Meet United States’s 101 Top CEO’s in the TV Space

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This list showcases the top United States based CEO’ operating in the TV space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]

The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:

Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.

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Oprah Winfrey

Chairwoman & CEO of Oprah Winfrey Network

Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her multi award willing talk show, The Oprah Winfrey show. She started at Nashville’s WLAV-TV and in so doing became the youngest news anchor at the station. In 1976, she moved to Baltimore’s WJZ-TV to co-anchor the six o’clock news. In January 1984, Winfrey moved to Chicago to host “A.M. Chicago” for WLS-TV. In less than a year, the show expanded to one hour and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 1988, she established Harpo Studios, a production facility in Chicago, making her the third woman in the American entertainment industry (after Mary Pickford and Lucille Ball) to own her own studio. Oprah made her acting debut in 1985, when she starred in Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Color Purple’. Her performance in the film earned her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and nominations for a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Oprah Winfrey’s business interests have extended well beyond her own production company. She is one of the partners in Oxygen Media, Inc., a cable channel and interactive network presenting programming designed primarily for women. With her success, she has also become one of the world’s most generous philanthropists. In 2000, Oprah’s Angel Network began presenting a $100,000 “Use Your Life Award” to people who are using their own lives to improve the lives of others. She now publishes two magazines, O, The Oprah Magazine, and O at Home. The launch of her first magazine was the most successful start-up in the history of the industry. When Forbes published its list of America’s billionaires for the year 2003, it disclosed that Oprah Winfrey was the first African-American woman to become a billionaire. In a 2010 interview on the Larry King program at the end of that year, she announced her decision to end her run on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The final broadcast took place on May 25, 2011, after 24 seasons and over 5,000 broadcasts. The end of the syndicated program was not the end of Oprah Winfrey’s broadcasting career. She now hosts a nightly program, Oprah’s Lifeclass, on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

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About Harpo Productions, Oprah Winfrey Network: Oprah Winfrey Network is a TV and digital media company created by Harpo Productions and Discovery Communications.

Andrew McCollum

CEO of Philo

In 2014, Andrew McCollum became CEO at Philo, an entertainment-focused OTT streaming service that launched nationwide in November 2017. Before assuming the role of CEO, Andrew served on Philo’s board, mentored Philo’s co-founders, and was one of the company’s first investors. Prior to Philo, Andrew was on the founding team of Facebook, and the social design of products has been a persistent interest. After Facebook, Andrew was an Entrepreneur in Residence at two of Philo’s investors, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Flybridge Partners. He continues to be an active early-stage angel investor and advisor.

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About Philo: Philo offers an entertainment-focused streaming service nationwide.

Allen Shapiro

Chief Executive Officer of Dick Clark Productions

Allen Shapiro is CEO of Dick Clark Productions and Managing Partner of Mosaic Media Investment Partners. He was most recently a Founder and President of Mosaic Media Group & Chairman of TV Guide Network & TVGuide.com. Shapiro serves as Executive Producer on DCP’s flagship programming including the “American Music Awards,” “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” “Golden Globe Awards,” “Academy of Country Music Awards,” and “So You Think You Can Dance” in addition to overseeing the development, production and licensing of the company’s other high profile properties. In October 2012, Mr. Shapiro once again became CEO of Dick Clark Productions (DCP) after the company was purchased from Redzone Capital Management by Guggenheim Partners, Mandalay Entertainment and Mosaic Media Investment Partners. In 2004, Mr. Shapiro facilitated the leveraged buyout of DCP from Dick Clark and became CEO of the company. Three years later, DCP was successfully sold to RedZone Capital Management in June 2007.

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About Dick Clark Productions: Dick Clark Productions is the world’s largest producer and proprietor of televised events.

Dot Bustelo

CEO/Founder of Loupe

Dot Bustelo, CEO/Founder of Apple TV visual art streaming platform Loupe, recognized as a Creative Technologies/Entertainment Software Strategist. She developed Loupe in 2016 as a visual complement to streaming music platforms, featured by Apple and reaching #1 Lifestyle app around the world. An internationally-recognized Apple Logic Pro consultant, music producer, Emmy Award-winning sound designer, author and stage demonstrator of Apple software, Dot formerly worked on Apple’s Worldwide Product Team introducing Apple product software techniques to A-list artists, engineers and their producers such as Maroon 5, The Killers, John Legend, One Republic, T. Pain and M.I.A. After Apple, she went on to author #1 Amazon best-selling books on Apple software and online courses for Lynda.com and consulted to iOS and Mac audio app companies. An electronic music producer herself with licenses to Sony PlayStation, NBC, VH1, CBS, and MTV, she serves on the Recording Academy’s National Advisory Council of the Producers & Engineering Wing. In her spare time, Dot writes science fiction.

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About Loupe: Pioneering service transforming how art is experienced; #1 Lifestyle app in 64 countries on AppleTV/Fire TV/Android/PlutoTV/Samsung/Comcast

Zach Lebeau

CEO & Founder of Breaker (SingularDTV)

At 17, Zach took part in an expedition to the Amazon rainforest. For two months he traveled 1,100 miles on the Napo, Yasuni and Amazon rivers assisting with various research projects and interacting with indigenous tribes. The experience left a powerful impression on Zach and he spent the next 15 years living and traveling abroad to more than 50 countries on 5 continents. Growing into adulthood “on the road”, Zach became familiar with various international business structures and practices, finding a way to meld his artistic pursuits with his commercial ones. He wrote his first novel, MONKEY ME, solo sailing thousands of miles in the Caribbean and produced several music albums in Europe. He and DJ Vajdai Vilmos were the first to fuse Hungarian folk and electronica to critical acclaim with their debut album ETCHNO. Their follow up hit, ROMANO TRIP- the fusion of electronica with Gypsy folk- sold from New York to Tokyo and established a new world sound. Zach also launched an animated television series on prime-time Hungarian television which was later spun into a movie that reached number 1 at the box office there. He then went to work for the Crystal Group of Companies, an international development conglomerate, where he oversaw the management of various industrial and commercial properties in the countries of Ghana, UAE and the Caribbean islands of Antigua and Dominica. He was also a principle in an alternative energy start-up in West Africa. Moving back to the United States at 32, Zach wrote and directed his first feature film, THE SCIENTIST, starring Bill Sage. He then launched a women’s luxury clothing line, building the brand from 4 stores to 110 throughout the United States and Canada. Selling his fashion interest in 2014, Zach moved to New York to become part of the decentralization movement, produce an independent film he wrote entitled ZORRA starring Ben Kingsley and launch the epic sci-fi fantasy adventure series SINGULAR.

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About Breaker (SingularDTV), Ethereum Foundation: A decentralized global distribution platform empowers artists with a fairer, transparent monetization model through blockchain technology.

Giancarlo Maniaci

Co-Founder & CEO of ColorTV

Giancarlo Maniaci is the Co-Founder & CEO at ColorTV.

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About ColorTV, Estimote: ColorTV is a data and advertising company that provides data, discovery, and analytics solutions for connected TV.

Steven Swartz

President & CEO of Hearst Communications

Steven R. Swartz became president and chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation on June 1, 2013. Before his promotion to CEO, Swartz, a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation and a trustee of The Hearst Family Trust, was president and chief operating officer of the Corporation. He was president of Hearst Newspapers, the operating group responsible for Hearst’s newspapers, local digital marketing services businesses and directories, from 2009 to 2011, and executive vice president of the Group from 2001 to 2008. Hearst Newspapers, with more than 4,700 employees across the nation, publishes 15 dailies and 36 weeklies in cities including Houston, San Francisco, San Antonio and Albany. It also operates digital marketing services and directories businesses under the LocalEdge brand. Before joining Hearst in 2001, Swartz was president and chief executive of SmartMoney, the magazine, website and custom publishing business launched by Hearst and News Corp.’s Dow Jones unit. Prior to becoming CEO in 1995, he had been the magazine’s founding editor since 1991. Under his leadership, SmartMoney magazine won two National Magazine Awards and was Advertising Age’s Magazine of the Year. Swartz began his journalism career as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in 1984 after graduating from Harvard. He served as an editor on the Journal’s Page One staff from 1989 to 1991. Swartz is a member of the ESPN board of directors and is a director of the Associated Press. He is also a member of the board of visitors of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and chairman of the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund.

