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Leadership

The Alliance for OpenUSD Steering Committee comprises technical, business, and community leaders committed to driving the open standards technology, including one from each of the Founding Member companies and elected representatives of the general membership.

Each of the Founding Member companies–Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA–has been and continues to be large contributors to and evangelists of OpenUSD.

Steve May, CTO of Pixar Animation Studios, is the initial Chairperson for the Alliance, selected by the Steering Committee.

Steering Committee

Steve May

Pixar

Chief Technology Officer

Chairperson

Guy Martin

NVIDIA

Director of Open Source & Standards

Vice Chairperson

Guido Quaroni

Adobe

Senior Director of Engineering of 3D & Immersive

Gordon Bradley

Autodesk

Fellow

Travis Brown

Apple

Senior Standards Manager

Mark Tucker

Side Effects Software

Senior Software Architect

Sean Snyders

Trimble Inc.

Distinguished Engineer

Core Specification Working Group

Aaron Luk

NVIDIA

Director of Product Management

Chairperson

Nick Porcino

Pixar Animation Studios

Senior Software Engineer

Vice Chairperson

Geometry Working Group

Mathieu Sanchez

Adobe

Senior Software Engineer - Substance Modeler

Chairperson

Martin Watt

NVIDIA

Senior Software Systems Manager

Vice Chairperson

Marketing Working Group

Madison Huang

NVIDIA

Director of Product Marketing

Chairperson

Jocelyn Moffatt

Autodesk

Senior Manager, M&E Audiences Marketing

Vice Chairperson

Materials Working Group

Jonathan Stone

Lucasfilm Advanced Development Group

Lead Rendering Engineer

Chairperson

Anders Langlands

NVIDIA

Director of Omniverse Rendering and Materials

Vice Chairperson

Physics Working Group

Adam Moravanszky

NVIDIA

Senior Director of Simulation Technology

Chairperson

David Eberle

Pixar Animation Studios

Tools Simulation Lead

Vice Chairperson