Jim has spent more than 35 years leading the design, development, and market deployment of cutting-edge technology solutions for the Aerospace, Entertainment, Automotive, Insurance and Beauty sectors. Most recently Jim was the Global President of the Technology Acceleration Hub for prestige beauty giant Shiseido. Prior, Jim held several executive roles at DreamWorks and DreamWorks Animation as EVP Digital Strategy, SVP Production Development and SVP R&D in which he drove the company’s substantial investment in visual effects tools and pipelines. Jim started his career as a Senior Systems Engineer at TRW for the Hubble Space Telescope Ground Station. Among many roles during his tenure at TRW, Jim redesigned tactical mapping software relied upon by the U.S. Army and Navy.

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