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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses

Michael Lynton

Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment

Michael Lynton is CEO of Sony Entertainment, where he oversees Sony’s global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Lynton is also Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), managing the studio’s overall global operations, which include motion picture, television and digital content production and distribution, home entertainment acquisition and distribution, operation of studio facilities, and the development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. At Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lynton has focused on digital transformation, worldwide growth, content diversity and financial discipline, leading the studio through an era of innovation and success, putting Sony Pictures on the cutting edge of an industry experiencing rapid technological and global change. Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group has enjoyed a remarkable run in the past several years, releasing such hits as Best Picture Oscar® nominees American Hustle, Captain Phillips, and The Social Network, as well as blockbuster franchises like The Amazing Spider-Man, Grown-Ups, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and The Smurfs. Between movies and TV, SPE received 26 nominations for the 2014 Golden Globes® and won seven awards, more than any other studio. Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is one of the television industry’s leading content providers. It produces and distributes programming in every genre, around the world and for a multitude of platforms. In addition to one of the industry’s largest libraries of award-winning feature films, television shows and formats, SPT boasts a current program slate that includes top-rated daytime dramas and game shows, landmark off-network series, original animated series and critically acclaimed primetime dramas, comedies and telefilms. In addition to its U.S. production business, SPT has 19 wholly-owned or joint venture production companies in 13 countries. SPT’s worldwide media networks include 150 channel feeds available in 178 countries, reaching more than 1.3 billion cumulative households worldwide. Popular channel brands include AXN, Animax, and SET (Sony Entertainment Television), as well as the studio’s ad-supported VOD service, Crackle. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment distributes Sony Pictures produced and third-party acquired theatrical and non-theatrical product on Blu-ray Disc, DVD and other digital media globally. Among the more than 3,500 titles in SPHE’s catalog are the Spider-Man and Men In Black franchises, the Seinfeld TV series, and film classics on such as Lawrence of Arabia, Taxi Driver and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Sony Pictures is also home to Imageworks, the only major studio Academy Award®-winning in-house visual effects unit. Under Lynton, Sony Pictures has been an industry leader in the migration to digital entertainment, from production and distribution to the introduction of new formats. The studio championed the industry’s UltraViolet digital entertainment format, helped re-introduce 3D to the entertainment industry and is deeply engaged in the rapidly expanding 4K marketplace. Prior to joining Sony Pictures, Lynton worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International. From 1996 to 2000, Lynton served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc’s Penguin Group, where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the Internet. Lynton joined The Walt Disney Company in 1987 and started Disney Publishing, serving as its President. From 1992 to1996, he served as President of Disney’s Hollywood Pictures. Lynton holds a Bachelor of Arts in history and literature from Harvard College and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Lynton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the boards of the American Film Institute, the Smithsonian Board of Regents, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, USC School of Cinematic Arts and the RAND Corporation. In addition, he sits on the board of directors of Snapchat and Ares Management, L.P. Lynton resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Elizabeth Jamie Alter Lynton, and their three daughters, Eloise Lynton, Maisie Lynton and Lucinda Lynton.

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About 25Madison, Sony Pictures Entertainment: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation.

Jim Wilburn

Founder & President & CEO of Winnercomm

Jim Wilburn is the Founder and President of Winnercomm, as well as the General Manger and visionary behind Major League Fishing. After graduating from the University of Tulsa with a B.S. in communications, Jim became the top advertising sales performer for ABC affiliate KTUL. In 1981, Jim left KTUL and co-founded Winner Communications as a syndicator of American Quarter Horse racing telecasts. Twenty years later Winner Communications had become Winnercomm and produced almost 50 percent of the ESPN Outdoors program block as well as 25 award-winning one-hour SportsCentury programs. Winning 13 Emmy Awards and 2 Eclipse Awards, Winnercomm produced over 500 hours of programming annually for ESPN and 13 other networks. During this time, Jim also served on ESPN Outdoors senior staff. In 2004, Winnercomm acquired the camera platforms Skycam and in 2006 Cablecam; cable-controlled camera systems used extensively on NCAA Football, Monday Night Football and Super Bowl coverage. The acquisitions of Skycam and Cablecam furthered Winnercomm’s reach into live sports coverage. In 2006, Parallel Partners & Harbert Management acquired Winnercomm. In 2009 Parallel and Harbert sold Winnercomm to Outdoor Channel Holdings. Jim has worked tirelessly in creating the hottest property in professional fishing, Major League Fishing. Major League Fishing brings real time scoring to the sport for the first time and boasts 24 anglers who have made almost $50 million dollars fishing. Major League Fishing is a huge success both in viewership and sponsorship revenues. Jim has been inducted into the University of Tulsa Business Hall of Fame, as well as their Distinguished Alumni Association. Jim has served on the board for Holland Hall Preparatory School for five years and currently serves on the University Of Tulsa Board Of Trustees for the past nine years.

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About Major League Fishing, Winnercomm: Winnercomm is in the emotion transportation business. We move people to watch, to engage, to join, to purchase.

Sean Doherty

CEO of Wurl

CEO at WURL, Inc.

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About Wurl: The Wurl Network connects the world’s largest digital brands with the world’s largest streaming services.

Carlos Watson

Co-Founder & CEO of OZY Media

Carlos Watson co-anchors MSNBC 2 p.m. news program from NBC headquarters at 30 Rock. A Harvard grad, he got his start in politics, serving as campaign manager and chief of staff for Florida Representative Daryl Jones and managing Bill Clintonâs 1992 Election Day effort in Miami-Dade County. While at Harvard, he also worked with Senator Bob Graham, DNC Chair Ron Brown, and Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez. After graduating from Stanford Law, where he edited the Law Review, Watson joined the business world, advising Fortune 500 companies as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He later struck out on his own and co-founded Achieva College Prep Services, which helped thousands of high school students prepare for college and was written about in Time and Forbes, among others. Watson sold the firm to the Washington Post/Kaplan in 2002.

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About Achieva.com, OZY Media, The Stimulist: OZY Media is a premium media and entertainment for curious people — across TV, events, podcasts and news.

Mark Gillespie

CEO of Three Six Zero

Recently named as one of Billboard’s 2021 Change Agents, as well as one of the World’s Greatest Managers by Music Business Worldwide, Mark Gillespie is a world-class British CEO, manager, and producer whose vision and drive have led him to build Three Six Zero into the global entertainment powerhouse that it is today. Widely recognized as one of the industry’s preeminent executives, Gillespie has been instrumental in guiding the careers of Frank Ocean and Calvin Harris, most recently closing a deal in excess of $100MM for his publishing catalogue. With offices in Los Angeles, Miami, and London, Gillespie provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Three Six Zero and its clients remain at the forefront of the music, film, television, and digital content landscape Fueled by a lifelong passion for music, Gillespie launched his career in his hometown of Birmingham, UK, where he proved to be an invaluable asset for superclub Godskitchen. Since then, he has established himself as a visionary in the entertainment industry, having worked in partnerships with Sony Music Entertainment, Jay-Z and Roc Nation, and most recently Westbrook Entertainment, whose talent roster includes Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the entire Smith Family. A relentless pioneer and entrepreneur, Gillespie has joined forces with Pete Tong MBE to run Three Six Zero Recordings, his own in-house record label, while continuing to expand an already successful presence in film and television. Along with several other projects in the pipeline, the company’s first feature film – prestige drama, VOX LUX – starring Natalie Portman and Jude Law, including an original soundtrack by Sia, was released in 2018. With a passion for innovation at the intersection of media, technology, and apparel, Gillespie has invested in companies such as Outdoor Voices, Stance, Ember Technologies, Stem Disintermedia, and Saavn. Committed to giving back and continuously fostering artistic talent, Gillespie has also remained a longtime philanthropist and advocate, sitting on both the Music Committee of Children in Conflict and the core screening panel of the Recording Academy. In his downtime, Gillespie enjoys following Manchester United and is an avid collector of modern art.

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About Three Six Zero: Three Six Zero is an international management and entertainment company at the forefront of music, film, television and digital content.

Eran Hammer

Founder & CEO of Sideway, Inc.

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About Sideway, Inc.: Stories told through the lens of social media via our streaming app where every show is told within its own fictional social network.

Michael Golomb

Founder and CEO of FanVestor

A hands-on company builder, Michael’s background as an entrepreneurial CFO with three exits behind him, is the culmination of twenty years of senior management experience across a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise has been successfully applied across verticals ranging from startups to large public corporations including Blockchain, manufacturing, digital health & medical devices, consumer electronics & hardware, software/SaaS, and real estate. In addition to Michael’s global experience in raising equity though variety of public and private equity/debt instruments, as well as experience in handling complex M&A transactions, he also brings exceptional knowhow of Blockchain technology to DASAN Zhone Solutions. Earlier in 2017, (prior to joining DASAN) together with the other Blockchain industry veterans, Michael co-founded the ICO Governance Foundation, a non-profit decentralized global organization with a protocol-based global community mission that performs a self-regulatory function for ICOs in decentralized capital markets. In Oct 2016, Michael founded EdenCoin – a global cryptocurrency quantitative market-maker start-up with offices in San Francisco and New York: a proprietary liquidity aggregation platform to consolidate trading volume and data from major cryptocurrency market sources to run algorithmic market-making and liquidity provisioning, as well as other, quantitative strategies. From June 2015 to May 2017, while CFO at Breathometer, a hyper-growth digital health and medical device company, he helped take that company from pre-revenue to shipping in the FDA regulated space, forming OEM partnership with Philips, raising capital from venture capital firms and global strategic investors, as well as successfully achieving the ISO13485:2003 Certification milestone. Prior to Breathometer, Michael was the first employee (CFO, Board Member, and Head of SF Office) at BitFury, and helped build the market leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem, taking it from zero to over $500M valuation and from 3 to over 120 employees in 7 countries between December 2013 through April 2015. Other notable roles include: ” Co-Founder and Co-President at Mayak RE, where he led the formation of JV with Morgan Stanley and MCP Private Equity Fund in Europe. ” CFO of Sistema Hals, he directed a highly successful London/LSE IPO with market capitalization at $2.7B. ” Head of Compliance / Sr. Finance Manager at Trimble, he effectively implemented global Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, participated in private debt placement, as well as acquired/integrated several international technology companies. Michael received MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013, his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000, and his B.A. with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in 1996. He is also a CPA (inactive) in California.

