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Thomas "Rick" Tewell
Executive Producer / President
Rick is a pioneer in the digital video field. He was cofounder of Sequoia Advanced Technologies, Inc. who, in 1994, developed one of the first digital video implementations for the Windows and PC platforms, allowing users to connect digital camcorders to PCs for capturing and editing. Virtually all PCs today use this digital video technology in some form. In 2000, Ligos Corporation acquired Sequoia Advanced Technologies, and Rick and his team engineered a technology solution for converting video from digital camcorders directly to the MPEG-2 (DVD) format. This solution is in use by millions around the world today. In October of 2003, Rick left Ligos to pursue his calling of using his technical and business skills for building a business based on creating multimedia Christian content. Rick lives in San Anselmo, California, is married and has two children, a eleven year old boy and an eight year old girl. For the last six years, Rick has taught children’s Sunday School and developed and presented multimedia curricula to the classroom there.

Monte "Cheyenne" Wolford
Graphic Artist / Game Designer
Cheyenne grew up in the Sierra mountains of CA being homeschooled by his parents. While he was still in grade school he began to dream of making Christian computer animations and games. In pursuite of this goal he began teaching himself to make computer graphics. His first published game, Nacah, hit the market in 2001 as one of the first Christian games in the adventure genre. The sequel game, Derek, was released in July of 2003. Both games have received excellent reviews in the secular as well as the Christian markets. Cheyenne began working on Mayabin in the spring of 2004. His wife, Evie, has been helping him with scripts, documents and story line. Cheyenne and Evie are currently living in Coarsegold, CA where they are involved in the AWANA program at their local church. They are interested in foreign missions and are planning to move to the Dominican Republic when their work on the games is established well enough to be continued from there.

Michael Hill
Director of Music and Sound
Right out of high school in 1984, Michael was the winner of numerous vocal performance scholarships, including the Pietro Menci Scholarship, the Merium Libby Scholarship, and the Music In The Mountains Scholarship. He was also offered a scholarship for opera performance to Cal State, Chico where he studied music professionally. He sang and toured with CSU Chamber Singers and studied with conducting mentor Dr. Sharon Paul. He has performed as a lead in numerous full-scale operas, including leading roles in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Bizet's "Carmen", and Mecham's "Tartuffe". He is an extremely accomplished and recorded guitar player and has worked with Roby Duke, and later Johnny Colla of Huey Lewis and the News, on the "Heather Hill" project as a collaborator and instrumentalist. Michael lives in Novato, California and is married, with three children. Mike currently serves as the Worship Technical Director at Marin Covenant Church.