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Speaker Chris Williams
July 27, 2010
Hollywood

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Chris Williams
 
General Manager - T180 Studios (a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company)

Chris M. Williams currently serves as General Manager of T180 Studios, the new digital video studio at The Walt Disney Company dedicated to participatory entertainment. 

He leads the T180 team in all areas including creative development, strategy and operations. His wide-ranging experience as a successful internet executive, film and television producer, and advertising sales director allow him to effectively bridge the worlds of marketing, entertainment and online media.

Williams has been pioneering cutting-edge entertainment for over ten years. In August 2008, FanLib, Inc., the company he founded in October 2006 was acquired by The Walt Disney Company.

In 1996, Williams joined upstart Yahoo! as one of its first sales and business development executives. Over the next five years, he quickly rose to the position of Director of Market Development, generating over $300-million in revenue and managing a team of over thirty people.

After forming My2Centences LLC, an entertainment production company, with partner Craig Singer in late 2001, Williams set off producing feature films, including festival favorites A Good Night to Die and Dead Dogs Lie. In November 2006 his feature Dark Ride starring Jamie-Lynn Sigler was released in 500 theaters by Lionsgate Entertainment and went on to sell over 1,000,000 DVDs. He also served as a Consulting Producer on the Spike Television series King of Vegas.

In October 2006 Williams secured $3,000,000 in venture capital for FanLib, Inc., a spin-off of My2Centences LLC, that focused exclusively on participatory entertainment. In July 2008, immediately prior to becoming part of The Walt Disney Company, FanLib became an Emmy Finalist in the interactive fiction category.

Williams graduated from Boston University's College of Communications in 1993 with a BS degree in Broadcast and Film. He currently lives in Beverly Hills with his wife Carrie and sons Gabriel and Ben.

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