Mark Anderson - Chief Executive Officer
As the CEO of Kerner Optical Research and Development, Mark Anderson brings a remarkable depth of expertise and experience to both the creative production and executive-level management side of the film and production effects/equipment business. With a worldwide reputation among the top tier of directors and producers, Mark is in touch with the most creative, innovative talent to bring in for very large to small, focused projects. Mark is one of the seminal minds of the original George Lucas startup whiz kids, developing from concept and sketches the Industrial Light and Magic division of Lucasfilm and running it for 18 years. He was personally involved in every film gestated in the ILM facilities, from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones epic series to the recent Pirates of the Caribbean, 1 and 2. Building on an unmatched familiarity with the technology and production methods in film imaging—including fresh innovations—Mark is the perfect guide for KORD’s broad mandate of equipment and production breakthroughs.

Fred Meyers - Chief Engineer
Fred Meyers has worked in technical production since 1969.  Early in his career, he built concert sound systems for Bill Graham's FM Productions—mixing sound for many top performing artists: The Santana Band, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Bob Dylan & The Band, America, and Earth, Wind & Fire.  Crossing over into broadcast engineering in the 1980s, he worked on television documentaries and special events for KQED, the local Bay Area PBS affiliate.  After heading up the engineering department for The San Francisco Production Group—a pioneer in high-end 2D and 3D graphics for video post-production in the Bay Area—Meyers joined Industrial Light & Magic in 1990 to build their video engineering department—designing electronic dailies and digital editorial systems for the company.  He expanded ILM's production engineering departments, combining editorial, video and production software groups to service the computer graphics and digital productions as ILM engineering went on to create history-making images in such films as Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Jurassic Park.  Later, Meyers led special projects for ILM and Lucasfilm, including development of a 24P high definition video workflow that enabled Star Wars Episode II "Attack of the Clones" to be the first major motion picture shot, posted, mastered and released using an HD pipeline.  He led further HD pipeline refinements by introducing 444 camera and recording systems on Episode III.  In 2006 Meyers left ILM to pursue projects embracing digital and 3D cinematography.  This led Meyers to engineer 3D productions systems for feature motion picture productions, including Walden Media's upcoming "Journey 3-D" based on the Jules Verne classic novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth". 

Currently Fred Meyers is Kerner's Chief Engineer, heading up Digital Camera and Cinema Technology Units. A native of Marin County, Meyers studied electrical engineering and television production at San Francisco State University.

Bradley Nelson - Chief Technical Officer
Brad Nelson has extensive experience in computer, optical and electronic engineering, including 2D and 3D stereoscopic front and rear screen projection systems. Among his achievements are the installation of a 5 screen stereoscopic virtual environment at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the manufacture of professional stereoscopic video processing circuit boards used by Karl Storz Imaging for 3D endoscopic surgical procedures, and stereoscopic displays used by Intel, Nvidia, Kia, Hewlett Packard, Sony, and the Jet Propulsion Lab. Brad is one of the original designers of the polygron scanned large screen laser video projection system that was installed at the SAC military facility. He has worked on graphic displays and special effects systems used in the production of sci-fi movies and the T.V. series Battle Star Galactic and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. While at Ampex Corp. Brad was part of the design team developing the AVA3 computer graphics system. Recently employed as Manger of Applications Engineering at MetaVideo Inc. He developed Digital Video Enhancement decoders, de-interlacers, and scalars using Xilinx FPGA PCB’S and Verilog code to create new silicon chips. Responsibilities have included analog and digital p.c. board design, schematic entry, mechanical drawings, optical design, power systems, packaging, P.C. and Mainframe computer systems integration, multilayer p.c. board debugging, the creation of interconnect, maintance and operating manuals, and the supervision of engineering and manufacturing teams.

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