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Jennifer is the Director of Media Relations at Banjo where she is
recognized for her innate ability to open doors and develop re-
lationships with top partners, clients and industry organizations.
As one of the first employees, she has helped Banjo grow to a
global presence with millions of users. Jennifer is active in the
tech community and serves on two working committees with
the Application Developers Alliance; Data, Analytics and Secu-
rity, and Media and Entertainment. She also serves on the Advi-
sory Board for SXSW. Jennifer is passionate about empowering
youth with technology and her biggest joy is being a mentor for
students in under-served communities. She holds a Bachelor's in
Philosophy from Hope College.
With more than a decade of experience working as an Executive
Producer in game development, Galis has successfully man-
aged talented teams of technical and creative people to deliver
multi-million dollar video game projects for major publishers,
such as Electronic Arts, Nintendo, and Sega on current genera-
tion game consoles and PC's. Utilizing the unique combination of
his engineering and management background, he has provided
technical direction and oversight to effectively lead his teams to
successful solutions. Galis is well known for his ability to moti-
vate highly creative teams toward excellence in their day-to-day
work while overcoming difficult project challenges.
As an entrepreneur and entertainment industry veteran, Mr.
Donner is the founder and CEO of BLKBX Creative Group, a pow-
erhouse digital marketing agency specializing in entertainment
content. The creative minds at BLKBX deliver some of Holly-
wood's biggest digital marketing campaigns for blockbuster
films. Prior to founding BLKBX, Mr. Donner was the President
of Elektrofilm Digital Studios, a multinational in technology-en-
abled media services. In under three years, Mr. Donner grew
Elektrofilm from a startup to a $10 million enterprise. As a film
producer, Mr. Donner is best known for the Academy Award
nominated documentary Deliver Us From Evil as well as the
Sundance Film Festival Selection Between.
Jennifer
Peck
Banjo,
Director of Media
Relations
Jim Galis
Advanced
Imagination,
VP Product Dev
Frank
Donner
BLKBX Creative
Group,
President & Founder
10:30am
Donatello 2: Mentor Sessions
TUESDAY
