Yvette Lee Browser Writer/Producer Bowser had a chance meeting with Bill Cosby in her senior year at Stanford, who invited her to be a part of his new series, "A Different World," where she progressed from apprentice writer to producer during her five-year tenure. Bowser went on to produce "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" (ABC) and created "Living Single" (FOX), the number one comedy in African-American households during its entire run. She also created the romantic comedy, "For Your Love" (NBC) and executive produced the UPN series "Half & Half." Most recently, Bowser helped spearhead the Writer's Guild of America's Showrunner Training Program.
David Gale Executive Vice President, MTV Films Currently Gale is in charge of Internet Initiatives for MTV. Previously, Gale oversaw the feature film division at MTV since its inception in 1995. During his tenure, MTV Films established itself as a unique movie label with a slate of diverse and successful films that have grossed more than 1 billion dollars and earned 5 Academy Award nominations. Under Gale's creative leadership and in partnership with Paramount Pictures, MTV Films has released 24 movies including "Hustle & Flow," " Napoleon Dynamite," and "The Longest Yard." Other highlights include "Varsity Blues," "Election," "Save The Last Dance," "Jackass: The Movie," and "The Original Kings of Comedy." The division has also released the critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated documentaries "Tupac: Resurrection" and "Murderball."
Chris Gore Founder, FilmThreat.com As the founder of Film Threat.com, Gore has built a solid reputation through his brutally honest take on entertainment. Gore began his independent filmmaking career with the cult short "Red" and also co-wrote and produced the feature comedy "My Big Fat Independent Movie." He is an opinionated columnist and author of four books including The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide, which has become the bible for filmmakers on the festival circuit. In addition, he is the film expert on the G4 television program "Attack of the Show." Gore was named one of the "25 Most Influential People in Independent Film" by Film Festival Today magazine.
Navid Mcilhargey Vice President, Silver Pictures, Columbia College Chicago alumnus
Originally from Ohio, McIlhargey received his MFA from Columbia College Chicago. After interning at Jodie Foster's Egg Pictures, he moved to Los Angeles where he started in the mailroom at United Talent Agency. He moved on to Joe Roth's Revolution Studios company in 2000, and eventually oversaw "White Chicks," "Peter Pan," and developed the upcoming "Zoom's Academy," " Black Water Transit" and many others.
He started with Joel Silver in 2004 and has quickly developed many large scale sci-fi and action scripts, prepping some to go into production. Recent Silver Pictures releases include "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", "V for Vendetta", and "Speed Racer".
David Garrett
Most recently, writer/producer David Garrett sold the half hour reality show "I've Never" to Reveille and the one-hour dramedy "Citizen's Arrest" to the USA Network. Previously, he co-wrote the half hour comedy pilot "Central" for CW with Paramount Television. In 2006, NBC bought the half-hour comedy pilot "The Dysfunctionals" which was based on David's life. WB's "Living with Fran", which Garrett co-created and Executive Produced, was also based on his life and ran for 2 years.

In 2006, Garrett co-wrote "Foreign Exchange" for MTV Films and the musical comedy "Do That To Me One More Time" for Touchstone Pictures, with Jack Black attached to star and produce. In 2005, Garret co-wrote "Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo"starring Rob Schneider and produced by Adam Sandler. In addition to co-writing "First Pet" and "Corky Romano" for Disney, Garrett co-wrote screenplays for directors Ivan Reitman at Dreamworks, Tom Shadyac at Universal and Peter Segal.

In 2003, David sold and co-wrote "The Hatfields & McCoys", a dramatic mini-series for the USA Network. He has co-written and produced over a dozen pilots, series & specials for ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN, Comedy Central, Showtime and Fox. He's had development deals with Fox Television Studios, Paramount TV, and Touchstone. David is an attorney, a member of the California State Bar and graduate of UCLA Law School.

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Founding partner Fernando Szew serves as CEO, spearheading company strategy and overseeing the operations of the company.  Prior to the formation of MarVista Entertainment, Szew served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at his father’s distribution company, Whamo Entertainment, joining him in 1999 at the young age of 23.  It was Szew’s vision to transform the company from a distributor of third-party produced programming to a production and distribution company with a worldwide presence.  By 2003, Szew and his father had aligned with current partners Michael D. Jacobs and George F. Port to launch MarVista Entertainment, a fundamental springboard towards that goal.

