Angstrom Microsystems, a leading provider of high-end rackmount server technologies, today announced that Vice President of Technology for Rhythm & Hues Studios, Mark A. Brown, has been appointed to Angstrom’s Board of Advisors.
Under Mark Brown’s direction, Rhythm & Hues Studios, one of the largest privately held visual effects houses in North America, has successfully created visual effects and animation for a list of box office winners, among them “Scooby Doo”, “Harry Potter”, and “The Lord of the Rings”. Rhythm & Hues Studios has won numerous awards for its film and advertising creations, including the Academy Award winning “Babe” and the popular Coca Cola(TM) “Polar Bears”.
Prior to joining Rhythm & Hues, Mark Brown was the Director of Research, Development & Systems and Associate Dean for Information Technology at the University of Southern California.
Brown is a member of the Visual Effects Society and has been a key advocate of the use of Linux for visual effect production and has spoken at several of their technical summits.
“I have always been passionate about computers. My relationship with Angstrom began as its customer. In a market full of garden-variety server providers, Angstrom’s products and people stood out,” said Mark Brown. “During the production of Scooby Doo, our existing systems needed an upgrade in performance. Using Angstrom servers, we substantially improved our productivity, and achieved record render times in the production of Scooby Doo. Its systems also performed flawlessly in the recent productions of Men in Black II and The Sum of All Fears. Angstrom’s support is excellent and so are the products. Its future looks bright under the continued direction of Founder & CEO, Lalit Jain, who is both an adroit business leader and a technology visionary. I am indeed pleased about my appointment to the Board and look forward to working with him and the group of remarkably talented individuals at Angstrom.”
“Mark Brown is often regarded as an ‘industry spokesperson’ in the rendering space,” said Angstrom CEO Lalit Jain. “His vast experience and his intimate familiarity of the end-to-end needs of the industry, rendering systems, and Linux will be a tremendous asset to our Board of Advisors, and will do much to benefit Angstrom’s goal of being a market leader in entertainment systems.”
