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Doron Gorshein
- Chairman and CEO
Mr. Gorshein was formerly Vice President and Associate General
Counsel at EchoStar Communications Corporation. His career history
also includes executive positions at publicly-traded companies in the technology sector during the 1990's. He began his career at Turner Broadcasting System, in which capacity he led international licensing of CNN and its related
services throughout most of the world. Mr. Gorshein earned a
J.D. from Emory University and a B.A. from Tulane University.
Craig Haffner - Creative Advisor
Craig Haffner is America Channel’s creative advisor, and the only programming executive in the industry appointed to the National Endowment for the Humanities by a U.S. President. Our full service network management partner and our mobile production partners will be announced later. Our creative and production partners and advisors include Grand Canal Film Works (formerly Greystone); the production division of one of the four major national broadcasters; and a third nationally recognized production partner to be announced later.
Greystone
Communications, Inc. - Production
Partner
Greystone Communications is an Emmy award winning company that
has produced over 1,000 hours of television programming for
major broadcast networks and most major cable networks, including
NBC, CBS, ABC, UPN, A&E, The History Channel, HGTV, Food
Network, Fine Living, TNN, CMT, Lifetime, Bravo, Comedy Central,
FX, and Fox News. Greystone's CEO, Craig Haffner, is the America Channel's programming leader.
Brad Marks
Enterprises– Executive
Search
Brad Marks Enterprises, the preeminent executive search firm
exclusively dedicated to the entertainment and new media industries,
has been retained by The America Channel to recruit for and
advise on key management hires. BME has the longest tenure of
any executive recruitment company in the entertainment industry.
BME’s client companies represent virtually every sector
of entertainment including television, film, cable, video, music,
radio, theme parks, electronic publishing, interactive technology
and online services.
Ron Frank - Director, SportsLife Ops
Ron Frank is an award-winning producer whose credits span more than twenty years in film and television production, direction, writing and editing documentaries, live concerts, promos, music videos and other non-fiction programming. His productions have been seen on FOX, PBS, ABC, CNN, MTV, A&E, TLC, Discovery and History, and throughout France, Germany, Israel, Japan and Australia. Screenings of his films have been held at SXSW, AFI, MOMA, Israel Film Fest, Kennedy Center, United Nations, NY., Television Academy, L.A. His production work has been reviewed by Variety, Hollywood Reporter, MSNBC, NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post.
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, PLLC – Regulatory Counsel
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP – Corporate Counsel
SmithGeiger,
LLC – Market Research
SmithGeiger LLC is a custom market research and consulting firm
headquartered in Los Angeles, serving all facets of the media
industry. They specialize in creating unique research methods
to uncover consumer attitudes and preferences. SmithGeiger's
extensive achievements include: building and developing entertainment
programming through testing, analyzing and refining content
and talent; developing the program strategies behind new and
existing cable networks; finding promotional approaches to increasing
viewership; pilot and show testing; building broad network marketing
strategies; and designing and implementing launching and branding
campaigns for many successful cable channels.
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