Speaker Biographies
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Emiliano Calemzuk
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Rick Feldman
Rick Feldman serves as President and CEO of the NATPE, a global, non-profit organization dedicated to the creation, development and distribution of televised programming in all forms, across all platforms. Feldman is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and strategic planning of worldwide activities, as well as its representatives in Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. Feldman was previously with USA Broadcasting and KCOP-TV.
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Brian Seth Hurst
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David Stapf serves as President of CBS Paramount Network Television, where he is responsible for overseeing all of the studio's program development and production for series and television movies for the broadcast, basic cable and premium channel markets. Under his leadership, CBS Paramount Network Television has become one of the largest producer (co-producer) of primetime broadcast programming with 22 shows for CBS, The CW, NBC and A&E. He was previously SVP, Current Programming, CBS Entertainment, overseeing prime time series activities for CBS's top-rated roster of entertainment programming. He has a background in Advertising and Publicity at Warner Bros. Television and Embassy Television.
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David Zucker serves as President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the CBS hit drama, NUMB3RS, set to enter its fifth season. Scott Free has produced a steady stream of event long-form programs, including THE COMPANY, nominated for a Golden Globe and Broadcast Film Critics Award as Best Television Film. Scott Free is currently developing projects with TNT, Cliffhanger UK, Tandem, and Alchemy. Zucker was previously with CBS and Warner Bros.Television.
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James Duff
James Duff is Executive Producer on the critically acclaimed TNT drama, The Closer, along with the creative team behind Nip/Tuck, Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin. The Closer debuted in 2005, becoming the hottest new series on cable television, winning a legion of fans and stunning the industry with record ratings. They are currently in the fourth season. James has written three television films including Doing Time on Maple Drive, for which he garnered an Emmy nomination. He has written/produced Popular, Felicity, Wolf Lake and The Agency, and created/produced the series The D.A. with Greer Shephard and Michael M. Robin.
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Max Benator
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Philip Jay
Philip Jay has worked in television and new media in the UK for nearly ten years, working for broadcasters, distributors and agencies. He served as senior member of the BBC Interactive team for the last four years, where he was responsible for deploying countless Interactive TV services across all the UK digital TV platforms. He led the team that delivered the first multi-streaming enhanced TV services on Cable, winning the Cable TV Award for Best Interactive Service. He now leads the BBC Core Video-on-Demand Group, heading up work to develop new services on emerging VOD platforms and PVRs.
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Rola Bauer
Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated producer, Rola Bauer, owns and runs, together with her two partners, Tandem Communications, a vertically-integrated, Munich-based company in the fields of television production and worldwide distribution. Tandem has now entered into its 10th year of international operations. She has accrued over 25 years of experience in the fields of production, sales, and marketing. Prior to founding Tandem, she was EVP of International Fiction at ProSieben and President of Alliance International Television.
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Daniel Hetzer
VP of Programming and Co-production Fox TV Studios Daniel Hetzer serves as VP of Programming and Co-production at Fox TV Studios, where he focuses on Fox TV Studio's international co-productions and report to its President, Emiliano Calemzuk. Hetzer plays a big role in the studio's plans to "implement innovative ways to create and fund programming internationally and domestically, as well as tap into global creative talent." Hetzer joins Fox from European production shingle Action Concept, and prior to that, Peter Clausen Film & TV Productions. |
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Gonzalo Cilley
Head of Formats & International Production Telefe, Argentina Gonzalo leads the Format and International Production division of TELEFE, the leading broadcast network and production company in Argentina. TELEFE is known for its strong scripted formats catalog, which have been adapted and produced across the globe. He was responsible of the first sale of an Argentine fiction format to a major Hollywood studio and for the only Latin American entertainment show ever produced and aired in an European country. Before TELEFE, he worked at a US private equity fund managing Argentine companies, and opened the Argentine branch of Internet company KELKOO sold to Yahoo for 475 million Euros. |
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Peter Tortorici
President GroupM Entertainment Peter Tortorici has been involved with some of television’s biggest hit series, taking a network to #1, developing top-rated shows, and creating new business ventures for some of Hollywood’s most prolific production companies. He serves as President of GroupM Entertainment, providing global leadership to GroupM’s content initiatives. He was previously President of CBS Entertainment, Executive Producer at Carsey-Werner Co, President and CEO of Telemundo Network. His Peter Tortorici Productions produced two critically acclaimed Prime Time series- Body & Soul on Pax TV and, Significant Others with NBC/Bravo. He has been honored by both AdAge and Business 2.0 for innovation, leadership and accomplishment in the emerging area of Branded Entertainment. |
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Christopher Sandberg
