ABOUT

Beginning his career in interior and graphic design, Joe quickly left to join the entertainment world, studying drama and vocal training. A creative writer, composer, designer, director and producer, he has developed his career both offstage and onstage.

His onstage background as a performer was instrumental in teaching him ways and means to elicit emotions from and connect with an audience, which have been essential tools in the design of attractions and shows in theme park environments. His acting career includes leading roles in prominent productions like Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Candide, The Three Pennies Opera, and Man of la Mancha. He has recorded several musical albums and gigging touring though Europe, North and South America. Offstage background includes authoring and direction of two musicals: Jake & Elwood and Pinotxo and many other shows.

While CEO of Jolibud BCN, he created and developed a large number of event shows and below the line campaigns for the Omnicom Group and for a wide range of brands.

As for the parks field, he has design, production and directing credits for attractions and shows in La Atlantida, Port Aventura, and Warner Movie Park in Spain.  He originated Micropolix, an award-winning immersive learning by playing 118,000 sq ft kids park concept, spending eight years as General Creative Director there, developing all manner of immersive attractions and other projects for the concept expansion around the world.

Now at Immersive Planet he is proud to bring an innovative view in design for projects around the world, leading the most creative, skilled, crazy and passionate team he has ever has the chance to work with.

Originally from the US, Kenton has a background in sales and marketing, working as an account manager and Head of Marketing in various industries. Combining his business qualifications with team leadership experience, he brings a thorough mix of professional assets to his projects.

Kenton finally found his true calling in the entertainment industry working at Immersive Planet, where he gets to apply his skills to what he considers to be the “most fun job in the world”. You can always spot him throughout the day running meetings with clients and negotiating with vendors followed immediately by playing games with his colleagues. He really is a big kid at heart that truly belongs with the innovative and fun team at Immersive Planet.

Born as a mixture of cultures, she considers herself a citizen of the world and loves the different cultures and uniqueness of every place, which is one of the things that made her enter the communication and corporate and personal branding field. Never one to settle, Ayla decided to study the only triple degree Spain offered.

In five years, she conquered a degree in Journalism, one in Advertising Communications and one in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communications.

She has worked as a community manager in companies such as the International Classical Theater Festival of Almagro and in production in companies such JOLIBUD BCN, SL. Not tired of learning new things, she spent two years managing the marketing department of LR Health & Beauty Systems, and a couple more as an account executive in an advertising agency, La Fábrica de Sombreros, for which she managed accounts such as Chupa Chups, Mentos, Smint, Esade, Barcelona City Council, etc.

Powers: She can sell ice to an eskimo. Plus, her knowledge (obsession) in weird and different things (Moto GP racing, songs, New England Patriots, sharks, Make Up, etc) can come in handy as a background in branding and communication models or just as random facts.

Weaknesses: Ayla gets nervous when people keep spelling her name wrong. Plus, she is always humming a new song.

August firmly believes the entertainment industry has to be reoriented.

He has spent 90% of his professional career offering high level services to final users and from the very beginning August believed that the long success of business is not by selling at the best price or explaining how things are done. Using these methods, it is easy to be overcome, and earlier than you think. The clue of success is to spread an idea, spread like a virus (an idea is the most fantastic virus created by a human being), and this idea is: if you cross our doors, you will be immersed in a fantastic world. Crossing our turnstiles you will reach the Walhalla. That’s not an entrance. It is The Entrance, the Key to your paradise.

August is in this industry to have fun with his partners, his guests… all friends. Let’s go, all together through the looking glass!

His onstage background as a performer was instrumental in teaching him ways and means to elicit emotions from and connect with an audience, which have been essential tools in the design of attractions and shows in theme park environments. His acting career includes leading roles in prominent productions like Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, Candide, The Three Pennies Opera, and Man of la Mancha. He has recorded several musical albums and gigging touring though Europe, North and South America. Offstage background includes authoring and direction of two musicals: Jake & Elwood and Pinotxo and many other shows.

While CEO of Jolibud BCN, he created and developed a large number of event shows and below the line campaigns for the Omnicom Group and for a wide range of brands.

As for the parks field, he has design, production and directing credits for attractions and shows in La Atlantida, Port Aventura, and Warner Movie Park in Spain. He originated Micropolix, an award-winning immersive learning by playing 118,000 sq ft kids park concept, spending eight years as General Creative Director there, developing all manner of immersive attractions and other projects for the concept expansion around the world.

Violeta has always had a knack for managing and controlling everything around her. It’s kind of scary, really. Like a superpower. Everyone that knows her knows that she is the person to reach for if there is any problem to be solved, and that’s why we knew we needed her.

