THE
TEAM
Creative Technology and Live Entertainment require teamwork. 
 A successful team contains a spirit of cooperation and each new project requires a new set of skills.
We regularly augment our team with new team members that have the skill sets necessary for each project.
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We choose team members that we know will be committed and bring a level of excellence to each particular project, and whom we know will work well together.
From the beginning, our intention in forming BOX OF WISHES was to be independent, to bring excellence and expertise to projects, and to create a company that takes a design-centered approach to project management, business development, production management, manufacturer representation, and to assist with product development in order to adapt existing technologies used in other industries to the live entertainment industry.
We exist across business categories to facilitate uncommon or difficult projects that don’t fit neatly in a single business category.
BOX OF WISHES is a firm created to collaborate with artists, architects, designers, developers, and fabricators to bring uncommon creativity to reality and expert resources to creativity. That is where we are already headed. We want you to come with us. Let's collaborate on a project?
TEAMWORK + COLLABORATION
OUR
TEAM
Box of Wishes' core team includes Gen X, Gen Y (Millenials), & Gen Z.
It contains a myriad of professionals with decades of experience in Live Entertainment. Among them:
- New Media Designer,
- Architects,
- Lighting Specialists,
- Automation Specialists,
- System Design specialists,
- Firmware Specialist,
- Civil engineer,
- Tent Specialist,
Laser Specialist, and
- Project Managers.
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ABOUT OUR TEAM
LIS RONCATO
Lis Roncato is a dynamic and forward-thinking professional. She thrives in combining strategic planning expertise with a hands-on management. Regularly takes responsibility for driving growth optimizing processes, and improving productivity. She is happy wearing many hats but is a key player producing, consulting, and providing production support on various projects involving live entertainment, multimedia, business development, marketing, & sales.
She brings vast experience from different industries, which includes the film industry, live show production, event production, the fintech world, the translation world, and the humanitarian world. Having degrees and working experience in Multimedia Design, Engineering, Business Administration, and Project Management… An entrepreneur at heart, she has 25 years of profiting and learning from her failures and successes and is proud of the lessons that came along the way.
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To Box of Wishes, she brings her on-the-ground international experience building projects in: Europe (5+ years), Oceania (1 year), Asia (1 year), Africa (1 1/2 years), North America (10+ years), and as a native of Latin America (10+ years). She is fluent and has worked in various languages with working proficiency in English, French & Spanish, and is a native speaker of Portuguese.
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PETER THOMPSON
Peter Thompson is an experienced project director and designer with 2 decades of experience in lighting, video, and special effects. With Box of Wishes, he takes on any number of roles from moving light programmer to project manager to designer. His background in philosophy guides his aesthetic and pragmatic ideas offering creative solutions in the fields of technical direction, project management, consulting, system, lighting, video, and special effects design.
His in-depth knowledge of construction, live event, and production includes familiarity with the latest code requirements, safety standards, and the latest in entertainment technology. At home with engineers, electricians, artists, acrobats, designers, directors, technicians, and software developers, he is content to collaborate at any and every level.
His proven experience working on multiple scales: whether a bar with an automated chandelier or massive multimillion dollar construction project his skills will scale with your needs.
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JEM HODGSON
Jem Hodgson has been professionally involved in the entertainment industry since 1986 with most of his career working for Flying by Foy (11 years) and Cirque du Soleil (20 years). He has had the opportunity of being involved with some of the newest and largest technology in the industry, such as the 150-tonne vertical gantry crane from KA and winches reaching 7.6 m/sec and 15 stage lifts at the Beatles LOVE and has been deeply involved with every resident Cirque du Soleil production since 2003.
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Jem brings a unique mixture of project management, theoretical and practical knowledge, and a deep understanding of the logistics and problems that beset many bespoke automated effects. Professional experiences have involved working alongside, theatre, ballet, opera, concert touring, film, TV, and even kabuki companies to benefit his wide range of knowledge. In addition to production experience, Jem is well versed in large-scale construction and theatre infrastructure, having spent over 15 years working with design teams, architects, and general contractors and overseeing vendors around the world. Jem has played a key part in delivering some of the entertainment industry’s largest shows and most complex theatres.
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Jem is self-taught when it comes to the realm of stage automation and engineering but has found that hands-on experience has kept him keen and feels that the automation discipline still has many exciting things to offer.
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Jem is also part of the ESTA Technical Standards Program and is keenly interested in promoting safety within the entertainment, events, and experience industries without limiting creativity.
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BOB LEVAC
Bob Levac is a technical systems designer with over 40 years of experience in the entertainment and sports industries. Skilled in design, management, installation, fabrication, service, and touring, Bob frequently pushes the boundaries of existing technology, bringing new and innovative ideas to life. His work with high-profile clients such as Cirque du Soleil, the NHL, the NBA, and Coca-Cola have made him well-known in the field as an original thinker with exceptional technological skills.