CEO and Founder The company P Christopher Sandberg is CEO and founder of the Emmy awarded television and new media production company, The company P. He has over a decade of experience in start-ups and as CEO/Executive Producer/Producer in television, online and mobile, ranging from drama to social applications and games. Notably Sandberg was executive producer of the participatory drama The Truth About Marika (produced with SVT). He is creator and Executive Producer for the national DTV channel “Mediteve”, Scandinavia’s first participatory television channel, integrating SMS based chat and formats ranging from game shows to drama (now re-launched as TV400, with TV4), and also the founder of Kramgo (Sweden’s early viral marketing leader), Namni (mobile service and entertainment firm) and Ministeriet (role-playing management company). |
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Marc Lorber
Senior Vice President, Production MarVista Entertainment Marc B. Lorber is Senior Vice President, Production, of MarVista Entertainment, spearheading the expansion of the company’s business as it relates to the development, production and co-production of television movies and direct-to-DVD product for the major U.S. and international broadcast and cable networks. He is responsible for managing the production of movies to be produced by MarVista, and to identify new production models from both a business and creative perspective. He has previously provided program consultancy services to various companies, such as Disney-ABC International TV, Sony Pictures Television International, Fox TV Studios International and Germany’s Tandem Media. |
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Hernan Lopez
President & Chief Operating Officer Fox International Channels Group Hernán López is President and COO of the FOX International Channels (FIC) Group, responsible for growing FOX's basic and premium channels in Latin America and the U.K., including Canal FOX, FX, Fox Life, SPEED, National Geographic Channel, Utilisima, Cinecanal and Movie City; its production houses, Fox Toma 1 and Fox Telecolombia; and its online operation, and spearheading business development for all of FIC. Under his management, the company launched FX, Fox Life, Speed Channel and Baby TV in Latin America, and FX and FX+ in the U.K. He was previously President of FOX Latin American Channels (FLAC) and Managing Director of FOX Channels UK. |
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Chris Coelen
CEO RDF USA / Pangea Management Group Chris Coelen is CEO of RDF USA and Pangea Management Group, where he is charged with growing RDF's US production, infrastructure and ancillary businesses, and at Pangea Management Group, he and his team seek to maximize the intellectual property rights of global scripted and reality formats, and help to guide careers from television to licensing and merchandising. Under his management, Pangea is currently in development on several scripted projects including "Star Stories" (VH1), "Mistresses" (Lifetime) and "Peep Show" (Spike), and RDF USA is presently developing "Ladette to Lady" with Donald Trump (MTV), and has helped orchestrate a partnership with Bravo Media to oversee the careers of Bravo's talent and personalities. Chris was previously a partner at United Talent Agency, forming its alternative TV department. |
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Tim Kring
Kring is a screenwriter and television producer. He has created three TV shows: Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Heroes. Kring became a producer on the popular television series "Chicago Hope" in 1996 and became the supervising producer on the series a year later. In 1998, he co-created the series "Strange World" and served as co-executive producer on the drama "L.A. Doctors." Kring joined NBC's "Providence" in 1999 as co-executive producer. In 2001, Kring created the procedural drama "Crossing Jordan," which celebrated its historic 100th episode milestone in March. He got his start as a screenwriter for the show Knight Rider. One of his earlier projects was Misfits of Science, featured super-powered humans as a main theme. Another early project was Teen Wolf Too, co-written by Jeph Loeb. The two later re-teamed when producing Heroes. |
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Jeff Wachtel
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Cristian Cussen
Director of Content and Marketing MySpaceTV Focusing on content acquisition, development, and marketing, Cristian has forged partnerships with producers, brands, and media companies, with concentration on increasing the range and quality of video content available to MySpace users. He has worked with Michael Eisner on original web-series "Prom Queen", and developed and overseen scripted reality series "Roommates", for which he secured sponsorship from Ford. He is also an executive producer on "Paul Brogan", a comedic web show featured before the Super Bowl, and "Special Delivery", a hidden-camera comedy sponsored by Cheetos and Jack Link's. He was previously with Scott Rudin Productions and Morgan Stanley. |
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Nathan Mayfield
Creative Director and Co-Founder Hoodlum Entertainment Nathan Mayfield co-founded Hoodlum Entertainment with Tracey Robertson to produce their first multiplatform series, ‘override’, where he is responsible for producing TV documentaries, short films and the multiplatform drama series Fat Cow Motel, the online series PS Trixi and the broadband channel for popular UK soap Emmerdale. Having won an Asia Pacific IT and T award for excellence in entertainment, Nathan was invited to speak at the Apple Conference in LA which cemented his evangelical approach to all things online. He has a history of writing and directing many short films. |
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Julie Meldal-Johnsen
Julie has been with ITV since 2001 having joined Carlton Communications in the UK in business and legal affairs. She has worked across all parts of its content divisions since then, spending time in distribution, production and interactive/digital divisions. After 4 years in London, she moved to Los Angeles in 2005 to run Granada’s TV movie acquisition business in the US and to focus on exploiting Granada’s extensive scripted catalogue through both feature and television series remakes in the US market. Julie is building Granada’s scripted production business in the US, through its own development as well as by establishing partnerships with US producers of both television and broadband content.
