For the past 20 years, Akintayo has built a dynamic career playing at the intersection of creativity, technology and design.  With a bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, a masters in Information Systems from New Jersey’s Institute of Technology and both a penchant and passion for expressing himself through the creative arts, Akintayo has made a way for himself to help individuals and organizations solve their technical and creative problems.  He believes that all good designs start with story.  All technical and creative decisions must support that story.  The result will be the best possible version of that story ever told as supported by the infrastructure of a sound design.

Akintayo’s career work as an audio-visual design engineer in the corporate sector has helped to inform his creative work musically, photographically and through film.  For the past 14 years, he has served as the music director and portrait photographer for ADCOLOR, an organization that focuses on diversity, equity and inclusion within the advertising, marketing and media industry.  His photographic subjects have spanned from the music industry, to Hollywood, to corporate and includes the likes of Snoop Dogg, Eva Longoria, Becky G, Jesse Williams, Wilson Cruz, Laz Alonso and Aisha Tyler.  He has been published in Elle, Vogue, Upscale and Essence magazines.  All of his work can be seen at http://www.adewole.com/.

Akintayo is forever a student, always pushing both technological and creative boundaries.  His latest entreprenurial venture, Darker Pixels, is based around telling high production value stories cost effectively by using a virtual production (VP) workflow. VP tools include immersive and experiential technologies such as real-time 3D rendering and virtual/augmented/mixed realities.  You can follow his chronicle into this space on his vlog, http://becomingdope.com and at http://darkerpixels.com.

Akintayo is the proud father of three amazing teenage children and husband to a patient, kind and loving wife of 20+ years, who has been supportive of him and all of his creative quests.