Robert has founded, built, and sold several software and Internet businesses over the course of the last several years - among them ION Storm, a computer game company that he built from six partners to 112 employees in a six-month period, and for which he engineered the richest contract in the computer game business and negotiated its partial sale before leaving in May 1998. Since then, he has founded and run a hybrid software/Internet company, a Nintendo game development company, and an Internet database development company in addition to his term at divine. A lawyer by training (J.D. - Texas Tech University), Mr. Wright was an equity partner in Jenkens & Gilchrist, the largest law firm in the Southwest, where he specialized in leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, loan transactions, and securities law. He cut his operations teeth during the Texas banking slump of the 1980's when he specialized in crisis management for distressed financial institutions and oversaw difficult combinations with and without Federal assistance for several hundred banks and savings and loan associations. Mr. Wright also has earned an MBA in Finance (Texas Tech) and a BA in History (Allegheny College).

Sasha Shor, Creative Principal/Founder, Industry Media, LLC Sasha Shor's extensive experience in design has taken her into genres of the design and new media industries spanning print, motion, web, and packaging. As a Senior Art Director at PYRO in Dallas, TX, Sasha developed some of the most attention-getting and cutting-edge work in the industry at the time. Her work has included logos, packaging. and advertising for properties such as Quake, Quake II, Duke Nukem and Final Doom and Dr. Martens. After returning to New York City in 1998, Sasha took on the position of Associate Design Director with Kirshenbaum Bond and Partners, working with clients such as Sony Station, College Jeopardy Online, Children's Television Workshop, and Warner Books.

Currently, Sasha is the founder and Creative Principal of Industry Media, LLC in New York City, a boutique, all-media design engineering initiative, promoting seamless integration between creative and branding entities. Industry Media's conceptual and visual work focuses on all aspects of the gaming and entertainment industries. Clients Include: Eidos Interactive, VH1, Babbages, Etc., Random House Publishing, Tommy Boy Records, ROCKSTAR Games, Sony Music, Epic records and the Sundance Channel.

Sasha holds a BFA in Design with a Minor in Computer Science from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she teaches design and typography. Her work has been featured in Lürzers Archive, Communication Arts, Graphis Poster Annual, Print Magazine, the Addys (Texas), and Promax/BDA.

Audrey Mann Cronin, Senior Vice President, Group Executive, TSI Communications' Digital Consumer Group. Audrey Mann Cronin founded TSI Communications' Digital Consumer Group in 1992 and continues to manage its bi-coastal operations. Audrey concentrates on media relations, image marketing, Web strategies, and the issues, technologies and trends that affect today's digital consumer. She is also a key proponent to TSI's new business outreach.

Audrey has launched a multitude of new companies and Web sites into the interactive media industry including: AOL Moviefone.com, BusinessWeek Online, Music Boulevard, RealTime Sports, 1-800-Flowers.com, id Software, YadaYada Wireless and The ImagiNation Network. Audrey's roster of clients includes JVC Company of America, Epic Games, Gathering of Developers, Electronic Arts, and Juno Online Services.

In the past, she has managed the publicity for IBM Multimedia Systems, Sony Consumer Electronics, Microsoft's music initiative, Warner Home Video, Midway Home Entertainment, Acclaim Entertainment, Forbes.com and Sierra On-Line.

As an active industry participant, Audrey has moderated and spoken at several conferences and trade shows including the Electronic Entertainment Expo and the international interactive media show, MILIA.

Audrey started her career as a publicist for the Broadway Theater in New York City. She spent three years with Hewlett-Packard (HP) as a marketing representative and acted as HP's East Coast director of special events. She left HP in 1990 and went to work for Einson Freeman, a promotions and advertising agency. At Einson Freeman, Audrey worked as an account executive on a diversity of accounts including AT&T Visual Merchandising, IKEA, Paddington Liquors, and the American Red Cross.

Martin X. Zacarias, CEO, 10K Wizard Technology, LLC. Mr. Zacarias has an extensive background in financial engineering and transaction structuring from the perspective of both a capital provider and corporate operator. Mr. Zacarias has successfully structured, negotiated and closed complex, innovative corporate transactions in a variety of industries and in sizes ranging from $250,000 to over $1 billion.

Currently he is CEO and co-founder of 10K Wizard Technology, LLC, a successful technology company focused on massive content management and deep search technologies.

Mr. Zacarias has also actively worked in the interactive media industry having advised such companies as ION Storm, Ensemble Studios Corporation and Gathering of Developers.

Formerly with IBM Corporation where he worked in systems marketing, and with Citicorp's Leveraged Capital Group where, as a senior account officer, he originated and managed leveraged buyout transactions.

Mr. Zacarias holds a Master in Business Administration degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rice University in Computer Science.

Sundae, Owner, Charger Entertainment. Sundae is the sole owner of Charger Entertainment, a Santa Monica based full service production company that specializes in original concepts, execution, and delivery for live action and animation films for short formats. Charger Entertainment is currently nominated for Video of The Year Award (South America) for the MTV Video Music Awards 2001. This is their second nomination in three years.

From her early start in film school, Sundae was busy making music videos and short experimental films. The first of six music videos, which she directed, produced, edited and art directed, gained airtime via MTV's "Basement Tapes" series. Sundae went on to produce her first professional music video at the age of 22 for Epic Records recording group Suicidal Tendencies.

She was then immediately commissioned to work with the critically acclaimed Warner Bros.' Alt-artists Jane's Addiction, doing their first music video "Mountain Song", and later producing their first home video, "Soul Kiss."

Sundae went on to produce and direct a number of music videos for major record companies, including MCA, Warner Bros., and Motown. She was hired by NBC Executive Producer, Kelly J. Hayes, to produce and direct a series of thirty-second interstitial spots for NBC. The spots were PSA-based and ran twice a day during NBC's daytime programming. Sundae was one of two producer/directors on the show during its first season, and was given responsibility for the entire show for the second season; completing 260 spots during her two and a half-year run with the NBC project.

She has since worked in almost every format of film and video production. Sundae has produced over 150 promo spots and three hundred music videos with artist ranging from Wilco, Marilyn Manson, Sophie B. Hawkins, Ray Charles, Brand New Heavies, Hank Williams, Jr, Kid Rock, and hundreds more.

James Binns, Publisher, Edge, PC Gamer. James Binns has worked as a journalist and publisher in the entertainment market for the last nine years. His work has focused on topics as diverse as snowboarding, comedy, and video games. James invented the art movement Consurrealism (featured in British newspapers The Times and The Independent, on BBC Radio, and showcased in international anti-capitalist magazine Adbusters). He also launched Kavort newspaper in UK city Southampton.

Following the launch, James turned to the writing and business sides of creative magazines Computer Arts and Computer Music. He edited mainstream computer magazine PC Format for two and half years and now publishes three games magazines - Edge, PC Gamer and an Xbox launch.