Oren Jacob is the Chief Technical Officer at Pixar and is currently leading the effort to build a new, state of the art animation system there. And Oren is also the Executive Producer of "Ready, Set, Bag!", a feature length documentary film about the National Grocery Bagging Competition currently in theatrical exhibition.

Previously, he was the Supervising Technical Director of the Academy Award winning "Finding Nemo," the Associate Technical Director of "Toy Story 2." and the Executive Producer of the documentary "Runners High." Prior to that, Oren worked on "A Bugs Life," "Toy Story," and numerous television commercials including Listerine "Arrows" which won a Gold Clio in 1994. Oren also helped found Pixar University, the studio's internal training and education division, and he taught Animated Short Film at the Academy of Art College for 7 years. Oren holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

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