President & CEO, IMMOTION
With a combination of dynamic storytelling and cutting-edge technology, Immotion provides solutions for its partners that add a new dimension of impact to their mission with immersive experiences that transport and inspire.
Rod Findley, Immotion’s President & CEO, is passionate about driving the growth of the company, pushing the envelope of technology, and creating award-winning, engaging content for its partners around the world. He drives the vision of the company and oversees all aspects of the company’s content creation, worldwide sales, and operations, including end-to-end management of its 75+ locations worldwide.
Prior to heading Immotion’s location-based business, Rod was the Executive Creative Director and Principal of C2K Communications, a creative advertising and content agency with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Dubai. While at C2K, Rod garnered significant experience in markets across North America, Asia and the Middle East as he led creative development and execution of ad campaigns, both digital and traditional, for television, virtual reality, social media, print, OOH, and other site-specific installations.
Born in the UK, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in Montreal and an MFA in Film at USC.
Executive Chairman, IMMOTION
Edward Wise is a pitch master. He was the founding CEO of Omnicom Health Group, the largest healthcare communications group in the world, for over six years. Before that, he led The CDM Group, a healthcare advertising agency startup where he grew a client roster from one major client to over 100 in ten years as President and CEO, largely by perfecting the pitch process from beginning to end.
Today, Wise is an author, investor, and executive advisor certified as an executive coach by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). He also serves on the board of several private-equity-owned companies. He has four grown children and lives with his wife in New Jersey.
Board Member, IMMOTION
Alasdair Ritchie ran his own highly successful creative Ad Agency through the eighties before selling it to TBWA: went on to build and run that worldwide Agency outside of the Americas through the nineties with the charge to make it a genuine Ad Agency network like the two other Omnicom Agencies, BBDO and DDB.
Following this, he ran and developed the worldwide Octagon Marketing arm of the IPG-owned Sports Marketing Octagon Group, bringing it to world brand leader in its category. Moving to New York in 2005, he joined Tangerine, a specialist Ad Agency executive search firm that he had co-founded two years earlier.
His most recent venture was the creation of Waterway, a national franchise network in the fire service category that has become the fastest-growing franchise of its kind in the USA over the last two years.
He has now decided he wants other senior executives in advertising and related fields to be able to access his own experience and, where necessary, that of a select group of experts across all business disciplines.
Board Member, IMMOTION
Bill, a Founding Partner of Seaport and Co-Chairman of the Seaport Investment Committee, brings more than 30 years of private equity and merchant banking experience to Seaport. Bill is actively involved in formulating the investment process, originating investments and managing the investment activities of Seaport. In addition, Bill works closely with Seaport portfolio companies.
Prior to co-founding Seaport in 1997, Bill was a Managing Director of Chase Capital, the equity-investing arm of The Chase Manhattan Bank. In that position, he was responsible for the firm’s investments in media and telecommunications, with a particular emphasis on wireless communications. Prior to joining Chase Capital, Bill was a managing director at Chase’s Merchant Banking Group.
Bill received an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business and a BA in Economics from Trinity College.
Bill is on the Board of Directors at Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX). He also serves on the Board of Visitors at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Board Member, IMMOTION
Jim co-founded Seaport Capital with Bill Luby in 1997. While no longer active in the day-to-day management of Seaport, Jim is Co-Chairman of the Seaport Capital Investment Committee and assists in formulating Seaport’s investment strategy. He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of Seaport portfolio companies, working with them to grow value.
Jim began his professional career as an electrical engineer at National TeleConsultants. He transitioned to private equity investing in 1991 when joining Bill at the Chase Manhattan Bank, initially as an Associate in the Merchant Banking Group and later as a principal in Chase Capital.
Jim received an MBA from the Columbia Business School and a BSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