Szew serves as executive producer of the primetime teen drama Beyond the Break which debuted in the U.S. in June 2006 on MTV Network’s The N and several television movies including, Night of Terror for Lifetime Television, Christmas in Boston for ABC Family and Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York for Universal Television.

Under Szew’s direction, the company complements its distribution slate with strategic acquisitions and third party distribution agreements for television movies, kid’s live-action series and animated specials.

During his tenure at Whamo, Szew expanded the company’s operations by forming strategic distribution alliances with such companies as Cambium Entertainment (Canada), Burbank Animation Studios (Australia), VICTORY Film Production & Distribution (Germany) and VCI (UK).  Additionally, Szew was responsible for distributing internationally such noteworthy entertainment franchises as Theodore Tugboat, The Three Stooges and Art Clokey’s Gumby.  Szew launched Whamo’s European operation in Barcelona, Spain in 2001.

Prior to joining Whamo, Szew served as Manager of International Commerce for CEPA (G&Z), then one of Argentina’s principal exporters and the country’s largest export-based meat packing company with over 1500 employees.  Szew was directly responsible for the sale of higher margin products with sales of over US$ 40 million p.a.  Szew was in charge of leading a round of negotiations with Outback Steakhouse, an important worldwide restaurant chain, where he established and implemented innovative business and revenue models for the company.

