriters, producers, film composers and actors. Jane did her undergraduate degree in English at Mills College and UC Berkeley and received her JD from Loyola Law School. She lives in Los Angeles, with her husband, Ed Greenberg.

Chris Marlowe, Digital Media Consultant, (former) New Media Editorial Director, The Hollywood Reporter: As a well-known digital media consultant, Chris Marlowe skillfully navigates the space where the entertainment industry intersects with emerging technologies. Her expertise spans video games, mobile applications, IPTV, interactive television and all of the other new ways creators have of expressing themselves and connecting with their audience. Chris maintains an extensive network of relationships. Her published articles include interviews with key executives at all of the major movie, television and companies in addition to such luminaries as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, movie producer John Waters, actor and entrepreneur Kevin Spacey, actor/musician Ice-T, and the CEOs of companies including AOL, HP and Intel. Her in-house experience includes Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment and the Hollywood Reporter. Chris is in regular demand as a speaker on BBC Radio, CNN, MSNBC and elsewhere. She also frequently participates in professional conferences, often as a discussion moderator.

Jeremy Ross, President, Prestidigital Publishing: Jeremy Ross is an executive producer specializing in new product and new business development. He is a member of the Producers’ Guild of America. The common theme uniting his career is adapting print storytelling & information for cross-media deployment, especially in animation, interactive media and games. He led new product development at TOKYOPOP since 2003, adapting the company’s original manga (Asian-style comics) into mobile applications, eBooks, games, animation, film and other media. He successfully launched the first mobile manga viewer available via major US carriers with partner uclick, and the first e-ink manga for SONY’s Reader. Jeremy initiated TOKYOPOP’s original manga development, signing IP deals with over 100 worldwide creators and creating the Pilot program. He founded TOKYOPOP’s Manga Online Web site to expose this work to fans and taught a pioneering seminar about manga at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Immediately prior to joining TOKYOPOP, Ross served as executive producer at Kleiser-Walczak, developing the company business plan and spearheading expansion into games and consumer products. His production credits include the award-winning short animated 3-D CGI film Little Miss Spider: Lost and Found and CGI visual effects for Julie Taymor’s film Frida. Jeremy was previously Director of New Technology at Callaway Media from 1997 to 2001, where he supervised acclaimed cross-media projects with author David Kirk. His lifelong interest in games led his post as VP of Computer Games at Byron Preiss Multimedia from 1992 to 1997 where he directed and produced several award-winning standalone and online games. Jeremy has strong relationships with Korean artists, government agencies and business partners. He has served as a judge & speaker at KOCCA-sponsored events in Seoul and L.A. and a speaker at a number of Korea’s leading conferences.

Marty Shindler, Providing a business perspective to creative, technology and emerging companies has been Marty Shindler’s hallmark for more than thirty years, including over seventeen years in the professional service industry, twelve + of which have been with The Shindler Perspective. Marty’s association with many high profile companies has caused him to accumulate a vast amount of knowledge and experience in many aspects of entertainment, technology and business practices of a myriad of companies. His rare combination of providing professional services and hands-on executive management makes him uniquely qualified to offer a valuable perspective to his clients. Marty is equally effective in both large corporate settings and in small privately held organizations.

Christopher Swain, Director, USC Games Institute: Christopher Swain is a game designer, educator, and co-author of the textbook Game Design Workshop. He co-founded the EA Game Innovation Lab and currently directs the USC Games Institute. He was a faculty advisor to three USC teams accepted into the Independent Games Festival: Dyadin 2005, Cloud 2006, and P.B. Winterbottom 2008. Prior to coming to USC, Chris worked on games for Microsoft, Sony, Disney, Activision, Acclaim, and many others. He was a founding member of the New York design firm R/GA Interactive. At R/GA he led over 150 projects for clients that included AOL, Warner Brothers, PBS, Intel, Children’s Television Workshop, and many others. He was a creator of NetWits – a massively multiplayer online game show – for the Microsoft Network. Other notable projects include Multiplayer Wheel of Fortune and Multiplayer Jeopardy! for Sony Online, and Weakest Link Interactive for NBC. Chris was a founding member of the start-up Spiderdance, Inc. He served on the Board of Directors of the Emmy’s from 2000-2004. His work has received many awards including Time Magazine’s Best of the Web. He started his career at the pioneering interactive firm Synapse Technologies.

Jong H. Wi: President, Content Management Institute, Korea: Jong Hyun Wi is a visiting professor at CRESST, UCLA and a visiting international fellow of AIM at Sussex University. He is also an associate professor of Chung-Ang University and president of Contents Management Institute in Korea, vice president of Japanese Online Game Focused Association, advisory member of Korean government and the National Assembly, and consultant of many Korean and international game companies and government agencies. He is an expert and well-known researcher throughout Asian online game industry, and has published numerous books, academic papers, and white papers. He was invited as a keynote speaker for the International Game Convention Conference held in Germany in 2009. He developed and implemented a series of game-based learning curriculums for elementary to high schools in Korea, sponsored by the Ministry of Culture. With the proven effects of improving students’ academic achievement, his game-based curriculums will expand to 11 schools by year 2011. His is an author of many international books on innovative games and virtual business industry, including Innovation and Strategy of Online Games(Imperial College Press, UK), Japan Survival Strategy(Enterbrain, in Japanese), Industrial Development Strategy of Online Games (Tsinghua University Press, in Chinese), The History of Korean Online Game Industry Development (Seoul National University Press, in Korean), to name a few. He received the best paper awards from The Korea Society for Innovation Management & Economics for “Organizational design for new product architecture development”, and also from Korea Academic Society for “Gaming analysis on learning effects using online game community.”

Phillip Christon, Rochelle Winters is president of Smoke & Mirrors, a boutique public relations firm she founded in 1993. Ms. Winters provides communications and public relations services for global entertainment corporations, technology research centers, filmmakers and advertising agencies. Ms. Winters programmed filmmaker- and stereoscopic 3D-focused sessions for the 2008 and 2009 NAB Shows, including the inaugural Content Theater, a three-day conference about content and technology across all platforms. Ms. Winters also oversaw the Show’s Hollywood-focused marketing campaigns for both years, honing messaging, spearheading advertising, setting up sponsorship relationships, booking media, writing brochure and radio copy and more. Her efforts significantly raised Hollywood awareness of, and attendance to, the event. Ms. Winters also orchestrated the public relations campaign for SMPTE 2008, substantially growing the conference’s audience, and helped build USC’s Entertainment Technology Center into the nexus of the digital cinema industry with a multi-pronged public relations and education campaign. Other recent clientele include AnimationMentor.com, Thomson, IOSONO Sound and Gray Matter FX. Ms. Winters served as head of corporate public relations for a leading Hollywood public relations firm, Bumble Ward & Associates (BWA). There, she represented FremantleMedia North America (“American Idol”), writer/director Randall Wallace (“When We Were Soldiers”), Radar Pictures (“The Last Samurai”), among others. Ms. Winters oversaw the 2002 Academy Award campaign for Sony Pictures Imageworks’ “Spider-Man” and “Stuart Little 2” and was instrumental in helping the company win the Best Animated Film Oscar for the “TheChubbChubbs,” its first Academy Award. Ms. Winters was director of public relations for Harmony Holdings and its five divisions, where she was an important strategist in taking the corporation public.