Brain Trust

The Brain Trust is a small group of creative leaders at Pixar who oversee development on all movies. The group came about during the development of Toy Story and included John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter and the late Joe Ranft. Lee Unkrich was added after the release of Toy Story, and now includes all the Pixar directors such as Brad Bird, Gary Rydstrom, Bob Peterson, Brad Lewis and Brenda Chapman.