OUR TEAM
Stephen Marshall
FOUNDER - CEO/PRODUCT LEAD
A polymath and serial entrepreneur, Stephen’s two early-web journalism platforms Channel Zero & GNN, were at the forefront of digital and user-generated content. He entered the hi-tech realm with a vision for a new paradigm in dimensional data visualization that would power next-gen systems in medicine, markets, and social identity. This became the foundation for ORA. Stephen’s full CV is here.
Peter Crnokrak, Ph.D.
DATA VIZ/ARCHITECTURE LEAD
Emerging from a doctorate in quantitative genetics, Peter’s work takes complex systems and renders them into symbolic and intuitive graphical representations. He has been recognized by National Science Foundation, AIGA 365, ISTD and The European Design Awards and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. As architecture lead, Peter designed the initial (patented) component ORA and PROTOSTAR systems, which form the initial product suite for the company.
GMUNK
DESIGN LEAD
Bradley Munkowitz (GMUNK) is one of the leading motion graphics designers of his generation. His ground-breaking UI work in TRON: Legacy and Oblivion evolved through his residencies at several influential design studios, beginning with Imaginary Forces, and including Bot & Dolly, and Obscura Digital. He is one of the most established names in the NFT market with his most recent sales at Sotheby’s.
Marcin Ignac
GENERATIVE LEAD
Marcin Ignac is a leader in the field of generative programming and founder of Variable. He and his team write code that allows data to fuel object-based computations. A lecturer, commercial designer, and exhibiting artist in the field of code art, Marcin’s work with Nike and his stunning data art installations made him a perfect candidate to code design ORA’s first stand-alone product, the algorithmically generated HALO.
OUR ADVISORS
Louis Selincourt
ADVISORY / COO
Louis is a former COO of the office of the CTO at Zynga. With over 30 years in the tech sector, leading teams at companies like Oracle and NetApp, Louis innately understands the importance of execution in technology platforms. At ORA, he acts as a key member of the Executive Team, with an emphasis on recruiting technical, analytics, and developer teams (platform and services) and ensuring that ORA successfully scales out of launch.
Kostadis Roussos
ADVISORY / ENGINEERING & RECRUITING
Formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks and Chief Engineer at Zynga, Kostadis is focused on cloud infrastructure and cloud systems will transform security infrastructure and networking. He is currently Principal Engineer at VMware. As ORA’s lead Engineering advisor, Kostadis is guiding our product building process and aiding in the recruitment of our code-writing team.
Ken Melkus
ADVISORY / Healthcare sector
Ken is a senior-level medical sector investor and advisor. He serves as the Senior Industry Executive and Consultant at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and was the founder and chairman of the Nashville Healthcare Council. Ken is a critical champion for ORA's vision of a new form of visualization for complex medical big data.
