Rob Maigret

Rob Maigret is a Los Angeles-based entertainment technologist currently working with Pico Experience Studios.

Prior to Pico, he was SVP of Global Creative at Disney Interactive, the digital entertainment and games segment of The Walt Disney Company. While at Disney, he also started Disney Interactive Labs, which are currently responsible for harnessing emerging technologies to develop products aimed at enhancing Disney’s online and mobile experiences – including the freshly-relaunched Disney.com.

In 2007, he co-founded DigiSynd, which was then acquired by Disney in 2008. Today, the DigiSynd team of experts continue to manage Disney’s brand presence in the social media space. Their distribution footprint consists of over 400 million Page Likes on Facebook, millions of followers on Twitter and billions of video views on YouTube. DigiSynd won an assortment of Webby and other awards, including Online Campaign Of The Year for Toy Story 3, which has been used as a case study for social media best practices in a number of publications.

Previously, Rob served as the CTO at Revver, where he was responsible for the design and execution of the company’s market-leading revenue sharing approach to user-generated video. Prior to Revver, he was the Senior Vice President of Technology at iBlast, an early pioneer of digital broadcasting. During his tenure at iBlast, he was instrumental in the design and deployment of the largest terrestrial datacast system in the United States.

Early in his career, he rose through the ranks at PolyGram/Universal Music to become one of the company’s youngest directors of information technology. He was a key player in the technical integration of the two companies, which ultimately led to the formation of the largest worldwide music conglomerate.

Rob is an strategic advisor at Adaptive Path, Inc., based in San Francisco, and co-founder of Art Research Office, a contemporary art space in downtown Santa Cruz.

He holds a BS from Boston’s Emerson College where he studied playwriting, film, and psychology. He's often found tooling around the Silverlake area of Los Angeles. Here is a video of him at last year's UX Week giving a talk called Cars, Castles, & Spas.