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Ivan Gulas

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Ivan Gulas

  • Founder, Mirage Technologies, 1995. Co-Chairman and Co-President, Pacific Title/Mirage, 1997-1999.
  • Born in Hungary and escaped with his parents during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, which started on his 10th. birthday.
  • He began his professional career in health care, before transitioning to entertainment. Following his Internship at Beth Israel Hospital / Harvard Med, in clinical psych, he was in private practice in Boston, while also on the faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dept of Psychiatry/Psychology.
  • Gulas coined the name 'LifeFx' and oversaw the development of the Company's breakthrough technologies in the creating of the most photorealistic human facial animation. With a development team the company hired and brought to LA from MIT, which included Mark Sager (who was a graduate student at MIT) LifeFx became a product which Pacific Title/Mirage created a free standing Company with, which on NASDAQ reached a market cap of a billion dollar. Gulas and Sager were granted a US Patent for the core technology utilized in photorealistic facial/ body animation in LifeFx.
  • He was a founder of Mirage Technologies in Boston with partners from MIT, which with VC funding from Safeguard Scientific purchased one of Hollywood's oldest and premier post-production/ visual effects facilities Pacific Title (renamed Pacific Title/Mirage) where he assumed a leadership position. He was responsible for the Company's expansion, including the build-out of its 75.000 sq. ft. studio on Gower, and he oversaw Pacific Title/Mirage's participation in many of the major visual effects driven tent-pole projects in the late 90's.

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