Ursa Minor is a fellowship of designers, strategists, and storytellers who share a passion for media, technology, and changing the world. We have come together from diverse backgrounds in filmmaking, television, web technology, video games, music, and advertising.
Management Team
Benjamin De Pauw: Founder
Also known as TSO, Benjamin has over twenty years of experience in media production. He is driven by a deep passion for combining art, media and social technologies to solve planetary problems and evolve global consciousness. In 1989 he founded a small recording studio, Conscious Sound Productions, which became one of the Bay Area's most sought-after audio houses, serving artists and record labels across the musical spectrum, and corporate clients such as Sega, Hewlett Packard, Fox, and Disney. Benjamin's creative vision and expertise has propelled the success of numerous commercial albums, web sites, media workflow processes and software products. In 2002, he founded Ursa Minor to meet expanding multi-media demand. Deeply committed to furthering Integral Consciousness and The Great Story movement, Benjamin has been privileged to work with some of America's leading thinkers including Ken Wilber, Peter Russell, Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Rev. Michael Dowd, Anodea Judith, Andrew Cohen and Michael Murphy.
Lion Isis: Co-founder
As an entrepreneur, Lion is passionate about using cutting-edge software, captivating content, and intelligent branding to solve large, planetary scale problems. Previously, Lion was the founder of Falling Fruit TV, where he raised over 500K in angel investment, created a platform for world-changing multimedia content, and pioneered an innovative approach to niche online advertising. Lion's academic background is very broad and interdisciplinary, covering the social sciences, psychology, philosophy, marketing, and design. Lion has experience managing large concurrent projects and overseeing globally distributed teams of creative, technical, and strategic personnel. His primary expertise lies in business, marketing, and brand strategy, as well as software and system design.
Bud Koch: CTO
Bud has nearly 20 years of high-tech business and technology experience from product management to business and strategy leadership to software architecture and development. Bud began his career at Arthur Andersen & Co. where he lead an initiative of Computerized Financial Auditing for improved organizational efficiencies. In Australia and the US he contributed to IBM and Sun across every facet of product and brand management for servers, network equipment, software and services. He was fortunate to also apply his experience in best practice implementations of Product Life Cycle (PLC), ITIL Services Management and industry solutions. At Sun Microsystems his contribution to Sun's overall Web 2.0 strategy was a notable achievement. Over his career Bud continued with software development and design as a passion focusing on open-source and internet technologies. Since 2005, he has helped clients in their business and technology challenges with large scale solutions as a developer, systems architect, and project leader. Recent projects have included enterprise class storage technology solutions at SGI, Oracle 11i implementation leadership as well as Cloud Computing strategy at Sun Microsystems. Bud holds a BE in Engineering, Post Grad Diploma in Finance & Economics and an MBA from Melbourne University. Bud also gained his 'PHP Engineer' certification from Zend in early 2009.
Advisory Board
Neal Rogin: Writer / Director
Neal Rogin is an Emmy winning, Oscar-nominated writer, film maker and social observer whose work has had an impact on millions of people around the world. His latest film, “The Awakening Universe”, based upon the Universe Story by Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, explores how the New Cosmology is changing the very definition of what it means to be a person. He is a member of the board of directors of The Pachamama Alliance, a non-profit partnership between people from the modern world and indigenous people in the Amazon region of Ecuador, and is part of the development team that has created the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium, the purpose of which is to bring forth and environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on this planet as the guiding principle of our time.
William Moulton: Product Development Director
Bill Moulton has been a high technology hardware and software publishing operations manager, developer, and business workflow systems engineer in the high technology and multimedia industry for over 25 years. He has designed and brought to market over 50 consumer software and hardware products, and managed large teams through successful product roll-out. He has patents and patents-pending in image, video, and audio technology for deployment in PSTN, internet networks, search software and information visualization technology, and in digital film and video media. Bill shines in the step by step implementation of ideas into manifested form, and in design invention and solution. His warm leadership style is perfect for Ursa Minor's fast-paced production environment.
Craig Hamilton: Writer / Communications Strategist
Craig Hamilton is an accomplished writer, broadcaster, and integral communications strategist with a passion for the evolution of consciousness and culture. Internationally acclaimed for his work as senior editor of the Eddy award-winning What Is Enlightenment? magazine, Craig has partnered with many of the leading visionaries of our time to help forge a new, scientifically informed spiritual worldview bridging the great wisdom traditions of the East and the West. He is a founding member of Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, and a participant in the Synthesis Dialogues, a 35-person interdisciplinary think tank presided over by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Craig has lectured widely on spiritual transformation and hosted a panel discussion on the Future of Religion at the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Barcelona. His in-depth interviews with leading luminaries are regularly heard by New Dimensions Radio’s seven million listeners, and form the basis of the forthcoming documentary film: Toward a Science of Consciousness. An active player on sustainability issues, Craig is a driving force behind the grassroots movement surrounding Low Carbon Diet, an easy-to-use carbon reduction guide, and the Cool America Campaign, which is mobilizing communities across the country to reduce their CO2-footprint 20% by 2010.
