Jean-Paul (JP) Burge, a seasoned executive whose career to date has specifically focused on connecting the world’s top creative talent with AAA brands. JP brings proven experience scaling creative service businesses worldwide, with a deep knowledge of the international business landscape, after several years as the Head of BBDO Asia. His focus will be client and operations oriented, ensuring MPC retains its respected and trusted reputation as one of the world’s top creative partners for entertainment studios, streaming brands and Hollywood directors.

Matt started his career in games in 1998 at Microsoft, working as a tester on Zone.com, which at the time was the multiplayer backbone for all Microsoft games that offered online play. Over the next 18 years, Matt worked his way up through MSN Games, a small side-quest with Microsoft’s security products, Xbox LIVE Arcade, many R&D Games initiatives in Microsoft Studios, and eventually Xbox Game Studios, closing out his time at Microsoft as a Principal Engineering Manager supporting both 1st and 3rd party Xbox franchises. After Microsoft, Matt relocated to the Midwest and started working with Lionbridge Games in their sales team, building strong relationships with his customers, and helping drive revenue growth. He worked at Lionbridge Games for 7 years, the last 4 of which he served as their Chief Solution Architect, helping their sales team strategize, close, and deploy complex customer solutions. Matt’s worked on most game genres across nearly every platform, from Indie to AAA and everything in between, though he’ll be the first to tell you that outside the late-night shooter now and again, he’s only got time for bite-size mobile games today as his three kids keep him busy. When he’s not working or gaming, Matt loves to cook, play golf, travel, and spend time with his family.

Adrianna ‘AJ’ Cohen has 35 plus years of experience in the entertainment industry and has an extensive knowledge in producing and packaging animation features and television shows. She has been named SVP, Global Head of Production of Mikros Animation in 2021. As part of Technicolor’s Creative Studios, Mikros Animation brings unforgettable and stylized stories to life providing top-tier CGI animation and a complete range of front and back-end creative services for both feature and episodic animation, across traditional and streaming distribution platforms. With studios in Paris, Montreal, Bangalore, London and Los Angeles, Mikros Animation offers global production capabilities to filmmakers. Adrianna holds a BFA in film & television from UCLA’s prestigious film school, graduated Chancellor’s Marshall, and started her career in sound FX/picture editing for television and features. From there, she moved into production and held various positions while moving up the ranks to become a producer. Her Indie film, Mindwalk (1990), won a special mention at Cannes and won awards at Sundance, Toronto, Venice and other festivals. She also produced the award-winning (Emmy & Golden Globe) Citizen X, Spawn and Mile High Club. In 1995 she moved studio side and served as Vice President of Production at New Line Cinema where she oversaw production on over 16 pictures including the highly successful Austin Powers, Spawn and Rush Hour. Uniquely qualified with a film production and management background, she was tapped by McKinsey & Company in New York in 2001 to help revamp the Firm’s communication process both internally and externally with clients. Adrianna built and re-engineered all the multi-media productions. During her tenure, she designed processes for streamlining production and produced over a thousand mini documentaries, four hundred animations, and continually developed new end-products to engage the viewer. In addition, she worked with consulting teams while they engaged on integrations, re-organizations, and process redesigns. While working at McKinsey & Company, Adrianna co-founded the non-profit, Funding Knowledge. This small team continues to work on delivery alternative sources of funding to high school students to achieve their dreams of higher education. In 2018, she saw the opportunity to return to her filmmaking roots and use her management consulting skills at Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios as Senior Vice President, where she oversaw production. In this position, she was instrumental in elevating the studio to a state-of-the-art position and in shaping and implementing solid futureproof and flexible processes, notably a new pipeline process for ‘Spies in Disguise’ (2019) and remote working infrastructure. While at the studio, Adrianna, in response to what she perceived as a very deficient diverse artist portfolio, was proud to deploy several community relations programs as well as internal educational programs designed to promote diversity and inclusion. Before joining Mikros Animation, Adrianna Cohen put her extensive experience and knowledge of the industry at the service of animation facilities in Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, London and Los Angeles. As an independent consultant, she was entrusted with various missions including expansion plans and episodic series production.

Annabelle is responsible for identifying opportunities to develop and strengthen relationships across The Mill’s portfolio. She joined The Mill from Deloitte, where she served as the Financial Operations Manager in the Paris office and later Consultant in the New York office, working across client verticals from media, entertainment and technology. Touching many facets within The Mill, Annabelle helps assess the business from multiple angles to identify opportunities to expand, improve, and innovate in order to deliver the best content to our clients.

Alex Schneider is a seasoned marketing executive with over two decades of experience helping grow world class creative agencies, brands and content studios. Prior to joining Wednesday, Alex was the Managing Director of R/GA Portland, and held senior leadership roles at Deutsch LA and 72andSunny. In his new role, Alex will focus on ensuring The Mill is able to meet the creative challenges of brand partners across the Gaming, Fashion, Automotive, Technology and Lifestyle industries, harnessing and developing The Mill's creative strategy and production practices and global capabilities. He will also lead global expansion plans as The Mill explores new territories.

