Matt Silverman, Executive Creative Director. iBelieveInSwordfish: As the fearless leader, Matt Silverman oversees all creative at iBelieveinSwordfish. From designing worldwide product launches to conceptualizing new user experience paradigms, the world’s most respected brands including Apple, Google, and Sony have put their trust in Matt’s hands. His work has been seen around the world, including animations playing on every Macintosh computer, Super Bowl and DGA award-winning spots, main titles for Oscar nominated films, and UX design found on gadgets in millions of people's pockets. With a background in design, visual effects, animation and software development, Matt got his start in the industry at one of the world’s first integrated agencies, CKS Group, working on various accounts including Apple, Compaq, and Timberland. As a Partner and Flame artist at San Francisco's leading editorial boutique, Phoenix Editorial, Matt built up a design and effects department which eventually split off into Bonfire Labs. Over the course of his 12 year run at Phoenix/Bonfire, he worked with San Francisco’s top creative ad agencies including Venables Bell, Goodby, and Black Rocket/Heat, as well as directly for clients including Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Jaguar Landrover, Microsoft, Salesforce, Sony, and Yahoo!. As a founding partner and CEO of Theory LLC and Mekajiki Inc, Matt designed and brought to market numerous software tools to solve his production problems including stand-alone applications, plug-ins for Photoshop, After Effects and Flame, and QuickTime codecs including the Flash FLV component licensed by Adobe for inclusion in Flash. Now he brings his experience and creative energy to iBelieveInSwordfish, where he continues to push motion design and creative technology in all sorts of new directions.

Suzanne Kirkland leads Enterprise Partnerships at AudioShake, the industry leader in AI-powered audio separation. She's spent more than two decades in technology, media, and entertainment, putting new tools in the hands of the creative professionals who depend on them. At AudioShake, Suzanne works with studios, rights holders, and creatives to bring AI source separation into their workflows. AudioShake's models take any mixed recording and pull it apart into clean stems: vocals, instruments, dialogue, music, and effects. For her customers, that means faster turnarounds, fewer bottlenecks, and more room to focus on the creative work itself. The company's technology has earned a spot on TIME's Best Inventions list and won both AWS re:Invent's Startup Competition and Sony's Demixing Challenge, and it's used by Warner Media, ESPN, Disney Music Group, NFL Films, and Paramount. Before joining AudioShake, Suzanne spent years bringing studio collaboration tools to market, from scrappy startup all the way to acquisition, including her work at PIX System ahead of its purchase by Autodesk. Earlier in her career, she spent 20 years in freelance film production, working alongside major studios worldwide.

Mike Levine is a 25-year entertainment technology veteran and founder of FilmSpark.ai, the first story-based AI production platform built for agencies, studios, and creative professionals. His career began at LucasArts, where he created the Visual FX & Cinematics group and served on the Skywalker Ranch Technology Council. After founding a VFX software company with ILM veterans, Mike now channels that studio-level expertise into FilmSpark, giving professionals the workflow and control to transform concepts into character-driven visual narratives at unprecedented speed and quality.

Kirthiga Reddy brings over twenty years of experience leading technology-driven transformations to her role as Co-founder & CEO, Verix. She is Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund. She serves on the Board of Directors for WeWork and Pear. Previously, she was the first female Investing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $100B+ SoftBank Vision Fund. At SBIA, Kirthiga focused on frontier, enterprise and health tech investments and managed a portfolio of $5B+. She served on the Board of Directors for Collective Health and Fungible. She also served on the Investment Committee for Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders. Prior to SBIA, she was Managing Director, Facebook India and South Asia for over six years, starting as their first employee in India. Her subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets including Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa and the Middle East. She has also served as Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board. Kirthiga holds an MBA from Stanford University, where she graduated with highest honors as an Arjay Miller Scholar, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a B.E. in Computer Science from Marathwada University, India. She has been recognized as Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women” and as Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business” among other recognitions.