Ben Kusin puts the game in F / A M E. A ten-plus year veteran of the gaming industry, Kusin brand managed over $1 billion of global video game launches for Electronic Arts and Vivendi Games (currently Activision/Blizzard), covering franchises such as The Sims, Medal of Honor and Scarface, and titles such as F.E.A.R. and The Bourne Conspiracy.

Kusin most recently served as Global Director of New Media and Strategic Alliances for Vivendi Games, where he launched groundbreaking initiatives with Yahoo!, MySpace, Universal Music Group, and Break Media. Kusin's ability to assess the value of licenses was instrumental in Vivendi's acquisition of the Ghostbusters video game license from Sony Pictures.

Known for generating maximum publicity and consumer buzz across entertainment and game development properties, Kusin oversees F / A M E 's marketing initiatives and strategic partnerships and alliances. Having built strong relationships with media and distribution outlets such as GameSpot, IGN, Game Trailers, Viacom, NBC Universal and some of the world's leading consumer brands, he designs and oversees both traditional advertising campaigns and uniquely inventive viral efforts to maximize awareness and demographic specific audience penetration. While managing F A M E Originals' own creative content, he also serves as a strategic marketing advisor for F A M E 's client based brand managers who seek expertise on maximizing the efficacy of their brands' programs.

Kusin earned a BBA in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Brian Adler is Chief Creative Officer of F / A M E. He has been an award winning writer, producer, director, and visual effects supervisor for over fifteen years. On the feature film front, he served as visual effects supervisor on the critically acclaimed 2009 Sundance Film Festival standout, Black Dynamite, acquired by Sony Pictures. Prior to that, he supervised the Rob Minkoff (The Lion King) directed kung fu action adventure, The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Working alongside Academy Award® winning cinematographer, Peter Pau (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), and master action choreographer Yuen Woo Ping (Crouching Tiger, The Matrix) Adler led efforts in pre-visualization and on-set supervision, digital set extensions, CG animated weaponry and digital stunt double character animation. Before joining Kingdom, Adler was Executive Producer/Creative Director at leading creative studios STEELE and JACK. As head of production at each, Adler produced all film, television, commercials, print and music video projects while serving as the key liaison with outside producers, directors, networks, studios, agencies and record labels and managing the companies' personnel, publicity, business affairs and strategic planning.

In addition to his feature film work, Adler has overseen commercial and print campaigns for some of the world's leading brands such as Nokia, Bridgestone, Cingular, Cadillac, Hewlett Packard and Burger King and music videos for Will Smith, Mary J. Blige, Ludacris, and Madonna. In 2005, he was nominated for "Outstanding Visual Effects in a Music Video" by the Visual Effects Society for his work on Duran Duran's What Happens Tomorrow. In 2006, he oversaw visual effects on "Future Lovers," Madonna's Confessions Tour show opener, a colossal multi-screen video directed by acclaimed fashion photographer Steven Klein, shot by Oscar® winning DP Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List), with wardrobe by Jean Paul Gaultier. Adler directed the CGI animated commercial, "Mom," for Wal-Mart, via Bernstein Rein Advertising.

A graduate of the University of Michigan's Cinema & Television program, where his short film, Maxey Boys, was awarded best student film, Adler began his career working for New Line Cinema's national promotions department in New York and George Lucas' visual effects giant, Industrial Light + Magic, in Marin County, CA. At ILM, he worked on movies such as Casper, The Mask, Star Trek: Generations and Forrest Gump, in addition to commercials for Nike, Energizer, and Lincoln-Mercury.

In 1995, Adler was selected to Turner Broadcasting's T-2000 program, a unique management training program under the Turner Entertainment Group umbrella. Sponsored by TEG's then president, Scott Sassa (later president of NBC), Adler worked in every major business division, honing his management skills while working directly with senior executives. He wrote strategic business plans and designed promotions to leverage Turner assets and form alliances internally among Turner business divisions (TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Turner Sports, Turner Publishing…) and with outside agencies.

Returning to his production roots, Adler became the youngest director and visual effects supervisor ever hired by Turner Studios, where he authored the business plan for its Film Effects division and advised on the planning and design of a multi-million dollar studio and post production facility. He served as a guest lecturer at Georgia State's Digital Arts Department, where he taught film production, advanced cinematography and digital post-production to graduate students. After winning several international awards (Telly, BDA, Monitor, Promax), Adler was invited to serve on the board of judges for the Broadcast Design Association (BDA) and the Visual Effects Society. Recognized for the breadth of his creative and business acumen, Adler is known for his rare combination of business and creative expertise. He studied acting at the Alliance Theater and directed sketch comedy at the Court Theater. Family Business, a screenplay he co-wrote with Richard Kohn, won the Illinois State Screenwriting Competition's grand prize and the New Century Writer award, among others. Adler is a resident of Los Angeles, CA.