Burnes Hollyman

Mr. Hollyman has over 25 years of new media, interactive and game making experience. After graduating from NYU with a BA in film and a MA and all course work for his PhD at the University of Texas, Austin, Mr. Hollyman was recruited by ITT, where he ran its strategic planning unit. He was promoted to manage several of its operating companies in its High Tech Sector as a hands-on COO. Mr. Hollyman was then recruited to Silicon Valley, where he managed a division of Tymshare Tymnet and CEO of its joint venture company with Telecom Italia.

He was SVP in charge of Worldwide New Media at the legendary firm Renaissance before joining the Documentum (now EMC) senior management executive team as SVP where he started, built and successfully ran its Worldwide Services organization. He left Documentum to start the Digital Entertainment Alliance where he was also an investor and on the management team of Planet Texas Interactive which developed mobile and immersive games, special effects and animation. He started Gamerista, a video game R & D company specializing in virtual and augmented reality in 2010 and helped start Ghost Machine Studios with Mr. Nellans.

Mr. Hollyman has built a number of virtual worlds and designed hundreds of digital entertainment experiences ranging from video games to interactive and leading edge experimental technologies for companies like Sony, Microsoft, Disney Interactive,Playfirst, Dreamwoks, WB Games, Nintendo and many others.