From his first job as an usher at a cinema on a Canadian base in Germany, J has spent two decades working in professional media. During his undergraduate at Queen's University he started a recording group that toured with acts such as The Tragically Hip, Wilco, and Primus. After graduation he directed award-winning short films and gained experience at every level of production on film and television in Toronto. Relocating to Vancouver he founded OverInteractive Media an award winning digital agency focused on branded gamification and social strategies for clients that include CBC, Disney/ABC, Weinstein Company, and Telus. He has participated in industry panels including: Banff WMF, Digital Dialogues, Petchakucha, Prime Time and SXSW. J. sits on the board of the Vancouver International Film Festival, and as a National Advisor for the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Merging + Media & X-Summit. In May 2012 he founded CineCoup that received intial investment from GrowLab. The 2013 inaguaral season resulted in the highly succesful feature WolfCop, and was followed in 2014 by the TV series Human Town for CBC ComedyCoup. WolfCop 2 begins production in summer 2015.

A former programmer, Brian's executive management career enjoyed stops in telecom and video games, including a 13-year stint at Electronic Arts Canada. His time at EA focused on providing multidisciplinary teams an environment to excel, while ensuring on-time delivery of properties that met fiscal goals. This work required directing specific game teams, production groups made up of multiple game teams, a directed graphic research group during the transition to new technologies and techniques, and EA's Digital Information Resource Centre. His last role was as COO for Need For Speed (NFS), one of the industry's largest ever titles. During his time on NFS, Brian focused on launching NFS's first digitally-delivered freemium version. After experimenting with retirement, Brian became enthralled with OMI and it's CEO J Joly. Given his interest in social media and new business models, he joined J as COO for OMI.

For 2 decades Bannister has worked at every level of media and has helped usher a multitude of projects from concept to screen. In Los Angeles, Bannister acted as a Creative Executive with Zucker Productions, helping to develop feature projects for the American studio system. In Vancouver, he has developed and produced projects for the domestic and international marketplace as an executive with Brightlight Pictures. With Great Pacific Media, he has produced a variety of documentary and reality content for networks such as Discovery and A&E. Currently Bannister heads development for The Coup Company, a digital media studio that’s revolutionizing film marketing and audience building through its one-of-a-kind media accelerator platforms. Bannister is also a working screenwriter who has completed scripts for multiple Disney Home Video titles.

Since he began working as a Producer and Project Manager in 2008, Michael has been attached to many high-profile projects such as Kraft Hockeyville, Active for Life, The Next Star Second Screen and TELUS STORYHIVE. Michael graduated from SFU with a Bachelor of Business Administration and he went on to obtain his Masters in Digital Media from SFU/UBC after working as a marketing manager at a Vancouver Internet marketing firm for 2 years. Michael has enjoyed the creativity found in the 15 years working in multiple facets of the film, television and stage industries.

Dorothy started her career in tech as a programmer, she quickly moved up the tech ranks and into Management. Prior to moving with her family to Vancouver, Canada, Dorothy was overseeing one of the IT Departments in the Information Technology Division, at one of the biggest retail chains in South Africa. In Vancouver, she continued with her passion for technology and project management, focussing the first 5 years in developing and implementing K-12 Educational software with Chancery Software Ltd. (now Pearson) before moving into Video Games, spending 3 years at EA and 5 plus years working for The Walt Disney company, in the roles of Development Director and Franchise Producer. Since joining OMI, as Project Director she has worked on Kraft Hockeyville, Telus STORYHIVE, ComedyCoup and Cinecoup.

Wolfgang started his computer science career in 1998, the heady days of E-commerce. This was after rebooting his schooling when he realized that he really didn't like studying biology, so a career in forensics was definitely out. In the 17 years since he has continued with innovating in all things enterprise web development related (virtual stores, online photo finishing, spoke and hub fulfillment systems, B2B systems, VOIP, video streaming ...), but also interspersed this with some low level engineering (black box encryption, controller drivers, ship auto pilot navigation systems... ). Throughout this time he has worn many hats such as: Sales engineer, project manager / owner, senior dev, chief architect, toilet paper Sherpa, to currently being the CTO of Overinteractive Media for the past 4 and half years. He laughed when that Apple guy with the sweater announced that the optical drive was dead in computers. He now doesn't own a single optical drive. Hobbies include water polo, travelling, motorcycling, eating sushi, and trying not to get in serious trouble or breaking his neck (again). Coffee is more of religion than a hobby for him.

Owain is an experienced IT professional with almost two decades of IT work under his belt. His background includes designing network infrastructure for efficiency and reliability, specifying and purchasing network equipment in both customer-facing and office environments, and working in both large and small multi-location installations. At OMI, our environments are all cloud-based, an infrastructure managed by Owain, who also drives our performance testing.