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Jonathan L. Handel
Jonathan Handel practices in the areas of entertainment, technology and intellectual property transactions, bringing to his practice a broad range of experience in the entertainment and technology industries, which you can read about at his Digital Media blog. His Representative clients include: Entertainment Technology,Entertainment, Internet and Digital Media, Technology, Outside General Counsel, and Intellectual Property. He has presented seminars on entertainment technology to U.S. and foreign filmmakers, CEOs, studio executives and agents, taught a film appreciation and screening class for UCLA Extension's Entertainment Department, and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Mr. Handel previously clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and was later Associate Counsel of the Writers Guild of America, West. He also served as a federal Associate Independent Counsel in a federal prosecution/investigation relating to the search of Presidential candidate Clinton's passport files.
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Elizabeth Guider
Industry veteran Elizabeth Guider serves as Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she is the global leader responsible for the editorial vision and strategic direction of The Hollywood Reporter's daily and weekly editions, digital content offerings and industry-leading executive conferences while overseeing its staff of editors and reporters worldwide. She reports to Eric Mika, Senior Vice President and Publishing Director. With vast international experience, Ms. Guider has covered the entertainment and media industries throughout her journalism career. She has served in a number of key roles during her 18 years at Variety, including Deputy Editor, Managing Editor and Executive Editor as well as an ongoing reporter. She also wrote a weekly column called "Voiceover." During her 25-year journalism career, Ms. Guider has reported on the entertainment and media industries for various publications from Rome, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. |
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Diego Suarez Diego Suarez is Senior Vice President, Programming, at Fox Television Studios, where he focuses on international co-production, forging various overall and series project deals with international production companies, and with several series in active production. He was previously with Fox International Channels, as vice president, head of production and managing director for Fox Factory Europe, responsible for the development and production of scripted shows for the Italian market. He was Head of unscripted programming for Boca Boca Producciones, one of Spain’s leading television production companies, and an executive producer at Cuatrocabezas, one of the most prestigious multimedia companies in the Spanish-speaking world, with operations in Argentina, Chile, Spain, Italy and Portugal.
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Aaron Mendelsohn
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Jon Healey Editorial Writer Los Angeles Times Jon Healey is a member of the Los Angeles Times editorial board, which means he is one of a secretive group of writers who pen anonymous screeds against the death penalty, indecency regulations, term limits and many other things the voters of California like. His specialty is economic, business and technology topics. He also writes the Bit Player blog (http://www.latimes.com/bitplayer) about the collision of technology and Hollywood. Prior to joining the LA Times in 2000, he worked for three other newspapers that are mere shells of their former selves, including the San Jose Mercury News and the Winston-Salem Journal. Happily, most of his years as a journalist are behind him. |
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Michael Kernan
President NuMedia Studios In 2007, Michael launched NuMedia, a hybrid of a production house and management firm. NuMedia is devoted to one part financing, advertising sales, and syndication for producers of Internet programming, while another focuses on managing the interests of a select group of clients already signed. Michael was an eight-year ICM veteran, and previous co-head of ICM’s digital group, where he packaged numerous new media projects, was a leader in Internet deal making, in addition to developing content for the new media platform. Prior to ICM, Michael practiced entertainment law at Lavely & Singer and Behr Abramson & Kaller, and consulted on patents and patent related issues at Gauntlet and Associates. |
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Christopher Barrett
CEO and President Metropolitan Talent Agency Christopher Barrett is CEO and President of Metropolitan Talent Agency, located Los Angeles. In 1982, Chris formed Metropolitan Talent Agency. “There is an attitude that is pervasive in Hollywood agencies - it’s ‘us versus them.’ Us versus the producers, us versus the clients, me versus the agent down the hall. I knew in my gut that there had to be a less toxic way of doing business…which would also provide my agents with the incentive to give their all.” This led him to reinvent the corporate structure at Metropolitan. The chief elements are compensation rules that foster collaboration, and a computer data system that makes all intelligence communal. “Basically, it means that all of our agents work for all of our clients; so it’s in everyone’s best interest to share information,” says Barrett. Metropolitan Talent Agency is truly unique in this industry in the way it does business. |
