2011 Digital Media Executives

Lisa Kudrow
Actor, Writer, Producer
Web Therapy

Emmy Award-winning actress Lisa Kudrow continues to bring her original sense of comedic timing and delivery to every role she takes on and is able to venture between films to television to the internet with ease.

Lisa made her feature film debut in the Albert Brooks' comedy Mother in 1996. Following Mother she starred opposite Toni Collette and Parker Posey in Clockwatchers (1997) and in the critically acclaimed hit comedy Romy & Michele's High School Reunion (1997) with Mira Sorvino which garnered her widespread popularity with film audiences.

She went on to star in The Opposite of Sex for writer/director Don Roos (1998); Analyze This (1999) and the sequel Analyze That (2002) with Robert DeNiro and Billy Crystal; Lucky Numbers (2000) with John Travolta; Hanging Up (2000) opposite Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton; Wonderland (2004) with Val Kilmer; Happy Endings (2005) for writer/director Don Roos; P.S. I Love You (2007) with Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler; Hotel for Dogs (2008); Easy A (2010) with Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson and Thomas Hayden Church and Paper Man (2010) opposite Jeff Daniels and Ryan Reynolds.

Lisa has always received rave reviews for her feature film roles. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics, an Independent Spirit Award nomination and a Chicago Film Critics Award nomination for her role in The Opposite of Sex. She won a Blockbuster Award and received a nomination for an American Comedy Award for her starring role in the box office hit Analyze This for director Harold Ramis.

Of course it was Lisa's role as Phoebe Buffay, the character she brilliantly portrayed on the NBC hit comedy series Friends for ten seasons (1994-2004) that brought her to audience attention worldwide.

For this role Lisa was nominated for an Emmy award five times and won once for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1998. Lisa also received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series, an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Female Performer in a Television Series and a Golden Globe Award nomination.

In the fall of 2003 Lisa formed the production company, Is or Isn't Entertainment with actor/writer Dan Bucatinsky.

Is or Isn't Entertainment has garnered great success since its inception. Is or Isn't's first television series, the critically acclaimed HBO series The Comeback (2005), garnered three Emmy Award nominations including one for Lisa for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

Who Do You Think You Are, the second series from Is or Isn't Entertainment, recently completed airing the second season of the NBC documentary series. The series which traces the genealogy of a well-known person in each episode is about to being production on season three.

Is or Isn't also produces the web series Web Therapy in which Lisa stars. Seasons 1-3 of the critically acclaimed series, which is about a therapist who does sessions with her clients via the internet, can be found at www.lstudio.com and is also available for download on iTunes. The Web Therapy iPhone app was released last June.

Showtime will air Web Therapy beginning July 19, 2011.

In 2009 Lisa received a Special Webby Award for Outstanding Comedic Performance for her role in Season One of Web Therapy; in 2010 the show won a Webby Award for Best Comedy Series and received two additional nominations including one for Lisa for Best Individual Performance and in 2011 Lisa Kudrow won a Webby Award for Best Individual Performance and Web Therapy won for Best Comedy: Long Form or Series. [ Minimize ]

Robert Nashak
EVP, Digital Entertainment
BBC Worldwide

Robert Nashak, EVP of Digital Entertainment, oversees BBC Worldwide's gaming strategy and is developing new opportunities across a wide range of gaming platforms.

Robert joined BBC Worldwide from Electronic Arts (EA), where he was SVP, leading worldwide production for EA's Casual St...
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Rob Segal
Chairman and CEO
Virgin Gaming

For over 20 years, Rob Segal has been a leading North American marketing and communications specialist working with some of the World's most respected brands. Founder of Segal Communications in 1994, Rob helped launch the original Sony PlayStation, PS2, PS3, Ford focus, Axe body spray & Virgin M...
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Larry Tanz
President
Vuguru

As a digital entertainment veteran, Mr. Tanz brings more than 15 years of strategy and operating experience in media, entertainment and technology. Mr. Tanz also has tremendous expertise in producing, developing and financing successful film, television, and new media projects including documentary film features Running the Sahara and First Descent for Universal Pictures and the Emmy-nominated TV series Project Greenlight for HBO and Bravo. In December 2009, Mr. Tanz was appointed President of Vuguru, the leading independent studio developing and financing scripted content for emerging and traditional platforms. Under Mr. Tanz's direction, Vuguru, which was founded by Michael Eisner's Tornante Company in 2006 and recently backed by Canada's Rogers Media in October 2009, will develop and finance an expanded slate of original series in 2010. Vuguru has become a force in the evolving media landscape, beginning with its 2007 smash success, Prom Queen.

Before joining Vuguru, Mr. Tanz served as president and co-founder of Agility, a boutique multiplatform studio built around developing and financing intellectual property based businesses. While at Agility, Mr. Tanz helped develop and launch the multiplatform franchise The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, which is currently being distributed by Paramount Digital Entertainment.

Prior to Agility, Mr. Tanz served as CEO and president of LivePlanet, a multiplatform production company founded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. At LivePlanet Mr. Tanz was instrumental in creating profitability for the company while also negotiating high-profile deals with top studios including Universal, Miramax, ABC, NBC, MTV, E! and Spike TV.

