Management
The management at TurboSquid brings many years of experience in digital animation, including the creation and marketing of 3D models, plug-ins, and surrounding technologies. With a love for the 3D and visual effects industry, TurboSquid's management team has long been working towards bringing 3D to as many people in the world as possible.

Matthew M. Wisdom, Chief Executive Officer
After graduating from Brown University in 1994, Matt was a founding partner and senior producer of 3D visual effects for Chimera Digital Imaging. In April, 2000, Matt co-founded TurboSquid to solve the problem of how to buy and sell 3D models. He sits on the TurboSquid board of directors as well as other non-profit boards focused on New Orleans.

He was featured as Innovator of the Year in 2006 for City Business magazine and named to the list of 40 Under 40 for Gambit magazine. In 2007, Matt was named "Technology Leader of the Year" in the Governor's Technology Awards of the State of Louisiana. Recent projects include leading a second VC funding round for TurboSquid, initiating the idea for the Louisiana Digital Interactive Media tax credit and writing the part of the legislation, and launching the new company division GameFlood.com. Matt has been in the 3D industry since having a 100 megahertz Silicon Graphics box was the envy of his friends.

Beau Perschall, Vice President, Business Development
Beau has been actively involved in the 3D graphics industry for almost fourteen years, both as an animator and as a software developer. He has done work as an animator for clients including Shell, Texaco and International Paper among others. His deep knowledge of 3D led him to a role in software development and management. During this time, Beau successfully launched and managed over seventy plug-in tools, a number of which have become award winners as best-of-breed tools. Beau graduated from the University of New Orleans in 1990 after designing the 3D animation curriculum and assisting with the creation of a computer art and animation facility on campus. In his role at TurboSquid, Beau acts as liaison to the 3D software development community where he has forged solid relationships with major companies including Autodesk, Avid, Adobe and Maxon among many others. He is also responsible for overseeing the Autodesk Certified Animation Plug-in program and works daily with development partners spread across the globe.

Jimmy Roussel, Vice President of Operations
Roussel brings more than twenty years of experience in software company management, business development, and fund raising expertise to his position at TurboSquid. He spent nearly fifteen years in IT management in a variety of software and industry managerial positions. Jimmy’s work in software development includes over four years as CEO of ProTier Corporations, where he led the company through two rounds of venture funding to develop a virtual server management platform. Additionally, Mr. Roussel was heavily involved with the growth and expansion of the Laitram Corporation serving in various management capacities in both the US and Europe and has managed data centers for Integrated Data Systems. Most recently, he was a principal at New Orleans-based Elan Capital, and headed up that firm’s technology division.

Carl Fravel, Vice President, Engineering
Carl combines over 30 years of engineering and management experience with a broad background in audio, experimental film, and 3D graphics. Carl graduated from University of California at Santa Cruz, where he also served as a faculty member, and as the director of the UCSC Electronic Music Studio, which he co-founded in in the early seventies. As some of his most notable achievements, Carl designed analog and digital synthesizer components at Gentle Electric, managed and led applications software architecture for WaveFrame-an early digital audio workstation used in film and TV postproduction-and oversaw the JBuilder 1.0 development effort as a senior engineering manager in the Java and Enterprise Products Groups at Borland. Carl was also a founder, executive manager and board member of a number of high tech companies, including Gentle Electric, Synchron Networks, and Xylim. Additionally, he also co-founded Scybrid Studios, an indie film company. Most recently, Carl served as Director of Engineering at Convenos, a web-conferencing company that integrates its conferencing software with Skype and Salesforce.com.

John L. Koch, Chief Financial Officer
John Koch has more than fifteen years' experience with commercial banking in a variety of lending and managerial positions. Mr. Koch's work in corporate finance includes over ten years in senior treasury and finance positions within the family of Freeport-McMoRan companies, where he managed in excess of $5 billion in global capital markets transactions; he also handled a number of merger, acquisition and spin-off transactions associated with corporate restructurings. Most recently, he was a principal at New Orleans-based Elan Capital, and headed up that firm's specialty finance division. At TurboSquid, Mr. Koch oversees the day-to-day financial operations of the company; he also serves as the primary liaison between TurboSquid, its current investors, and all potential financial and business partners.