- Sam Michael
Sam Michael is technical director of WilliamsF1, a Formula One constructor. He was born on April 29, 1971 in Western Australia and grew up in Canberra. After studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales with a thesis on data acquisition systems for racing cars, he worked with the Formula Holden team. The team owner, Gregg Siddle, employed him on a part-time basis so that Michael could continue his studies. - Rob Baan
Rob Baan (born April 1, 1943 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland) is a Dutch football coach, recently appointed the role of Technical Director by the Football Federation of Australia. He previously served in this role with the Netherlands Football Association, Feyenoord Rotterdam and ADO Den Haag. He was also briefly appointed, as caretaker manager for the Netherlands in 1981. Career as coach 2007- - Technical Director, Under-23 coach, … - Mike Coughlan
Mike Coughlan is Chief Designer for the McLaren Formula One team, and has been in the position since 2002. Coughlan was born in the United Kingdom, and studied Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University, graduating in 1981. He first designed cars for Tiga Cars, which competed in junior formulae, until 1984, when he joined the Lotus Formula One team. As the team's fortunes waned, it was reorganised at the end of 1990, … - James Key
James Key is the technical director of Spyker F1. - Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney is a computer game programmer and the founder of Epic Games, previously known as Epic MegaGames. He established Epic as a shareware company while he was a student majoring in mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. Sweeney revealed that he had been interested in game development and computer programming since he was 10 years old. Tim finally started to make games, right out of his parents' basement where he lived. - Les Reed
Leswyn Reed (born December 12 1952 in Wapping, London) is an English football coach and was the manager of Charlton Athletic, between 14 November and 24 December 2006. He is now assistant manager of Fulham FC. Reed was formerly Technical Director of the Football Association between 2002 and 2004. - Richard Soley
Richard Mark Soley is the chair and CEO of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. Soley joined OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling. - Masi Oka
Oka: I got to see a little bit of it, but I guess the crowd reacted well. It was very cool, because I realize that Hiro is kind of representative of all the comic book geeks. I myself am a big Manga freak as well, so I was just happy that I could give it justice, and it seemed like a lot of the audience members did connect to the character, so that was very cool. - Hayao Miyazaki
Born January 5, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most famous and well-respected creators of anime. He has three brothers, he being the second oldest. His older brother, Arata Miyazaki , was born in July 1939. His first younger brother is Shirou Miyazaki. His youngest is brother is named Yutaka Miyazaki and was born in January 1944. In 1947, Miyazaki enrolled at a school in... More A - Arvo Ojala
Arvo Ojala (born January 21, 1920 in Seattle, Washington; died July 1, 2005 in Gresham, Oregon) was a Hollywood advisor and expert quickdraw artist, frequently credited as a "technical director" but also working as an actor. He appeared in the weekly opening sequences of Gunsmoke for over 18 years being gunned down by Marshall Dillon. Ojala taught himself marksmanship and how to quick-draw a handgun while living on his father's ranch near Yakima, Washington, … - Alan Symonds
Alan Symonds was the Technical Director of the Harvard College Theaters for many years. He entered Harvard College in the 1960s, started participating in technical theater during his freshman orientation period, and soon found himself spending much more time on technical theater than on his studies. He participated in work on the student level, but also started working with professional companies, particularly the Boston Ballet, … - Csaba Csere
Csaba Csere is a Hungarian - American former technical director and the current editor-in-chief of "Car and Driver". He earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978. Csaba Csere joined "Car and Driver" magazine as its Technical Editor in 1980. He specializes in stories about technical issues and first-person experiences in competition machines ranging from NASCAR stock cars to Formula 1 cars. - Vittorio Jano
Vittorio Jano (April 22, 1891 - March 13, 1965) was a famed Italian automobile designer of Hungarian descent from the 1920s through 1960s. Jano was born "Viktor János" in San Giorgio Canavese, in Piedmont, to Hungarian immigrants, whom arrived there several years before the birth of Jano. He began his career at Fiat in 1911 under Luigi Bazzi. He moved with Bazzi to Alfa Romeo in 1923 and designed the Alfa Romeo P2. The P2 was notorious, winning its first race, … - Scott van Pelt
