BIOGRAPHIES:
Marc Lutz, Chief Technology Officer
Marc Lutz is the company's Chief Technology Officer, and leading Producer. He leverages his wide range of academic and practical experiences to lead the technical evolution of the company's technology platforms as well as managing many of ongoing projects.
During his academic career, Mr. Lutz studied Computer Science, earned a BA in Political Science and earned a minor in Theater. While being a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in International Relations and Economics, Mr. Lutz also lectured at the University of New Brunswick department of English, teaching Technical Theater and also acted as the Technical Director for the Fine Arts program at UNB.
With the coming of Y2K issues, Mr. Lutz became involved in development and consulting work for large corporate customer including Levi Straus, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and Empire Foods.
As a co-founder and CTO of Telum Inc., Mr. Lutz lead a distinguished group of researches and developers specializing in the areas of speech recognition and compression, Voice Over IP and Internet, remote communications and remote conferencing. As the originator of much of the company's intellectual property, Marc guided day to day research and development as well as daily operations around the globe. Marc successfully created a portfolio of technologies and products that was acquired by Actfit.com Inc., a publicly traded company that also named Marc as its CTO.
As Chief Technology Officer for Ketsujin Studios as well as it's subsidiary, Mobile Post Production, Marc's responsibilities include insuring the smooth operation of the companies' developer resources, acting as the primary operational and technical point of contact for clients, and implementing business plans to reflect the company's evolving corporate needs. This includes hiring technical staff, structuring the teams, and developing the tools and processes to support new business opportunities.
Brent Roland, Executive Vice President
Since graduating from the prestigious Bachelor of Commerce program at Queen's University, Brent Roland has been responsible for a series of increasingly impressive achievements in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings.
Upon graduating in 1993, Mr Roland joined Hewlett-Packard Company and achieved the distinction of being recognized with the High Achievers Club award in 1994, his first year with the company. He repeated this accomplishment again in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Based on his success he was selected to represent Canada for the Leadership Develop Program (LEAD) in 1997. Brent then proceeded to earn both the North American Sales Excellence Award and President's Club award in 1998.
In 1998 Mr. Roland was asked to become the National Sales Manager, Territory and Emerging Business. Having been entrusted with the development of the very strategic and important “dotcom” opportunities, Brent set about building a 16-person sales team, with a national mandate and a 60% annual growth target. Brent set out to build ties with the Venture Capital community and working closely with them, Brent managed his group to an 88% annual growth with 15 of his 16 sales representatives achieving or beating their quotas.
In May 2000 Mr. Roland was named the Worldwide General Manager for HP's Broadband Business. His responsibilities were to create and foster strategic relationships worldwide and to achieve an additional $1B in revenue for HP by 2002. As HP's Rich Media Evangelist Brent reached out to potential business and joint-venture partners while at the same time managing strategic development, sales, marketing and financial operations for the unit.
Mr. Roland's success as an evangelist and his increasing industry stature led him to be named Managing Director, Rich Media, Office of Strategy and Technology in 2004. In this capacity he reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer, Shane Robison. At this point, Brent was the face of HP in the Rich Media sector, representing HP at key industry events and organizations worldwide including the National Association of Broadcaster and the International Broadcasting Conference. In recognition of his expertise in Rich Media, Brent was invited to speak at many industry conferences including NAB, HP World, European Media World, the International Emmy's and the Bear Stearn (Constellation Ventures) Directions in Rich Media conference. When he was not presenting himself, he was often called upon to create content for speeches by HP's CTO and CEO (Carly Fiorina). At the same time, Mr. Roland was also responsible for setting HP's Rich Media strategy and driving Business Development and M&A activities relevant to Rich Media throughout the company.
Mr. Roland's career with Hewlett-Packard Company spanned 13 years. During this period he matured from a regional sales role to an International Senior Management capacity, honing his operational skills and leading the development of the Rich Media Business unit for the last 4 years. The Rich Media Business at HP was a relative start-up inside HP and Brent was responsible for the Global Rich Media team that expanded from two people to 30 over a period of 3 years.
In June of 2005 Mr. Roland took over the day-to-day operations of the Porting business at Ketsujin Studios and lead the creation and the incorporation of Mobile Post Production. Since incorporating MPP on June 16, 2005, Brent has grown the company to well over 200 staff, and has guided MPP to a position of eminence in its industry. Mr. Roland has negotiated long-term strategic contracts with MPP's strategic customers and continues to oversee the operations and financial performance of MPP.
Mr. Roland has served on several Board of Directors including The International Emmy's, Ketsujin Studios, and the International Academy of the Arts. Mr. Roland has also had the role of Technology Advisor for companies such as The International Academy of the Arts, Sony Corporation, Comcast, Savvis Systems and Circadence Corporation.
During his years at HP, Mr. Roland developed strong ties to the financial community and is often contacted for his opinions in the Rich Media and Mobile fields. He frequently advises companies such as Bear Stearns, Constellation Partners, and JP Morgan Partners.