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About FanVestor: FanVestor is a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding platform that enables entertainment and sports celebrities to capitalize on their fanbases.

Desiree Gruber

CEO of Full Picture

Desiree Gruber has parlayed lifelong interests in fashion, culture, art, entertainment, and technology into a thriving media empire. With her agency, Full Picture, as a foundation, Gruber embodies the modern entrepreneurial spirit. Gruber has been instrumental in building some of the world’s most prestigious brands and properties, ranging from 15 years with Victoria’s Secret to the launch of three hotels with Ian Schrager, as well as guiding the careers of high-profile personalities including Heidi Klum and creating the hit television show Project Runway. Gruber’s career first took shape at Rogers & Cowan, a national public relations agency, where she rose to Vice President of Entertainment and managed various publicity and marketing accounts within the entertainment, music, fashion, and beauty industries while spearheading the overall growth of the firm’s New York office. It was during her tenure there that she helped to conceptualize and develop the landmark Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, an annual project in which she remains an integral partner. Establishing her own agency, Full Picture, in 1999, Gruber set out to synergize the traditionally separate fields of public relations, management, and production. Under her guidance, Full Picture has become a creative force and evolved into a full-fledged multimedia company at the crossroads of the fashion and lifestyle industries. Its many successes include Lifetime’s Project Runway and the trendsetting HSN shopping shows Curations with Stefani Greenfield. Gruber also works with online portals such as MSN and top-line brands including Kraft, Special K and Tylenol to create award-winning branded entertainment. Gruber’s expertise in marketing and branding campaigns, for which she has received over twenty awards, has positioned her among the most respected figures within the media industry. Her experience in forecasting and developing trends has also helped her create an innovative approach to producing original film, television and Internet programming. She was selected as one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs of 2010, and has received a Peabody Award and eight Emmy nominations for executive producing Project Runway. Ms. Gruber has been awarded an official Mayor’s Proclamation by the City of New York for her professional and civic accomplishments. She serves on the Boards of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF in New York and God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that delivers nutritious, freshly prepared meals to people living with HIV/AIDS or other serious illnesses. She has been profiled in such publications as O: The Oprah Magazine, Variety, New York magazine, Gotham and PR Week.

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About Full Picture, Modelinia: An award-winning, bi-coastal agency with a team of highly creative individuals who live and work at the crossroad of fashion

Brian Graden

Founder and CEO of Brian Graden Media

For generations of young people, the name Brian Graden might not ring a bell. A glance at his resume certainly will. This longtime production pacesetter has spent a career developing and fostering cutting-edge television as well as steering the programming divisions of major entertainment networks: with his talented hand, some of the most forward-thinking, edgy, and plain entertaining television of the past 25 years has come to life. His accomplishments each stand on their own as signposts of a career that’s anticipated every major turn. From his earliest days as a junior executive overseeing the trailblazing COPS and America’s Most Wanted, to his guiding hand in the development of South Park, to transforming the formerly staid VH1 into a pop culture powerhouse, Brian Graden’s work has consistently helped to define it’s time while also pointing to what’s next. During his time as MTV Networks President of Entertainment, he oversaw the creation of a new canon of young people’s programming with shows like TRL, Pimp My Ride, Punk’d, Jackass, Jersey Shore, and countless others. Striking out on his own, Brian started Brian Graden Media in 2013. BGM’s forays into the digital world have continued the success he started on television, garnering an Emmy award for the genre-bending interactive show HitRecord on TV, and developing a suite of YouTube Original programming and unconventionally fascinating cable shows, each tuned into what’s driving views and clicks in today’s evolving media landscape. With his track record, it’s hard to bet against BGM. It’s not entertainment alone that defines Brian Graden. A passionate advocate for equality, Brian personally spearheaded MTV’s Fight for Your Rights: Take a Stand Against Violence campaign while at the network. He’s been the recipient of numerous awards for his advocacy including the GLAAD Media Vito Russo Award for Excellence in Media, the EQCA Award for Commitment to Advancing LGBT Equality, and the Equality Forum’s National Role Model award. He’s also delivered keynote addresses at the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus Annual Commencement, the Reaching Out MBA Conference, and the Cellcom Media Conference. When he isn’t working, Brian is an avid musician, having manned the keyboards for cover band Ace Oxygen and the Ozones in high school before turning his ambitions towards Hollywood. Today, his musical tastes are as varied and diverse as his shows’ audiences. Brian Graden currently lives in Los Angeles, California.

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About Brian Graden Media: Brian Graden Media an Emmy award-winning television production company based in Hollywood, CA.

David Downey

Chief Executive Officer of INVIDI Technologies

Dave Downey is the Chief Executive Officer at INVIDI Technologies.

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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.

Bruce J. Anderson

Co-CEO & Global CTO of INVIDI Technologies

Bruce Anderson is the Co-CEO & Global CTO at INVIDI Technologies.

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About INVIDI Technologies: INVIDI Technologies offers Advatar, an application that delivers addressable targeted advertising and marketing messages to viewers.

Robert Bakish

President and Chief Executive Officer of Viacom

Bob Bakish is president and CEO of Viacom, home to global entertainment brands including Paramount Pictures, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and BET, and the leading free-streaming TV service in the U.S., Pluto TV. In August 2019, Viacom and CBS announced an agreement to merge. Upon completion, Bakish will become president and CEO of the combined company, ViacomCBS. He was appointed to his current role in 2016 after leading Viacom International Media Networks since 2007. In this position, he doubled revenues and guided a significant expansion of the company’s international footprint. He joined Viacom in 1997 after serving as a partner with Booz Allen & Hamilton. A graduate of Columbia’s business and engineering schools, Bakish is on the boards of both and is a director on the board of AVID Technologies.

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About Viacom, ViacomCBS: Viacom is an American media conglomerate specializing in cable, satellite television networks, and cinema.

Aaron Kaplan

CEO of Kapital Entertainment

Aaron Kaplan is the founder and CEO of Kapital Entertainment. Since launching in 2009, Kapital Entertainment has established itself as a leading developer and producer of scripted programming. In the last decade, Kapital has produced 53 pilots, 30 of which have been ordered to series, including five straight to series. Kaplan also partners with Golden Karavan, a television mini-major with offices in Mumbai and Los Angeles. Golden Karavan produces and distributes high-end Indian-themed digital content to audiences worldwide.

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About Kapital Entertainment: Kapital Entertainment is an independent production company specializing in television and digital content.

Meg Whitman

CEO of Quibi

Meg Whitman has served Hewlett-Packard as Chairman of the Board since July 2014, as President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2011 and as a member of the Board since January 2011. From March 2011 to September 2011, Whitman served as a part-time strategic advisor to Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, a private equity firm. Previously, Whitman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay Inc., from 1998 to 2008. Prior to joining eBay,Whitman held executive-level positions at Hasbro Inc., a toy company, FTD, Inc., a floral products company, The Stride Rite Corporation, a footwear company, The Walt Disney Company, an entertainment company, and Bain & Company, a consulting company. Whitman also serves as a director of The Procter & Gamble Company.

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About Gen Cap America, Quibi: Quibi is a media company developing short-form media content designed for smartphones.

Wared Seger

CEO & Co-Founder of Parrot Analytics

Operating at the intersection of science, technology and entrepreneurship. Author of the world’s first quantitative thesis on founder succession in technology firms. 2017 Variety 30 Under 30 Hollywood Leaders. 2018 Broadcasting & Cable 40 Under 40 Media Execs / 2018 NYC TV Week Awards. Bringing to life The Wisdom of Crowds.

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About Parrot Analytics: Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures and predicts global demand for content, across all platforms, around the world.

Udaynandan Reddy Padi

Founder and CEO of YUPPTV

Udaynandan Reddy, a visionary philanthropist founded YuppTV in 2006 with the vision to create a company that converges technologies in providing a virtual home based access to Entertainment, information and communication anytime, anywhere across the globe. From Social networking portals, Internet TV, Live mobile TV, to Online advertising; he led YuppTV to create its own identity through continuous expansion and innovation. His specialty is in Market penetration strategies, Top line growth, deployment of 2.5/3G networks in various countries and new product Introduction with go to market strategy. His Complex Contract negotiations has resulted in strong relationships with key players in both operator and vendor communities in the markets of India, Caribbean, Latin America, United States and Asia Pacific regions. Udaynandan Reddy served as a Director for Nortel, where he was responsible for Cable and Wireless Sales in Caribbean. Uday carries more than 15 years of rich experience in Telecom and Networking arena. This visionary philanthropist founded the modernvillagevision2020.com as an attempt to reduce the social and economic disparity between rural and urban sectors through the introduction of technological infrastructure into the rural sector.

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About Turito, YUPPTV: YUPPTV is an online platform providing access to TV channels and magazines of various languages.

Ben Antier

CEO of Publica

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About Publica: Publica is a technology company focused on internet-connected TV advertising.

