Rick Citron is an attorney and partner in Citron & Deutsch in Los Angeles, CA. In addition to his law practice, Rick is an entrepreneur who has contributed to the success stories of myriad front-of-market companies, utilizing his experience and carefully nurtured network of professionals throughout the world. He is a recognized leader in new technologies, including most recently 3-D and mobile/wireless. Mr. Citron graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science degree in statistics. He obtained his Master of Business Administration degree in marketing from U.C. Berkeley in 1967 and in 1970 his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA.
Andrew Hopper is technologist with a knack for understanding how developing technology ecosystems can help achieve business goals and increase enterprise value. His business savvy is complemented with an adept understanding of web systems architecture. He was lead technologist and cofounder at Agentmaster where he architected a revolutionary SEO (search engine optimization) friendly content management system for the real estate industry using Java and the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) stack. He has a wealth of experience with many different technologies including: PHP, Visual Basic, Java, C++, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript?, CSS, SQL, XML, Web 2.0 APIs, SOAP, REST, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, LDAP, Smarty, AJAX, Eclipse, Zend, Subversion, Apache, Liunx, Mac OS X, Windows, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, and routing.
Soo Mi Kim is chief executive officer of Independence International LLC., a full 3D animation and visual effects company that creates, develops and designs for new technology as well as new media, next gen digital platforms. As CEO, Ms Kim has broadened the scope of digital production for the international market, culminated agreements with leading Korean telecommunication and US entertainment partners and is producing a broad slate of feature-quality animation projects. Following a successful career as the founder of Morph Studio, one of the leading Asian VFX house with headquarters in Seoul, Korea, Soo Mi Kim led the merger of Morph and Independence in 2004.
Jeff Segal is President and founder of Magic Lantern Entertainment. Jeff is an Emmy and Cable Ace award-winning former President of Universal Family Entertainment and Universal Cartoon Studios, as well as Executive Vice President of the Universal Television Group. Prior to that, he was Executive VP of the legendary Hanna Barbera Studios. Segal has over twenty years of executive and creative management, development, sales, production, programming, international co-venture, and marketing experience in film and television.
Joel Weinstein heads Rutter, Hobbs & Davidoff’s Corporate and Securities practice, including mergers, acquisitions, asset and stock sales, private and public debt and equity financings, strategic alliances, and SEC reporting requirements. He advises corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, non-profit organizations and individual investors on business entity structures, corporate governance, director responsibilities and investor agreements. Rutter, Hobbs offers exceptional expertise in the fields of Entertainment, Sports & Leisure Law, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Science & Technology Law.
Lance Vieira is considered a pioneer in the mobile content marketplace in North America. As President/ Founder of Cellus USA, Vieira built possibly the first Mobile Application Service Provider (MASP) business model in North America. With more than 20 years of executive and creative management, development, sales and product/program management and engineering background in telecommunications, internet, ecommerce, enhanced digital services, Interactive Voice Response and Mobile applications, Mr. Vieira is an entrepreneur and innovator with a proven track record of success.