Mark Vange, President
Mark Vange has established his reputation as a trailblazer for strategically fostering emerging innovations through his direction of a number of highly successful technology companies. Mr. Vange has been involved in technology development and deployment since his first software sale at the age of 10. Since 1991 Mr. Vange has been successfully operating remote development and integration operations in locations as varied as Canada, the United States, Japan and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
As co-founder and partner in Visionary Design Technologies, Mark Vange co-conceived and directed the development of the first port of Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair from the Arcade Laserdisc format first to the Amiga (1988), then the PC (1989). Ultimately, the game was published on virtually every computer and game console platform released in the past 15 years. VDT went on to publish Artemis and Datastorm both targeted at the Amiga computer.
In 1991, Mark founded Gemsoft (originally called Plain And Simple Systems), a video game developer that published many titles over the ensuing 5 years. One of Gemsoft's most unique features was its pioneering use of Russian game developers. Gemsoft was the first western company to open up game development operations in what was then the Soviet Union. Over the years, Gemsoft's high quality, timely and cost-effective development allowed it to not only be profitable and prosper as a developer but also to build up a stable of intellectual property, especially in the network games arena.
Gemsoft was acquired by VR-1 Inc. and Mr. Vange stayed-on as chief technology officer to pioneer the development and publishing of massive multi-user online entertainment technologies. VR-1 was funded by a private investor to become a significant player in the multiplayer games arena but had yet to build or acquire any development capability at the time of the acquisition. VR-1 was ultimately renamed Circadence Corporation, broadening its scope to provide solutions for bandwidth-constrained services over the Internet. Under Mark's technology leadership, VR-1 added development facilities in Boulder, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan and grew to become the world's largest publisher of online games when it was sold in 2001, serving such customers as Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Time-Warner Cable, British Telecom, Docomo, Samsung, American Online, Bertelsmann and Sony Networks.
In 2003 Mr. Vange re-acquired VR-1's Russian operations and founded Ketsujin Studios, and launched the MPP subsidiary in 2005; MPP is now the world's largest dedicated mobile porting services company. Mark's unique network technology, first developed to facilitate massively multiplayer games over the Internet, has continued to flourish and is now being used not only for entertainment products but also for Military and Homeland Security applications by Circadence Corporation, VR-1’s former parent company to whom Mark is still an advisor.
Mr. Vange has been an advisor to several private and public companies as well as a number of investment funds. Among these are actfit.com, Forefront Capital Management, and Israel Technology Partners Capital Fund. He was also co-founder and a board member of Global Vision Venture, a California based venture capital organization.
Mark is the inventor of 18 patents in the areas of speech compression and network communication.
Marc Lutz is the company's Chief Technology Officer, and leading Producer. He leverages his wide range of academic and practical experiences to lead the technical evolution of the company's technology platforms as well as managing many of ongoing projects.
During his academic career, Mr. Lutz studied Computer Science, earned a BA in Political Science and earned a minor in Theater. While being a Graduate Student and Research Assistant in International Relations and Economics, Mr. Lutz also lectured at the University of New Brunswick department of English, teaching Technical Theater and also acted as the Technical Director for the Fine Arts program at UNB.
With the coming of Y2K issues, Mr. Lutz became involved in development and consulting work for large corporate customer including Levi Straus, Glaxo Pharmaceuticals and Empire Foods.
As a co-founder and CTO of Telum Inc., Mr. Lutz lead a distinguished group of researches and developers specializing in the areas of speech recognition and compression, Voice Over IP and Internet, remote communications and remote conferencing. As the originator of much of the company's intellectual property, Marc guided day to day research and development as well as daily operations around the globe. Marc successfully created a portfolio of technologies and products that was acquired by Actfit.com Inc., a publicly traded company that also named Marc as its CTO.
As Chief Technology Officer for Ketsujin Studios as well as it's subsidiary, Mobile Post Production, Marc's responsibilities include insuring the smooth operation of the companies' developer resources, acting as the primary operational and technical point of contact for clients, and implementing business plans to reflect the company's evolving corporate needs. This includes hiring technical staff, structuring the teams, and developing the tools and processes to support new business opportunities.
Brent Roland, Executive Vice President
Since graduating from the prestigious Bachelor of Commerce program at Queen's University, Brent Roland has been responsible for a series of increasingly impressive achievements in both corporate and entrepreneurial settings.
Upon graduating in 1993, Mr Roland joined Hewlett-Packard Company and achieved the distinction of being recognized with the High Achievers Club award in 1994, his first year with the company. He repeated this accomplishment again in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Based on his success he was selected to represent Canada for the Leadership Develop Program (LEAD) in 1997. Brent then proceeded to earn both the North American Sales Excellence Award and President's Club award in 1998.
In 1998 Mr. Roland was asked to become the National Sales Manager, Territory and Emerging Business. Having been entrusted with the development of the very strategic and important “dotcom” opportunities, Brent set about building a 16-person sales team, with a national mandate and a 60% annual growth target. Brent set out to build ties with the Venture Capital community and working closely with them, Brent managed his group to an 88% annual growth with 15 of his 16 sales representatives achieving or beating their quotas.
