The Virtual Reality and Gaming pioneers on our team are experts in AR/VR Development and applications for Enterprise. We have been leading the way for our clients to rapidly adopt 21st century technologies.
Henk B. Rogers
Board Chairman and Co-Founder
Henk is a Dutch-born computer game designer and serial entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan’s first major role-playing video game The Black Onyx, and for revolutionizing the video game industry by securing the rights for the blockbuster game Tetris®. Today Rogers serves as Chairman of Blue Planet Software, the sole agent for the Tetris franchise, and manages the worldwide rights for the Tetris brand. Thirty years after its launch, Tetris continues to be one of the world’s top-selling games with over 425 million copies sold.
Galen Ho
President and CEO, Board Member and Co-Founder
Galen, an aerospace executive with global experience, focuses on advancing high-impact technologies in the marketplace. His prior management experience includes serving as Senior Vice President with BAE Systems Inc., where he was responsible for program management; engineering and technology; strategic planning; mergers and acquisitions; internal audit; and information technology for the firm’s U.S. operations. He served as President of BAE Systems’ Information and Electronic Systems Integration Sector, a $5B business with over 9000 employees; as President of Lockheed Martin Electronics Systems; and as Vice President of IBM’s Federal Services and President and CEO of the IBM-ASIC UK subsidiary.
Lindsay Hoover
Sr. VP Corp. Strategy and Development, Board Member and Co-Founder
Lindsay Hoover has over 20 years of experience in financial services, including investment banking, strategic advisory and principal investing, focused on software and media technology companies. She recently managed the corporate development activities for a technology incubator. Lindsay began her career as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. State Department.
Mark Loughridge
Board Member
Mark Loughridge is a founder and former Co-Chairman of Foundation 9 Entertainment (F9E), which grew to become one of the largest independent game developers in the world. F9E made software games for every major market and hardware platform around the world. It employed some of the top talent in the industry, including over 700 software programmers, artists, animators, game designers, sound designers and producers. Mark achieved his entrepreneurial dream when Francisco Partners acquired a controlling stake in F9E in 2006 with funding of up to $150 million.
John Fillwalk
Advisor
John Fillwalk is an internationally recognized artist and practitioner of virtual and hybrid environments. He serves as the senior director of the Hybrid Design Technologies initiative [HDT], as the director of the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts (IDIA Lab} at Ball State University. His artworks have been exhibited internationally, including at SIGGRAPH, CYNETart, Synthése, 404 Festival, Dutch Design Week, Boston Cyberarts, Virtual Broad Art Museum, ISEA, ASCI, Vidéoformes, Indian Institute of Technology, the Beijing Science and Technology Museum, the BBC and the History Channel.
Ty Robinson
Advisor
Ty Robinson has worked in the computer animation and video game industries for over 17 years for such companies as Sun Microsystems, Lucas Arts Entertainment, and Konami Computer Entertainment. Ty has shipped highly successful titles such as Star Wars Star Fighter, Dance Dance Revolution, TMNT and ESPN Extreme Skateboarding, for a variety of platforms, including PC, XBOX, PS2, XBOX 360 and the Nintendo GBA/DS..
Shinichi Soeda
Advisor
Shinichi Soeda is a multi-faceted software graphics engineer focused on creating and improving management systems, tools and workflow processes for the 3D Computer Graphics game and high-end imaging industry. He has been instrumental in the development of 3D and cinematic virtual worlds, assets and avatars at companies such as Avatar Reality, Square USA, Namco and SemoLogic.
Colleen Reilly, MBA/MSM
Advisor
Colleen has over 20 years of experience in the corporate wellbeing industry. Her experience spans time spent at Accenture, Coors Brewing Company, Mayo Clinic and Nelnet. Colleen founded Total Well-Being in 2008 and sold in 2016. Total Wellbeing was one of the nation’s leading provider of corporate well-being consulting and SaaS wellbeing platform. Some of her clients included State of Arizona, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Molson Coors and Keurig Green Mountain. She currently serves serves on the Board for Wellness Councils of America (WELCOA).
Jennifer Smith
Advisor
Jennifer E. Smith is a proven senior executive with extensive experience leading business development, sales, and proposal organizations with national and international client bases. She most recently served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for SAIC responsible for coordinating the company’s enterprise strategy and development, including mergers and acquisitions as a direct report to the CEO. Jennifer also held executive business development and management positions over a two-decade career with Lockheed Martin Corp (via acquisitions of IBM Federal Systems and Loral), SRA International Inc. and Dell Inc.
Virginia Hinshaw
Advisor
Virginia is Chancellor Emeritus, Professor of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology at the University of Hawaii. She is also on the board of the Blue Planet Foundation.
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