She has worked in administration in the “Centre Dramatic de la Generalitat” and since then has been CFO at Nusky SCP and for more than 16 years at her own event company, JOLIBUD BCN, SL.

Since joining Immersive’s team, she has graced us with a thousand organized folders that keep everything in track and easy to find, with her obsession with candles and with the resolution of a machine to tackle every task.

Juan Pablo graduated in Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB-UPC) in 1994, specializing on building and town planning.

He couldn’t wait to obtain his degree to start working on architecture so he combined the studies with an intensive professional dedication on prestigious architecture and town planning offices in Barcelona and Paris, coinciding with the Olympic transformation of the city. Juan Pablo also created his own office in 1986 with some university colleagues, winning their first competition before their official graduation, fact that definitely matched the end of the studies.

All along that time, he had the opportunity to draw on watercolor some of the largest projects of Barcelona, working for the municipality and other private town planning companies.

On 1996 he became partner of “Vega, Verdaguer i Villafañe, arquitectes, SLP” working hard an passionately on public and private building projects, some of them remarkable like Fundació Blanquerna’s library, the faculty of Health Sciences of Ramón LLull University, Sabadells Sud Library and other important buildings in Catalonia.

His first experience on theme parks was the creation of Micrópolix, in San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, leading the design team and becoming the technical director of the whole project, from 2005 to 2009. Working on that project, which at the beginning was no more than a basic idea and a strong desire, he met Joe (Immersive Planet’s CEO) with whom he shares that special child’s curiosity, passion and respect that has kept them working together up until now.

Other professional activities: asset management teacher at catalan architecture association, technical director of the Fundació Blanquerna architecture department (from 1999 to 2015) and consultant for real estate investments in Barcelona.

But the most important knowledge achieved by JP after living in 4 countries and working in 10 more is his sense of universality, openness and multicultural attitude.

He considers himself a “Jack of all trades, Master of none”, but he certainly is our Swiss Army Knife, an Artist full of tricks and tactics for every scenario. You don’t want to go to war or a Project delivery without him.

He is proficient in Anime Studio, Adobe Photoshop, CTP, Flash, Toon Boom, Corel Painter, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Pagemaker, Quark Xpress, Freehand, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premier, Stop Motion Pro, Entorno Office, and a little bit of 3D modelling, just because he thought that one more wouldn’t hurt.

Throughout his career, he has worked as layout designer, colorist, animator, colorist and art director for various comics and editorial publications.

Paolo is an International Media Executive with extended experience in the Entertainment, Events and Music industries. He has been in charge of MTV Spain’s productions for more than a decade running TV Studios and executive producing tv unscripted series that catapulted it’s protagonists to fame (Alaska y Mario, MTV Tuning, Gandia Shore, Buried Life). He organized and produced some of the largest and most impressive live and internationally televised concerts all over Spain, Italy and Greece with attendance of up to 90.000 people at a time, working with artists like Shakira, The Cure, Kyle Minogue, Franz Ferdinand, Enrique Iglesias to name but a few.
He loves to create content and entertainment brands and has been in charge of production companies, digital agencies and TV Channels in Spain for the Banijay Group, the world`s largest content creation group for television and multimedia platforms.
He is a technology and digitally savvy, multilanguage speaker business developer and a wildly passionate foody. Don`t get him started talking about food or any dishes or ingredient or he might begin declaiming their virtues, origin and possible best way to prepare them for hours at a time.
He joins us as our International Business Director and he is our man in Saudi Arabia.

Founder partner of Amusement Worlds Moscow and Theme Builders Russia Inc. He started supplying attractions for amusement parks, then widened his market in the theming manufacturing area. He decided representing Immersive Planet in 2013 for Russia and the CEI, becoming Immersive Planet’s partner in 2015.

Inal is passionate about theme parks and a tireless researcher for excellence in the product he offers. Today he is possibly the most knowledgeable person in the theme parks field in Russia and the CEI countries. According to his  philosophy it is not worth giving priority to sells in detriment quality and relevance.  More than once he has said no to a client when what the client request do not match his real needs.

Born in Syria, he studied at Moscow and received his international law doctorate in the year of 1996, Mazen worked at different companies in Russia such as Praktika, Aftotehknika ,NMK Holding , although his major is different from what we do, that didn’t stop Mazen from moving to Dubai and starting his own theme parks building and engineering business in the year of 2005, his company Theme Builders General Trading Dubai has developed remarkably and won several tenders in UAE and the Middle East.

In 2014 he joined Immersive Planet’s team as Middle East Area Director. Having an international law expert partner with us is a magnificent thing and we are proud of it.

