In assembling our advisory board, we sought out experts from a variety of disciplines—including film and entertainment, online games, virtual worlds and online communities, and intellectual property ownership and asset management—to help shape and add to our company's strategic direction. The board's current and previous members have all achieved widespread industry recognition for their contributions at companies such as Electronic Arts, Yahoo! Inc., Twentieth Century Fox, Vulcan Productions and AOL.

Maria Wilhelm
Head of Advisory Board
An executive at such companies as AOL, Netscape, and The WELL, Maria Wilhelm provides unique expertise on the convergence of media, technology, and online community. Maria has collaborated closely with game developers and game technology platforms to integrate non-game content and technologies in ways that illustrate pathways for future revenue. Maria is a former Senior Vice President at Netscape Communications and a former Senior Vice President at AOL. Prior to joining Netscape, she was President of The WELL, the seminal Internet community. Her experience participating in, building, and harnessing the power of online communities continues to inform her interests in MMOGs. Maria started her career at Time Inc., launching some of the company's first new media properties in the early '90s. She is a founding managing director of Inflexion Point, an intellectual property investment bank, and an advisor to Charles River Capital Partners. She is also a member of the Los Angeles advisory board of Pacific Community Ventures, and a member of the Dean's Council at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

James Cameron
After spending the early 1980s working in visual effects and production design, James Cameron moved to directing with The Terminator in 1984. He wrote and directed Aliens, released in 1986, and then wrote, directed, and produced The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), and Titanic (1997). Titanic remains the highest grossing movie in history, with $1.8 billion in ticket sales, and is the recipient of 14 Academy Award nominations and the winner of 11 Oscars, the highest number ever in each case.

In recent years, his desire to bring the experience of exploring the undersea shipwreck of the Titanic to audiences around the world motivated Cameron to turn to documentary filmmaking and the development of a 3-D "Reality Camera System," which he co-developed with Sony. Cameron has been active in the science and technology of exploration, both in space and in the oceans. He is currently a co-investigator on the development of a stereo motion image camera for the Mars Science Lander, scheduled to explore the red planet in 2009. Cameron served for 3 years on the NASA Advisory Council and remains active in space policy. Cameron is in preproduction on his next major directorial outing, a feature film which will be shot with his proprietary Fusion 3D digital camera system, and will be released in digital 3D. Cameron continues to develop new robotic and camera technology for exploration and filmmaking.

Doug Garland
Doug Garland has extensive experience building high-growth mobile and broadband businesses. He is currently a strategic advisor to start-ups and investors focused on wireless and internet services. Previously a Senior Vice President at Yahoo!, he led the company's mobile initiative, building Yahoo! Mobile into the number one mobile portal and launching several new services. He also spearheaded the launch of Yahoo!'s broadband access business, forging industry-leading partnerships and services with SBC, BT, and Rogers.

Prior to Yahoo!, Garland spent most of his career in the wireless industry. As a vice president at Sprint PCS, he led the launch of the Carolinas & Virginia Area and was a key member of the team that created the industry's first "Any Time/Any Where" plan. Prior to Sprint, Garland led product marketing for the launch of PacBell Mobile Services and MCI Cellular. He was also a pioneer in the development of CDMA digital cellular while at PacTel/AirTouch, where he directed digital product development, market transition efforts and helped create a national carrier alliance.

Garland began his career as a communications network engineer and officer in the US Air Force. He holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS and ME in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Richard Hutton
As vice president of media development at Vulcan Productions—the film production arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc., founded to originate, develop and finance creatively-driven, inventive motion picture and documentary projects—Richard Hutton brings Peabody, Emmy and Grammy Award-Winning film and television experience to The Multiverse Network. Under Hutton’s Vulcan Productions produced and co-produced numerous feature films and documentaries, including the Emmy Award-winning Rx for Survival, Hard Candy, Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas; Academy Award-nominated Far From Heaven; Grammy Award-winning Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues; and the Peabody Award-winning Black Sky: The Race For Space. Hutton has also spearheaded several PBS series at Vulcan Productions, including the Peabody and Grammy Award-winning No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Prior to joining Vulcan Productions, Hutton was the executive producer of the critically acclaimed PBS series, Evolution, co-produced by the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions. Previously, he was senior vice president of creative development at Walt Disney Imagineering, as well as vice president and general manager of the Disney Institute, where he directed the transition of the organization from concept to an operating business. He has also authored or co-authored nine books and medical texts, as well as articles for national publications, such as The New York Times Magazine, Omni and Cosmopolitan.

Jon Landau
Academy Award® - winning producer Jon Landau has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to oversee and deliver major motion pictures. The combination of Landau's thorough understanding of the most complex state-of-the-art visual effects technologies, his ability to work hand-in-hand with the highest caliber of creative talent, and his motivational ability with crews of all sizes has enabled him to play a significant role in numerous major motion pictures. In addition to producing James Cameron's Titanic, Landau produced Steven Soderbergh's film Solaris, starring George Clooney, and also under Cameron's "Lightstorm" productions banner. In the past, Landau co-produced Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy and the family comedy hit Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Throughout the early '90's, Landau was Executive Vice President of Feature Film Production at Twentieth Century Fox.

During the past several years, Cameron and Landau have been developing digital production tools that will enable filming and mass digital distribution of 3D movies. For their next movie, in addition to applying these tools, Landau is working in close collaboration with Microsoft, and its partner AMD, to streamline the production and visual effect process through the use of cutting-edge "Virtual Production" technologies.

Joseph Siino
As Vice President, Intellectual Property for Yahoo! Inc., Siino is responsible for intellectual property (IP) asset management for Yahoo! globally. Prior to Yahoo!, Siino spent approximately 20 years in the high tech intellectual property business, first as an engineer and later as a lawyer. He founded and ran the IP Strategy and Technology Transactions practice at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrrison, and was listed as one of The World's Leading Lawyers by Chamber's Global. Siino also founded and ran Siino Law and Technology Group that represented companies such as Intel, SAP, and Quantum. In addition to his business and legal career, Siino spent a decade teaching at U.C. Berkeley's renowned Center for Law and Technology, where he designed and taught the first full-semester Intellectual Property Strategy course in the world and numerous other intellectual property courses.

Max Sims
Sims is the principal of the design and strategy consulting firm Technolution, with clients ranging from Pixar to Price Waterhouse, and also the lead author of the critically acclaimed Inside Maya5 by New Riders Press. Sims is the President of the Northern California Maya Users Group. Sims is currently Assistant Professor for 3D modeling and rendering at Cogswell Polytechnical College and adjunct faculty Academy of Art University where he has taught for 5 and 12 years respectively. His Cogswell students are providing art assets for the Multiverse Developer Marketplace. Sims has lectured extensively on design, computer graphics, writing, and nanotechnology since the mid-eighties. An award-winning industrial designer with an extensive computer graphics background, Sims' work has appeared on the covers of ID and rana magazine as well The Architecture of Cyberspace. He won a 2004 Medical design excellence award and industrial design excellence award for the Natus Algo 3i with Pemstar Consulting.