RED

Matt Walton
CEO and Chief Creative Officer

As CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Matt drives the overall creative vision of RED.

Matt founded RED in 2004 and has continued to shape and grow RED's creative capability. In that time, RED's product designs continue to achieve significant strategic and financial impacts for its clients, exceeding over 1B in corporate M&A. Matt's background is extensive and diverse, spanning multiple marketing and product design disciplines. With over 25 years at top creative and technology companies, as well as paving his own path as a successful entrepreneur. He began his career in feature animation at Walt Disney, and then made the switch to digital product design, working with a broad set of international companies, including Mattell, American Express, Sony, Paramount, MGM, Marion Merrill Dow, Hasbro, GM and Simon & Schuster.

Matt has continued to mentor and teach throughout his career. Awarded the prestigious Hallmark Distinguished Professorship at the University of Kansas, he was instrumental in starting the first technology-focused design track within the University, as well as a visiting professor to the Kansas City Art Institute. Matt has been invited to lecture at various Fortune 100 companies, universities, colleges, and professional institutions. He has received several national accolades for his design solutions, including awards from the Society of Illustrators in New York. Most recently, he was a panelist at SWSX where he discussed the challenges of Branding for Global Audiences.

Matt's client list includes companies such as: American Express, AT&T, AMC Theatres, Asahi Beer, Business Objects, Bally's, Estee Lauder, CompuServe, FAO Schwartz, GE Fleet, General Motors/Cadillac, Hallmark, Harrah's, Hasbro, Hilton, Houlihans, Jones Intercable, Kansas & Missouri Lottery, Lee Jeans, Macworld, Marion Merrill Dow, McMillan Publishing, MGM, 911 Entertainment, Nintendo, Northwest Airlines, Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster, Sonic Drive-Ins, Sony, Southwest Airlines, Tekno Comics, and Warner Brothers.

 

Dr. Josh Wingstrom
CTO

As CTO, Josh drives the technical and architectual design of RED solutions.

Prior to joining RED, Dr. Wingstrom was a key Architect/Engineer at Decision Research Corporation in Honolulu, HI where he led DRC Architectural Research and Development. His accomplishments there include research applications for actuaries and an enterprise services framework. Dr. Wingstrom has developed key geospatial focused applications including contributions to GIS/GPS command and control software in use globally with US and allied defense forces. Additionally, Dr. Wingstrom was project leader for the software systems of the Hawaii DARPA Grand Challenge Team, in 2005, which included GPS based command and control systems for autonomous vehicle control. Dr. Wingstrom holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii for his work on utilizing statistical analysis to enable fault tolerant distributed cloud computing. He also holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii and Bachelors of Science degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics from the Valparaiso University.