Hamza Tansu Çildir, “Tansu” to friends (and let’s be honest, we’re all friends here) studied Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bikent University, graduating in 2012. Studying wasn’t enough for Tansu, so he spent all of his university years working at the same time in furniture industries, project offices and construction companies both in domestic market (Turkey) and international companies.

Since finishing his studies he has worked non-stop in international projects varying from high rises in Doha, Qatar to Moscow, Russia. Tansu had an important role in the designing team as technical project manager in the Wonderland Eurasia theme park in Ankara, Turkey (where he met Joe). Since then he has joined Immersive Planet team as Project Manager and technical big boss in all the MENA area.

International management executive and business entrepreneur, with extensive experience managing technology and real estate operations in the United States, Latin America, and Europe.

His career began at MCI Telecommunications where he oversaw top brand accounts including GM, EDS, and Chrysler. Later he transitioned to MCI International and Avantel in Mexico. During his tenure at MCI, which culminated in his role as VP of Sales and Global Accounts, Mr. Garrigo deftly directed branding for company customers, while managing a top marketing and sales group tasked with delivering results to the firm’s most strategic accounts.

A marketer by nature, Mr. Garrigo was recruited by Marcatel International to create a portfolio of new products to turn around a failing enterprise.  After a successful financial turnaround of Marcatel, Mr. Garrigo was recruited again, this time to become President of Telscape International’s Latin American operations.

He also served as President of Telereunion, one of seven regulated telecommunications companies in Mexico, from 2000-2004, managing a politically charged environment during a shareholder crisis precipitated by the company’s main shareholder bankruptcy. He successfully concluded the turnaround with the sale of the company to a larger competitor.

Since then, Jose Juan has been engaged in several business ventures, including a Real Estate development firm in Mexico, an international wholesale telecommunications enterprise, and start-up company endeavors such as Search Partners International, LLC in Michigan where he served as Chief Marketing Officer.

In his role at Immersive Planet, Jose Juan returns to the world of entertainment and Imagineering once again as he was part of the early development of Micropolix that his elder brother Joe L. Garrigo created. He is now responsible for North and South America areas and head of Immersive Planet’s own IP projects and investment management. He is as well head of Immersive Planet’s park operations systems developing branch, ParkOps.

Since 1980 when Ralf moved from Germany to Ibiza, where he attained his first audio-visual experience as a light jokey, he has been immersed in the event industry.
The experience as light jokey convinced him to exploit and enjoy the challenges of the event industry and to develop and apply his creative and technological abilities in it.

His first design experience he attained during the time he lived in London designing lighting concepts for clubs across England and using them to develop even further his show programming skills.

In the 90th Ralf worked with Laser Media, the world leading laser show and design company from Los Angeles where he collaborated in the laser design for mayor events including Mikel Jackson world tour, world expo Sevilla and applied his creativity to design audio-visual fountain show installation worldwide. For 4 years he was the producer and show designer for the largest fountain show auditorium in Europe, the Auditorium of the Juan Carlos Parque in Madrid.

During the last 2 decades Ralf developed his aptitudes further collaborating with mayor fountain companies worldwide and delivering concepts including state of the art interactive technology for fountains in the World Expo Zaragoza 2008 and as technical director for the exposition of renown artiest in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Today Ralf is our collaborator specialized in innovative fountain concept designs, including state of the art technologies, to deliver most amazing Immersive Fountain Planet experiences.

Chus started studying architecture at the “Escola Tècnica i Superior d’Arquitectura La Salle” in Barcelona in 2000 and from the beginning he made it compatible by collaborating with different architecture studios.

His professional experience focused on writing the necessary documentation and supervision on site of several projects and participation in different competitions, obtaining various awards and mentions.

Chus considers himself a creative, perfectionist, observant and receptive person. Other interests of his are the practice of photography, music and painting.

Architect, designer, teacher, archvisualizer, 3D artist, 4D tripper, guitar player, climber, actor, director, good cook, nice son, better grandson, great almond locks, keen writer and extremely lethal. That’s who Jorge is.

Today, still wanted by the government he survives as soldier of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help and if you can find him: maybe you can hire The A-Team… meaning, you know, George.

We’ve imported from Brazil the color, the good taste and the vibes of the sun and the music. She can turn your funeral into a rainbow party just combining the right flower with your shoes.
Gabriela is an experienced architect, interiorist and landscaper that can make anything shine bright.
She is also a muay-thai boxer, just in case…

Leina graduated in Brazil with an architecture and urbanism degree. She has a large experience as an interior architect project manager, which comes in handy, because these multi-tasking skills can increase and mix very well with the the large scale projects that are the focus of Immersive Planet.