Before his tenure at LivePlanet, Mr. Tanz served as Director of Strategy and Operations at AOL Time Warner, where he managed acquisitions and strategy around subsidiary brands (including Moviefone, ICQ, Spinner/WinAmp, MapQuest, DigitalCities and AIM). Before AOL Time Warner Mr.Tanz was a Senior Associate at Mercer Management Consulting, where he helped Fortune 100 clients develop and implement new products and strategies. [ Minimize ]

Ted Sarandos (@netflix)
Chief Content Officer
Netflix

Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With more than 20 years' experience in home entertainment, Ted is recognized in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution.
Ted oversees the Beverly Hills office of Netflix with a staff of 75 people who ma...
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Saman Rahmanian (@saman325)
Creative Director
Tribal DDB

Saman Rahmanian is a Creative Director in New York at Tribal DDB. Previously, he worked at Ogilvy & Mather in Germany, where his clients included BMW, MINI, and PlayStation, and more recently at AdWeek's Agency of the Decade Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Colorado, where he helped shape the global...
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Donagh O'Malley (@GoogleTV)
Global Head of Content
Google TV

Donagh runs content partnerships for Google TV, leading all content partnerships globally for the platform. Prior to Google TV, he led content partnerships for YouTube in the UK, launching UK Shows, which was the first full-length television content destination on YouTube globally. Prior to Google...
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Crystal Henrickson (@yelpcanada)
Director of Marketing, Canada & Northwest
Yelp

Crystal joined Yelp in March 2009, as Yelp Vancouver's first Community Manager. This one-lady leader helped educate business owners on how to maximize their online presence, brought the online community together offline by hosting remarkable local events, and was the author of the Weekly Yelp newsle...
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Pete Watson (@Blackberry)
Senior Business Development Manager - Consumer Partners
Research In Motion Limited / BlackBerry

Pete spent his formative years throughout the music business: as a touring/recording musician, producer, designer, and even retail music store manger; Pete made a career move and joined Universal Music full-time in the mid 1990s and had an opportunity to take a pioneering role in their new media and...
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Ariel Garten
CEO and Co-Founder
InteraXon

If there ever was a gap between science, art, business and technology, Ariel has closed it. Her work converts the workings of the mind into tangible solutions.

Ariel is the CEO and co-founder of InteraXon, which creates thought controlled computing products and applications. This rema...
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Mike Farah (@mike_farah)
President of Production
Funny or Die

Mike Farah is the President of Production for Funny or Die, overseeing the creative day-to-day operations for the premiere comedy site, along with Funny or Die's television and feature projects. With Funny or Die for over two years, Farah has the produced the award-winning video "Prop 8: The Mu...
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Sunni Boot (@ZenithOptimedia)
CEO
ZenithOptimedia

Sunni is CEO of ZenithOptimedia Canada, Media Agency of the Year. She is actively involved on industry boards such as Audit Bureau of Circulation, Concerned Children's Advertisers, Newspaper Marketing Bureau, Canadian Media Directors' Council and Broadcast Bureau of Measurement, and is much sought ...
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Fred Santarpia
General Manager
VEVO

Fred Santarpia is General Manager of VEVO, the web's leading all-premium music video and entertainment service with two billion worldwide streams each month. Created in partnership by Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony Music Entertainment (SME) and Abu Dhabi Media Company, VEVO operates independently...
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Anthony Lilley (@AnthonyLilley)
Chief Creative Officer and CEO
Magic Lantern

Anthony is Chief Creative Officer and CEO of Magic Lantern. He is a BAFTA, RTS and Peabody Award-winning interactive media producer who has
worked on Top Gear, Doctor Who, Teletubbies, Spooks, FourDocs, The Guardian, Sony Playstation and many others. He was also recently the Creative Direct...
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Jason Tafler
Chief Digital Officer
Rogers Media Inc.

Jason joined Rogers as Chief Digital Officer in 2011 to drive the next phase of the company's digital media strategy, growth and leadership.

He grew up in Toronto and has spent most of the past decade of his career in the U.S. building, advising and investing in entrepreneurial, growt...
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Kip Voytek (@kipbot)
Director of Digital Innovation
MDC Partners

Kip Voytek is the Executive Director of Digital Works, an institute dedicated to cultivating digital talent, thinking and management. He also serves as MDC Partners' Director of Digital Innovation where he works on technologies, processes, and anything else that helps foster new ideas for better wo...
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Dominique-Sebastien Forest
Vice-President, Digital
Transcontinental Media

As Vice-President Digital, Dominique-SÃ©bastien Forest is responsible for Transcontinental Media digital media strategy, including the diversification of their product offering and the acceleration of the growth if the New Media and Digital Solutions Group. His mission is to create the m...
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Natalie Farsi
Head of Mobile
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution & Warner Bros. TV Group

In her new role, Farsi will work to expand the development, distribution and marketing of a diverse portfolio of mobile products, including ad-supported mobile web sites, applications, mobile games, video services and messaging products, for the Studio's films, television series, home video releases...
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Paul Burns
Vice-President, Online Experience
Shaw Media

Paul Burns oversees the development of fully integrated, multi-platform strategies for current and future digital media initiatives across all of Shaw's business units. Previously, he managed all aspects of digital products and strategy related to Shaw Media's conventional and specialty channels.[ Extend Bio ]

