Warren Stearns is a multi-hyphenate creative working at the seam where film, music, and photography meet. He has logged screen credits in independent features including Wim Wenders' Land of Plenty (2004), A Peace of History (2005), and The Absence (2010), and even spent an episode playing a corpse on HBO's Six Feet Under. Off camera he shoots fine-art, event, and session photography, publishing his work through a SmugMug portfolio, and he heads Comfortera Enterprises, Inc. Based in Frazier Park, California, he describes himself plainly as an independent contractor - actor, musician, and CEO.
Eran Steinberg is a serial entrepreneur, prolific inventor, and IP strategist who co-founded FotoNation in 1997 - selling it, buying it back, and doing it again a third time. Best known for pioneering the automatic red-eye removal technology now standard in virtually every digital camera and smartphone on earth, he holds 300+ patents across imaging, medical devices, and drug development. A licensed USPTO patent agent with four graduate and undergraduate degrees - including both a B.F.A. in Fine Art Photography and an M.S. in Imaging Science - he bridges the worlds of deep technology and creative vision. Currently CEO and Chairman of Vaica Medical and Chairman of FotoNation following a third management buyout, he also lectures at Johns Hopkins University.