Pasha Roberts:
President, Producer/Director

Pasha founded Lineplot in 2003 to bring together his long-standing interests in finance, graphical design, software and mathematics. His thesis work at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering explored and prototyped 3D graphical representations of "tick" data for future trading interfaces. In addition to his MIT degree, his background includes twenty years of software development and successful entrepreneurship experience.

Pasha co-founded his prior venture, WebLine Communications Corporation, to create enterprise software which integrated a corporate web presence with call center operations. He served as President/CEO, Vice President of Product Marketing, and then as Software Architect as the company grew and ultimately was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999.

Pasha holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Russian Studies from The College of William and Mary, and a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was introduced to computers and the internet at its inception by his father, Larry Roberts, one of the original architects and creators of ARPANET.

Raedia Sikkema Albinson:
Animation Director

Raedia is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, department of Undergraduate Film and Television, where she studied traditional hand-drawn animation, 2D and 3D computer graphics, and art history.

She spent several years as an animator for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Science Media Group, creating 3D animations of everything from cell biology to the solar system.

Raedia's professional experience also includes graphics for independent film, and television series for WGBH and History Channel.

Ben Pugh:
Associate Producer/Editor

Ben has written, produced, directed, and edited a number of award-winning short films, including one of MTV's 2006 Top 25 student films. He also edited a series of public service announcements for an international ad campaign competition sponsored by the United Nations, in which his team took second place worldwide.

His work has appeared at a number of festivals, including Northampton Independent Film Festival, Plymouth Independent Film Festival, and Emerson College L.A. Film and Video Festival.

Ben holds a master's degree in Visual Media Arts from Emerson College.