Eric Powers

Eric lead the transformation of Walt Disney Feature Animation from a traditional hand-animated studio to a completely digital 3-D studio as Technical Supervisor of development personnel across production and technology. The production pipeline he envisioned and realized comprised hundreds of man years of development and has been deployed on every motion picture produced there since 2000.

Eric is also a multiple startup veteran, including co-founding an early adopter embedded Linux operating system company, ONChannel Inc. (Acquired by Coollogic Inc.). At Coollogic he lead development of their consumer-grade embedded Linux set-top box platform.

Eric has proven expertise in creative and technical leadership, executive team collaboration, project management, information technology and software architecture, artistic and technical team integration, research and development projects, startup venture capital, and merger/acquisition activities.