ABOUT US

Richard Janes - President

Richard has a degree in professional broadcasting and has spent the last ten years working in both traditional and new media. In 2003 he raised $1.8 Million to shoot his first feature film, “Fakers”, which received its US theatrical release in 2007. Shortly after he co-produced and directed his first television pilot, a rockumentry series called “Behind the Lyrics”, which won him a Los Angeles EMMY. In 2007 he produced over 1200 clips to launch Mogreet Inc a new mobile video messaging company based out of Venice California which is backed by the Draper Fischer Jurvetson Frontier Fund. Before launching the Pro Bloggers Network Richard spent time developing online content for Disney, ABC and the Huffington Post as well as producing the 2008 webby honoree webseries “Dorm Life”.

Amy Janes – Vice President, Community

Amy is a UCLA graduate of the Producers program and ran the Paramount Pictures-based film department of Parkchester Pictures. At Parkchester, Amy developed both independent and studio feature films with her most recent credit being the feature length documentary “As Seen Through These Eyes” with Myer Angelo narrating.  Subsequently she has returned to her roots of education and now specializes in the producing of social awareness documentaries. Amy blogs as ‘The Documentary Producer’ for FIB.

Adam Asher – Director of Technology

Adam is a chartered computer software consultant with a diploma in financial markets and is certified by Microsoft as a solution developer. He specializes in web and windows application development alongside data integration services. Having worked for many blue chip companies including  AMP Capital Investors, Henderson Global Investors, BUPA and Intuitive Systems Ltd, Adam now runs Blue Fish Software a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and Small Business Specialist that offers a complete IT package to Small and Medium Sized enterprises as well as SEO and web development consultancy.

Sasha Mervyn - Advisory Board

Sasha Mervyn has an honors BA in Modern European History from Harvard University and an MFA in Motion Picture Producing from the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California.  Upon graduation from Harvard, Sasha was a product manager for MicroStrategy a leading provider of business intelligence, performance management, and dashboard reporting solutions. She then consulted for Bearing Point (formerly KPMG Consulting), one of the world’s leading management and technology consulting companies. She left consulting to get her MFA, after which she has worked her way up through the film and television industry.  She is currently the Director of Development for Sony Pictures-based Laura Ziskin Productions, best known for the successful “Spider-Man” movies and producing the Academy Awards (Oscars).

Jerry Offsay – Advisory Board

Jerry Offsay is an independent film producer operating out of Los Angeles. Most recently he ex-produced the cross media webseries CARPOOL for Turner classics and consulted for LiquidGeneration.com an entertainment portal that receives over 5 million unique visitors per month and has 2 million weekly newsletter subscribers. Offsay holds a B.A. degree from Harpur College in New York and a J.D. from Columbia University Law School. He is currently on the Board of the National Foundation for Jewish Culture and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation. In 1994 he joined Showtime Networks as President of programming and before that served as Executive Vice President at ABC Productions for Capital Cities/ABC Inc., and held the position of President at RKO Pictures. He began his career as an entertainment attorney for the Los Angeles law firm of Loeb & Loeb, where he was a partner.

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