Charles Ferguson is founder and president of Representational
Pictures, Inc., and director and producer of No End In Sight: The
American Occupation of Iraq, which is his first film. Ferguson was
originally trained as a political scientist. He holds a BA in
mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and obtained
a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. in 1989. Following his
Ph.D., Ferguson conducted postdoctoral research at MIT while also
consulting to the White House, the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative, the Department of Defense, and several U.S. and
European high technology firms. From 1992-1994 Ferguson was an
independent consultant, providing strategic consulting to the top
managements of U.S. high technology firms including Apple, Xerox,
Motorola, and Texas Instruments.

In 1994, Ferguson founded Vermeer Technologies, one of the earliest
Internet software companies, with Randy Forgaard. Vermeer created the
first visual Web site development tool, FrontPage™. In early 1996,
Ferguson sold Vermeer to Microsoft, which integrated FrontPage into
Microsoft Office. After selling Vermeer, Ferguson returned to research
and writing. He was a visiting scholar and/or lecturer for several
years at MIT and Berkeley, and for three years was a Senior Fellow at
the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. Ferguson is the author of
three books and many articles dealing with various aspects of
information technology and its relationships to economic, political,
and social issues. Ferguson is a life member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, a director of the French-American Foundation, and supports
several nonprofit organizations.

For over 20 years, Ferguson has been intensely interested in film, and
has regularly attended film festivals such as Telluride for over a
decade. In mid-2005, after learning that no major documentary
covering U.S. policy in Iraq was being made or was planned, he formed
Representational Pictures and began production of "No End In Sight."
Ferguson is unmarried, and divides his time between Berkeley,
California and New York City.

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