AIS 2025 Board of Governors

Chairman
David (Buzz) Hays
Global Head of Entertainment Industry
Google Cloud 

Vice Chair Elect
Evan Jacobs
Vice President, Finishing and Stereo
Marvel Studios

Dominic Glynn
Senior Scientist
Pixar Animation Studios

Treasurer / Secretary
Tom Cosgrove
Chief Creative and Content Officer
Earthday.org

Vice Chair, Strategic Planning
Rick Champagne
Director, Media & Entertainment Industry Strategy and Marketing
NVIDIA

Shadi Almassizadeh
Chair, Awards Committee
Vice President, Motion Picture Architecture and Engineering
The Walt Disney Studios

Vice Chair, Education
Cindy Olivo

Global Marketing
Dell Technologies

CEO
Jim Chabin
President
The Advanced Imaging Society

CFO
Pat Dunn
President & CEO
Dunn, Pariser & Peyrot CPA

Simon Crownshaw
Worldwide Strategy Director Media & Entertainment
Microsoft

Rick Champagne
Global Industry and Marketing, Media & Entertainment
NVIDIA

Barbara Marshall
Global M&E Industry Lead
Z by HP

Josh Derby
VP Technology Development & Strategy
Warner Brothers Discovery

Evan Jacobs
VP, Finishing & Stereo
Marvel Studios

Meetal Gokul
President / Chief Creative Officer
SeeCubic

Janet Muswell Hamilton
SVP, Visual Effects
HBO

Ron Geller
VP, Worldwide Content Relations
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. 

Patrick Costello
Sr. Director, Business Development
QualComm

James Knight
Global Director of Media & Entertainment
Computacenter

Meagan Keane
Director of Product Marketing for Professional Film & Video
Adobe Pro Video

James Aquilina
Cybersecurity Strategic Advisor, Board of Directors
Nardello & Co.

Guido Meardi
CEO / Co-Founder
V-Nova International

Michael Mansouri
President
MeetMo.io – Radiant Images

Robert Tonkin
Head of Production Technology Engineering
Prime Video & Amazon Studios

Macy Mills
Partner, Games Tech BD Lead
a16z  Andreessen Horowitz Venture Capital

John Vilade
Chief Executive Officer
6P Color

Ken Karklin
Chief Executive Officer
Pivotal

Herman Nakamura
Director of Business Development – Data Center
AMD

Richard Mead
Chief Executive Officer
Brompton Technologies

Steve Cox 
Chief Executive Officer
Ryff

Eric Cheng
Director of Immersive Media
Meta Reality Labs

Jamie Raffone
Senior Manager – Cinematic/Virtual Production
Sony Electronics Professional Solutions Americas

Tim McLaughlin
Dean of College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts
Texas A&M University

Justin Diener
Chief Executive Officer
Synapse Virtual Production

Mac Moore
Head of Media & Entertainment
CoreWeave

Scott Mann
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Flawless AI

Noah Bergman
Vice President, Content & Distribution
BARCO