Scott Van Pelt is an anchor for the television show "SportsCenter" on the ESPN network. Van Pelt signed on with ESPN after a stint with The Golf Channel, which explains why he is also one of the network's golf correspondents, covering the Majors. In 1998, Van Pelt starred as Harry in the comedy short film, "By the Seat of the Pants", featuring co-workers from The Golf Channel and produced & directed by then-Golf Channel technical director, Christopher Flynn. - Doug Bell
Douglas Andrew Bell (born February 24 1961) was a computer game developer from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. He is best known for his role as the lead designer and programmer for the "Dungeon Master" series of computer games from FTL Games. He was the lead developer and technical director of FTL from 1984 until the company ceased operations in 1996. - Steven Rogel
Steven R. Rogel was elected Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Weyerhaeuser Company on April 20, 1999. Prior to assuming the title of chairman, Rogel served as president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors since December 1, 1997. In 1966, he began his career with St. Regis Paper Company, where he worked until 1970. From 1970 to 1972, he was assistant manager at St. Anne-Nackawic Pulp and Paper in Nackawic, N.B., Canada. - Ron Brinkmann
Ron Brinkmann (born in 1969), a visual effects supervisor and a founding employee of Sony Imageworks. He later co-founded Nothing Real, a software company that produced the digital compositing application Shake. Nothing Real was acquired in 2002 by Apple. Brinkmann is also the author of the book, "The Art and Science of Digital Compositing" (ISBN 0-12-133960-2). - Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck 's system, originally invented for coding data for transmission between computer modems, has had a major impact on world telecommunications. - Yoshinori Kanada
Yoshinori Kanada is an influential Japanese animator. Best known of his popular work in 1984, Birth, one of the first OVAs released in the market. He may not do much character designs, but he is famous of his character animation skills, his characters literally come alive on the screen. His work in "Galaxy Express 999" (1979) and " Harmegeddon" (1983) has been very influential to an entire generation of animators in Japan. - Iron Eyes Cody
Iron Eyes Cody (April 3, 1904 - January 4, 1999) was an actor born in Gueydan, Louisiana. He was born Espera De Corti, the son of Sicilian immigrants Francesca Salpietra and Antonio De Corti. He was not born a Native American, but he claimed to be part Cherokee and part Cree. Cody and his wife Bertha Parker adopted children that were Native American. Cody began his acting career at the age of 12 and continued to work until the time of his death. - Eben Fiske Ostby
Eben Fiske Ostby is a famous animator and technical director who worked will John Lasseter on early breakthrough Pixar animation shorts like, Luxo Jr. - William Gamble
William Gamble (5 August 1805 - 20 March 1881) was a Canadian businessman and pioneer. He was the son of the politician John Gamble, and was born in Kingston, Upper Canada. He started a store in Toronto before becoming a miller in Etobicoke. His business interests expanded to include a hotel, a distillery and shipping to transport his flour, as well as local crops, to Toronto. After 1835 he also became involved in developing Mimico. - Patrick Bossert
Patrick Bossert at the age of 12, wrote a book, "You Can Do the Cube", detailing the steps to solve Rubik's Cube. It contained detailed step by step, turn by turn descriptions in order to master the puzzle. The book was a bestseller, selling 1.5 million copies. By 1995, he had used his amassed wealth to start a software company whose function was to identify any computers that were not Y2K compatible. - Perry R. Cook
Perry R. Cook attended the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music from 1973 to 1977, studying voice and electronic music. He worked as a sound engineer and designer from 1976 - 1981. He received the BA in music 1985, and the BS in Electrical Engineering in 1986 from UMKC. He received a Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1990. - Ib Melchior
Ib Jørgen Melchior is a novelist, short story writer, film producer, film director, and screenwriter of low-budget U.S. science fiction movies, most of them released by American International Pictures. Melchior's novels include "Code Name: Grand Guignol", "Eva", "The Haigerloch Project", "The Marcus Device", "Order of Battle: Hitler's Werewolves", "Sleeper Agent", "The Tombstone Cipher" and "The Watchdogs of Abaddon". - Fred Guiol
Fred Guiol (17 February 1898 - 23 May 1964) was an American film director and screenwriter. Along with Ivan Moffat, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's novel "Giant" into the film "Giant". He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. - Hilo Hattie