Szew is an alumnus of the Huntsman International Studies and Business Program’s first graduating class at the University of Pennsylvania where he earned a dual-degree with double concentration in Management and Marketing at the prestigious Wharton School of Business.
Ron Taylor Vice President of Fox Diversity Development Taylor has worked as a network and studio development executive, as well as a TV series writer. Most recently, he was vice president of development and programming at Columbia-TriStar, where he developed series for cable TV, including "Strong Medicine" (Lifetime) and "Street Time" (Showtime). Taylor was one of the first executives at UPN and was instrumental in creating the network from 1994-97. Taylor has also been a development executive at Warner Brothers and Disney, and an episode writer for such series as "Renegade," "Forever Knight," "Covington Cross" and "The Sentinel." He recently wrote the short film "Brothers of the Borderland" which is presented daily at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.
Daniel Tibbets Go Network Daniel Tibbets' traditional media experience spans 16 years including senior executive roles in production and development for companies such as Twentieth Television, Fireworks Television, CBS Enterprises and Papazian-Hirsch Entertainment, where he is credited with the development and sale of the HBO series ROME. While running FOXLAB, Inc. and production at Twentieth Television, Daniel developed the first ever convergence program to air on broadcast television, Classmates, in association with Classmates.com. Also, at FOXLAB, Inc. he created and developed the "mobisode," including executive producing the first two original content mobisode'sTM Love and Hate and Sunset Hotel (winner of the Golden Eagle Award for Excellence) which launched on Verizon's VCAST in February 2005. Making Television Week's "HOT LIST" in 2003, Daniel has been considered a pioneer and thought a leader of innovative content development. Currently, as Executive Vice President, Studios at GoTV Networks, Daniel oversees all programming, development and licensing of content for mobile distribution by working with traditional media companies, carriers, production companies and broadband portals. GoTV is currently one of the largest U.S. suppliers of original mobile content with channels such as Hip Hop Official, Sports Edge, ALTitude, Pure Comedy and the GoTV Super Channel.
Suzanne Zizzi Senior Vice President, Lion Rock Productions (A John Woo Company) Zizzi oversees feature film and television projects for director/producer John Woo's and producer Terence Chang's Lion Rock Productions. Current feature projects include "1421," (Warner Brothers), "Bloody Numbers" (New Films International), "City of Nine Dragons" (Blue Star Pictures), and "Christmas Cargo" (Cineclick Asia). Zizzi has worked with Woo and Chang since 1997, starting with their company WCG Entertainment when they launched the Alliance Entertainment television series "Once A Thief." As vice president of television, she also oversaw the development of the USA made-for-television movie "Blackjack." Zizzi remained with Woo and Chang as they continued television development under their Lion Rock Productions banner, where she executive produced the USA TV movie "Red Skies" and the 20th Century Fox/WB network series pilot "Lost in Space."
Erik A. Smith Senior Director, Business Development and Programming, MetaCafe Erik Smith is responsible for developing and implementing programming strategy and building key relationships within the content industry on behalf of MetaCafe. In this position, Smith works closely with the industry's leading content and application providers to create programming strategies and deliver content that enables mobile and internet service providers worldwide to offer live television content to their customers. Smith has an extensive knowledge and expertise in innovative content programming and next generation delivery platforms. Prior to Metacafe, Smith held top positions with MobiTV, Digital Lifestyles Group, Motive Communications, DirecTV, Liberate Technologies and Sun Microsystems. As Vice President of Programming at Digital Lifestyles Group, Smith built the strategy and acquired the content for a series of lifestyle devices targeted at the youth market. At Motive, he developed strategy, programs and forged partnerships to effectively enable broadband service providers to deliver content to consumers over broadband. During his tenure at DirecTV, Smith was responsible for the strategy and delivery of next generation, advanced digital satellite applications. Smith also launched and managed Liberate's PopTV program, the largest developer's program focused on interactive television, and created, built and managed the original Java Developer Program during his time at Sun Microsystems.
Casey La Scala, Producer/Writer/Director CASEY LA SCALA has recently complemented his extensive creative producing experience with tremendous success writing feature films and television. La Scala scripted “Throttle” for Warner Brothers Studios, “Coyotes” with Val Kilmer and James Caan attached, the one-hour television pilot entitled “Tribes” for Touchstone Television/ABC, is developing the scripted series “Michael” with Sam Raimi (Spiderman), a feature project with Academy Award Nominated director James Mangold (Walk the Line, 310 to Yuma) and is currently completing his script deal with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. As a successful creative producer in feature film, La Scala has served as a producer and head of production at Gaylord Films and its specialty division, Pandora, which had a multi-year, co-financing deal with Warner Brothers Studios. While running Gaylord Films and Pandora’s production since its inception in 2000, Casey has produced and financed a variety of films including the critically acclaimed “Donnie Darko,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the festival’s Grand Jury Prize. He also produced the thriller “Cypher,” starring Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu for Miramax Films. La Scala focused his attention on the ever-expanding teen market with the hit “A Cinderella Story,” starring Hillary Duff. Casey served as Executive Producer on “What a Girl Wants,” starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth for Warner Bros./Di Novi Pictures, the successful drama “A Walk to Remember” with Mandy Moore and the Warner Bros. skateboarding comedy “Grind,” which also marked his directorial debut. Other previous productions in association with Warner Bros, include “Ya Ya Sisterhood” with Sandra Bullock, “White Oleander” with Michelle Pfeiffer, “The Blue Collar Comedy Tour” with Jeff Foxworthy, and “Welcome to Collinwood,” which he produced with George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh, starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy and George Clooney. Prior to forming Gaylord Films, La Scala was a production executive at Walt Disney Studios/Touchstone Pictures where he directly oversaw the development and production of numerous films including, “Nothing to Lose,” starring Martin Lawrence and Tim Robbins, “Father of the Bride 2,” starring Steve Martin and Diane Keaton, and Ron Howard’s “Ransom,” starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo, “Enemy of the State,” starring Will Smith, and “Armageddon,” starring Bruce Willis and Ben Afleck.

Peter Aronson Peter is currently a partner at Generate where he is producing 6 digital series, 2 cable series, and a studio feature. Previously Peter was the showrunner for "Bernie Mac", the President of Regency Television, the Executvie Vice-President at Disney Television, and a producer with Witt-Thomas.

 

 
Paul Alan Smith
Paul is currently represents directors at ICM Talent Agency.
Paul has also been an agent at Triad, and an executive at Warner Brothers Television.
Andy Horne Former President of Development, Real-Time Productions (TV series "24" production company). Former Senior Vice-President Drama, Paramount Television, Vice-President of Current Programming at Lorimar/Warner Brother