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Todor J. Fay is the co-founder and CEO of NewBlue, Inc., a rapidly growing and respected digital video effects, streaming and cloud technology company. Fay has more than three decades of software development and design experience and holds more than 30 audio and video technology patents. In addition to leading NewBlue, he oversees the technical direction of the company’s line of professional and consumer video effects software, 3D titling, motion graphics, and live streaming technologies. Prior to co-founding NewBlue, Fay served as Lead Software Architect at Microsoft Corporation in the DirectMusic group and later created the original audio architecture for the Xbox team. Earlier in his career, he co-founded The Blue SoundWorks, pioneers in audio technology, which was ultimately acquired by Microsoft. Fay holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Masters of Science in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Melissa Jordan Grey brings decades of experience as a creative technologist, market strategist, entrepreneur & digital media artist. As co-founder of NewBlue, her mission to merge arts & technology is woven through the company’s innovative offerings. Before launching NewBlue, Grey served as a senior program manager in Microsoft’s Digital Media, Consumer, and Windows divisions, specializing in product design, marketing and business development. After earning a degree in media studies at Indiana University (Phi Beta Kappa/Summa Cum Laude), she received an International Radio & Television Society Summer Fellowship and later attended the University of Southern California’s master’s program in cinema-television before leaving to found her first company, The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks. At Blue Ribbon, Grey served as its president before its ultimate acquisition by Microsoft Corporation.

A strategic advisor to companies across multiple industries around the globe, Sagerman brings broad financial and technology experience to NewBlue. Most recently, from 2009 to 2011, he was CEO and president of the medical records company Universata, which he restructured and orchestrated its successful sale. From 1999 to 2008, Sagerman was a managing director and Head of Strategy and Strategic Marketing for Allianz Global Investors—Munich, a successor firm to Nicholas Applegate Capital Management, where he was a managing director and member of the executive committee.