Clarissa "Clara" Haili (stage name Hilo Hattie) (October 28,1901-December 12,1979) was a Hawaiian singer, hula dancer, actress and comedian. She was a featured perfomer with Harry Owens' Royal Hawaiian Orchestra; she toured the world with them and performed in their radio and TV show which was broadcasted from Hawaii. Besides being a performer she was also a school teacher at the Waipahu Elementary teaching English, math, and social studies. - Jean-Michel D'Avray
Jean-Michel (Mich) d'Avray born February 19 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa is a former football (Soccer) manager and is currently a supermarket manager. D'Avray was once the Technical Director and manager for A-League team Perth Glory where he had great success winning the league in 2003 and 2004. D'Avray represented England at U/21 level while playing for Ipswich Town F.C. in England. - Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900-July 18, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there. - Daniel Alspach
Dr. Daniel Alspach is an American businessman who established Orincon Corporation in 1973. Dr. Alspach initially served as vice president and technical director in 1975, but later became Chief Executive Officer and President of the company. He was awarded a Ph.D. in "Engineering Sciences" in 1970. Dr. Alspach recently co-founded Homeland Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. - Paco Nathan
Paco has 25 years experience in software R&D. He holds a BS in Math Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, worked at NASA/Ames, Bell Labs, Motorola, and has focused on early stage tech start-ups for several years. Among those, Paco co-founded FringeWare in 1992, one of the early ecommerce firms. He's written for several periodicals, including Wired , O'Reilly Network , bOING-bOING , Mondo 2000 . - Branko Čulina
Branko Čulina [ˈtʃulina] (born October 1 1957 in Zadar, Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a football (soccer) coach, and former player. He is currently head coach of A-League club Sydney FC, and father of Socceroo Jason Culina. He is also a football analyst for SBS, regularly appearing on "The World Game". - Zvi Laron
Zvi Laron is a Romanian-Israeli paediatric endocrinologist, born 1927, Cernăuţi, Romania. Zvi Laron began his medical education at the medical school in Timişoara. In 1948 he moved to Israel and graduated from the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem in 1952. 1956-1957 he was a research and clinical fellow in paediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston. - Amit Mendelsohn
Amit Mendelsohn is a highly experience IT expert, digital video expert, SEO and web marketing, security and surveillance, data surveillance and many more, Amit is Israeli currently located in Marseilles France. amit Served companies like: Best TV, Nice systems, LIS, the regency foundation, netop ag. memri, cobrador, xone8. Built websystems and sites to: politicians, tv show, books writer, journalists and many others - Desmond Mullen
Desmond Mullen (born on August 1 1966) is an American producer, director, actor, and writer. He is best known as the Narrator and the voice of the puppet Pig in the "Busy Little Engine" series of DVDs. His wife, Helena Mullen, is a producer whose credits include "Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol". <br><br> Mullen started off as a Sound Designer in Off-Broadway theater but later moved on to television, … - Henry Vansittart
Henry Vansittart was the English Governor of Bengal from 1759 to 1764. Vansittart was born in Bloomsbury in Middlesex, the third son of Arthur van Sittart (1691–1760). His father and his grandfather, Peter van Sittart (1651–1705), were both wealthy merchants and directors of the Russia Company. Peter, a merchant adventurer, who had migrated from Danzig to London about 1670, was also a director of the East India Company. - Luis Marquina
Luis Marquina (25 May 1904 Barcelona- 26 June 1980 Madrid) was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. - Carole Goble
Carole Goble is a full professor in the the School of Computer Science in the University of Manchester , UK , where she has co-led the Information Management Group since 1997. She has worked closely with life scientists for many years and is the Director of the my Grid project, the largest UK e-Science pilot project, which has produced the widely-used Taverna open source software and is now part of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK . - Kurt Bollacker
Kurt is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool while a researcher at The NEC Research Institute . He was the technical director of The Internet Archive , and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center . - Werner Hoeger
Werner Hoeger is a kinesiology professor at Boise State University who took up luge at 44. At 52 he represented his home country of Venezuela at the 2006 Winter Olympics. As their only athlete at the games he carried their flag at the Parade of Nations.
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