DOUG CAMPBELL, CEO

Doug is a community builder, experience engineer and charitable adventurer. He cofounded Mindshare LA in 2006, a monthly event that has established a large local following. From the start he saw the power of technology to augment social interaction and began forming an interactive collective to showcase projects at the event. This group's growing success led to it's spin off and incorporation as Syyn Labs, LLC in 2008. When he escapes LA you might find him in a Vietnamese village, learning how to farm in a tuxedo.

ADAM SADOWSKY, President

Adam is an entrepreneur with experience in a broad range of industry sectors.  He’s been involved in early stages with companies in software, product design, video games, genetics research, and online sales.  The common thread through all of these is that his role has always been helping creative people achieve extraordinary results.  A software engineer by education, he appreciates great design – especially functional design. He's pondered having a bluetooth headset implanted in his skull.

BRENT BUSHNELL

Brent is an engineer and an entrepreneur building companies focused on games and entertainment. He has held founder or executive positions at early stage Internet, game, technology and biotech companies for the past 10 years. Brent studied Computer Science at UCLA and serves as a technical advisor to three companies. He co-founded Syyn Labs and has exhibited at TEDxUSC, TEDActive, LACMA, BIL, the Hammer Museum and others. In his spare time he likes building interactive art, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and artistic graffiti.

CHRIS HUGHES

One of the founding members of Syyn Labs, Chris's geeky technology escapades have been featured on the frontpage of reddit, digg, engadget, gizmodo, slashdot and even the Wall Street Journal. A software engineer raised in southern California who studied Computer Science at UCLA and Math at Oxford, Chris turned his love of hacking things into an art form by building the earliest technology demos at the monthly Mindshare event. Chris's internet fame grew when his exploits of the first generation iPhone were made public. Since hacking the iPhone, Chris has worked as a mobility engineer at Google, and in a twist of irony, later went on to join AT&T. Give Chris a beer, a case opener tool, and a soldering gun and watch a number of voided warranties evolve into something cool.

DAN BUSBY

Dan is a physicist/engineer by training who started dabbling in interactive art.  A compulsive tinkerer, he’s built many bizarre contraptions, from large, 50 person art cars for Burning Man to electrostatic loudspeakers to resonant fire tubes that dance with music. He’s recently converted his 1964 Triumph Spitfire to be 100% electric.  In his spare time he likes to hang glide and organize pub crawls in formal attire.

DAVID GUTTMAN

In addition to his work at AT&T Interactive's Applied Research Division with ubiquitous and cloud computing, David is a highly acclaimed and successful interactive artist and entrepreneur.  Exhibitions of his work include showings at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art and the GEL conference in New York.  David has designed, built, and operated  sound-reactive systems, including the one that accompanied Yo-Yo Ma at his performance in 2009 at the Museum of Natural History in New York.  He studied graphic design at Parsons, Project Management at UCLA, and both Economics and Psychology at the University of Virginia, and is the founder of Meemle LLC, the company behind the KCRW Fringe Benefits iPhone application (an NPR radio affiliate). He's been caught writing code on napkins while on a date.

ERIC GRADMAN

Until recently leaving to pursue some of his other passions, Eric was a roboticist at Applied Minds, an R&D and rapid-prototyping consultancy.  Eric has over 15 years experience designing and building diverse cutting-edge tech including 3d-touch displays, virtual reality systems, satellite control systems, intelligent robots, and concept cars.  As if that isn’t enough, Eric is also a musician and performer in the circus.  No joke.  The CIRCUS!  In his time with Cirque Berzerk and The Mutaytor he has gained extensive experience in the production of large-scale music and performance stages.  Plus, he’s got really, really good hair.

HECTOR ALVAREZ

Art director, creative director, and multimedia designer, Hector cut his teeth and honed his interactive skills in the burgeoning field of digital and interactive advertising.  Among other awards and achievements, Hector has won a Cyber Lion from the 2006 Cannes Lions and a 2009 People's Voice Webby Award.  In addition to a keen sense of aesthetics, he specializes at coming up with highly creative core ideas and defining the practical solutions to bring them to reality; he’s applied these skills in everything from social media campaigns to viral video production to product design.  Holding a degree in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and an avid breakdancer since the age of 13, Hector is endowed with a dramatically flexible face and takes pleasure in ruining other people’s photos with it.

HEATHER KNIGHT

Heather specializes in performance robots and charismatic machines.  She currently runs Marilyn Monrobot Labs in NYC and will begin her PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon in Fall 2010.  She has recently worked for NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Aldebaran Robotics in France and at the MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group. From robotic flower gardens, small humanoids and handmade plasma globes to large fiber optic sculptures her work has been displayed in NYC, Boston, Florence, Linz, Paris and Los Angeles. Her Masters was in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science but she's mean with machine tools and an oxy-acetylene welder.

Oren Schaedel

A world traveler and storyteller, Oren collects experiences wherever he goes, which he converts into new ideas and ways of sharing them between people with different backgrounds. He has worked as a photographer, mountain bike builder, army engineer, and experimental biologist. He is currently combining ideas from engineering and evolution as part of his PhD thesis in Caltech, trying to understand how animals make decisions.

PEHR HOVEY

Pehr is a digital explorer who enjoys pulling together diverse technologies to create interactive systems. His recent Masters project at UCSB focused on realtime processing of social media data streams to drive distributed visualizations. While studying Computer Engineering at Washington University in Saint Louis he built a 1,500 LED disco dance floor that reacts to music and has been hacking with electronics ever since. When not engaging in interactive explorations, Pehr has been known to build papier-mâché Martians and LED party collars for dogs.

Richard Whitney

Dick has worked for NASA, created UIs for Samsung, built multitouch tables for Schlumberger, and headed the R&D group at Idealab.  He has experience in solar tech, 3D printing, tangible user interfaces, energy storage, thermal atrial fibrillation reversion, low-cost CNC, health monitoring, and more.  Dick holds a S.M. from the MIT Media Lab and a B.S. from Johns Hopkins in biomedical engineering, and recently founded grain design. Dick has stubbornly endured interventions due to his frequent binge prototyping nights.