“We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.”

American computer scientist and animator

Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator, best known as a co-founder of Pixar and a former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work helped shape modern 3D computer graphics, and he received the 2019 ACM Turing Award for those contributions. Catmull’s career sits at the intersection of technology and animation. He is widely associated with the development of computer graphics techniques that made complex digital imagery possible, and with the studios that brought those tools into mainstream filmmaking.