Biren Ghose has been the Country Head for Technicolor India for over 13 years. He has taken this 107-year-old arts and sciences world major’s India studio to an employee strength of over 7000 employees. This makes the India studio the largest single hub for high end Animation, VFX, Games and Computer Graphics [AVGC] in the world. The studio features the group’s marquee brands MPC, The Mill, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games. The studio works on the world’s most coveted movies; episodes; games and ads in the creative content sector. Biren is a thought leader and an industry evangelist prominently featured in all the major content markets and events across the globe for over 22 years. He is a futurist and strategist and recognised by Government and Industry as a mentor and visionary. He has helped build global recognition for the Indian AVGC (Animation, VFX, Games and Comics) industry. He continues to ‘invent’ new transformation initiatives that help catapult growth for talent, services exports, start-ups and innovation. He believes talent development in the digital arts will create a socioeconomic development for India. Biren actively campaigns the cause of greater diversity and CSR in the creative arts sector. Across all genres and verticals, Technicolor, its brands and their clients have won over 8 Emmy Awards for TV animation; 4 Academy Awards [Oscars] and a clutch of global awards like 24 Cannes Lions, 28 VES, 4 BAFTAs, The British Arrows, etc. These coveted awards are a fitting testimony to the cutting-edge capabilities of his studio’s teams who partner the ‘best of the best’ global clients bringing Indian artists & talent recognition on the world stage. Biren has pioneered policy for the AVGC industry in India at both Center and State Government levels. He is the long-standing President of ABAI [The AVGC / creative industries association in Bangalore]. Biren is the Chairman for CII’s National AVGC Committee. He is Chief Mentor for STPINext in their COE’s at Shillong for animation & Imphal for AR/VR. He has served on the committees of NASSCOM, FICCI and other trade bodies. He has chaired and steered CII SummitFX (a global AVGC conclave) for the past 3 years. He is generous of his time and is well known for his creativity, hospitality, and good humor. He is a prolific networker and has built a wide industry connect being active on social media and in various community forums. Biren is multi-faceted and has a passion for art, music, photography, wines and spirits. Twitter: @BirenGhose | LinkedIn: Biren Ghose

Christian oversees the strategy and vision for TCS, focusing on the transformation of the entertainment, experiential and advertising industries, maintaining the company’s position as the world’s largest and most creative provider of visual arts services. The TCS network includes The Mill, MPC, Mikros Animation and Technicolor Games. Before becoming TCS President, Christian was Global MD of MPC Film, responsible for the studio's overall production and business strategy. During his time as MD, MPC has become one of the most successful companies in the industry, opening studios in Vancouver, Bangalore, Los Angeles and Montreal, with more than 3000 visual effects artists and production crew worldwide. Christian is also credited on some of the best-known feature films of the last 20 years including The Lion King, Godzilla, Blade Runner 2049, Pirates of the Caribbean and X-Men. Christian started his career in the traditional drawn animation business in the mid-1990s, working for many London based companies on commercial and television series production.

Andrea joined TCS in February 2021and heads up the global animation studio with bases in Montreal, London, Paris and Bangalore. The work of the studio covers a range of genres from episodic to long-form series, from feature films to IP. Andrea’s career in the entertainment industry spans 20+ years and she has held creative and production leadership positions at most of the biggest players on the Animation stage. As Vice President, Head of Production at Sony Pictures Animation, Andrea oversaw the making of renowned shows including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania and the Academy Award®-nominated Surf’s Up (2007). In 2017 Andrea was named Co-President of Fox Animation overseeing all of Blue Sky Studios and Locksmith Animation. She was then appointed as President of Fox Animation where she was responsible for productions such as Spies in Disguise, Ron’s Gone Wrong and Nemona.

Josh is a renowned leader in the advertising industry, having initially joined The Mill’s studio in Los Angeles as Managing Director in 2019. After being at the helm of The Mill's transformation into an interconnected global network, he took on the role of CEO in early 2021. Josh became President of The Mill in January 2022, leading the advertising business at TCS which provides a full-service visual arts global offering, focusing on VFX, Design, Creative Direction, Directorial and Experience. Josh brings two decades of experience with the world’s best marketers to the global President/CEO role, having held senior leadership roles at Nike, Wieden+Kennedy, R/GA, 72&Sunny, and 180 Amsterdam. Josh’s commitment to growth and diversity of experience has seen him work across Europe, Mexico, and the USA.

Jeaneane took up her role in October 2021 and joined the business to focus on the global footprint of Technicolor Games, growing market share and delivering award-winning creative output. With leading clients such as Ubisoft, EA, Activision, Capcom, Rockstar, Sony, Take Two, and Konami, Technicolor Games has already produced over 75 animation-based game releases in the last few years. Titles include EA ‘FIFA 22’, Call of Duty ‘Black Ops Cold War’ and GTA: Trilogy. Previously of Lionbridge Games, Microsoft and IGT, Jeaneane is a prolific leader within the gaming space, having held numerous executive roles leading global business strategy, service innovation, sales and account management, and operations supervision. She is known for building and retaining high performing global teams focused on increasing revenue and market share in the games industry.