Chris Hildenbrand

Art Director, Project Manager

Chris Hildenbrand is one of the most sought after Art Directors and game artists for both the online casual game and hand-held gaming devices markets.  He has worked on projects for NDS, PSP and Wii as well as titles for XNA, GBA and Ipod.  His online game credits include games for Disney, Nickelodeon, MTV and PlayFirst. Having held the position of Art/Creative
Director for Ziggurat Interactive as well as SayDesign, Chris is well suited to take on his responsibilities as Art Director with WebandCircus.

Carl Lydon

3D Artist, Flash/Director

Carl is the multi-talented programmer for our 2D MMO project.  Carl is a Shockwave/Action script guru who is responsible for the creation of Chamber of Chat, the largest Harry Potter based MMO chat.  However, Carl’s considerable artistic skills have allowed him to provide 3D art for online games for Yahoo, choppingblock.com, Shockwave and gametrust.com.  Carl is the current programming architect for the in-house 2D MMO project being created in Flash.

Eric Kolb

Community, E-commerce and Web applications

Having served as the Director of Artist Relations for the largest art community on the Internet, Deviantart.com, Eric is an expert in building and maintaining massive online communities.  As a programmer, Eric created the Adobe Systems marketing community Illustratorworld.com and will be developing the equivalent of Facebook for kids which will be the central hub for WebandCircus’ kids games.  In addition, Eric is responsible for the development of the e-commerce component so used by our MMO projects.

Sven Myhre

CTO, 3D Game Programmer

Sven comes to WebandCircus from the hardcore PC and platform game
development community.  Over a programming career that spans 12 years, Sven has developed projects for Ziosoft Interactive (US), SouthPeak Interactive (US), THQ (GER), Ubisoft (CAN), Konami (UK), ASCII (JAP), D-M-E (GER), ATI (CAN), Intel (US), Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (UK).  An innovator in his early years, Sven is currently heading the development of WebandCircus’ 3D online games.

Todd Macadangdang

CEO, Project Manager/Producer

Todd’s started his career as an artist and animator for a Viacom/Paramount educational software company, and eventually owned his own Design and Marketing firm before joining the Adobe Illustrator team.  Todd’s current experience is with the development of online games and communities for clients such as National Geographic, VH1, Disney, Nickelodeon, Shockwave,
Adobe Systems, Yahoo kids and Miniclip.  Prior to starting WebandCircus, Todd served as a Senior Project Manager/Producer with SayDesign.  He is the current designer and manager of the in-house 2D MMO for children.

Magnus Ragnarsson

Chairman

Magnus has taken on the responsibility of leading the sales and marketing of Zoovolution as well as consulting in the strategic planning of the property. He most recently served as Chief Operational Officer at LazyTown Entertainment where he oversaw all media production as well as leading the expansion of the company into new markets. He still serves as a consultant to all new media for the company and is producing LazyTown The Movie slated to go into production in 2010.

Magnus is an avid long distance runner, flies his own airplane and believes heaven is a place where one goes fly-fishing every day.

Ari Mathiesen

Business Development / Co-Founder

Ari is a co-owner of the Noroff Institute, one of Scandinavia‘s largest privately run educational institutions who specialize in production of the creative arts (animation, film, design, games, music and web). Ari is one of the founders of both Web&Circus and Zoovolution and continuously works on creating and developing new Intellectual Properties. Ari is responsible for media strategy within the company as well as structuring and financing new and ongoing projects.