WILLIAM F. SNYDER

William Fortune Snyder began his broadcast career in Syracuse, NY, where he debuted on the black and white screen in 1963 on WHEN-TV (now WTVH). He subsequently served as the first program director for Pubcaster WCNY-TV and had a brief stint on the city desk of the Syracuse Herald Journal. In the Albany market, he was 6 and ll pm news producer and anchor for nearly a decade at WRGB-TV and moved to government communications in 1977, when he joined Gov. Hugh L. Carey's Press Office, concluding his service there in 1982 as Director of Communications. After a number of State government assignments, in 1985 he was appointed Executive Director of the New York Network (NYN), the State's television production and transmission facility. Under Mr. Snyder's direction, NYN recently inaugurated a new, $10.6 million all-digital facility in Albany's Empire State Plaza, adjacent to the State Capitol. He has produced numerous award-winning programs, an Emmy® winner among them. Mr. Snyder has been a staunch representative of television professionals in Upstate New York, who enjoy going head-to-head for Emmy® awards with their New York City colleagues.

SHELLY PALMER

Shelly Palmer is an award winning composer and producer of music for television, advertising, film and radio, and a pioneer in the fields of digital audio and Internet technologies. Under his creative guidance, Shelly Palmer Productions has become one of New York City's premier creative service agencies and production companies. Palmer’s artistic accomplishments include “Anthem” choreographed by David Parsons. Shelly conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the CD. A prolific composer, he was honored at ASCAP’s 13th Annual Film & Television Awards in the category of “Most Performed Television Themes.”

Shelly composed and produced the music for ABC’s hit series Spin City starring Michael J. Fox for which he received ASCAP’s 12th Annual Film & Television Award in the category of “Top Television Series.” He has also composed memorable themes for “Live with Regis and Kelly,” “Rivera Live,” “A&E's Biography” and the theme and musical identification package for the MSNBC network, to name a few. Some of his jingle highlights include the digital debut of the “real” Meow Mix cat singing the classic “Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow” and “Life Should Be One Part Seagram's, Two Parts Fun.” Shelly's music has also been featured on literally thousands of national television and radio commercials for companies like: MCI, American Express, Burger King, Halls Cough Drops, Kodak, TransAmerica Insurance, and Foxwoods Resorts, as well as hundreds of local television news broadcasts nationwide.One of Shelly’s first music video projects “Let's Go Mets,” created and produced for the 1986 World Champion New York Mets went platinum and the theme song he co composed and produced enjoyed Gold Record acclaim. Soon after, Shelly made his TV broadcast debut as the on camera music director of FOX Television's daily one hour magazine show, Made In New York, and was then invited to Russia to be the guest conductor of the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Moscow for the 1988 Goodwill Games.Mr. Palmer is a member of the board of governor’s of the National Academy of Television of Arts and Sciences, New York Chapter, Chairman of its New Media Committee and a National Trustee of the organization.Today, Dreamworks SKG, The Discovery Channel, Buena Vista Television, Tribune Entertainment, Fox5 New York and The ABC Television Network are included in Palmer's prestigious roster of clients.

For a complete list of credits, sample reels, credentials and capabilities,
please visit, www.ShellyPalmer.com.

LYDIA LOIZIDES

Lydia Loizides (New York)
Ms. Loizides is Vice President, Director of Technology and Media Engagement Analytics at the Consumer Experience Practice, part of Interpublic Group. Her objectives are to drive greater understanding of consumers’ changing relationships with traditional and emerging media technologies, cultivate strategic alliances and partnerships with technology vendors and content programmers and advise IPG Media agencies and their clients on how to best use emerging media technologies.

Ms. Loizides also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at New York University, is a Trustee of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a member of the Board of Governors of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY, and Chairs the Advanced Media Committee of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, NY.  She writes a weekly installment for Media Post entitled, Media Technology Futures that explores technology’s impact on media.

