Darrel Butlin
CEO / Founder
Visionary award-winning creative industries innovator Darrel J Butlin is an Entrepreneur who puts social impact at the heart of his design. Combining expertise in Technology and Digital Media to originate cutting-edge ventures, Darrel has an international track record of working at the highest level within the commercial film industry, he is Writer, Film Director and Technologist with a dynamic intellectual property portfolio.
www.darrelbutlin.com
@darrelbutlin
Phil Egli
CTO / Partner
Lead Technologist, Software Architect and coding poet, Phil’s proven abilities of constructing mission critical and robust digital technology platforms underpin the design and construction of the hexology platform. With a BSc background in Chemistry and an MSc in Information Systems, Phil’s scientific approach gives him command over the latest technologies to produce solid results.
Bob Thompson
Creative Producer
Bob has a distinguished track record as an innovative content creator and producer of cutting edge entertainment and creative technology. Starting in Marketing and Business Affairs he became a TV Buyer and later a Writer and Producer, working across more than 30 media disciplines. Bob held senior roles at BBC and LEGO as well as providing specialist consulting to FILM LONDON. Best known for his work as a creator and producer of the LEGO BIONICLE franchise, his film, game and tv credits vary from the surreal LEGO ISLAND 2, to horror PANIC BUTTON via pre-teen music show S-CLUB 7 to the dark fantasy of ULTRAMARINES: A Warhammer 40,000 movie.
“Moving social, game and story media out of the web and into the real world, there is just not enough coffee in the day to comprehend all the amazing opportunities hexology delivers.”
Bill Liao
Advisor
Entrepreneur, Investor, Diplomat, Author & Speaker Bill Liao Co-founded the CoderDojo movement, a free global network formed to assist young people to learn how to write code and program computers. Bill is also a General Partner with SOSV a $300m international accelerator and venture capital fund.
Previously, Bill co-founded XING, a pioneering business social networking platform in 2003 and served as COO of Davnet a telecommunications carrier that went public in the late 90’s. Bill serves as the chair of the investment committee for the Nominet Trust in the UK, and he is a regular speaker at events and venues such as The London School of Economics, The World Economic Forum, The Globe Forum in Sweden, The House of Commons and TEDx.