David G. Martin

CEO of RiffTrax

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About RiffTrax: RiffTrax features funny audio commentaries by Michael J. Nelson and other stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Leslie Moonves

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation

Leslie Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation, one of the world’s leading media enterprises. In this role, he oversees all operations of the Company, including the CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television Distribution), CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Films, CBS Interactive, Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, Pop (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate), Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio and CBS EcoMedia. Moonves came to CBS in 1995 as President of Entertainment, after serving as president of Warner Bros. Television, where his team developed hit shows like Friends and ER. Once at CBS, Moonves and his team took the Network from last to first place in the ratings, launching hit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, Survivor, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Moonves was promoted to President and CEO of CBS Television in 1998 and became Chairman in 2003. He was later named Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom and Chairman of CBS in 2004, overseeing domestic and international broadcast television operations as well as its radio division and outdoor advertising operations. In 2006, when Viacom split its businesses into two publicly traded companies, Moonves was named President and CEO of the newly formed CBS Corporation, which has since been one of the best-performing companies in media. Under Moonves’ direction, the CBS Television Network has been #1 in viewers for 12 of the last 13 years, and currently has television’s #1 drama, NCIS; television’s #1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory; television’s #1 news program, 60 Minutes; as well as time period-leading shows on virtually every night of the week. At the same time, the Company’s premium cable service, Showtime Networks, has generated millions of new subscribers on the heels of its successful owned series, such as Ray Donovan, House of Lies, Dexter and The Affair, as well as the critically acclaimed, Emmy- and Golden-Globe-Award-winning series Homeland. The Company’s push to sell its shows around the world has made international distribution sales a significant revenue source, with CBS content licensed to more than 200 markets in more than 30 languages across multiple media platforms. That emphasis on exploiting content has also enabled CBS to strike lucrative, multiyear deals with the industry’s biggest online distributors, including Netflix and Amazon. CBS’s other divisions have also been robust under Moonves’ leadership, including interactive media. The Company’s acquisition of CNET, Inc. in 2008 helped make CBS Interactive the premier online content network for information and entertainment, with more than 280 million people from around the world visiting its websites each month. In publishing, Simon & Schuster routinely releases hundreds of New York Times bestsellers every year, including dozens that make it to #1, and is the publishing home of some of the world’s most recognized and prize-winning authors. Simon & Schuster is also a leader in digital publishing, with titles available across all major platforms and formats. In local broadcasting, CBS-owned TV stations are among the most-watched in the country, and CBS Radio is home to the most-listened-to radio stations in the U.S. By distinguishing CBS as a producer and seller of world-class content across all mediums, Moonves has helped CBS Corporation grow in value, revenue and market share while identifying and developing key new revenue streams for future growth.

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About CBS Corporation, CBS Records: CBS Corporation is a mass media company that creates and distributes content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world.

Kenneth Lowe

President , Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Scripps Networks

Ken Lowe is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive, a leading lifestyle media provider for television, the Internet and other media platforms. Previously, he was President and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company from 2000 until 2008, when Scripps Networks Interactive became a separate, publicly traded company. Prior to 2000, Lowe was Chairman and CEO of Knoxville-based Scripps Networks. He built the company into one of the nation’s fastest growing and most successful creators of unique brands for television and the Internet. He founded and launched HGTV in 1994; oversaw the acquisition and transformation of the Food Network into an American pop culture icon; presided over the launches of the DIY Network and the Cooking Channel as well as the acquisitions of the Travel Channel in 2009 and Great American Country television network in 2004. Lowe also guided the development of the company’s growing portfolio of interactive content services in the food and home lifestyle categories. Lowe joined the E.W. Scripps Company in 1980 as General Manager of the company’s radio properties. In 1988, he became Vice President of Programming, Promotion and Marketing for the company’s nine network-affiliated television stations. Lowe began his career in radio with Southern Broadcasting in 1969 and continued with various management positions in radio and television with Harte-Hanks Broadcasting in the late 1970s. Lowe serves on the Board of Directors for the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, The Paley Center for Media and The Cable Center. In the past he served on the Cincinnati Business Committee and Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation.

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About Scripps Networks: Scripps Networks Interactive develops lifestyle content for TV, internet satellite radio, books, magazines, and other media platforms.

Daniel Raffel

CEO @ Snapguide of ABC News

Daniel Raffel is the CEO of Heavy Bits, producers of Snapguide. Snapguide is a simple, beautiful way to share and view step-by-step how to guides. Discover new things to cook, build, wear, play and more. Create your own guides and share what you love making with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and more. Discuss your interests with other people who share your passions Previously, he was the Director of Product Management at [Pioneers of the Inevitable](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pioneers-of-the-inevitable), working on [Songbird](http://www.crunchbase.com/product/songbird), an open-source customizable music player. Before joining Songbird he worked at Yahoo where he served as the Product Manager that helped create [Pipes](http://pipes.yahoo.com), a web based composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Also during his tenure at Yahoo, Daniel contributed to helping launch Yahoo Messengers VoIP efforts. Prior to joining Yahoo, Daniel worked in a variety of technology roles at ABC News Online, bthere.tv, CondeNet, and NYU’s Innovation Center lab. In another life, Daniel co-founded two record labels [Lucky Kitchen](http://www.luckykitchen.com) and [Apartment B](http://www.apartmentb.com). He has performed live under various aliases at venues around the world and has released recordings on over a dozen labels. In yet another life, Daniel’s passion for food led him to pursue a culinary degree which culminated in a stint as a chef in the kitchen of Thomas Keller’s NYC restaurant [per se](http://perseny.com). Daniel received a Masters degree from the [Interactive Telecommunications Program](http://itp.nyu.edu) at NYU.

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About ABC News, Google: ABCNews is a breaking news resource for top stories, videos, photos, blogs, special reports, and exclusive celebrity interviews.

Matthew C. Blank

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Showtime

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About Showtime: Showtime is an American premium cable and satellite television network.

Sergii Mashevskyi

Founder, CEO of Cameo FX

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About Cameo FX, Prope: Visual effects and animation company

David Abraham

CEO of Channel 4

David Abraham became the sixth Chief Executive of Channel 4 when he took up his post in May 2010. David joined Channel 4 from UKTV where he was appointed Chief Executive in April 2007. During his first year he masterminded the launch of Dave which laid the foundation for rebranding the entire UKTV network. Prior to this David worked at Discovery Networks USA, where, as President and General Manager for TLC from 2005, he was responsible for overseeing all content investment and strategy for the leading US cable network. Before heading to the US David was General Manager of Discovery Networks UK for four years from 2001. David began his career in 1984 as a graduate trainee in advertising after taking a degree in Modern History from Oxford University. In the 1990s he was a founding partner and Chief Operating Officer at leading independent advertising agency St Luke’s.

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About Channel 4, Wonderhood Studios: Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.

David Abraham

CEO of Channel 4

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About Channel 4, Wonderhood Studios: Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.

Peter Markham

Chief Executive Officer of Estrella Media

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About Estrella Media: LBI Media engages in the ownership and operation of Spanish-language radio and television.

Kimberly Foerster

Founder & CEO of CharacTour

CEO Kimberly Foerster had the “lightbulb” moment to found CharacTour when she helped her friend with her Match.com profile. By focusing on consumers’ personalities as many dating sites do, she thought she could solve a big problem for consumers: “bad dates” with entertainment when time, money, and emotion is wasted on movies, TV shows, and books they don’t ultimately connect with. Before founding CharacTour, Kim was a Managing Director at Perseus, a Washington, D.C. private equity firm where she worked for eight years. While at Perseus, she was actively involved in four publishing-related acquisitions and was a Board Member of Perseus Books. Prior to Perseus, she worked at two other private equity firms – the Audax Group and Castle Harlan. Early in her career, Kim worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs and the strategic planning group of PepsiCo. Kim received her MBA from Kellogg and her BA in English from Rice University.

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About CharacTour: CharacTour curates entertainment choices based on consumers’ unique personalities and their character preferences

Jonathan Skogmo

Founder & CEO of Jukin Media

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About Jukin Media, pocket.watch, Producers Guild of America: Jukin Media is the global leader in user-generated entertainment.

Vito Palermo

Chief Executive Officer of Secret Golf

As CEO of Secret Golf, Inc., Palermo is applying his expertise in technology to the game he loves most. His professional experience includes leadership positions at Bay Networks, Extreme Networks, and Procket Networks, among others. His professional-amateur golf career has landed him at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and Champions Siebel Classic golf tournament. As Palermo sees it, Secret Golf’s mission is to deliver innovative and creative golf instruction and entertainment to golfers wherever they watch it — television, computers and mobile devices.

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About 38 Degree Advisors, Secret Golf: Secret Golf, Inc. is a media production and publishing co. connecting the golf industry to consumers through tech, content & personalities

Jeremy Jacobs

CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Enlighten

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About Enlighten, EYECONIC.TV: Enlighten is a place-based cannabis television network, displayed on screens in dispensaries around the nation.

