Bio

Skilled strategist & entrepreneur creating value at the intersection of content and emerging tech. A thirty-year entertainment industry veteran/key executive leading teams that built Dreamworks Animation/Shanghai studio and global Discovery Digital content apps. At Amazon, built a new connected, Augmented Reality product for bringing users together around content. Market intelligence from years of working in Hollywood, China and Europe. Continued hands-on experience building global platforms, programming, producing worldwide content. Deep connections, story skills and cultural insights to build businesses and produce high-quality, franchise content with great talent and/or characters to be further exploited in merchandise, location-based entertainment, etc. • Corporate and Content Strategy, Business Development, Business Plans (including financial modeling) • Seed raise for unique kids games platform that teaches empathy. • Former Head of Content for Discovery’s international digital kids platforms. Built and launched two Discovery subscription platforms, produced over 200 episodes of content. • #4 employee/Head of Content for build of Dreamworks Animation's Shanghai studio venture (Pearl) • Produce a range of film, television, documentary, short-form and theater that has grossed over $1B worldwide. Creative/production consultant on various projects. • Work with every major Hollywood studio and many TV networks. • Strong background in running companies, managing productions, finding franchise concepts, and discovering emerging and under-served audiences. • Began at CAA, then was a studio executive for Twentieth Century Fox where I developed the original ''Power Rangers Movie''. • Produced Sundance Award-winning documentary which won the prestigious Dupont-Columbia Award, and was named by the Rockefeller Foundation as one of the 'ten best films on American race relations.' • Produced and/or oversaw more than 20 feature films. • Emmy nominee for creating TV programming for Bravo Networks, Lifetime, Sundance Channel, PBS. • Producer team for the Broadway run of musical “Grey Gardens” which won three Tony Awards. • Harvard Business School lecturer, Advisor for UCLA's Producers Program, teach international masterclasses in Storytelling. Liaison to Hong Kong Trade Council, Grand Judge Beijing International Screenwriting Competition. • English teacher in Beijing in my early twenties. • Born in Terre Haute, Indiana. Daughter of schoolteachers. First girl to play Little League baseball in the state. High school basketball scoring record.