Open to innovate ideas, concepts and new technologies, Leina’s personal dream is to mix architecture with others cultures. That is the reason why she decided to live and work in a international city, with the purpose to have and gain different views of projects and life, and also, to become part of the Immersive Planet team.

Leina loves to dance, and she defends that with dancing, her days become more creative and flexible.

He says he was born in Asturias but everyone knows he really was born in the Pandemonium.

Illustrator and concept artist, Adrian got his Degree in Design and Development of Videogames.

Don’t throw off his groove!
Bewaaare, the grooove.

Roses are red,

violets are blue,

Started working as an environment and character artist

in a place that resembled a jail,

and ended somewhere else like an asylum

doing the same.

Poems are hard.

Alex has spent most of his 26 years in the Basque country, entertaining scribbling in blank notebooks and leaving his eyes red between digital screens, comics and video games, looking for a unique and personal style, or so he says.

He trained at the UPV and then moved to Barcelona to continue his training at the Joso school. He says he is able to draw and sometimes you can see that he puts his hand into things like storyboard, matte painting, animatics, concept art and comic.

Alex has worked with and for publishers, producers, agencies and studios doing a good performance, he is an organized person who can work cohesively on several projects simultaneously considering deadlines and adjusting to the briefing delivered. You will also see him with a coffee in hand (does not matter what time), be aware that if you take it off it is very likely that the boy will stop working.

If you need references you can call his grandmother, she will always tell you that he is a good boy.

Born in Cuba, Santi lived in the United States with his family and started living through music from a very young age, discovering a career based in it. He studied composition in the Manhattan School of Music and continued his studies and involvement in several musical projects.

A couple years after finishing his studies, he found himself in Barcelona and decided to stay, and to build his career in Spain. During his expansive career he has worked as composer and music producer and musical director in musical theater productions as Cabaret, La Maja de Goya, Pinotxo, Jake & Elwood, Cats, The Producers, High School Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Man of la Mancha, etc.

Together with his associate Joe L. Garrigó, he is founder member JOLIBUD BCN, an events and shows production company that achieved several national and international recognitions.

He is now working for Immersive Planet creating all sort of original soundtracks and audio effects sountracks for parks, shows and attractions.

Graduate of TV and Film Direction and Advertising and Corporate Communications, Joan is a highly creative person in diverse media. Founder and CEO of Rosebud Films and Boxcom Agency, he has directed and produced many advertisements, music videos, TV and big event productions, and a variety of other alternative multimedia compositions.

He is especially proud of the complex audiovisual production that he developed for Rafa Nadal and Pau Gasol that utilized chroma with high speed cameras, which can be viewed on their respective websites.

He has designed web and virtual games and oversaw writing for TV spots and marketing campaigns for brands such as BMW, Seat, Nike, Caprabo, Regal, Sara Baras, Warner Music, Divucsa, Tempo, Borges, Munich, and Sikendiet. He also produced the Ford 360º image production display for the Paris Automobil Exhibit.

Joan collaborated in the creation of the AV design for Micropolix Theme Park, including an entire TV Studio. He has also participated in the developement of the AV and several virtual contents for the park and most of the video production found there. He is a unique blend of creativity, advertising and brand knowledge, and extensive AV technical expertise.

As AV Director of Immersive Planet Technology, Joan is a very important part of our Imagineering team.

He has a degree in Industrial Engineering from which he specialized in Electronics. He started his career in 1981 as a Service Manager in JVC Spain, receiving special training in the Special Equipment Division in Japan, Germany, the UK and the U.S.

After ending his JVC stage, Jordi Palou founded Master Industries, S.L. in 1988, an Audio/Video and custom electronics Engineering studio and Consulting office for special, tailored made technology project developments.

For almost 30 years he has been originating special technologies projects in the technology area, designing and developing technology based exhibits for Museums, Theme Park attractions, all sort of Events and Shows, Retail, all kind of applications and unusual inventions.

He joined Immersive Planet’s Imagineering team on February 2015 and since then has been head of Immersive Technologies, developing special original attractions and exhibits for the company projects through the Immersive Tech branch.

As imagineer in Immersive Planet’s Special Technologies branch, Jordi Casanovas graduated in Technical Engineering in Telecommunications, from which he specialized in Image and Sound.

He started his career in the audio & video area and developed his skills designing and developing electronic exhibits for museums and leisure centers.  After several years in this field, he started a new stage joining a new division dedicated to develop a new software platform for the Digital Signage market. During this stage, he improved his skills in CRM’s, ERP’s and project management.

Now he is facing the challenge of creating all sort of designs and prototypes, programming installations and control systems for theme parks, FECs, museums and all sort of strange items for the entertainment and edutainment field as part of Immersive Planet Special Technology Branch.