Richard Foos

CEO of Shout Factory

Richard Foos was the Founder of legendary music label Rhino Records and is currently CEO of Shout Factory. Now in its 12th year, Shout! is one of the leading independent video and music companies in Entertainment. In 1973 Richard co-founded Rhino Records in a Westwood storefront together with Howard Bronson. The store grew in credibility and popularity over the years and began issuing novelty recordings from Wild Man Fischer and others. Their compilations became so popular that the company entered into a six year distribution deal with Capitol Records in 1985. Under Richard’s leadership Rhino grew significantly until Time Warner bought the company in the late 1990’s. During Richard’s tenure, Rhino released many stunning compilations from world-famous artists such as The Monkees, Eric Burdon, The Ramones, The Grateful Dead, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Beach Boys, Yes, The Doobie Brothers, The Cars, Chicago, Tom Paxton, Third Eye Blind, The Doors, and War. Richard is a major philanthopist and strongly believes in merging ones social values with business and has installed a strong sense of purpose and giving back in all his business concerns. To this end he serves as Chairman Emeritus for Little Kids Rock and on the boards of The Nation Institute, Government Accountability Project, Chrysalis and other such non-profits that make a strong commitment to social progress. Foos is a 1967 graduate of Beverly Hills High School and a 1971 graduate of Whittier College.

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About Shout Factory: Shout! Factory has been around for 10 years.

Nate Watkin

CEO & Founder of Assemble

Nate is the CEO and Founder of Assemble, an intelligent video producing platform that connects clients to an invite-only pool of creative talent to create better content, faster. Nate gained ten years of experience running a production company specializing in branded content, headquartered in Venice Beach, CA. As Executive Producer, he worked hand in hand with Fortune 500 companies and advertising agencies alike, producing for clients such as Nike, Vitamin Water, Proctor & Gamble, and Frito-Lay.

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About Assemble: The project management platform for video production teams.

David Kenny

CEO of Nielsen

David Kenny is general manager, IBM Watson, responsible for the Watson technology platform, its global ecosystem of business partners and developers, and emerging solutions. Kenny was most recently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Weather Company (Weather), where he oversaw the company’s portfolio of consumer and business-to-business weather brands and businesses including The Weather Channel, weather.com, wunderground.com and WSI. Kenny was previously president of Akamai, the leading cloud platform designed to help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences to mobile and fixed Internet users. Previously, he served as managing partner of VivaKi, the combined worldwide media and digital arm of Publicis Groupe, and he was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Digitas Inc., a top global integrated brand agency.

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About Nielsen: Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.

William Johnson

Co-Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen

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About Nielsen: Nielsen provides a comprehensive understanding of what consumers watch and buy.

Alan Sokol

President, CEO & Director of Hemisphere Media Group

Alan J. Sokol has served as one of our directors and President since January 2013. Mr. Sokol was appointed as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer in April 2013. Mr. Sokol has over 21 years of experience in the television and motion picture industries as an operator, advisor and investor. Prior to becoming the Chief Executive Officer, he served as a Senior Partner at InterMedia Partners, L.P., where he was the architect of the firm’s Hispanic strategy, including the acquisitions of Cinelatino and WAPA. Prior to joining InterMedia Partners, L.P., Mr. Sokol was President and CEO of Planeta Media Group, LLC, where he advised numerous media companies on strategies and new business launches, particularly within the United States Hispanic market. His clients included Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., IDT Corp., Council Tree Communications, Inc. and Caracol Television Inc. From 1998 through May 2003, Mr. Sokol was Chief Operating Officer of Telemundo Communications Group, Inc., where he was responsible for all business divisions of this United States Spanishlanguage television network. While at Telemundo, Mr. Sokol established the first bilingual cable network in the United States and created strategic alliances with TV Globo, Caracol Television and Discovery Networks. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Sokol was Senior Vice President, Corporate Development at Sony Pictures where he advised on investment opportunities in television distribution and content creation throughout the world. Prior to his tenure at Sony Pictures, Mr. Sokol was Senior Vice President of Savoy Pictures, Inc. From 1983 to 1994, he was an attorney and a partner with Wyman, Bautzer, Kuchel and Silbert, P.C., and then with Jeffer, Mangels, Butler and Marmaro LLP. Mr. Sokol sits on the board of directors of Faith Media Holdings, LLC. He also sits on the board of directors of InterMedia Español, Inc., WAPA America, Inc., Cine Latino, Inc. and HMTV Cable, Inc., each indirect whollyowned subsidiaries of the Company. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University and J.D. from Stanford Law School.

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About Hemisphere Media Group: Hemisphere Media Group is a pure-play United States Hispanic television (TV)/cable networks and content platform.

David Sanderson

Founder & CEO of Reelgood

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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.

Richard Rosenblatt

Co-Founder & CEO of Whip Media

Richard is Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Whipclip, an app that enables users to share their favorite TV moments. Prior to Whipclip, Richard co-founded Demand Media and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. With an intense focus on the consumer, and recognized as a champion for innovation in the media industry, he led Demand Media in its mission to publish what the world wants to know and share. Richard holds a unique vision for the future of online media and was featured in Fortune’s “The 50 Smartest People in Tech” as runner-up for “Smartest CEO” behind Apple’s Steve Jobs. Prior to founding Demand Media, Richard built, operated and sold several high-profile Internet media companies. Most recently, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Intermix Media, Inc., and Chairman of Myspace.com. He joined Intermix in March 2004, and led a successful turnaround of its existing businesses. Specifically, he helped grow Myspace.com from an unknown web site into one of the most popular properties on the Internet, leading to the acquisition of Intermix by News Corporation in 2005. Previously, Richard founded iMALL, one of the first Internet companies to recognize the power of user-generated content, offering users a suite of tools that enabled them to build their own e-commerce stores and conduct transactions online. As Chairman and CEO, he helped orchestrate the sale of iMALL to [email protected] in 1999. Richard also previously served as chairman of iCrossing, a leading digital marketing firm acquired by Hearst Corporation in 2010. A Southern California native, Richard holds a B.A. from UCLA, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from USC Law School. He has co-lectured a course on new media with Peter Guber at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the USC Marshall School of Business in 2008.

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About Whip Media: Whip Media is transforming the global TV and film content licensing ecosystem with a market leading enterprise software platform.

Nicolas Chartier

Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Voltage Pictures

Nicolas Chartier, the Academy Award winning producer of The Hurt Locker, has been involved in the financing, production and sales of a diverse range of films. In 2005, he founded Voltage Pictures, an International financing, sales and production operation. He has handled over 150 movies in the past 6 years. The Hurt Locker was Voltage Pictures first in-house production and claimed 6 Oscars in 2009, including Best Picture. Killer Joe was Voltage’s second in-house film, directed by William Friedkin and starring Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch, which was released by LD Entertainment. Shortly after Nicolas produced Dallas Buyers Club, which won Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey and Best Supporting Actor Jared Leto. He then produced The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford and starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Brit Marling which premiered at the 2012 Venice Film Festival. More recently Nicolas executive produced The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman directed by 4-time nominated DGA director Frederik Bond, starring Shia LaBeouf and Evan Rachel Wood. He also produced Don Jon, directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore. Nicolas’ latest productions are Good Kill, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke, January Jones, Zoe Kravitz, and Fathers and Daughters, starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried, Aaron Paul, and Diane Kruger and directed by Gabrielle Muccino. Nicolas is also Producer of I.T. directed by John Moore and starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Scott which is currently in pre-production and Executive Producer on A Tale of Love and Darkness, written, directed and starring Natalie Portman which will premiere in the Special Selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2015.

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About Voltage Pictures: Voltage Pictures is a leading film finance, production and international sales company.

Jay McGraw

President and CEO of Stage 29 Productions

CEO of Stage 29 Productions. Executive Producer of The Doctors, Daily Mail TV, Face the Truth, Bull.

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About Doctor On Demand, Stage 29 Productions: Stage 29 Productions is a film company that focused on scripted series, publishing and app development.

Pat LaPlatney

President, VP-Digital Media/Business Development and CEO of Raycom Media

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About Gray TV, Raycom Media: Raycom Media is a privately owned media broadcaster that owns and operates radio stations and television channels.

Greg Silverman

CEO and Founder of Stampede Ventures

Greg Silverman was named President, Creative Development and Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures in June 2013. In this role, he has full oversight of Warner Bros. Pictures’ development activities, global production and budget. Silverman also works with Warner Bros. Pictures’ senior management to seek new opportunities to diversify and build upon the success the company has consistently achieved. He reports to Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Pictures is a recognized industry leader at the global box office, with critical and commercial hits driving more than a decade-long run surpassing the billion dollar mark at both the domestic and international box offices. Recent global box-office successes include The LEGO Movie, 300: Rise of an Empire, Godzilla, and Alfonso Cuaron’s Academy Award-winning Gravity. In 2013, Warner Bros. Pictures had its most successful year ever, grossing $5.038 billion at the global box office (only the second time a studio has crossed $5 billion), driven by a diverse roster of critical and commercial hits. Prior to his current post, Silverman served as President, Production, Warner Bros. Pictures for two years, after various senior positions within the Pictures Group, including Executive Vice President, Creative Development and Production, where he shepherded the enormously successful and critically acclaimed 300, The Dark Knight, The Hangover and the global phenomenon Inception, among other films. Silverman initially joined Warner Bros. in 1997 as a junior production executive, where he worked on such films as The Matrix, A Perfect Murder and Cats & Dogs. Silverman then joined Revolution Studios as Senior Vice President, Production, overseeing America’s Sweethearts, The One and The New Guy, before returning to Warner Bros. Pictures in 2002 as Vice President, Production. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, Production in 2004 and then to Executive Vice President, Production in 2007. He has overseen production on such projects as The Dukes of Hazzard, The Lake House, The Bucket List, Beerfest, Batman Begins, Troy, Get Smart and Yes Man. Silverman got his start in the industry working in craft services on the independent film Two Guys Talkin’ About Girls and then became an assistant at Tri-Star and Mandeville Films before joining Mad Chance as a production executive. Silverman holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from Stanford University.