Jeremy Butteriss
Director, Strategic Partnerships
Google Canada

Jeremy joins Google Canada with 15 years of experience in media, e-commerce, strategic partnerships, venture development and mergers & acquisitions. Previously, he led the Broadband Entertainment division at Rogers Communications, where he developed digital media strategies for Rogers entertainm...
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Avner Ronen (@avneron)
CEO and Co-Founder
Boxee

Named one of Rolling Stone's "Agents of Change" for 2009, prior to boxee Ronen was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc. a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. Ronen was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were ke...
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Graham Moysey
General Manager
AOL Canada

Graham Moysey is AOL Canada's General Manager and oversees the development and execution of the business strategy around AOL's core objectives of content, advertising and local. He is responsible for promoting the AOL brand and ensuring that AOL is represented appropriately within the region focusin...
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Scott Cuthbert
President
Safeopedia

Scott is the founder and President of Safeopedia. Scott is a passionate entrepreneur who has been instrumental in several successful start-ups. Most recently Scott co-founded Digital Time Capture Inc. and as Chief Executive Officer took the company from an idea to a thriving international software...
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Greg Siegel
SVP Entertainment Development
Break Media

Greg Siegel is SVP Entertainment Development at Break Media, where he leads the company's entertainment partnerships and film and television initiatives.

Previously, Greg was a talent agent for twelve years at the Endeavor Agency (now William Morris Endeavor Entertainment) beginning in 1995 when, at the time, he was the industry's youngest agent. Greg signed and oversaw the careers of Jennifer Garner, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan and Michael Chiklis, amongst many others. He was responsible for making Garner the highest paid actress on television at the time; establishing Kutcher's successful production company, Katalyst Films (including overseeing cable, network and digital distribution deals with MTV, ABC and AOL); and making Chiklis the highest paid actor on basic cable for "The Shield." In 2001, at the age of 28, The Hollywood Reporter named him one of Hollywood's "Top 35 Executives Under the Age of 35."

Prior to representing actors, Greg founded Endeavor's New Media division in 1996, developing the agency's early Internet strategy. A leader in this emerging market, Greg packaged online shows for studios' digital divisions and advised numerous entertainment companies and consumer brands on their nascent new media strategies. He created and produced "Zima Talk," a real-time celebrity chat show on AOL, making it the industry's first live branded entertainment program. He also organized one of the first roundtables on the future effects of the Internet on mainstream entertainment, presented at HBO's US Comedy Arts Festival in 1996.

After leaving the agency business, Greg founded the Internet startup, VidMe Inc., in 2008. The private online video sharing service gave consumers complete control over the distribution and privacy of their personal videos. He oversaw all aspects of the company's growth, including product design and rollout, business development, marketing, and branding. He managed a seven-person engineering and design team in the U.S. and the Ukraine, and raised two rounds of venture financing. [ Minimize ]

Mary-Ellen Anderson
Executive Director
MSN.ca

Mary-Ellen leads the English and French product and editorial teams for Canada's No. 1 online portal MSN.ca.

As a member of the senior leadership team for the Consumer & Online division, Mary-Ellen is responsible for identifying and planning the strategic direction of MSN.ca onli...
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Rob Barnett
Founder/CEO
My Damn Channel

Rob Barnett is the Founder/CEO of My Damn Channel, a leading entertainment company producing and distributing premium, original content since 2007. Rob was a production and a programming executive at MTV and VH1 for more than 11 years. He served tours of duty in rock radio in Boston, Dallas, and Lo...
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Anthony Lacavera
Chairman and CEO
Globalive Communcations Corp

Anthony Lacavera is Chairman and CEO of Globalive Communications Corp., an emerging leading provider of next generation telecommunications solutions globally. Lacavera recently led Globalive to become the next major wireless services provider in Canada following the country's wireless spectrum auction. As Chairman of Globalive Holdings, WIND Mobile's parent company, Lacavera is helping to position WIND Mobile as an innovative and consumer focused mobile company that will provide greater choice and feature rich offerings for Canadians.

Lacavera founded Globalive in 1998, and has since developed the company to become an industry leader. Globalive offers a host of innovative applications and delivers first-rate telecom services to a wide range of clients. By tailoring their innovative technology to create customer-focused solutions, Globalive has continued to thrive in the highly competitive global telecommunications market.

The Globalive group of companies includes Yak Communications, OneConnect Services, Canopco Hospitality Telecom, Globalive Carrier Services, and WIND Mobile. Globalive provides services to over 1 million Canadian households under the Yak Communications brand, over 3000 hotels and hospitals in over 30 countries with Canopco, and over 5000 small to medium businesses in North America through OneConnect Services. Globalive Carrier Services provides wholesale, billing and collection services to carriers around the world. WIND Mobile, formerly Globalive Wireless, is poised to become Canada's next major wireless carrier and the first carrier to harness to power of its customers to build a better wireless experience.

Since inception Globalive has been recognized as a leading Canadian corporation. Globalive has received numerous best in business awards, including the #1 ranking on Profit Magazine's listing of Canada's 100 fastest growing companies in 2004, being named among Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for five consecutive years, being named among Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 and among Canada's 50 Hottest Startups, as well as earning Canadian Business Magazine's Top 30 Workplaces in Canada.

