Bryn Mooser is a twice Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker, humanitarian, and the founder and CEO of XTR. In 2012 Mooser co-founded RYOT a media company specializing in documentary film, Virtual/Augmented Reality and branded content. Over his career he has produced more than 200 linear and immersive films garnering multiple Emmy Awards, two Oscar nominations, a Peabody and a Cannes Lion. Mooser sold RYOT to Verizon in 2016, becoming a SVP and helping create the roadmap for immersive and documentary films for AOL, Yahoo, and Verizon. While at Verizon, Mooser built the branded content studio for AOL/Yahoo HuffPost and Tumblr creating content for the top brands in the world and expanding RYOT to 15 offices globally.
As a humanitarian, Mooser spent three years in the Peace Corps in West Africa, and was the Country Director for Artists for Peace and Justice in Haiti. While in Haiti he helped build the nation’s largest Cholera center, and a High School in Port-au-Prince that today educates nearly 3,000 Haitian youth per year. For his charitable work he was made a recipient of the prestigious Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award, and Esquire Magazine named him as one of their Americans of the Year.