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About Stampede Ventures: Stampede Entertainment is an independent, standalone content creation company.

Leo Resig

CEO & Co-Founder of Atmosphere

A graduate of Indiana University, Leo has spent time between Chicago and Los Angeles for 12 years until landing in Austin, TX in 2013. His background at a creative agency in an ad ops role gave Leo the monetization insight which led to launching his own digital publishing business, Chive Media Group in 2008 with his brother John Resig. theCHIVE.com continues to be a globally recognized and loved website, app and lifestyle brand. Leo spent 10 years as the CEO of Chive Media Group and continues to co-own the company with his brother. He is now the CEO and co-founder of a OTT TV entertainment platform, Atmosphere, which houses ambient TV channels including its flagship channel, CHIVE TV.

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About Atmosphere, Chive Charities, Chive Media Group, William Murray Golf: Atmosphere is a streaming TV platform for businesses, offering 21 original and partner TV channels.

Charlie Nooney

Chairman & CEO of MobiTV

Charlie Nooney serves as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of MobiTV, Inc. He is a seasoned media executive with a career dedicated to connecting media and mainstream brands with consumers through emerging technologies.In his role as CEO, Nooney drives corporate strategy to grow distribution, drive adoption and strengthen relationships with MobiTV’s carrier, content and OEM partners. He has been pivotal in evolving MobiTV’s vision to deliver a more personalized, relevant and immediate multiscreen connected media experience. Prior to MobiTV, Nooney held a number of executive positions including president of Technicolor Network Services, chairman of Screenvision and CEO of Premier Retail Networks. He also spent 15 years with Disney/ABC Cable networks as executive vice president of affiliate sales and marketing. Nooney earned a bachelor’s degree in urban studies and public administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

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About MobiTV: Mobi TV offers an end-to-end platform delivering live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and on any device.

Jacob Wolf

Founder, CEO, & Executive Producer of Overcome

Jacob Wolf is the Chief Reporter & Investigative Lead at Dot Esports and the Founder & Executive Producer of Overcome. Wolf’s work at Dot Esports includes leading its news and investigations team, which dives deep into some of the most important stories in the gaming and esports industries. In September, Wolf announced Overcome, a full-service audio and production studio he founded that is co-producing a serialized investigative podcast covering one big scandal in gaming. That podcast is set to release in 2022. This year, Wolf’s work at Dot has covered a number of investigations, including one centered around Joshua Mullins, a now-convicted con artist who, as a teenager, attempted to steal millions from some of the biggest esports organizations in the world. Previously, Wolf was the lead reporter covering esports at ESPN, where he worked for four and a half years. Wolf was ESPN’s youngest talent hire ever, accepting the job prior to his 19th birthday. Wolf is a one-time winner of the Esports Awards Journalist of the Year award and a five-time nominee. In 2021, Forbes included Wolf in its 30 under 30 2022 Class for gaming.

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About Dot Esports, Overcome: Overcome is a full-service audio and video production company focused on podcasting, TV, and film projects in gaming.

Herb Kimble

Chief Executive Officer of CineFocus Productions

Herb Kimble is a entrepreneur, actor, director, and film producer who is currently based out of Los Angeles, California. Herbert’s career began at a young age where he was a respected stage actor locally in his hometown of Chicago,IL. This acting career was a prelude to his time in film and television later in life, a passion that never truly left. Kimble’s professional life was drawn to the world of sales and marketing. It was in this enterprise world where he found unprecedented success and left his early mark. In the beginning of 2017, Kimble and an old acting partner got together to create CineFocus Productions. The film production company is based around telling the best stories possible, circling back to Herb’s passion for film and television from an early age. Kimble is a lover of the craft and of the process. He is involved every step of the way, from cinematography to writing and editing with no stone left unturned in between. Kimble’s dedication to the craft extends to his continuing study of film and film production, applying new concepts with each project. Herb Kimble is a businessman, film producer and a lover of the arts.

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About CineFocus Productions: CineFocus is film & TV production company dedicated to the art of film making and bringing great ideas to life.

Sam Wu

CEO of Viki

Sam Wu is the chief executive officer of Viki, Inc.

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About Viki: Viki is a prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.

Lance Neuhauser

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of 4C Insights

Lance Neuhauser is CEO at 4C Insights

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About 4C Insights, The Echo System: Scope by 4C™ is the leading self-service intelligence platform for marketers to drive business outcomes across closed ecosystems.

Jon Cody

Founder and CEO of Television Four

Jon Cody is Architect of US broadband policy as member of FCC Chair Michael Powell’s senior staff; 7-years at News Corp/Fox; former SVP Fox Digital Media and Launch GM of Hulu. Jon Cody is the founder and CEO of TV4 Entertainment, the global leader in streaming channels. After his early success as the General Manager for the launch of Hulu, Jon served as the SVP of Digital Media at Fox Network Groups. Previously, Jon spent over 4 years as a Special Policy Advisor and Legal Advisor under the FCC Office of the Chairman Michael K. Powell, where he played a key in role in the development of the first comprehensive national broadband plan for the United States.

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About Television Four: Television Four is a web and TV channel focus on current events.

Paul Scanlan

Cofounder and CEO of Legion M

Paul Scanlan is Cofounder and CEO of Legion M, the world’s first fan-owned entertainment company.Additionally, Paul plays an active board role in a select group of innovative tech and media companies, including his continued role board member for MobiTV, founding board member of New York Rock Exchange, global board member for Haufe, and as a founding board member for GetClose. Prior to founding Legion M, Scanlan was Cofounder and President of MobiTV, Inc., a global pioneer and leader in monetizing media outside the living room. In this role, Paul has played a critical role in all aspects of the company’s success – from its very beginnings as a scrappy start-up all the way through to its current position today as the market leader in a fast growing space. Paul’s entrepreneurial vision is balanced with an effective make-it-happen approach: he has pioneered an entirely new industry and proven MobiTV’s commercial success as the platform powering nearly all of the tier 1 operator branded services in the United States, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, CenturyLink, US Cellular as well as many new deployments worldwide, including Deutsche Telekom’s in Germany. In 2005, the Academy of Television Arts awarded Paul and the MobiTV team with the TV industry’s highest honor, an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in Advancing Television. Additionally, Paul’s accomplishments and success with MobiTV were recently profiled in a detailed chapter of Tarang Shah’s popular new book, Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes. Paul has been a frequent speaker and industry representative for several media outlets and events, including CNBC, MSNBC, CNET, CTIA, CES, Streaming Media West, Digital Hollywood, NAB, IBC, Mobile World Congress and more.

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About GetClose, Legion M, Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management: Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company producing a slate of movies, TV, and digital content.

David Russek

Founder & CEO of 10Tales

David is considered a digital media, interactive and social video pioneer, having previously helped create and launch new segments for market leaders such as Apple, Comcast NBCU, and Facebook. His award-winning programs and software have generated 100s of millions of views and interactions for some of the world’s leading brands and entertainers using advanced storytelling forms. Accolades for his works have included “Top Social Networking APP of the year (Global OMMA APPY award), TOP 100 Interactive Producers (1996, Producer Magazine), Silicon Valley “Ones to Watch”, and one of the Top 100 private companies in Hollywood by Always On. He has had 3 successful exits previously including being part of a team that managed a startup to global leadership and IPO.

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About 10Tales: 10Tales is where you and your friends go to connect with each other inside the professional stories you love.

Bonnie Beeman

CEO & Founder of Airwavz.tv

Bonnie Beeman joined Airwavz.tv as CEO & Founder in 2015.

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About Airwavz.tv, Positive Planet, SeaChange: Hyper-Precise headline and breaking news, on the web and on TV

Greg Kufera

CEO of Cinapse

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About Cinapse: The on-set management mobile app for major motion pictures & premium television

Sener Korkusuz

CEO and Co-founder of A7FL

A7FL CEO and co-founder. Founder of Earth Skater. Entrepreneur.

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About A7FL: The A7FL promotes a full-contact version of football that aims to be safer for players by getting rid of pads and helmets.

Nick Brambring

Chief Executive Officer of Zattoo

Nick Brambring is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Zattoo. Before he joined Zattoo, Nick worked for a strategy consulting firm, where he did strategic consulting for companies in the consumer goods industry. His industry expertise includes the TV and music businesses. Nick is a qualified lawyer and holds a PHD in law from the University of Cologne and an MBA from INSEAD in France and Singapore.

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About Zattoo: Zattoo is one of the leading TV streaming providers in Europe with around 3 million users per month, serving both B2B and DTC markets.

