Daniel Johnson
Designation-Executive Board Member
Specialty: SFX, 3D & Film Production.

Daniel A. Johnson's early involvement in Production Technology and 3D animation for Film and Television set the foundation for the industry as we know it today. With a Masters in Computer Graphics Animation from the New York Institute of Technology in the mid 80's, Daniel was scouted to work for Digital Effects Inc, one of the first CGI special effects companies in American, working on projects for Disney and other Famous Hollywood Film studios.

Some of his credible work include, The Navigator, Tron, and over 20 advertizing commercials to his credit during that period. Since 1984, Daniel has worked on projects with global companies as The Mill, Nice Shoes, AT&T, Time Warner, Disney, Manhattan Advanced Digital, Data Motion Arts and Image Group to name a few.

Daniel has directed and produced many computer graphic commercials and interactive projects for companies and brands such as 'People Choice Awards', 'Rolex', 'Pizza Hut', 'CUC International', 'Vtek Toys', 'P&G', 'Revlon', 'Estee Lauder' and 'CNN News'. Post achieving credible heigts in his career in the USA, Daniel spent five years in Europe as a Media & Technology Consultant for Pixibox France and Thompson Digital Military Software Group.

As interactive technologies (Web 1.0) were developing, Daniel was working on the cutting edge Time Warner interactive trials in the 1990's, Daniel was one of the first individuals to deploy V.O.D. (Video On Demand) over IP and followed that concept through to the founding of V.O.D.U.S.A. where he functioned as the V.P. of Business Development and as an equity partner.

Daniel is also founder and partner in boutique interactive web media agency called 59 Souls Inc., located in the SoHo District of New York City. Their focus is on complex, high profile, customized projects using web 2.0 tools.