Will Evans

I'm going to write this one as if Will Evans isn't me, just someone I know.

Will Evans weighs more than 80.3 kg in the morning. He's American with a thick mane of dark brown wind swept hair (except when its held in place by various salon products). He was born in Alaska which used to have a reputation for acute dullness, punctuated by extreme cold. It's now a whole lot more vibrant with 3 instead of 2 bars per capita. He nearly became an investment banker when he left school (Occidental College). For three reasons, he didn't.

* He found excitement in computers, art, and ideas;
* Investment Banking is just a fancy name for accounting;
* He hates accounting.

He left Los Angeles after school and ended up in Boston working for an investment bank where he moonlighted in the evenings designing collaboration and workflow databases. A fully qualified user interface geek with a neurotic tendency towards spending long hours with Photoshop, cameras, and punk rock and ALOT of coffee; he soon discovered the internet.

With that lesson learned, he left investment banking to start Solstice Media, an interactive agency in Tokyo. The experience was amazing - especially since his clients included Toyota Motor Corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and Sony.
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His favorite wine would be a bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage. Ideally a 1976, but let's not get too picky. The Grange Hermitage is red of course. His favorite other colour is black. He doesn't know why.
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OK, OK. For a creative that's a bit of a cliche. To say he is passionate about ideas is to say that Warren Buffett has a mild, fleeting interest in money. His first love may be for creative ideas but this preoccupation extends to ideas from and for every area of human and non-human activity that involves complex information systems. In other words, all-inclusive. Ideas are what make life worth living for him. It's probably why he's always in a classroom, or has his face in a book.
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He currently is the information architect designing risk modeling and visualization software. ---
He has held interactive architecture, strategy and management positions at various technology companies; including Information Architect at Gather.com, Interaction Designer for Kayak.com; Information Architect at Lotus and Programs Manager for Curl - a darpa-funded MIT LCS project allowing him to meet and work along side such notables as Tim Berners-Lee and Mike Dertouzos at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.