Meet the Team
Glenn Dickins - Founder
30 years Spatial Sound
Part of 8 startups, 3 ++Exits
Prolific IP Creator
Ex Dolby – Lead of Research
Glenn has led spatial audio and media processing since being part of Lake DSP from 1996. He has inventive contributions to Dolby Headphone, Atmos, and Vision and was the driving instigator for Dolby Voice and the initiative that became FlexConnect.
Glenn was also part of the founding team of seeingmachines and Platform Architect at Audinate (Dante).
Glenn holds six degrees across engineering, physics, computer science, perceptual psychology, management and information theory, ~150 patent families related to spatial audio, video coding and communications.
He is a Honorary Professor at ANU and is passionate about supporting spatial sound projects for education with cost effective systems which he provides via dickinsaudio.
Christophe Chabanne - Founder
Co-inventor of Dolby Atmos
Worked 22 years at Dolby in Licensing Engineering, Marketing, and the CTO Office
Was United States delegate to ITU (U.N. agency) for ADM standardization
2024 Academy Award
Christophe worked in the CTO Office, Marketing, and the Advanced Technology Group at Dolby for more than two decades.
Co-inventor of Dolby Atmos, he oversaw the technology conception, content creator engagements, research, productization, and IP strategy for the Cinema industry as part of the Atmos core leadership team. He moved on to play the same role for Dolby Atmos consumer applications (broadcast, home cinema, mobile, etc.) and in recent years successfully standardized Atmos in ADM rendering and advanced sound systems at the ITU as a member of the United States delegation.
In 2024, he co-founded MidEngine Audio while advising on strategic advancements for large venue audio technologies.
Nicolas Tsingos - Founding Advisor
Co-inventor of Dolby Atmos
R&D Lead at Skywalker Sound (LUCASFILM)
Ex Bell Labs – INRIA – Dolby
2024 Academy Award
Nicolas is a principal research engineer and the R&D lead at Skywalker Sound, where he currently focuses on enhancing audio post-production processes and introducing innovative tools for sound artists.
Prior to joining Skywalker Sound, Nicolas spent 12 years at Dolby Laboratories where he developed the Dolby Atmos rendering, content creation and spatial coding tools. In 2024, he received a scientific and technical Academy Award for the creation of the Dolby Atmos cinema sound system.
In his earlier academic career, he was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ and a tenured researcher at INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology), leading a team dedicated to interactive audio rendering for virtual environments.
Nicolas holds a PhD in computer science and an advanced research degree (a French "Habilitation a diriger des recherches"). He has published more than 50 papers in the fields of computer graphics and acoustics and is an inventor on 60 patents world wide.
Hervé Déjardin - Content Creation Partner
25 years of Spatial Sound mixing
Mixing engineer at Radio France
Jean-Michel Jarre’s 2022 album Oxymore
Live 360 spatial audio tour with DeLaurentis
Hervé is a French sound engineer and audio innovation project manager at Radio France, specializing in immersive and object-based audio production. His work spans a wide range of formats including music of all genres, and experimental projects.
Hervé Déjardin has played a key role in several landmark immersive audio projects, including Jean-Michel Jarre’s 2022 album Oxymore, The album debuted live at the Hyper Weekend Festival in a fully immersive setup.
He also collaborated with Arthur H La Vie and Le Cauchemar Merveilleux, and in 2025 partnered with DeLaurentis on Live 360, a synesthetic performance based on her album MUSICALISM, exploring the connection between sound and color. He also worked with Molécule on the Live Acousmatic 360° tour, producing concerts in object-based spatial audio.
Through his innovative projects and research, Hervé Déjardin continues to expand the frontiers of immersive sound, reshaping how audiences experience audio in an increasingly multidimensional world.