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ted WerthTed was the co-founder, and served at various times as the CFO, CTO, and COO, of Digital Club Network (DCN), a webcasting and recording company that connected premier music venues around the country to the Internet for live, nightly concert broadcasts. DCN also released over 20 live concert CDs through its DCN Records subsidiary before being acquired by Dimensional Associates in 2003 and merging with eMusic in 2004 to form eMusic Live.

Prior to DCN, Ted was the co-founder of Web Partners Studio, creator of the popular and groundbreaking websites Total New York (one of the first webzines and online city guides) and Adaweb (one of the first new media art collaboratives), as well as The Primary Group, a boutique web production and consulting shop. Both Total New York and Adaweb were acquired by AOL's Digital City in 1997 (now AOL CityGuide), while The Primary Group was later acquired by Agency.com.

Ted is an advisor to Original Sin Hard Cider, a premium alcoholic beverage currently distributed throughout the East Coast, and g-NET, an independent production company specializing in videogame-related programming for television, DVD, VOD, and the Internet.

Ted is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, where he was Chairman of the undergraduate academic honors society (Joseph Wharton Scholars) and co-founder of the school's undergraduate Senior Society (The Lantern Society). He currently sits on the board of The Lantern Society Alumni Association, as well as on the boards of Harvestworks, a non-profit organization dedicated to the convergence of art and technology, and Create:Fixate, a non-profit organization dedicated to exposing the works of emerging artists and musicians.

Duane Wall bioDuane Wall co-founded Bitcasters with Nathon Gunn in 1996.

Amongst many other hats that Duane has worn over the years, he is the game designer and project lead on StormHawks World.

Duane has led a number of Bitcasters' award-winning projects, including project design, planning, management, programming, art direction and production.

He has produced a number of music videos, unique technologies (including LiveChat for animated characters mixed with Live Action and then broadcast over the web), games and events. Duane also played a critical role in the formation of Citytv Interactive, Miramax New Media and Universal Music's Bluematter.

In his spare time Duane writes some of the leading video game mods as freeware and takes special pride in the unsolicited thank you notes he receives from time to time.

Duane has a degree in writing from the University of Victoria and a cat named Poe.

Farid Ravaei bioIan Thornton graduated with a first-class honours degree in Business Studies and German from Sheffield University.

Ian was a co-founder of renowned international television oracle, C21 Media and Channel 21 International, after years of either working in or running the advertising departments of Broadcast, TV World, Variety and Moving Pictures.

Ian moved to Toronto in 2000 and has been working with Bitcasters since 2007. He was appointed President in the fall of 2008.

Ian is the author of a novel currently being developed as a feature film project at Bitcasters. Amongst other things, Ian is a judge of the largest and most prestigious film festival in all of Latin America, Expresion En Corto.

Farid Ravaei bioCallan Burgess is the Chief Game Designer at Bitcasters.

He has been responsible for the design on the History Game: Canada, a project that recently won the prestigious MacArthur Award.

Callan has also been a lead designer on Storm Hawks Squadron and Hollywood Tycoon and has contributed additional work to Storm Hawks the MMO.

Callan is from Sydney Australia and has a degree in micro biology.

 
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