As Founder and CEO of ‘Building Conversation’ Terrence Masson brings 25 years of international interactive media development experiences to lead the creative, technical and business development of our technology. His production experience as a technical director and creative producer includes broadcast, video games, special venue, feature animation and live action visual effects. He came up through the ranks on more then 20 films including Hook, True Lies, Interview with a Vampire and three Star Wars movies. He single-handedly developed the original CG animation for SouthPark in 1996 along with numerous AAA interactive projects such as SimCity 4, Bruce Lee, Batman Dark Tomorrow and Alter Echo. As Executive Professor of Animation and Founding Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University in Boston, Terrence led the vision and creation of all undergraduate Game Design and Interactive Media curriculum in the College of Arts, Media and Design.

An ACM Distinguished Lecturer and active participant with SIGGRAPH since 1988, Terrence served as 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair, SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair and is currently the ACM SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Awards Chair. Terrence is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and author of the industry standard text CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference (NewRiders/Pearson).