David is a business development specialist with twenty-five years experience, providing strategic consulting services to leading U.S. and international media and technology companies as well as independent media makers.  He specializes in innovative media-related technologies and new content-distribution opportunities.

Media:

1. World Stage Pictures -- marketing plan to Coca-Cola for “Marketing Malcoci.”
2. Fraternal Artists -- business plan for “Raising Lazarus.” 
3. Home Box Office (New York, NY) – evaluate new-business opportunities.
4. WNET/NY, KQED/SF and Weather Channel – media diversification plans.
5. Off-Hollywood: The Making & Marketing of Independent Films (Grove), originally commissioned by the Sundance Institute and the Independent Feature Project (IFP).

He has served on the Board of Directors/Advisors to the Independent Television Service (ITVS/PBS, Treasurer), Film Arts Foundation (FAF), Video Collection, Museum of Modern Art (NYC) and National Video Resources (Rockefeller/NYC).  He has been an advisor to Rep. Richard Gephardt, MacArthur Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Benton Foundation and other public-policy organizations. 

Corporate:

1. ComCam International (West Chester, PA) introduced the first wireless video networks in 2000 – strategic positioning, preparation of business plan and investment and other financial documents (e.g., SB-2). 
2. G&B Partners -- “Real Estate Equity Option Agreements,” an opportunities analysis.
3. Fujitsu, Ltd. (Tokyo/San Francisco) – retained by Board to establish U.S. videogame “content” business, Fujitsu Interactive, and to prepare acquisition and distribution plans.
4. Advantest (Menlo Park, CA), leading chip-test supplier – strategic diversification plan that lead to “rollup” within medical equipment sector. 
5. MuSE/AVS (Boston, MA) leading data-visualization company – commercialized Sandia Labs software, private capital raise of $18 million and took company public.
6. Tucker Investment Group – business plan and presentation for $30 million acquisition of Whizin Center (Agora Hills, CA).
7. Commodore International – worldwide introduction of first CD-ROM system and 100 titles.

David regularly contributes to the online publication CounterPunch and has written for Sexuality and Culture, Hollywood Reporter, San Francisco Focus, Foundation News and other publications.  He was retained by the Socratic Dialogues/MIT Media Lab to develop a four-part television series on the communications revolution.  His television credits include the six-hour ABC miniseries, “The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald,” and the Emmy-Award PBS series, “The American City” with John Lindsey (WNET).

Peter creates and implements business strategies for the word's leading media and telecommunications companies. 

He began his career as a journalist in Indo-China and Australia. He received invaluable experience as a business development executive at CBS International after receiving his M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University
of Pennsylvania.

Since 1986 he has directed Peter Hamilton Consultants where he identifies strategy, targets business opportunities, negotiates deals and executes profitable ventures.

The firm's list of clients includes both media giants and entrepreneurial start-ups. Notable clients have included Discovery Communications, BBC, CBS, NBC News, Scripps Networks, Rainbow Networks, Weather Channel, Sprint/Nextel, Sesame Workshop, Sundance Institute and Enterprise Ireland.

Mr. Hamilton is an authority on the factual and lifestyle content sectors.  He frequently speaks about trends at industry conferences.

Edward is a principal with Pacific Vision Partners (www.pacificvisionpartners.com) and on the advisory board of M&A Media Group. (www.mamediagroup.com). 

He has had extensive experience in international business development and strategic investment ventures with established and emerging companies and technologies in the US, Japan and SE Asia.

Ed has served on the board of non-profit digital media performance groups; a member of the California Arts Council Art and Technology Task Force; was an advisor for an international project supported by the Ford & Rockefeller Foundations focusing on creativity, emerging technologies and new business models and as part of Zero One 2006 Festival (www.01sj.org) was on the planning committee and participant in a Global Leadership Forum on Economic and Cultural Development held in San Jose, California in August, 2006. Public/Private sector representatives from 16 cities/regions in Europe, Asia and the Americas discussed initiatives focusing on digital media as an engine of regional development and urban revitalization.

He has also written articles on interactive digital media for several Japanese publications; has participated as a speaker and panelist at information technology and high-technology corporate venturing business seminars in the US and Japan and worked with US and Japanese companies in developing and implementing market entry and strategic investment initiatives in both markets.

Ed has a graduate degree from the University of Chicago in Political Science and as a former. U.S.diplomat has had assignments in Japan, SE Asia and Western Europe. He is proficient in Japanese, Malay, Thai and Dutch.

Donald's literary and scholarly translations from French and Spanish include works by Guillaume Apollinaire, Antonin Artaud, Guy Debord, Jean Piaget, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, J.-B. Pontalis & Jean Laplanche, Thierry Jonquet, Henri Lefebvre, and Raoul Vaneigem. He is a member of the Translators' Association of the Society of Authors (London) and of the PEN American Translators' Group (New York). In 2003 he was named Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French government for his services to French literature in translation.

His film work includes English versions of René Viénet's savage satirical documentaries on Mao's China, Peking Duck Soup and Mao by Mao; several documentariesby Catherine Pozzo di Borgo, including The Blue Cows of Salsigne; and among fiction-film screenplays he has translated Valérie TONG CUONG/Isabelle BONI-CLAVERIE, Heart of Blackness for Danny Glover's L'Ouverture Films, New York.

He has also worked in IT as a translator of software manuals and as a designer of graphical user interfaces; and for many years in the book publishing industry as an editorial freelancer.

Born in Manchester, England, Donald is a longtime resident of New York City.  E-mail for contact: mnr.dns@verizon.net