Peter Low

President & Chief Executive Officer of Ensequence

Peter Low, Ensequence’s president and chief executive officer, has an extensive background in television spanning more than 25 years with expertise in programming and distribution. Before joining Ensequence, Low was executive vice president of cable distribution and marketing for MTV Networks and BET Networks, where he led cable distribution efforts for all 26 of the MTV and BET branded channels. In addition, Low was responsible for negotiating all large distribution agreements and developed the strategy that resulted in the most extensive digital channel launch in the industry. Prior to his position with MTV and BET, Low served as vice president of programming for CableVision.

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About Ensequence: Ensequence provides solutions that enable programmers, advertisers and distributors to create and deploy interactive TV experiences.

Lasha Machavariani

CEO/Founder of Setanta

Lasha is a seasoned executive with a demonstrated history of working in Online Gambling and Sports Media Industries. Today acting as a CEO of the largest sports media holding in CIS region, with more than 6 years of experience in online gambling, building up operations in Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine and working with the big name companies like adjarabet.com for C-Level positions.

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About Setanta: A sports broadcaster.

Rachel Silver

Founder & CEO of Love Stories TV

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About Love Stories TV: Love Stories TV is a video-powered marketplace for wedding planning.

Brian Musburger

Founder and CEO of Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN)

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About Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN): Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN) is a sports betting radio network and streaming television channel.

Michael Swinger

CEO of Weston Swinger Media Holdings Inc.

Micheal Swinger, CEO : is a music executive, record producer, distributor, and executive producer. His career as a music and entertainment veteran spans 30 years. He spent his early years as a young pioneering business entrepreneur in the early stages of the Hip-Hop and Urban Music industry. Growing up in Queens New York he honed his skills as music business administrator and promoter working alongside some of Hip-Hop’s legends. As an independent consultant, Swinger quickly moved into the arena of artist development and promotions, Mike earned his notoriety producing artist showcases and landing radio play for the artists he showcased. He became the ear to the street man for music executives looking for new talent. Over the 30 year span of his career he has earned the respect of major record label top executives like Sony, Relativity Records, RED Distribution as well as all of the major urban radio stations. With the rise of the indie & digital music market, Michael Swinger founded and launched his boutique agency Hot Trackz Entertainment. He has gained international notoriety for his prowess in the arena of Artist Development, Music Production, Project Management, A&R, Radio Promotions, Film Soundtrack Production, Branding and Identity Coordination, Casting, Product Placement/Marketing. Working alongside his long time industry colleague and friend Rodrick Weston, they have created partnerships on various productions from music to film. Together, they formed Weston + Swinger Media Holdings Inc. which specializes in building brands, increasing the value and bridging the gap for their clients. “Many indie recording artists, indie film directors and entrepreneurs have amazing talent and ideas, but don’t know how to cultivate their careers. They don’t have direct connections to investors, record labels, film distributors or corporate marketing executives. We give them the 360 brand ready preparation and help them land successful partnerships.” says Swinger.

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About Weston Swinger Media Holdings Inc.: A fully functional Media company dealing in Film, TV, Event Planning via Commercials space and Full Production.

Alexander Libby

Founder & CEO of ProductionPro

Alexander Libby is a Founder at ProductionPro.

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About ProductionPro: ProductionPro is an entertainment technology company focused on improving creative collaboration in Film, TV, and Theatre production.

Fabienne Fourquet

CEO of 2btube

Former A+E Networks and Canal+ executive, Fabienne Fourquet founded 2btube along with her friend and media veteran Bastian Manintveld in september 2014. 2btube is a production company and talent network focused on Spanish language creators and platforms worldwide and dedicated to the production of Spanish language content and formats for millennials. With more than 20 channels launched on digital platforms and offices and production studios in Madrid, Mexico and Miami, 2btube employs ~100 staff, represents 500-600 creators worldwide and reaches 1.5 billion monthly views.

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About 2btube: 2btube is the leading talent representation agency and next generation content production company in the spanish-speaking world.

Bill Block

CEO of Miramax

Bill Block is the CEO at Miramax.

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About Miramax: Miramax produces and distributes films and television series in United States and internationally.

Prem K. Akkaraju

Co-Founder and CEO of SR Labs

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About SR Labs: SR Labs is a service that streams movies to the home the same day its released in theaters

Guido Morelli

CEO/Founder of Wonder International Inc.

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About : WONDER is a creative suite that allows to create professional looking videos in no time, and without knowing anything about videomaking.

Henry Mauriss

Chief Executive Officer of ClearTV Ltd.

Henry Mauriss is CEO and Chairman of the Board of ClearTV Ltd., a media company that operates a number of television network platforms, including one of the largest television networks for airports in the country. With a commitment to bringing high-quality content to the away-from-home television space – as well as more varied content – Mr. Mauriss has led ClearTV in securing over 200 partnerships with content-providers, some of these being NBC, CBS, Oxygen, HGTV and many more. As CEO, Mr. Mauriss’ leadership has been instrumental in expanding ClearTV’s away-from-home network to an increasing amount of airports and health care facilities around the country. In fact, in 2013, ClearTV expanded their away-from-home television network to four new airports in New Orleans, Cleveland, Raleigh and Dallas. Mr. Mauriss has also been essential in honing the strategic focus of ClearTV’s programming, one that provides travelers a 24-hour a day premium television channel, as well as advertising that is localized to every airport region. Seeking to expand the company’s position in the online media market, earlier this year Mr. Mauriss led ClearTV in their newest venture, namely the launch of the company’s TVChannels4U, a multi-channel online video network. In online video content production and distribution, distribution partners are key. And under Mr. Mauriss’ guidance, ClearTV successfully secured over 3,000 publisher sites for its new TVChannels4U online video content, including such popular sites as TheDailyBeast.com, AOL.com, Bing.com, as well as such online staples as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Looking to offer a variety of video categories in the areas of Entertainment, Sports, Lifestyle and Travel, TVChannels4U looks forward to working with new and seasoned producers to create and curate engaging new online video content, all of which will be distributed through its extended network of online publishing partners. However, Mr. Mauriss career has not only been spent in the media industry – prior to serving as CEO of ClearTV, Mr. Mauriss gained substantial experience in the credit card and finance industry. In fact, in 1998, Mr. Mauriss established and served as Chief Executive of Credit America Corporation, a company that sought to bring once prime consumers back into the credit market through a specially designed balance transfer programs. Using a MasterCard credit card platform, Mauriss’ Credit America Corporation successfully reestablished the credit of thousands of Americans across the country. By the time Mr. Mauriss sold the company in 2010, he had developed it into a 300+ employee organization, complete with call centers for both marketing and credit application processing. Additionally, during his time with Credit America Corporation, Mr. Mauriss purchased, converted and resold over $7 billion in receivables through portfolio trades. When not working, Mr. Mauriss loves to travel, as well as watch Major League Baseball. Most of all, Mr. Mauriss loves to spend his free time with his daughters, whether that’s going to their school functions or swimming or playing hockey with them.

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About ClearTV Ltd.: Media company delivering customized TV stations to away-from-home audiences across the country.

Jake Maas

Interim President & CEO of WinView Games

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About Graham Holdings, WinView Games: WinView Games is a game of skill that is free and legal to play in the US.

Young Joon Cha

Chief Executive Officer of ODK Media

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About ODK Media: ODK Media operates a social TV platform that provides Korean TV shows to users around the world.

Barry Lynn Jenkins

Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Primal Space Systems

Jenkins holds a doctorate in medicine from Harvard University, where he became interested in computational models of human vision, leading to his interest in computer graphics, and how a 2D image is constructed from a known 3D representation. In 1994 Jenkins developed 3D geometry processing and translation software that has been licensed to entertainment and industrial clients including Lucas Arts, Blur Studios, and Northrop Grumman. Subsequently, Barry developed the conceptual and technical framework underlying the GPEG visibility event protocol and has implemented the core components of the GPEG encoder in C/C++. Jenkins is a diplomat of the American Board of Anesthesiology and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Association of Computing Machinery and the International Neural Network Society.

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About Concurrents, Continuous Precision Medicine, Forbes Technology Council, Primal Space Systems: Primal Space systems protocol for streaming games & interactive tv.

James Carpenter

Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Honeycomb

James Carpenter joined Honeycomb TV as Chief Executive Officer and Founder in 2014.

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About Honeycomb: A tv and video ad management platform

Tom Chiarella

CEO & Co-founder of Resonance AI

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About Resonance AI: Resonance AI specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, analytics, and video streaming.

Dorothy Jade

CEO of Waymaker Women Entertainment

Dorothy Jade is the founder and CEO of Waymaker Women Entertainment and founder of non-profit Waymakerly, Inc. Waymaker Women Entertainment is an inclusive media and entertainment company for women of color. Founded in 2017 by Dorothy Jade, Waymaker Women dedicates itself to creating, developing and producing motion pictures, television and digital media. With the latest venture, Waymakerly Inc.; A non-profit organization providing education, mentorship, resources and equipment to girls and teens with interests in media, entertainment, print and radio; Dorothy is expanding her portfolio of media and entertainment properties to include philanthropic works that primarily benefits teens and girls of color.

