Company
Leadership
The people who run Sense/Net, the Library and the board.
Executive team
Delia Sorensen
Chief Executive Officer · since 2021
Delia Sorensen became chief executive in April 2021. She joined Sense/Net in 2006 to run production finance, became head of production in 2011 and was president of Sense/Net Studios from 2014, where she oversaw the development of Fullfield and the move to the stages in Sun Valley.
Before Sense/Net she was a line producer of commercials for eleven years. She grew up in Bakersfield and still keeps the first call sheet she was ever handed.
Teodoro Ruiz
President, Sense/Net Studios · since 2021
Teodoro Ruiz runs Sense/Net Studios, which makes every Fullfield title. He joined the company in 2009 as a capture technician, fitting headpieces on set, and has worked on more than 140 titles since. He became head of production in 2016 and president of the studio in 2021.
He is the reason every Sense/Net set stops for lunch at the same time, whatever the schedule says.
Alan Whitfield
Chief Financial Officer · since 2019
Alan Whitfield has been chief financial officer since 2019. He was previously chief financial officer of a regional cinema chain in the Southwest, and before that spent nine years in media finance in Los Angeles.
He is responsible for finance, planning, the employee share plan and the company’s relationship with its investors.
Miriam Kessling
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary · since 2019
Miriam Kessling leads the company’s legal, business affairs and privacy teams and is secretary to the board. She joined Sense/Net in 2019 from a Los Angeles law firm, where she was a partner in its entertainment and privacy litigation practice.
She is responsible for the Consent Standard as a legal document and for the agreements every performer signs.
Victor Amadi
Chief Technology Officer · since 2018
Victor Amadi leads Fullfield Engineering: the FH-3 headpiece, the Field Suit, the Sense/Net Player and the six-track pipeline from capture to playback. He joined in 2015 to lead the headpiece program and has been chief technology officer since 2018.
He trained as a mechanical engineer and spent eight years designing helmet systems before deciding he would rather design something people wanted to wear.
Neil Tolliver
Executive Vice President, Acquisitions and Licensing · since 2013
Neil Tolliver is responsible for everything Sense/Net buys and everything it licenses: catalogues, music, technology and the clips and titles the company licenses to broadcasters, museums and researchers. He led the acquisition of the Kestrel Hill catalogue in 2024.
He joined the company in 2013 from a film distributor, where he ran international sales.
Arun Mehra
Vice President, Fullfield Ambient · since 2021
Arun Mehra built Fullfield Ambient and leads the team of 58 that develops it. He joined Sense/Net in 2019 from a visual effects company, where he worked on crowd simulation for feature films.
He has a standing offer of lunch for anyone who can find a generated face in a Fullfield title looking at nothing.
Simone Donnelly
Head of Trust and Safety · since 2023
Simone Donnelly leads trust and safety: recognition requests, playback safety, legal requests and the annual transparency report. She joined Sense/Net in 2023 after seven years leading content policy at a video platform.
Dolores Agbaje
Head of Performer Relations · since 2015
Dolores Agbaje looks after the performers Sense/Net records, from their first consent session to their last residual statement. She was a dancer before she joined the company, and performed in nine Fullfield titles herself.
Every performer is given her direct number.
Lauren Pak
Vice President, Communications · since 2020
Lauren Pak leads communications and the newsroom. She joined in 2020 from a public relations agency in Los Angeles.
The Library
Solveig Ellingboe
Librarian, Sense/Net Library · since 2012
Solveig Ellingboe has run the Sense/Net Library in Ashworth since 2012. She was previously an archivist at a state historical society, where she looked after its sound collections, and she grew up forty miles from the mine.
She succeeded Clifford Ostheimer, the Library’s archivist from its opening in 1994 until his retirement in 2012.
Board of directors
| Director | Role | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Adrienne Calloway | Chair of the Board | Independent director since 2019; chair since 2021. A former chief operating officer of a broadcast group. |
| Maureen Vance | Chair Emerita | Co-founder. Chief executive from 1988 to 2021. |
| Delia Sorensen | Director | Chief Executive Officer. |
| Patrick Vance | Director | Trustee of the Vance family trust. |
| Bernard Thibodeaux | Director | Nominated by the company’s minority investor, since 2019. |
| Vivian Sato | Director | Nominated by the company’s minority investor, since 2019. |
| Gloria Pimentel | Independent director | Since 2022. Chairs the audit committee. |
| Ray Dunford | Employee director | Elected by employee shareholders in 2024. A capture technician at Sun Valley. |
The board meets six times a year, once in Ashworth. Its audit committee and its consent and safety committee each report to the full board.