Lacavera's business investments range from telecom to retail including a recent investment in BLO Blow Dry Bar, a chain of blow dry salons. His philanthropic pursuits include founding the SHAMBA Foundation, a first of its kind 'charity for charities' and he is a founding contributor to the Art Gallery of Ontario's Galleria Italia, a remarkable glass and timber walkway at the heart of the Frank Gehry redesigned AGO. Lacavera is also a patron of the theatre; following the success of his first production, a New York City revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hat Tin Roof, the show is now on tour and can be seen in London, England. [ Minimize ]

Fred Forster
CEO and President
PHD Canada

Fred Forster has been actively engaged in the Canadian media community for more than 25 years. As President and Chief Operating Officer at PHD since 2002, Fred has led a cultural transformation that has seen the agency rise to the top of the ranks among the most respected and awarded creative media ...
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Devon Copley
Managing Director, Media & Entertainment
Kaltura

Devon Copley is the Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at Kaltura, the open source video company. Founded in 2006, Kaltura enables online video for tens of thousands of organizations large and small - from Warner Bros. to Wikipedia, from Best Buy to Yale University. The Kaltura video pla...
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Mark Gantt
Writer, Producer and Actor
The Bannen Way

Mark's latest project that he co-wrote, produced and starred in called The Bannen Way has been an incredible success. Financed by Sony's Crackle distribution arm, this unique Web Series/Feature Film, has broken records with over 14 million views, won 4 Streamy Awards including Best Actor (Mark), Bes...
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Jonathan Ford
Executive Vice-President, Digital Acquisitions and Distribution
Content Media Corporation

Jonathan is responsible for the licensing of all Content Media Corporation's film and television properties to digital media channels worldwide, including on-demand, broadband and mobile platforms. Alongside this, he also acquires and manages the company's ever growing catalogue of original digital ...
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Jim Louderback
CEO
Revision3

Jim Louderback was recruited to Revision3 as the CEO in July 2007, and has guided the company to a seven-fold increase in viewers, a quadrupling of revenue, 39 new distribution partners and 9 prestigious company and show awards.
Prior to that, Jim spent 16 years in increasingly senior media...
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Jennifer Holgate
SVP, Digital
Starcom MediaVest Group

In her role as SVP Digital Director, Starcom MediaVest Group Jennifer leads a team that is focused on expanding the agency's strategic framework and setting up infrastructure for delivering best in class digital products and consumer insights. Providing clients with the most effective 360 planning based on digital intelligence and integration. To ensure success Jennifer draws from her diversified experience over the past 20 years. Jennifer has taken her passion for media and ensured she remained at the forefront of defining the impact that shifting consumer behaviour will have on communication and media planning strategy.
Ms. Holgate's expertise in Digital began with the introduction of the Information Superhighway and has been speeding along since. Within her roles as VP Digital Media, VP Broadcast & Digital, VP Sales & Marketing Dose and others within areas of the CanWest Corporation, she led: product management, marketing, business development, broadcast sales, sales and operations for digital media content platform development. This included the delivery of: video-on-demand, broadband, web-based and mobile platforms, as well as interactive television technologies.
As a result, Ms. Holgate has been at the forefront of examining and monetizing opportunities like Video Neutrality and Transmedia Campaign planning. In addition to her unique video experience, Ms. Holgate has a solid foundation in print media fully rounding out her expertise in 360 Marketing strategy development.
Ms. Holgate has been a strong evangelist of digital media for well over 12 years. Most recently, she translated her passion industry to the new generation of marketers. Where she joined Seneca College (Ontario), and developed the first Digital Media Marketing course. As a marketing Professor, Ms. Holgate instructed students in the areas of Integrated Marketing Communications and Global Marketing. Ms. Holgate is a long standing and active member of the IAB, Canadian Research Advisory Council (comscore), Canadian Digital Advisory Council (ABC) and the Mobile Marketing Association. She has also supported the industry as a member of the board for NadBank, a member of the BES and TVB.

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Angele Beausoleil (@angelsun)
VP Strategy and Innovation
Dare North America

Angele is a "tradigital" marketer with over twenty years in both traditional and digital marketing communications, a pioneer in interactive product and UE design and a New Media CEO Of The Year nominee from the 2000 Canadian New Media Awards. Having garnered over 30 international awards in...
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Raja Khanna
Co-CEO
GlassBOX Television

As Co-CEO of GlassBOX Raja helps drive the company's mandate to launch new channels and capture market share in the digitally-savvy 18-34 year-old demographic. While directly managing the forthcoming launch of GlassBOX's next channel Raja is also responsible for legal, finance (including third party...
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Joe Casale
President
Casale Media

Joe Casale, described by many as an entrepreneurial technophile, has been involved in the research and development of ground-breaking communication technology solutions for over 30 years. He has spearheaded an impressive list of industry firsts since entering the field of emerging computing technolo...
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Pary Bell
Vice President, Product, Digital Media
Rogers Media

Pary Bell is a senior digital executive whose expertise in strategy and product development spans online, mobile, emerging technologies and traditional media.

As the Vice President, Product, Digital Media, at Rogers Media, Pary is responsible for the development and execution of strat...
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David Hyman
General Counsel
Netflix

David Hyman has served as Netflix General Counsel since 2002. He also serves as the Company's Secretary.
David is responsible for all legal affairs and government relations of Netflix. David and his team handle a wide variety of issues, including content acquisition, marketing, partner licens...
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Gary Fearnall
Director of Global Marketing Solutions
LindkedIn Canada

Gary Fearnall is Director of Global Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn Canada. The Canadian Marketing Solutions team works with marketers and advertising agencies to connect them with LinkedIn's audience of thought leaders and decision makers within Canada and across the world.

