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Alan Albarran, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Radio, Television and Film at the University of North Texas. He is also the Director of the Center for Spanish Language Media and Editor of The International Journal on Media Management. He is experienced in consulting in the media and entertainment...

Rob E. Angelino is the Founder and CEO of United Global Media Group Inc. (UGMG) www.ugmedia.com, a full service media development and digital content creation production company. He also owns and operates HAIRLAB www.hairlab.net for hair transplantation and BEAUTY MD for cosmetic surgery. He specializes...

Tracey Clanton is the Group Account Director at The TRUE Agency. TRUE is the Agency of Record for Nissan/Infiniti, and Countrywide Insurance. In her position as Group Account Director, Tracey directs all of the Marketing & Advertising activities for Nissan North America and the Countrywide accounts....

Andrew Donchin is the Director - National Broadcast at Carat North America, a media specialist agency. He is responsible for managing operations for New York and Los Angeles. Previously, Mr. Donchin was a buyer at Wells, Rich and Greene, and was responsible for managing the account for Procter & Gamble;...

Preston Farr is the Senior Vice President - Affiliate Relations at CBS, a broadcast television network. He is experienced in managing operations, communications, and marketing...

Scott Fischer was a Division President at Freedom Communications, an $800 million revenue company with 8,000 associates in 28 states. He had full P&L responsibility for 14 newspapers across the Western United States generating $141 million in revenues. He was a member of the Corporate Operating Committee...

Robert Friedman is the President of RLF Entertainment, an entertainment production and consultancy firm based in Beverly Hills, California. Mr. Friedman has worked in the entertainment business for over 30 years...

James Meyers is the Chief Executive Officer at Alpha Media, an entertainment media company with international sales and distribution operations, US sales and distribution operations, cable television assets, plus international production operations. He is responsible for managing corporate strategy...

Kathrin Nothaft is the Owner and Managing Director of TELEBiLD, a German cable and pay TV consultancy and acting Managing Director of two family owned cable companies in Germany and Austria. She has over 15 years of experiencein the consultancy industry. She joined TELEBiLD as Project Manager, Marketing...

W. Lawrence Patrick, Ph.D., J.D., is the President of Patrick Communications, a media investment banking and brokerage company with over $6.0 billion in transactions in recent years, including the sale of over 125 television stations and 500 radio stations, since its founding in 1984. Mr. Patrick also...

Joshua Pollack is the Chief Executive Officer at NXT, an investment management company focused in the media, sports, entertainment, publishing, video game internet and digital distribution industries. Mr. Pollack recently lead a feature film slate financing with Universal Studios and GE. He also manages...

Steven Ramirez is a strategy consultant with over 15 years of experience with entertainment and tech companies. He specializes in M&A Strategy, M&A Integration, Entertainment Business Planning, Strategic Marketing, Business Strategy, Business Process Improvement, and Mergers and Acquisitions. He has...

Marty Shindler is CEO of The Shindler Perspective, a husband & wife consulting team that provides a unique blend of hands on management roles, strong educational credentials and many years of professional service work to companies all along the entertainment and entertainment technology food chain....

Jon Vlassopulos serves as the Senior Vice President, Digital Media & Branded Entertainment, Endemol USA, a leading TV production company with hit shows such as Deal or No Deal and Big Brother. He oversees the U.S. digital media division, which is responsible for selling and producing original programming...