Ed Catmull

Ed Catmull is an American computer scientist who co-founded Pixar and served as its president for more than three decades, also running Walt Disney Animation Studios for 13 of those years before retiring in 2019. Before Pixar he led the computer division at Lucasfilm, and his early work in 3D graphics earned him a share of the 2019 ACM Turing Award. Creativity, Inc. draws on his years managing creative teams at both studios.