ThinkLA has named its 2020 board of directors after its annual election process. Members of the board include executives from a wide range of firms, including Amazon and Amazon Studios, BET, Deutsch, Horizon Media, Walton Isaacson, NBCUniversal Media and Radical Media.
ThinkLA is a media, marketing, and advertising collective which helps these businesses survive by fostering connectivity and producing educational and networking events.
The goal of ThinkLA is to facilitate business growth and promote the intellectual infrastructure for creativity, bringing together creators, buyers, and sellers and helping its members stay ahead of the curve and prosper in the rapidly evolving advertising ecosystem.
The trade association supports hundreds of creative and media companies representing over 10,000 employees in the Los Angeles area. The new board members will help guide the association as it continues its mission to connect, educate and inspire the Southern California marketing community.
Here’s a rundown of the executive committee, directors and new directors on the board:
2020 Executive Committee
Serena Duff, GM Western Region, Horizon Media (Co-President)
Pete Imwalle, Executive VP, Chief Operating Officer, RPA (Co-President)
Eric Johnson, President, Ignited (Vice President)
Steve Orenstein, Chief Financial Officer, battery (Treasurer)
2020 Directors
- Kirsten Atkinson, VP, Client Partnerships, NBCUniversal Media
- Alexis Boerger, Founder, Orion Consulting
- Luis Camano, Founder/Chief Creative, Key Activations
- Andrew Derr, Media & Platform Senior Sales Leader, Amazon
- Jean Freeman, Principal + CEO, Zambezi
- Tim Hand, Co-Owner, TJH & Associates
- Wanda Kato, EVP Managing Partner, Horizon Media
- Mikeala Liboro, Director of PR/Communications, TBWAChiatDay
- Stuart McLean, Founder, S3 Software
- Samantha Perlich, Sales Director, Fyllo
- Zach Rosenburg, Growth Consultant, Zach Rosenburg Consulting
- Frank Scherma, President, Radical Media
- Karin Shaer, Chief Marketing Officer, The Firm
- Carol Terakawa, CRO, Shopkick
- Aaron Walton, President, Walton Isaacson
New directors to the Board
- Greg Castonovo, President, Zenith/Moxie/MRY
- Latasha Gillespie, Head of Diversity, Amazon Studios
- Jenna Lauer, Managing Partner, Hall & Partners
- Kim Lewis, SVP, BET
- Kevin Mayer, EVP, Chief Marketing Officer, BJ’s Restaurant
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More