An American composer, born in 1967 in New Jersey. His journey with music began at the age of ten through school. After finishing high school, he traveled to New York to enroll in the university, graduating in 1990 after obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts. His cinematic career began in 1997 through the movie Legal Deceit, followed by other works, most notably Ratatouille, Jurassic World, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.