Ed Ulbrich
President, Commercial Division and EVP
Digital Domain
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Ed Ulbrich is Founder and President of Mothership, a transmedia creative studio, and is also President of Digital Domain's Commercials Division. He oversees the company's advertising business and executive produces key feature film projects — roles he has held since Digital Domain's inception in 1993.
Ed executive produced the Academy award-winning visual effects for Titanic, What Dreams May Come and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, along with Fight Club, Zodiac and Adaptation; music videos for the Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Nine Inch Nails, and other artists; and 500+ commercials for clients including Coca Cola, BMW and Microsoft.
Prior to DigitalDomain he was a commercial producer at the Leo Burnett company and a digital artist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Ed is President of the Board of Directors of AICP Digital and is on the Board of Directors of AICP. In 2007 and 2009 he was named to the Creativity 50 — top innovators in advertising and design, and in 2009 he was named one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company Magazine. Ed has spoken about creativity and innovation at top worldwide conferences and seminars including TED, NASA, PICNIC, and others.