Jim Mainard

About Jim Mainard

Strategic technology & product development executive with a unique and proven ability to deliver highly impactful business transformations across a range of industries such as prestige consumer product goods, media & entertainment, market research, advertising, and automotive. Well versed in technology leadership from startup to corporate accelerators, joint ventures, and large enterprises ($B). Broad technology expertise and leadership of teams developing backend services through front-end user experiences. Areas of most interest include practical business applications of artificial intelligence, machine / deep learning (physics based, natural language processing, and computer vision), delivering first of kind digital consumer experiences, and rendering visual effects for film, TV and advertising. A lean forward and active, hands-on perpetual learner remaining technically current in algorithm design, software development, and emerging technology advancements. Comfortable and experienced with responsibilities from CTO, President, COO, Board Member, Founder & Investor.

Experience

1. Member, Ai Governance Alliance

   World Economic Forum

   Aug 2023 — Present

   Member of a ~50 person AI expert council with a focus on developing white papers for workstream Responsible Applications & Transformation in corporate, non-profit, and governmental organizations.

Education

• University of Southern California

  BS, Computer Science

Skills

• Content Development
• Video Games
• Strategic M&a
• Feature Films
• Global Leadership
• Digital Media
• Virtual Reality
• Executive Management
• Entertainment
• Game Development
• Character Animation
• Mental Ray
• Film
• Pipeline Development
• Film Production
• Post Production
• Computer Animation
• Opengl
• 3d
• Scripting
• Content Strategy
• Animation
• Renderman
• Commercials
• Visual Effects
• Video
• Strategic Partnerships
• Computer Graphics
• Maya
• Visual Storytelling