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Rosman, Ken (Consultant, Visionary Vanguards)
Ken Rosman has spent equal parts of his past 18 years in the video game industry on both the developer and publisher
sides of the business, working at companies including Looking Glass Studios, Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Black
Isle Studios, Vivendi Universal Games, Sierra Entertainment and Radical Entertainment. Ken's most recent position
saw him overseeing the development of PROTOTYPE 2 while managing the operations of Radical Entertainment in
Vancouver BC for Activision|Blizzard.
Quinones, Carlos (Co-Founder, Secret Library)
Carlos Quinones is a Game Design and Development graduate from Full Sail Real World Education in Orlando,
Florida. Since then, he has worked for Turner Broadcasting and TransGaming, Inc. on projects such as GameTap and
GameTree TV where he filled various roles, including Senior Software Developer and Developer Relations. In
November of 2011, he co-founded Secret Library to realize his dream of starting an independent video games studio.
Secret Library released their first game, a local multiplayer iPad game called Centrifeud, earlier this year and are
wrapping up development on their second game, Cool Pizza.
Quintiliani, Andrew (Character Artist, Tripwire Interactive)
Andrew Quintiliani graduated from the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2009 with a BFA in Game Design. After various
freelance projects, he began working as a character artist at Tripwire Interactive in 2010. Having a passion for the
history and development of video games and for anatomy and biology, as well as an extensive knowledge of programs
such as Z-Brush, Photoshop, and Modo, helps Andrew craft unique designs that have assisted Tripwire in creating
award-winning PC titles such as Killing Floor and Red Orchestra.
Saulter, Joseph
Dr. Saulter has spent his life using technology and art to bring people together. As a professional musician and
composer his work includes the seminal electro-funk album Twilight 22 with the hit Electric Kingdom over 1 million
hit on the internet and stretches all the way to the great white way, where he won a Drama Desk Award for his role in
the Broadway musical I Love My Wife. His work also includes the Broadway shows Jesus Christ Superstar and Hair.
Joseph has made a career out of tearing down the walls that separate art forms, people and cultures by fusing his
creative talents with educational outreach and entrepreneurial boldness. Though his educational work — including a
McGraw-Hill series of Design and Development textbooks — and his service as Chairman of the International Game
Developers Association's Diversity Advisory Board, Joseph has opened doors in the gaming industry to thousands of
aspiring artists, designers and developers. Dr. Saulter has launched numerous successful businesses and gaming titles
in collaboration with Sony, Vivendi, Warner Bro, Blizzard, software developer Softimage, Media Fusion 2 and Unity.
He also serves on the steering committee of the Bill Gates Group initiative Blacks in Gaming. Dr. Saulter launched
EARI to take gaming into markets the industry has overlooked and ignored, including faith communities and the
authentic urban scene. His goal: to create an industry powerhouse built on games and interactive media that serve
genres, communities and people who rarely see themselves and their experiences reflected onscreen.
Sawyer, Ben
Ben Sawyer is the co-founder of Digitalmill, a games consulting firm based in Portland, Maine. Since beginning his
career in game development over ten years ago, Sawyer has pioneered major initiatives in the field of serious games
and has become a nationally recognized leader within the games community. In 2004, Sawyer co-founded the Games
for Health project, an initiative which has built the primary social and professional networks of the health games
industry. Through on-line resources and regular regional and national events, Games for Health connects health
professionals, researchers, and game developers in order to advance the development of health games and game
technologies. The Games for Health project receives major funding from the Pioneer Portfolio, an initiative of the
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As a game developer, Sawyer has worked on over two dozen major serious game
projects. In 2000, Sawyer began producing the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's university simulation game, "Virtual U,"
which was an award finalist at that year’s Independent Games Festival. Currently he is working with the Yale School
of Medicine and Schell Games on a new game to help kids at-risk for HIV acquisition.