Vypoint's Carol Stiglic produced 65 episodes of REVOLUTIONARIES at the Computer History Museum featuring some of the most inspiring and educational figures in technology. Here's the 2-minute flyover of the series.

As a young man, Ed had a dream to be an animator and an artist. When he learned that he lacked the natural talent to do hand-drawn animation he turned to his other passion-- physics, and then computer science. That pivot eventually drove a desire within him to make a very famous, very early computer-generated movie-- an animation of his left hand.

He nurtured his dream as a PhD student in the 1970s at the University of Utah, where many computer graphics pioneers got their start. He eventually forged a partnership with STAR WARS creator George Lucas, an alliance that led to his founding of Pixar Animation Studios with Steve Jobs, John Lasseter and Alvy Ray Smith in 1986. Nine years later, Pixar released TOY STORY-- the first feature-length film made entirely on computers. And it changed animation forever.

Under their leadership Pixar went on to win more than 30 Academy Awards for animated filmmaking. When the Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 for a little over $7 billion, Ed Catmull became not only the president and CEO of Pixar, but the president and CEO of Walt Disney Animation Studios. Thus, through his chosen route of physics and computer science, Ed Catmull realized his dream to be a Disney animator.

In "Creativity, Inc." he displays an exceptional ability to reveal the essence of creativity as practiced by his teams at Pixar and Disney.

The book's subtitle is quite revealing-- "Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration." Perhaps not what you expected from the man whose studios have redefined the art of making award-winning animated films that audiences love all over the world.

I interviewed Ed for 90 minutes at the Computer History Museum when the first edition of "Creativity, Inc.," was released, and I learned why he believes seeing "the unseen" is such an important part of the creative process

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JOHN HOLLAR

John is in his third decade as an award-winning television and digital executive, institution-building board chair and CEO, and leader of creative teams in the United States and Europe.

In his career as a media executive, John has initiated and led the creation of hundreds of hours of television for PBS, the BBC, France 5, China Central Television and Channel 4. His creative teams have won awards throughout the world, including a BAFTA and the Milia d'Or. At the FTSE 100 media company Pearson plc, he structured successful co-production relationships worldwide with Discovery, BBC 4, PBS, Channel 4, Shine, Paladin Invision, David Grubin Productions, Millimages, CCTV, CTV Media and ZDF. As a senior executive at PBS, he co-founded PBS.org, shopPBS.org and PBSKids.org, widely recognized as some of the most innovative platforms in digital media.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of the Computer History Museum in the heart of Silicon Valley, he led the expansion of CHM into a media-centric institution with worldwide brand recognition. Under his leadership CHM raised more than $50 million, expanded its exhibition, education and research programs, acquired new archival and research facilities, launched new centers in software and entrepreneurship, and tripled its operating budget. He served as executive producer and frequent moderator of "Revolutionaries," a weekly television series based on the Museum's acclaimed speaker series, and produced 65 episodes in association with KQED Television in San Francisco.  

John founded Vypoint in 2005 in London. He's a voting member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Television Society, a Senior Fellow and past board chair of the American Leadership Forum Silicon Valley, and a member of the IMPACT Advisory Board of DocuSign, Inc., in San Francisco. He was a pre-IPO investor in Facebook and Palantir and is a current investor in seed-stage technology companies through Ubiquity Ventures (www.ubiquity.vc).

CAROL STIGLIC

Carol is the professional showrunner who conceived, created and produced the Revolutionaries television and radio series, featuring global tech and business leaders in conversation with journalists and expert interviewers, while she served as Vice President of Programming and Business Development at the Computer History Museum.   The excellence of the programming, combined with her hard work, led to regional, national and international distribution of Revolutionaries.

Carol created and produced 65 episodes of Revolutionaries featuring tech luminaries like Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg, Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk and Sheryl Sandberg.  The show also featured noted authors like Walter Isaacson, Steven Levy and Brent Schlender, and three Pulitzer Prize winners:  Jane Smiley, John Markoff and Jose Antonio Vargas.  All 65 episodes were were recorded in front of a live audience and then edited for public radio and public television. 

As showrunner, Carol ceated program tracks within Revolutionaries such as Lab Innovation, Sports and Technology, Game Changers and Future of News and took the series “on the road” to NPR in Washington, D.C. and KQED Public Television’s studios in San Francisco.

Revolutionaries became a television series on KQED for six seasons and on public television’s WORLD channel.  Audio versions of Revolutionaries aired on KQED Radio and Minnesota Public Radio.  C-SPAN carried 14 episodes of Revolutionaries as part of its BOOK TV series.

As co-executive producer, Carol built solid relationships with KQED TV and Radio, WGBH’s WORLD channel, BBC World Service, Audible, NPR, Minnesota Public Radio, The New York Times, The Financial Times and others, including publishers like Penguin, Random House and Simon & Schuster.

In addition, she forged a deep partnership with Intel which provided more than $1 million in funding for Revolutionaries.

Before becoming a producer and showrunner, Carol served as a strategic account manager with Interop, regional account manager with the Matthews Publishing Company, and regional sales manager with International Data Group’s Network World.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola Marymount University and studied at the Sorbonne University, Paris.

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