Larry Cutler is Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of Baobab.  He brings deep technical leadership over the past twenty years in the area of animation creation and development. Larry currently serves on the Digital Imaging Technology Subcommittee for the Oscar® Technical Achievement Awards. He was most recently the Vice President of Solutions at Metanautix, a big data analytics startup company (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to that, Larry spent ten years at DreamWorks Animation where he served as Global Head of Character Technology and held several leadership positions in the areas of character development, animation workflow, rigging, and character simulation. Larry began his career at Pixar as a Technical Director on the films Monster’s Inc., Toy Story 2 and A Bug’s Life. Larry holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in computer science from Stanford University.