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He specializes in immersive system designs, including lighting and projection-based environments, which leverage motion capture technologies, creating real-time generative audio, lighting, and visual effects. His critical show systems are stable and reliable, free of interruptions in performance. He incorporates proven and reliable system components in all his designs, with tracking failover systems to seamlessly bypass any unforeseen failures.
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Additionally, Bob has vast experience producing and managing Construction and Bid Documents such as functional programs, performance criteria, design drawings, specifications documents, bills of materials, instructions to bidders, bid forms, commissioning reports, and bid analyses. His Bid Documents are detailed, clear, and created to be easily understood by proponents, clients, and end users. This results in accurate bids with equity between proponents, and fewer scope gaps and change orders.
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With an extensive knowledge of the full range of entertainment technologies, Bob has the unique ability to visualize multiple systems as a working whole. It is his outstanding ability to identify potential points of failure, streamline inefficient communications protocols, efficiently integrate multiple systems, and extend features of the “whole system” design, that gives producers and artistic directors a rock-solid and highly functional technical platform to complement their creative visions.
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PAUL MARQUES
Paul Marques is an experienced lighting specialist and software programmer with 2 decades of experience in lighting, projection, and special effects. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Temple University in Media Studies and an Associate Degree in Information Technology.
His experience running the lighting departments for multiple large scale shows: Ringling Bros. Red Show, Cirque du Soleil’s Zumanity, & The Beatles’ Love by Cirque du Soleil, has developed numerous practical and personal skills. A proven problem solver and innovator, he continues to sharpen his skills and to develop his abilities in different areas. This has led Paul into a keen interest in Software Programming. He speaks multiple languages.
With Box of Wishes, he takes on any number of roles, from programmer to project manager, technician to crew chief, whether it is an emergency re-solder of an LED to running a crew of 40+ from arranging lines of pixel tapes to rewriting lines of code, Paul is our go-to, get-it-done guy.
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GABRIELA RONCATO-HORTA
Gabriela Roncato is an architect and urban planner, passionate about innovating in the world of contemporary design. Born in Brazil, she delved deeper into her craft with her master's degree in Interior Design Architecture in Florence, Italy, where she strongly reconnected with her roots and the deep culture of her ancestors. This experience has consolidated her style by using the combination of “re-signifying memories” with “affective design”. Her work is ever-evolving and maturing, with respect and knowledge of the past in order to create timeless designs for the future.
Gabriela brings vision, leadership, as well as a keen eye for quick necessary design solutions for averting problems. She excels in developing processes to deliver projects on time and within budget. She is fantastic at building teams. Her continued enthusiasm made our offer to build a long-lasting partnership and she now leads the architect team with the freedom to ebb and flow along with each project's requirements. She is an integral member of Box of Wishes and is essential to all Box of Wishes endeavors.
She is a specialist in CAD, Sketchup, AutoDesk 3ds Max, Rhino, Vectorworks, and ArchiCad and she speaks multiple languages: English, Italian and Portuguese.
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MARIANA RAFAGNIN
Mariana Rafagnin is an architect and urban planner, with a passion for live music and everything that involves the universe of live entertainment innovation as well as contemporary design.
Mariana started working with Box of Wishes as a freelancer while still in Architectural school. As she grows into an excellent professional her skills are exponentially evolving. She brings a creative and technical design mind, as well as a parametric vision for project development, and her knowledge in 3D building studies and realistic images helps configure ideas and finalize proposals for customers. Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver work on time and within budget. She has helped us create bid-winning designs at 20%-40% less cost than competitors.
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She is a specialist in Sketchup, CAD, and AutoDesk 3ds Max, and she is bilingual in English and Portuguese.
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LORENZO DA SILVEIRA
Lorenzo da Silveira is a digital 3D artist draftsman and a Junior Civil Engineer and passionate about new technology and different rendering styles.
Lorenzo started working with Box of Wishes as a freelancer during the pandemic, while starting civil engineering school and is always evolving and deepening his drafting skills. Constantly seeking to innovate, he makes use of multiple software tools to develop renderings in order to express creative ideas conceptualized by Box of Wishes Design team. He is a team player and autodidact. Given the unique nature of Box of Wishes' designs, the usual software tools aren't always capable of expressing all aspects of our designs. When this is the case, he researches and develops new tools to assist Box of Wishes' team to create bid-winning designs. He also presents his early 20's ideas, visions, and desires to our team, helping to keep us aware of Gen Y's and Gen Z's aesthetic perspectives.
Lorenzo is Proficient in English, and Spanish, and is a native speaker of the Portuguese language.
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