Gary has ...
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Raymond Reid (@Global_SMG)
Group Director, Digital
Starcom MediaVest Group

Raymond Reid is currently Director of Digital Solutions within the Starcom MediaVest Group, with specific responsibilities for establishing and leading the strategic digital vision for sibling agencies MediaVest Canada and SMG Performance Marketing. In this role, Raymond manages and leads the agenci...
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Jesse Albert (@jessalbert)
Digital Producer & Consultant

Jesse Albert has been involved in interactive marketing and strategy for over a decade working in both corporate and entertainment digital media.

He has created innovative digital strategy, multi-platform solutions and branded entertainment programming on behalf of world leading arti...
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Matt DiPaola (@ProximityWW)
Senior Vice President, Managing Director
Proximity

Matt brings over 15 years of experience in the interactive, advertising and public relations industry.

He began his career in Public Relations & event marketing before making the switch to interactive in 1998. In transitioning to the digital channel, Matt was director of emarketin...
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Gary Yentin (@AppPromo)
CEO and Founder
App-Promo!

Gary has a proven track record in taking top media companies wireless. Working with clients in entertainment, sports and finance, Gary has built wireless programs and opened distribution channels for companies including; Warner Brothers/TMZ, Bell/Sympatico, Virgin Mobile Canada, Nokia, Admob, Quattr...
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Ryan Wolman (@rywo)
Creative Director
henderson bas

Ryan thinks the web is the best toy ever. Before joining henderson bas as Creative Director, he spent 10 years as a web pusher at top-notch agencies like 10plus1 and Maclaren MacCann. Dedicated to epic creative that gets results beyond oohs and aahs, Ryan has created award-winning online campaigns f...
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Steve Masur (@masur)
Senior Partner - Technology, Corporate, Intellectual Property, Entertainment
MasurLaw

Steven Masur is a Senior Partner of MasurLaw. Steve has over 15 years of experience working with digital media and entertainment companies on their corporate and intellectual property transactions and day-to-day operations. He helps our clients with corporate finance and governance, M&A transa...
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Adrian Capobianco
Partner, President
Quizative Inc.

Adrian is considered amongst a handful of Canadian's on the 'go-to' list of digital marketing leaders. His experience precedes the dot-com boom and he has helped build thriving digital businesses in good economies and bad.

His career - which began at IBM - has focused on the interchange of business, technology and marketing. At IBM, he was responsible for lending money to help finance technology investments. From IBM, Adrian joined US-based firm, Rare Medium, to help build their Canadian operations. Following Rare, Adrian moved to Publicis where he was instrumental in building the digital marketing business in Canada. During this period, Adrian also completed his MBA in his 'spare time'. After Publicis, Adrian was recruited to FUSE Marketing Group to establish and grow the digital marketing practice which thrives today.

After building FUSE's digital business, Adrian launched Quizative which is his most ambitious vision of a new digital innovation agency. Quizative is where he cooks the ingredients of ideas, business, technology, and evolving markets into a compelling recipe for innovation and change. Quizative has quickly grown delivering digital marketing services as well as product and service innovation to clients across the country and globally.

He has helped clients including Allstream, AOL, Canada Post, Canadian Tire, CIBC, GE, HP, Interac, Nestle, Nike, Panasonic, Rogers, Shoppers Drug Mart, Sony, Telus, Tetley, Wal-Mart, and many others to understand customer needs and develop digital marketing strategies that drive business results.

Adrian is extremely involved in the marketing community. In the last year alone he has:
â�¢ Chaired the country's largest digital marketing conference (CMA/Marketing Mag's Marketing Week)
â�¢ Chaired one of the largest digital marketing award juries (Marketing Magazine's DMA's)
â�¢ been named to the Top 40 Canadian Digital Marketers
â�¢ participated in the Canadian New Media Awards
â�¢ and continued to teach the CMA's eMarketing certificate course

Adrian has been published and featured in The Financial Post, Marketing Magazine, Strategy Magazine, Canadian Business, CBC, Direct Marketing News, the Globe & Mail, the National Post, The Toronto Star and others. In his spare time, Adrian plays hockey, loves to wakeboard/snowboard, spends time with his family and enjoys being very non-digital with various home-reno projects.

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Heather Loosemore (@Global_SMG)
Director of Digital Strategies
Starcom MediaVest Group

Leadership, passion and diversity have been the forefront of Heather Loosemore's success, developing strong results and creative media innovation. Heather previously headed up digital brand communications and marketing at Alliance Atlantis and then moved on to create the digital strategies departme...
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Richard Shore (@redleverstudios)
Co-Founder and President
RedLever

Richard Shore serves as President of RedLever, a global studio at the nexus of advertising and entertainment he co-founded in 2008. Shore is responsible for forming strategic relationships with content providers and overseeing RedLever's full, in-house studio capabilities, including the creation, pr...
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Alistair Mitchell
VP, BBM Platform & Integrated Services
RIM Research in Motion

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Sophie Begin
Online Publisher, Internet and Digital Service
Radio-Canada

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Philippe Patrice
Chief Digital Platforms Officer
Astral Radio

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Andy Striegler
VP Customer Networks
Rogers Communication

