Leonard Teo

Current

Product Marketing, Games Industry Marketing, Autodesk Games at Autodesk

Past

Product Marketing Manager, Softimage at Avid Technology, Inc.
Founder, CGSociety and Ballistic Publishing at Ballistic Media Pty Ltd
Conference Chair at 3D Festival

Founder & Director at CGNetworks/CGTalk

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Leonard Teo’s Summary

- 12 years of experience relating to media and entertainment technology, covering 3D, multimedia, visual effects and game development.

- Managed and shipped 25+ product releases.

- Successfully started, ran and sold a company - CGSociety.org / Ballistic Publishing.

- Unique combination of technology and business skills.

Leonard Teo’s Specialties:

Experience in creative technology business development.

Leonard Teo’s Experience

Product Marketing, Games Industry Marketing, Autodesk Games

Autodesk

(Public Company; ADSK; Computer Software industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Product Marketing and Games Industry Marketing Manager for Autodesk Games, an industry-focused group specializing in the games. Responsible for product marketing for Autodesk middleware technology, as well as games industry marketing for all Autodesk software related to video games.

Products shipped:
- Autodesk Softimage 7.5
- Autodesk Softimage Mod Tool 7.5
- Autodesk Kynapse 6 AI middleware
- Autodesk HumanIK 4 character animation middleware
Product Marketing Manager, Softimage

Avid Technology, Inc.

(Public Company; AVID; Computer Software industry)

October 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 2 months)

Product Marketing Manager for all Softimage products including SOFTIMAGE|XSI, Face Robot, CAT and Mod Tool.

Products shipped:
- SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.0
- SOFTIMAGE|XSI 6.5
- SOFTIMAGE|XSI Mod Tool
- SOFTIMAGE|XSI 7.0
- Face Robot 1.8
- Alienbrain 7.5
- Alienbrain 8.0 & 8.1
Founder, CGSociety and Ballistic Publishing

Ballistic Media Pty Ltd

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

March 2003 — September 2006 (3 years 7 months)

Founded CGSociety.org and Ballistic Publishing. CGSociety.org is the leading community of digital artists. Ballistic Publishing produces fine digital art books.

Products / Books shipped:
- EXPOSÉ 1
- D'artiste - Digital Painting
- EXPOSÉ 2
- The Art of Oddworld Inhabitants
- Vesage - the book of the Visual Effects Society (VES)
- Grand Space Opera
- MachineFlesh
- ELEMENTAL
- D'artiste - Character Modeling
- D'artiste - Matte Painting
- EXPOSÉ 3
- PAINTER
- EXOTIQUE
- EXPOSÉ 4
Conference Chair

3D Festival

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Events Services industry)

July 2002 — May 2004 (1 year 11 months)

Conference Chair and Event Manager for 3D Festival in Copenhagen for two events - 2003 and 2004. 3D Festival was Europe's largest festival for 3D animation, visual effects, games and visualization with over 5,000 attendees.
Founder & Director

CGNetworks/CGTalk

(Online Media industry)

December 2001 — May 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Founded CGTalk.com, which became CGSociety.org.