management

Kelvin Duckett has over 20 years international management experience in the film and television industry including building, running and selling highly technical service companies such as 525 Post Productions (Hollywood), Virgin Mexico (Mexico City), Rushes (London), MediaLab (Paris), POP & Post Logic Studios (Los Angeles). Trained as an editor, Kelvin worked for the BBC, ITN, and ABC News, and later worked extensively as a visual FX specialist on high-end commercials and music videos. Kelvin, a dual US-UK national, is also a Commercial Pilot and Certified Flight Instructor.

Simon has over 14 years experience in running the finance function of several diverse businesses. He moved into industry shortly after qualifying with PwC in 1994. He spent two years at Ciba Specialty Chemicals overseeing the de-merger of that business from its pharmaceutical arm – Novartis and managing the centralization of its accounts function. Since 1997 Simon has worked within the Entertainment and Media Industry. He was a formative director of Video Game developer, Warthog plc, growing the business to a successful floatation in February 2001.

Tammy McDonald joined Image Metrics as VP of Business Development, Games, North America in October 2007. Prior to joining the company, Tammy was CEO of Vision Scape Interactive, Inc., a 3D Animation and Game Development studio she founded with her husband in 1997. During her tenure at VSI, Tammy grew the company to include first party game development, multi-sku development for next-gen platforms, development of 3D animated television series, music videos and digital entertainment content for mobile and broadband.

Before joining Image Metrics, Mike was acting as an executive advisor for a number of private equity firms and technology companies. He has broad experience in growing technology companies, both in terms of managing the organizations and providing vision for the technology. He was a Technology Partner at the Sprout Group, a venture capital fund. Prior to that, he was CTO of Gemstar-TVGuide, and held various senior management positions at Advantix, Inc, Outpost.com, and America Online.

Nick Perrett has ten years sales, marketing and strategy experience in the technology, media and telecoms industries. Nick joined Image Metrics' founding management team in 2001 as Marketing Director and subsequently VP Business Development. He is credited as Producer on a number of Image Metrics' interactive products. Formerly, Nick was Investment Manager at Axiomlab Ventures and Consultant with Arthur Andersen & Co., where he worked with a variety big media brands including Virgin Mobile and Sky.

Dave Rolston brings more than 35 years of technology experience to Image Metrics. His experience spans a broad spectrum of industries, applications, and technologies including extensive involvement in simulation and training, graphics applications, imagery, gaming, artificial intelligence, entertainment, and early versions of the Internet. Before starting his own company - Forterra - he held a variety of high-level positions in well-known technology companies, including VP of Engineering for ATI, CEO of Multigen-Paradigm, and GM of Silicon Graphic's Advanced Graphics Division.

Dr. Walker is an experienced computer scientist and software engineer with an extensive background in computer vision and its application to both animation and medical domains. His work is internationally recognized and was awarded the National Computing Prize. Dr. Walker has developed many technologies and applications used for the automatic creation and animation of digital characters.