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Patricia Wetham
Director, Video Content
Rovi Corporation

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Simon Jennings
President
Olive Media

Simon Jennings is a pioneer in the Canadian Internet marketing and advertising industries and claims to have "the coolest job in the world." Entering his 17th year as an internet marketer, Simon has garnered success on both the entrepreneurial and corporate ends of Canada's internet and me...
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David Paull
Founder and President
Dialsmith, LLC

David Paull is Founder and President of Dialsmith, LLC, the worldwide developer and marketer of the Perception AnalyzerÂ® for audience research and measurement, and ISX - Instant Scoring eXperienceâ�¢ for scoring of televised sports and reality events. Dialsmith's technologies a...
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Heather Adams
Director, Accounts & Marketing
zu

Work in new media? Then you know that the excitement and challenges facing
businesses and their service providers working together can be like wrestling a beast.
Heather enters the ring with a fiery, quick wit and honest and direct attitude, always pushing herself and her clients towa...
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Eric Alzuhn
General Manager
Dialsmith, LLC

Eric Alzuhn is General Manager of Dialsmith, LLC, the worldwide developer and marketer of the Perception AnalyzerÂ® for audience research and measurement, and ISX - Instant Scoring eXperienceâ�¢ for scoring of televised sports and reality events. Dialsmith's technologies are use...
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Kristie Painting
VP of Sales and Marketing
Olive Media

Kristie Painting is an Internet sales veteran. Her fifteen years of sales experience include newspaper and magazine, but most of her career has focused on online as the most creative and flexible advertising medium. She joined Olive Media at its inception in 2006 as Director of Sales, and now serve...
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Tamara Dawson
VP, Associate Media Director
M2 Universal

As a champion for the power and capabilities of targeted media plans, Tamara has brought highly developed negotiation skills and superior strength in media research to every brand she's worked with for the last 13 years. She creates insightful media strategies and solid executions. In 2002, she join...
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Susan Dioszeghy
SVP, Media Director Western Region
M2 Universal

For 16 years, Susan has been firmly on top of the changing media landscape. She deftly weaves traditional and non-traditional media together to amplify creative impact and change even stubborn consumer opinions. Susan's trademark is to develop creative media plans and long-term strategies that are c...
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Brady Gilchrist
President
Adomo Group Inc.

Brady Gilchrist has been in the digital marketing business from the beginning. Brady is a sailor, pilot, photographer, writer and entrepreneur. Brady's business endeavors have taken him around the world with some of the most exciting companies on the planet. He has created strategies for Motorola, Wrigley's, Shell, Toyota, Covad, Cincinnati Bell, Ford, Microsoft, McDonalds, CTFS, AT&T, DIscovery and others. Over the past 20 years, Brady has been part of teams that have won just about every major online marketing award. His first business was creating mobile applications - long before mobile was a buzz. The technology he created was sold and a non-compete brought him into the Internet business in the early 90s. His second business venture was one of Canada's first online agencies - Intermagic. From there, he went on to roles including Senior Vice President at GJP Advertising and Executive Vice President and CSO at Fuel Industries. Brady's greatest passion is helping others discover theirs. His latest venture, dailykickstart.com, is an online program designed to accelerate focus and help people achieve their ambitions. He is a tremendous fan of inventing and acts as a mentor who advises and bootstraps new startups, innovators and marketers with an eye on the future - and even beyond. He has been involved in a number of ground breaking projects including "A Digital Life" when in 1999 he wired up a 27 foot sailboat to the Internet and accidentally became one of the very early bloggers. in 2000 as a crew-member he traveled up the west coast of Africa on the Microsoft, Sony and Stern sponsored MV Starship during it's mission to make a multimedia record of the planet. The MV Starship was one of the world's first ship outfitted with all the technologies required to allow it to share its voyage with the world via the internet. What excites him the most these days is the tremendous creative energy being unleashed as a new era of highly portable, connected and personal computing takes root. The future he likes to discuss is one where our relationship with technology is poised to change in ways that we can only imagine. [ Minimize ]

Jeff Bradshaw
President & CEO
JetSuite

With over 20 years in the television production and software development space Jeff has extensive knowledge and experience with online video delivery. Having started one of Canada's first web video companies in 1999 Jeff has seen this technology evolve into to a communication powerhouse that is cha...
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Candice Faktor
Vice President Strategy and New Ventures
Torstar Digital

As Torstar Digital's Vice President, Strategy and New Ventures, Candice is responsible for creating the next generation of Torstar Digital's businesses and developing the company's overarching growth strategy. Candice has been at Torstar Digital since the beginning and has been instrumental in its g...
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Maura Hanley
President
BigReach Learning

Maura is an advertising industry veteran with 20 years experience and a passion for learning. Maura has consistently kept pace with the latest in marketing innovation including everything from performance analytics to social media and mobile tactics. She has worked with advertisers in a variety of...
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Matt Kojalo
Vice President Global Advertising Solutions
Poynt Corp

Mr. Kojalo has over 10 years' experience in sales and business development and has a comprehensive understanding of the mobile industry and advertising. Before joining Poynt, he was VP Business Development at MocoSpace, the largest mobile publisher in North America. While with MocoSpace, he managed ...
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Cassy Weber
Vice President Advertising New Product Introduction
Poynt Corp

Cassy has over 15 years' experience in Location-Based Services (LBS), new product introduction (NPI), sales and marketing. Her focus on monetization and innovation within the mobile advertising space, in conjunction with her LBS experience, bring a unique perspective to Poynt's in-application advert...
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Jim Barr
President and Executive Producer
Seekers Media Inc.

