Brad has been an innovator in computer animation in the entertainment industry since 1982, particularly in the areas of realtime characters, ride films, and the Web. In 2000, Wired called Brad "an icon in the world of 3D animation," and it's been all downhill since then. Ridiculously thorough CV here.

The bulk of his time since 2006 has been as CTO of the Interra Project, as well as juggling a variety of consultancy roles focused on next-generation digital media technology, particularly lately in international development work with the World Bank's International Finance Corporation and the US Agency for International Development.

Other recent roles include executive producer and chief technology officer of Youthgive, executive director of the Internet Bookmobile project , co-director for Moving Images at the Internet Archive, and senior analyst for Jon Peddie Research.

In his copious spare time, Brad also develops web-based social applications, most notably Books We Like and Smartocracy .

He began his career in 1979 as a Fortran programmer for Science Applications International (SAIC), engineering interactive training systems and digital mapping applications for the US Army National Training Center in Fort Irwin, CA.

In 1982, he joined Digital Productions in Los Angeles, as Head of Technical Direction, and oversaw production there on numerous groundbreaking feature film, ride-film, and commercial projects.

He co-founded deGraf/Wahrman in 1987, where, inspired by a collaboration with Jim Henson, he created the first live computer-generated character, and produced several "firsts" in computer-generated ridefilms.

In 1992, he joined Colossal Pictures, the leading San Francisco animation company for two decades, to start up a digital media division, to replace their previous co-production relationship with Pixar, which had recently shifted over to producing features with Disney. He grew the department to 30+ people, producing all forms of digital media, including Robocop the Ride in Imax for Iwerks; two CD-ROMs for Broderbund; Cartoon Network's launch character; numerous commercials and music videos; and several early interactive television interface designs including the Full Service Network for TimeWarner/SGI, and First Person, the precursor to Java.

In late 1994, he and his partners spun off to create Protozoa (aka Dotcomix) for which he served as Chairman, CEO, and Chief Creative Officer. In those roles, he oversaw the creation of over 24 hours of televised animation and a year of daily web cartoons, and raised over $13M.

Prior to his computer career, he studied sculpture and architecture at Princeton, earned a BA in Mathematics from UC San Diego, and spent five years of building custom furniture.

Credits include:

• Duke2000.com, a campaign with Garry Trudeau to get his Ambassador Duke character elected president;
• Moxy, emcee for the Cartoon Network, the first virtual character for television;
• Floops, the first Web episodic cartoon;
• Peter Gabriel's Grammy award- winning video, Steam;
• "The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera", the first computer-generated ride film;
• feature films "The Last Starfighter", "2010", "Jetsons: the Movie", "Robocop 2",
• and numerous television shows.