- Greg MacGillivray – Chairman of the Board
- Ken Blaisdell – Director
- David Brobeck, Jr. – Director
- Christopher Palmer – Director and President
- Walkie Ray - Director

Greg MacGillivray – Chairman of the Board

Greg MacGillivray has been producing and directing award-winning films for more than 40 years.  He co-founded his Laguna Beach-based company, MacGillivray Freeman Films, in 1963 and today has more than fifty films to his credit, including more than thirty 15/70mm giant screen productions.  

Since the 1976 production of his first IMAX® theatre film, To Fly!, which he co-produced and directed with his partner, the late Jim Freeman, Greg has dedicated his company to the giant screen motion picture format and has produced some of the most popular and enduring films in the genre. 

Greg has received two Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary Short Subject:  the first in 1995 for The Living Sea and the second in 2000 for Dolphins.  In 1996, To Fly!  was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Registry, America's film archive, where it joined such classics as Birth of a Nation, Gone With the Wind and Citizen Kane as one of the most important films in American filmmaking. Five years later, To Fly! was inducted into the IMAX® Hall of Fame. In 1998, the company's dramatic film about climbing the world's tallest peak, Everest, broke industry attendance records and today remains the highest grossing giant screen film of all time.  Greg received a 2005 Special Achievement in Film Award from the Giant Screen Theater Association for the production of Mystery of the Nile.

Before turning to IMAX® theatre films, Greg had success working in Hollywood, directing and photographing for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and filming for the Academy Award®-nominees Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Towering Inferno.

Greg has received numerous awards for his pioneering contributions to the giant screen industry.  In 2002, the Giant Screen Theater Association honored Greg as one of the five most important contributors to the success of the large format industry over the last twenty-five years.  That same year, Greg accepted the Bradford Washburn Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Museum of Science in Boston, for his contribution to science education.  Greg serves on the board of advisors for The Great Park in Orange County, The Ocean Institute in Dana Point, and UCLA’s Reef Check in Los Angeles.

Ken Blaisdell – Director

Ken is a CPA who has been practicing in the Newport Beach / Irvine area for almost 30 years.   He worked for the International CPA firms of Ernst & Young and Deloitte prior to working as a partner in the firm of Smith Linden & Basso.  He has provided planning & consulting for international transactions, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, and entertainers & athletes.

Presently, Ken serves as Director of Tax at Pacific Dental Services where he provides planning strategies and compliance for the parent company and over 450 subsidiaries.

His proudest accomplishments are 4 great children and his wife Shara.

David Brobeck, Jr. – Director

David Brobeck has been practicing law for 35 years and is a founding partner in the Orange County law firm of Beam, Brobeck & West, LLP.  A graduate of the University of Southern California and California Western University School of Law, David is an active trial attorney specializing in professional liability, governmental tort litigation, and general personal injury cases.  He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel, the State Bar of California, and the Orange County and American Bar Associations.  He has also served as a Judge Pro Tem of the Orange County Superior Court, and an instructor/lecturer for various continuing legal education programs for trial lawyers. 

In his spare time, David is an avid nature photographer and wildlife enthusiast.  His passion for preserving the natural environment and animal populations began when he worked during his law school years as a bus driver/guide at the San Diego Zoo.  His friendship with Greg MacGillivray and his enthusiasm for Greg’s many film projects began in 1963.

Christopher Palmer – President

Chris has spent 25 years producing more than 300 hours of original programming for prime time television and the large format film industry. His films have been broadcast on the Disney Channel, TBS Superstation, Animal Planet, Home and Garden Television, The Travel Channel, The Outdoor Life Network, the Public Broadcasting System and in the global system of IMAX theaters. Chris and his colleagues have won many awards, including two Emmys and an Oscar® nomination.  His movies, music videos, documentaries and computer software have all focused on documenting threatened species and habitats exposing damaging commercial enterprises and practices while celebrating environmental success stories.

He joined the full-time faculty at American University in August 2004 as Distinguished Film Producer in Residence and founded the Center for Environmental Filmmaking at the School of Communication, which he now directs. Chris gives speeches and workshops all over the country on the subject of natural history films, individual productivity and success, and fundraising.  His book, Shooting in the Wild: An Insider’s Account of Making Movies in the Animal Kingdom, was published in May 2010 by Sierra Club Books and has been widely praised. Jane Goodall called it “a very important and much-needed book.”

Chris serves on the boards of thirteen not-for-profit organizations all related to environmental filmmaking.  In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Media at the International Wildlife Film Festival, and recently he received the Environmental Film Educator of the Decade Award at the Green Globe Film Awards in LA.

Walkie Ray – Director

James "Walkie" Ray is a native of Newport Beach, California where he raised his five children with his wife Janet. With degrees in civil engineering and an MBA, Walkie led his family's contracting company, J. Ray Construction from 1976 to 2002 and in 1982 joined his brother Michael and Chase Sanderson to form Sanderson J. Ray Development to develop commercial real estate. Active in southern Orange County community projects, Walkie serves on the Board of the Orange County Great Park Corporation, currently one of the largest non-transportation public works projects west of the Mississippi River. In the field of education, Walkie is on the Board of the Discovery Science Center, a "hands on" science learning center. Under his leadership, from 1988 to 1998, DSC opened its $26 million facility, and is today one of the most successful hands-on science learning centers in the United States. In addition, Walkie serves on the Board of the MIND Research Institute, which is exploring alternative approaches to science and math instruction and he also serves on the Advisory Committee of the Merage Foundations' Children First Program, which focuses on childhood development and healthcare opportunities for low income youngsters.