Twenty years experience in tourism social networking and 10 years as a newspaper writer and TV/new media producer. A passion for snow has lead Barr into the development of one of Western Canada's leading new media company's who gets to "eat it's baking". The company's focus is on producin...
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Owen Brierly
Executive Director
Guru Digital Arts College

Owen is the Executive Director of Guru Digital Arts College and a Managing Partner of Gystworks. Over the past 14 years Owen has worked with, taught and worked for many of Edmonton's top talent in digital media. From Project Director for a Serious Game in the oil and gas sector to Lego trivia intera...
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Adam Goetz
Digital Strategies
Suitcase Interactive

Adam's background is in both traditional advertising and digital engagement strategy, working with clients like the Calgary Stampede, ENMAX, Mark's Work Wearhouse, SMART Technologies, Sport Chek, and Travel Alberta. He has won a number of awards, including an Anvil Award last year for "Best Use...
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Michelle Sklar
President / Director of Marketing & PR, Europe
Digital Alberta / Poynt Corporation

As an agent of innovation Michelle has focused her professional career development on bringing ideas from inception to execution. Her skill set inteam building, connecting people, evangelizing, creative problem solving, contagious enthusiasm, and a strong work ethic, have enabled her to lead indevel...
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Jake Szymanski
Director
Funny or Die

Jake was scooped up by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy to be their in-house Director for FunnyOrDie.com. Jake has produced, written, and directed hundreds of clips for FOD in the past 3 years, including some of their biggest hits, "Paris Hilton Responds to McCain", "Ron How...
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Chris Bruss
Producer
Funny or Die

Chris Bruss, a producer at Funny Or Die, oversees branded entertainment development and production. Prior to working at FOD, Chris worked in the Business Development group at the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) - working with their digital team to help package premiere online video content (both bra...
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Ted Baracos
Director of Digital Media
Reed MIDEM

Ted Baracos is Director of Digital Media at Reed MIDEM, organiser of MIPTV and MIPCOM - the Worlds' Entertainment Content Markets held every six months in Cannes, France. Reed MIDEM is a division of Reed Exhibitions, the world's leading events organiser. MIPTV and MIPCOM are the leading internati...
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Dan Wittmers
Director of Sales
Motricity

Dan Wittmers has been a director of sales at Motricity since the company acquired Adenyo, a mobile marketing, advertising and analytics solutions provider, in April 2011. Previously, Dan was a director of sales for Adenyo from June 2010 to March 2011, where he worked with U.S. brands and agencies on...
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Howard Donaldson
President
DigiBC

Howard Donaldson was recently appointed President of DigiBC, the digital media and wireless association of BC. Donaldson also serves as a CEO in Residence for the Centre4Growth. Most recently, Donaldson served as Vice President, Studio Operations for Disney Interactive Studios. In this position, he...
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Brian August
VP Business Development
Watchitoo

Brian August leads Watchitoo's efforts to develop new partnerships and revenue generating opportunities in the realm of collaborative live, multistreaming. A former media attorney with more than 20 years of experience, Brian was senior vice president of corporate development at Titan TV Media, a pl...
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Harry Lee
President and CEO
TELSTON

Harry Lee is President and CEO of TELSTON, an Interactive TV solutions and content company from Korea, and top winner of the MIPTV Content 360 competition for Rich media Tablet & Social TV Apps in Cannes, France last April. TELSTON's strength lies in having knowledge and experience in telecommu...
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J Joly
CEO
dimeRocker

From his first job working at a cinema on a Canadian base in Germany, J has spent two decades working in media. During his undergraduate at Queen's he founded a recording group that toured with acts such as The Tragically Hip, Wilco, and Primus. After graduation he directed award-winning shorts, w...
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Jeff Anders
Co-Founder and CEO
The Mark

Jeff is the co-founder and CEO of The Mark, a producer of multimedia content featuring a largely Canadian community of 2,000 influencers worldwide. For every organization and every individual that now needs to be a publisher, The Mark is their editorial board, production studio, and distribution net...
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Michele Perras
Mobile Strategist & Products
Transcontinental

Michele Perras is a digital strategist with a decade of experience working in design and innovation. She has worked with corporations, start-ups and public sector organizations, specializing in strategy, product development and program delivery. In her role as Mobile Strategist with Transcontinen...
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David Gratton
CEO & Founder
Work at Play

David Gratton began working in digital media since 1999. He quickly became recognized for his expertise in developing innovative digital media technologies and utilizing cutting-edge digital design techniques. Notably, he started Canada's first weekly live video streaming program, VFS Live, and he d...
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Jacqueline Nuwame
Senior Training Programs Manager
CFC Media Lab

Jacqueline Nuwame is currently Senior Training Programs Manager, at the CFC Media Lab, overseeing the Telus IAEP training program, working with industry partners on strategic relationships on numerous special projects and national training activities. With her company Eventide Media she is in develo...
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Richard Kanee
Founder
Drop Deck

Before starting Creative D, Richard spent more than ten years at broadcasters CHUM and CTV in various strategy, product and business development roles. In that time, he counts many Canadian and North American firsts in his accomplishments: first interactive television applications in Canada, first c...
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Dana Toering
Director of Business Development and Sales
AOL Canada