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About Waymaker Women Entertainment, Waymakerland: Waymaker Women Entertainment is an inclusive media and entertainment company for women of color.

Al Roker

CEO of Al Roker Entertainment

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About Al Roker Entertainment: Al Roker Entertainment is a leading producer of original, award winning TV programs and digital content for the world’s best brands.

Al Roker

CEO of Al Roker Entertainment

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About Al Roker Entertainment: Al Roker Entertainment is a leading producer of original, award winning TV programs and digital content for the world’s best brands.

Jae Yoon Choi

Founder and CEO of KAI Media

Jae Yoon Choi is the Founder and CEO of Kai Media.

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About KAI Media: NEXT GENERATION ENTERTAINMENT FOR GLOBAL K-POP[CULTURE] FANDOMS

William L. Yde

CEO of Global Traffic Network

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About Global Traffic Network: Global Traffic Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: GNET) is the leading provider of custom traffic and news reports to radio and television stations

Sean Cunningham

President and CEO of VAB

Sean Cunningham is the president and CEO of the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB), one of the advertising industry’s leading trade associations. Since his appointment in June of 2003, he first completely transformed the CAB (Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau) from an informational bureau to a direct-to-client television advocacy group with the strategy of presenting the medium’s many investment options dramatically to advertisers and their agencies; then in May of 2015 Sean evolved the CAB to become the VAB, a move that has been extremely well received by the advertising industry. Prior to his role at the CAB and now VAB, his eighteen-year career was marked by several senior management positions with some of the most respected companies in the advertising industry. Cunningham was executive vice president & managing director at Universal McCann in New York. During his tenure, he was responsible for the management of four of the agency’s strategic operating units. He played an integral role in helping to lead the firm during a tremendous period of new business growth. His stint culminated with Universal McCann being named “Agency of the Year” for its 2002 performance by both leading industry trades publications Advertising Age and Adweek.

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About VAB: VAB navigates the data-fueled world through industry-defining insights & custom analyses, addressing challenges, & inspiring conversations.

Mike Landrum

CEO of Technical Innovation

Mike joined Diversified through the acquisition of Technical Innovation where he served as CEO. With more than 20 years of industry experience, Mike has served in various capacities within the TI family of companies (now part of Diversified) prior to being named CEO, a position he held for 16 years, ultimately assuming the role of Executive Vice Chairman of Technical Innovation, LLC, a Diversified company. Before joining TI, Landrum served multiple simultaneous roles from President, to VP of Finance for various entrepreneurial companies in the Risk Management/Insurance industry. Graduating from the University of Alabama in 1974 with a BS from the Culverhouse College of Commerce, his business career began in public accounting with Grant Thornton. He received his CPA certification in 1976. Outside of Diversified, Mike is involved in humanitarian and industry organizations. He currently serves as Chairman for She is Safe, a Christian ministry serving women and girls in oppressed places around the world. Over the years, he’s also served in various capacities with the Board of PSNI, including both Chairman and President.

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About Diversified Systems, Technical Innovation: Technical Innovation helps companies deliver knowledge via the spaces it designs and builds, the solutions.

Dean Devlin

CEO of Electric Entertainment

An acclaimed writer/producer of blockbuster films and highly rated television projects, Dean Devlin serves as chairman and CEO of Electric Entertainment, the full-service film, television and new media production company and studio he founded in May 2001, which also houses Electric Post, the state of the art digital effects and post production facility. Over the last twenty years, Devlin has co-written and produced some of the most successful feature films of all time. He co-wrote and produced Stargate, Godzilla and Independence Day (which grossed over $800 million worldwide). More recently, under the Electric banner, Devlin produced the World War I action/adventure Flyboys, Eight Legged Freaks, Cellular and the critically acclaimed documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Just prior to forming Electric Entertainment Devlin produced the Mel Gibson period drama, The Patriot, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. In television, Devlin Executive Produces “Leverage,” the action-packed TNT series starring Oscar®-winner Timothy Hutton, which is currently in it’s fifth season. Devlin also Executive Produced “The Librarian: Quest for the Spear,” starring Noah Wyle (“ER”), which was the highest-rated movie on cable of 2004; its sequel, “The Librarian: Return to King Solomon¹s Mines;” and the third installment of the franchise, “The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice,” which all aired on TNT. With Bryan Singer he executive produced the Emmy-winning Sci Fi Channel project “The Triangle,” the channel’s highest-rated miniseries since “Steven Spielberg Presents Taken.” Devlin made his directorial debut on the pilot for “Leverage,” which premiered on December 7, 2008 to critical acclaim and record-breaking numbers. He also directs several episodes throughout each season of the series. Recognized as a leader in digital entertainment, Devlin created the first movie marketing website in 1994 for the theatrical release of Stargate; commissioned the development of a multi-player Independence Day online game, which was packaged with the 1996 film on DVD; and developed the first webshow in 1997, in partnership with Intel, for the Fox television series “The Visitor.”

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About Electric Entertainment: Electric Entertainment is a full service film, television, and new media production company and studio.

Blake Buell

CEO, Developer, System Administrator of CosmicMedia

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About CosmicMedia, Quizel: A media production and software development company.

Christy Tanner

CEO of TV Guide

CEO with expertise building businesses that connect with consumers; creating successful mobile, social products; and media business turnarounds. Transformed TVGuide.com and TV Guide Mobile — as an independent digital business unit — into a profitable business with a world-class team, blockbuster products, and strong industry partnerships. Results include the category’s largest smartphone and tablet apps with the most-engaged users, 6 consecutive years of double-digit growth, and an AdAge Vanguard Award for the Watchlist, a personalized, reinvented TV Guide.

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About TV Guide: TV Guide is an online entertainment portal covering TV listings, movies, celebrities, photos and more.

Andres Aranguibel

CEO, Co-Founder of HotSwitch

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About HotSwitch: HotSwitch is a live interactive TV service that provides live-streamed video and chats for applications.

Javier Jimenez

Chief Executive Officer of Mirada

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About Mirada: A multiplatform production company that integrates classic narrative tradition, and the art of storytelling, with emerging technologies.

Damian Pelliccione

CEO of Revry, Inc.

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About Revry, Inc.: Revry is the premiere digital media network for the inclusive 21st century queer community.

RJ Williams

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Young Hollywood

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About Arjay Entertainment Group, Young Hollywood: Young Hollywood is a next generation media company serving Millennials.

Shahyan Sajid

CEO of Rekd

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About Rekd: Rekd is a social platform using machine learning to make experiences with movies, tv shows, and anime more immersive and interactive.

James A. Luksch

CEO & Chairman of Blonder Tongue Laboratories

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About Blonder Tongue Laboratories: Blonder Tongue Laboratories offers television signal encoding, transcoding, digital transport, and broadband product solutions.

Kenny Gazko

CEO/Founder of Lethal Lens Productions, LLC

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About Lethal Lens Productions, LLC: Entertainment for the masses.

Dyllan McGee

CEO & Executive Producer of McGee Media

I just launched a digital video and broadcast initiative, MAKERS: Women Who Make America. The entire project took eight years to get off the ground, which in itself is a Lean In moment, but oddly, not my defining Lean In moment. If someone had followed me with a camera during my college years (thankfully, that didn’t happen), I would have been caught on tape saying, “I’m not a feminist, but…” At the time, I didn’t really know the story of the women’s movement. Yet, I was raised to have it all and be it all and though I’m modest, I have come pretty close to hitting that mark. I have a job that I love, a husband who shares the household chores equally (if not more) and two young boys I get lots of help rearing, but who also have both their Mom and Dad present for most school functions. In many ways, this was just how I imagined it would be. I grew up watching That Girl and Mary Tyler Moore, and I can still recite most of Free to Be You and Me. I spent my early years in New York City never feeling restrained as a woman, went to college, got married, had kids and assumed this is how my life would be and how it has always been. It wasn’t until I listened to the MAKERS stories that I understood where these privileges came from; I was a product of the women’s movement without even knowing what the women’s movement was. As I compared notes with my peers, I realized I wasn’t alone. As much as I was emboldened by my freedoms, I was also saddened that not everyone has been able to realize those same ambitions; the hard work of many women still goes overlooked. I would like to say I embarked on MAKERS for exactly that reason, but the truth is, I embarked on it because I am a filmmaker and I thought it would be a good story. But as the project has come to a conclusion, as much as it has been professionally successful, it has been personally transformative. I realized it’s easy to sit back and believe in change, but not stand up for it; standing up takes effort and risk, and that can be uncomfortable. Shelby Knox, the young feminist organizer, says at the end of the film, “I don’t care if a woman calls herself a turtle and she’s doing pro-equality work—the work is being done.” While she is right, and I agree you don’t have to label yourself a feminist to help women in this world, there is an incredible sense of gratitude I feel towards what these women have done. We ask every interviewee, “Are you a feminist?” The answers are fascinating and complex. But mine is very simple. I’m leaning in and telling the world, “I am a feminist!”

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About McGee Media: McGee Media produces documentary content that uses television, film and digital media in radical.

Jan Umansky

CEO & Founder of Twizted Design

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About Twizted Design: Twizted Design is a software solutions company for graphics production in marketing, advertising, media, entertainment and beyond.