With over 20 years of leading-edge creative vision, Gaze Coin CEO and Founder Jonny Peters is an award-winning mixed-reality producer, director and world builder. He has produced interactive formats for more than 15 years with work including mobile and tethered VR experiences, virtual worlds, interactive reality TV and multi-channel broadband TV. Often leading projects at the forefront of entertainment and tech, he raised nearly $12M in 1998 for Kgrind, a multichannel music and action sports broadband TV network. In 2001, Jonny was recruited to BSkyB, where he build red-button apps for Sky’s Electronic Programme Guide (EPG). After producing a successful reality TV series for Bravo, he was awarded a European Union Film Award in 2010 for his film Lucydia and crossed over into mixed-reality filmmaking and world building shortly after. Jonny holds an MFA in virtual worlds and Graduate Diploma in directing from Australian Film Television and Radio School and BE in economics from Macquarie University. His MFA master’s thesis on blending virtual worlds and traditional filmmaking is the philosophical basis and mechanistic rationale for the Gaze Coin platform.