Dana Toering is the Director of Sales and Business Development at AOL Canada where he is responsible for leading national sales for Canada and managing partnerships and strategic alliances for all of AOL's business operations in Canada.
With more than twelve years in the industry, Dana is a v...
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Ami Dror
Chief Strategy Office
XPAND

Ami Dror is one of XPAND's co-founders and is responsible for XPAND's overall strategy. With over 4,000 3D Cinema installations worldwide and millions of 3D consumer products sold every year via retail channels, XPAND delivers the BEST 3D experiences to millions of viewers every day. Ami is a 3D ...
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Claude Galipeau
Chief Services Officer
Syncapse, Corp

Claude Galipeau is the Chief Services Officer, Syncapse, Corp. (Toronto, New York, London, Portland). Syncapse is a global technology leader in social media management, and delivers solutions that empower brands and agencies to build, manage and measure their digital customer relationships. Clau...
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Tom Perlmutter
Film Commissioner and Chair
National Film Board

A long-standing advocate for groundbreaking and socially engaged media-making, Tom Perlmutter was named the 15th Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Film Board (NFB) of Canada on June 11, 2007. Perlmutter first joined the NFB in December 2001 as Director General of English Program. He has spearheaded a sweeping digital transformation at Canada's public film producer: introducing the NFB's hugely successful <NFB.ca> online Screening Room and apps for smartphones, launching a range of interactive digital projects and expanding the NFB's e-cinema network. Under his leadership, the NFB has continued to push the boundaries of documentary and animation programming, forged critical ties with important partners abroad and remained committed to supporting emerging filmmakers and those from cultural minorities. The NFB has also garnered a number of prestigious honours and awards during this time, including four OscarÂ® nominations, two OscarÂ® wins and a record five nominations at the 2010 Webby Awards, the Internet's highest honour. Prior to joining the NFB, Perlmutter enjoyed a distinguished career in the Canadian film industry. As the founding head of documentaries at Barna-Alper Productions, he created and produced award-winning documentary series and one-offs. In 1999, he became a partner in Primitive Entertainment, where he created, produced and directed a number of distinctive documentaries. Perlmutter previously partnered with John Walker, one of Canada's most noted filmmakers, on several awardwinning documentaries. Prior to this, he was Director of Creative Development for CineNova Productions, where he worked with many of the world's leading broadcasters. He has also worked as a commissioning editor in publishing and as a writer and reporter in England and Canada. Perlmutter was born in SÃ¡rospatak, Hungary. He was educated at McGill University in Montreal and Magdalen College in Oxford, and holds an MBA from the University of Toronto. [ Minimize ]

Phil Adrien
Founder and CEO
Modern Gentleman Media

Phil Adrien is the Founder and CEO of Modern Gentleman Media. Under this brand Phil launched The Modern Gentleman, a multi-platform web community and video series dedicated to the personal development of young professionals. The Modern Gentleman is a one-stop destination for advice on health, style,...
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Tyler James
Co-Founder
Conversated Media

Tyler James is the co-founder of Conversated Media, headquartered in Toronto. Conversated Media collaborates with a growing collection of fun web properties and content creators that collectively garner the attention of millions of millennials and gen-Y'ers across North America. Conversated Medi...
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David Gil
Director of Photography and Editor
Just Off Rodeo

A native of Southern Arizona, David is an accomplished freelance Director/Cinematographer. He built a reputation for himself by uniting a style that blends both his talents in reality shooting and photojournalism with a cinematic verite flair. Graduating from the University of Arizona with a bachelo...
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Anthony Nicalo
Chef, CEO and Founder
Foodtree

Anthony Nicalo has spent his career as a chef and entrepreneur dedicated to the notion that story should be a key ingredient in everything we consume.

Every business he turns his hand to celebrates provenance - from provenir (Fr.) "the origin or source of something" - as ...
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David Brown
Managing Editor
Marketing Magazine

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James Prudhomme
Contract Conusltant
Yellow Pages Group

With a well-developed specialty in behavioural advertising and digital ad-networks James is currently working closely with the sr executive team at Yellow Pages Group Canada on the development and launch of Mediative a new digital divison within YPG. One of Canada's leading digital media executives;...
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Mike Kasprow
Vice-President and Creative Director
Trapeze

Mike's extensive involvement with the global interactive media space include board positions with the IAB, nextMEDIA, and the Microsoft Research Design Expo, where he volunteers as Co-Chair and Creative Director. Prior to Trapeze, Mike ran the Script Development program of the Harold Greenberg Fund,...
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Jarrett Sherman
President/Executive Producer
Smokebomb Entertainment

Jarrett Sherman is President and Co-CEO of Smokebomb Entertainment, the digital media division of Shaftesbury Films, with responsibility for the development and production of original online series and companion web experiences for Shaftesbury's broadcast slate of properties. Since launching Smokebo...
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Daniel Dales
President/Executive Producer
Smokebomb Entertainment

Daniel Dales is President and Co-CEO of Smokebomb Entertainment, the digital media division of Shaftesbury Films, with responsibility for the development and production of original online series and companion web experiences for Shaftesbury's broadcast slate of properties. Since launching Smokebomb ...
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Banff Media Festival

2011 Digital Media Executives