In May 2000 Mr. Roland was named the Worldwide General Manager for HP's Broadband Business. His responsibilities were to create and foster strategic relationships worldwide and to achieve an additional $1B in revenue for HP by 2002. As HP's Rich Media Evangelist Brent reached out to potential business and joint-venture partners while at the same time managing strategic development, sales, marketing and financial operations for the unit.
Mr. Roland's success as an evangelist and his increasing industry stature led him to be named Managing Director, Rich Media, Office of Strategy and Technology in 2004. In this capacity he reported directly to the Chief Technology Officer, Shane Robison. At this point, Brent was the face of HP in the Rich Media sector, representing HP at key industry events and organizations worldwide including the National Association of Broadcaster and the International Broadcasting Conference. In recognition of his expertise in Rich Media, Brent was invited to speak at many industry conferences including NAB, HP World, European Media World, the International Emmy's and the Bear Stearn (Constellation Ventures) Directions in Rich Media conference. When he was not presenting himself, he was often called upon to create content for speeches by HP's CTO and CEO (Carly Fiorina). At the same time, Mr. Roland was also responsible for setting HP's Rich Media strategy and driving Business Development and M&A activities relevant to Rich Media throughout the company.
Mr. Roland's career with Hewlett-Packard Company spanned 13 years. During this period he matured from a regional sales role to an International Senior Management capacity, honing his operational skills and leading the development of the Rich Media Business unit for the last 4 years. The Rich Media Business at HP was a relative start-up inside HP and Brent was responsible for the Global Rich Media team that expanded from two people to 30 over a period of 3 years.
In June of 2005 Mr. Roland took over the day-to-day operations of the Porting business at Ketsujin Studios and lead the creation and the incorporation of Mobile Post Production. Since incorporating MPP on June 16, 2005, Brent has grown the company to well over 200 staff, and has guided MPP to a position of eminence in its industry. Mr. Roland has negotiated long-term strategic contracts with MPP's strategic customers and continues to oversee the operations and financial performance of MPP.
Mr. Roland has served on several Board of Directors including The International Emmy's, Ketsujin Studios, and the International Academy of the Arts. Mr. Roland has also had the role of Technology Advisor for companies such as The International Academy of the Arts, Sony Corporation, Comcast, Savvis Systems and Circadence Corporation.
During his years at HP, Mr. Roland developed strong ties to the financial community and is often contacted for his opinions in the Rich Media and Mobile fields. He frequently advises companies such as Bear Stearns, Constellation Partners, and JP Morgan Partners.
Mark Vange, President
Mark Vange has established his reputation as a trailblazer for strategically fostering emerging innovations through his direction of a number of highly successful technology companies. Mr. Vange has been involved in technology development and deployment since his first software sale at the age of 10. Since 1991 Mr. Vange has been successfully operating remote development and integration operations in locations as varied as Canada, the United States, Japan and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
As co-founder and partner in Visionary Design Technologies, Mark Vange co-conceived and directed the development of the first port of Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair from the Arcade Laserdisc format first to the Amiga (1988), then the PC (1989). Ultimately, the game was published on virtually every computer and game console platform released in the past 15 years. VDT went on to publish Artemis and Datastorm both targeted at the Amiga computer.
In 1991, Mark founded Gemsoft (originally called Plain And Simple Systems), a video game developer that published many titles over the ensuing 5 years. One of Gemsoft's most unique features was its pioneering use of Russian game developers. Gemsoft was the first western company to open up game development operations in what was then the Soviet Union. Over the years, Gemsoft's high quality, timely and cost-effective development allowed it to not only be profitable and prosper as a developer but also to build up a stable of intellectual property, especially in the network games arena.
Gemsoft was acquired by VR-1 Inc. and Mr. Vange stayed-on as chief technology officer to pioneer the development and publishing of massive multi-user online entertainment technologies. VR-1 was funded by a private investor to become a significant player in the multiplayer games arena but had yet to build or acquire any development capability at the time of the acquisition. VR-1 was ultimately renamed Circadence Corporation, broadening its scope to provide solutions for bandwidth-constrained services over the Internet. Under Mark's technology leadership, VR-1 added development facilities in Boulder, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan and grew to become the world's largest publisher of online games when it was sold in 2001, serving such customers as Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Time-Warner Cable, British Telecom, Docomo, Samsung, American Online, Bertelsmann and Sony Networks.
In 2003 Mr. Vange re-acquired VR-1's Russian operations and founded Ketsujin Studios, and launched the MPP subsidiary in 2005; MPP is now the world's largest dedicated mobile porting services company. Mark's unique network technology, first developed to facilitate massively multiplayer games over the Internet, has continued to flourish and is now being used not only for entertainment products but also for Military and Homeland Security applications by Circadence Corporation, VR-1’s former parent company to whom Mark is still an advisor.
Mr. Vange has been an advisor to several private and public companies as well as a number of investment funds. Among these are actfit.com, Forefront Capital Management, and Israel Technology Partners Capital Fund. He was also co-founder and a board member of Global Vision Venture, a California based venture capital organization.
Mark is the inventor of 18 patents in the areas of speech compression and network communication.