Brighton Imaging was co-founded by Dan Forbes, Kent Estep, and Jon Asher.

Kent Estep

Prior to co-founding Brighton Imaging, Kent was Sr. Product Engineer at The Software Machine in Utah.

By the mid 1990's, Kent's reputation as a leading 3D Studio animator opened doors at Sirrus Software where he soon headed the gaming company's 3D design group. After several exciting years with a talented team that produced several top-rated games including Mortal Kombat, Kent accepted an offer from one of Hollywood's top special effects firms and moved to the Los Angeles area. On one of his first projects, Kent created digital effects for most of the aircraft scenes in Airforce One, a bluckbuster film starring Harrison Ford.

As digital effects started to reach new peaks of achievement at the end of the decade, Kent joined a number of high profile post production teams. Several scenes in the movie The Matrix, involving slow-motion bullets became a highlight of his portfolio and pop culture icons among science fiction fans. Other notable digital effects created by Kent during the same timeframe appear in Godzilla and Thirteen Days.

In 2001, Kent accepted a short-term contract at Industrial Light and Magic during post production of Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones. He returned to LA in 2002 where he continues digital effects work on feature films such as The Day After Tomorrow and I Robot.

Kent holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Evansville in Indiana.

Jon Asher

Prior to Brighton, Jon held several positions at Borland International, including lead of the Advanced Application development team.

Returning to the West Coast, Jon joined Bank of America where he oversaw Information Technology and enterprise software development for the California Consumer Lending Division, soon becoming one of the youngest VP nominess in the bank's history. Following several years of strategic technology consulting at other Fortune 500 companies, he returned to Silicon Valley. In 1998 Jon played a leading technical role on the team that built and launched Netflix, where he developed some of the most recognizable features on the internet, including the Netflix Rental Queue.

Over the past 4 years, his clients have included Intel, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Universal Music Group. In the aftermatch of 9-11, Jon was asked to direct a joint venture project founded by Cisco Systems, Yahoo, and AOL Time Warner. The resulting website, NetworkForGood, raised over $20 mil in its first year and remains a leader in online fundraising. At Microsoft, he was responsible for introducing structured software development practices to the recently acquired WebTV division and led product teams that ported MSN Messenger and Hotmail to the interactive TV platform.

Jon Asher attended Grinnell College and received a BA with Honors in Russian from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He lives in San Francisco.