Lain Hensley
Lain Hensley has traveled internationally for over 25 years working with leaders from many of the largest companies in the world. His company, Odyssey Teams, has created some of the most recognizable and cutting edge training programs in their industry. Their Helping Hands program was featured on Fox Business, written about in Entrepreneur Magazine, numerous training journals, and Inc. Magazine. He and his team have quite simply revolutionized their industry. They have bridged the gap between philanthropy and training and are giving back to the world in a variety of ways.
For the past 18 years, he has been a part of the UCLA MBA "Foundations of Leadership Program" and he is the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Recipient for the California State University of Chico. He is a recent cancer survivor and currently lives in Chico, California with his wife and three children.
Mark Pullyblank
Mark Pullyblank spent the much of the 90's working as a musician, bouncing around North America in a tour van. He began his animation career animating talking animals on the first Garfield movie. He has been an animation supervisor at Rainmaker Digital and Frantic Films, a senior animator at Sony Imageworks, and has worked in various departments at Weta Digital. His films include Hobbit's 2 and 3, Avatar, The Adventures of Tintin, The Smurfs, Night at the Museum, and many others. He is the co-founder and CEO of Theia Interactive, the Head of Animation at CG Spectrum, and a lecturer at California State University Chico.