About Tim Disney

Tim Disney

is an artist and entrepreneur from Los Angeles. He has produced, written, or directed multiple award-winning feature films and documentaries, which have appeared at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and other festivals. He served as Chairman and CEO of Virtual World Entertainment, an early pioneer of VR-based entertainment systems, which was sold to Microsoft. Tim is an active investor in media and technology, and serves on multiple corporate boards, including Marginal Mediaworks, and Dragonfly Therapeutics. In the not-for-profit sector he is the founder of The Adamma Foundation, co-founder of World Connect, which makes micro grants to business start-ups and public health projects in thirty countries in the developing world. He served for 12 years as a Trustee of Southern California Institute of Architecture, and 29 years as a Trustee of CalArts, eight of them as Chairman of the Board. From 2021-2025, he served as Trustee and Board President of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), and currently serves as a member of the Global Leadership Council of The World Resources Institute, and Director and Curator of the community art space @2413hyperion.