Prior, Ms. Loizides was Principal of Paphion Inc., a media and technology consultancy where she worked with media companies including Sony, Advanced Newhouse Communications, Scripps Networks, Arts & Entertainment Networks, ASCAP and others, to build and deploy advanced media businesses. As part of Ziff Brothers Investments, she lead qualitative and quantitative research efforts in the communications, media and entertainment sectors. Previously, she served as Senior Analyst with Jupiter Research, leading the research efforts in cable and satellite markets, personal technologies and entertainment and media. Before her tenure with Jupiter, she spent six years in software development. She served as Senior Product Manager for VSystems Inc. and Product Marketing Manager at Ncompass Labs Inc., now part of Microsoft, were she was instrumental in bringing leading-edge component and content management software technology to market.

Ms. Loizides has been published in leading industry publications and journals and is an active participant in, and committee member of, the National Association of Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC), Society of Cable and Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Cable and Television Association of Marketers (CTAM), The Internet Society (ISOC), and the National Television Academy of Arts & Sciences (NATAS).

Ms. Loizides received both her undergraduate and post-graduate degrees from Simon Fraser University in Canada..

CHRIS PIZZURO

Chris Pizzurro is vice president of Digital, New Media Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Entertainment.  Within this role, he is charged with setting digital sales strategy and driving significant incremental ad revenue in VOD, wireless and broadband areas across all entertainment platforms.  He is based in New York and reports to Chris Eames, senior vice president of New Media Advertising Sales and Marketing, Turner Entertainment.

In late 2005, the New Media Ad Sales and Marketing division was created within Turner Entertainment with the goal of securing Turner’s leadership position with advertisers in new and emerging technologies, focusing on bringing to the marketplace a dedicated resource that embraces change, shares in risks, and experiments in new advertising models.

Prior to joining this new division, Pizzurro worked as vice president of market strategy, where he developed and directed the strategic multimedia marketing efforts in support of the entire portfolio of TBS, Inc. networks, including entertainment leaders TNT, TBS and Cartoon Network as well news giants CNN and CNN Headline News. In 2001, Pizzurro was tapped to develop the company’s advertising sales efforts on behalf of its digital media offerings. He served as liaison to advertising agencies, investors and consumers as well as to cable and satellite operators, introducing the company’s digital media products, part of the ongoing innovation that is synonymous with TBS, Inc.

Pizzurro also contributed to such projects as the company’s Media at the MillenniumÒ, a multi-phase research mechanism that provides new insight into national television media buying. Throughout his tenure, Pizzurro has also been instrumental in supporting the division’s presidents and working with senior executives to develop initiatives and efforts for national sales as well as the company’s distribution arm, Turner Network Sales. In addition, Pizzurro also contributed to sales and marketing of the naming rights for the Atlanta-based Philips Arena.

Pizzurro joined TBS, Inc. in 1996 as director of multimedia marketing in the sports division, for which he was charged with developing interactive sales presentations for the Goodwill Games. These efforts led to his promotion to vice president in 1998. 
Turner Broadcasting benefited from Pizzurro’s abilities even before he joined the company. As the founder of Vision Media, an interactive multimedia production company, Pizzurro counted TBS, Inc. among his many clients, which also included other major outlets such as IBM and Rainbow Networks. As the company’s creative director, Pizzurro worked on re-branding efforts for SportsChannel and affiliate marketing for Bravo.

A leader in the television industry’s effort to establish standards for digital media content, Pizzurro is an active member of the Cable Advertising Bureau On-Demand Advisory Board, the CTAM On-Demand Consortium, as well as a member of Innovation in Digital Advertising (ID!A). Pizzurro also serves as a Governor of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, NY (NATAS).
Pizzurro earned a bachelor of fine arts from Syracuse University.

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and a leading provider of programming for the television industry.

JIM TURNER

Jim Turner, Vice President, Interactive at A&E Television Networks, is long time veteran of the interactive media industry.  At AETN, he has responsibility for the development and management of the company’s Internet, Advanced Television, and other digital media properties. Over the years, Turner has produced and developed programs and products for a broad variety of media ranging from linear video, to interactive videodiscs, CDROM’s, interactive television, and the Internet. Prior to joining A&E, Turner was President of AvitageMedia, a consulting and production company for advanced television, Internet, broadband, interactive advertising, and other media.  Turner began his career at CBS, and since then has held executive positions in a number of companies in the interactive and digital media business (as well as co-founding three of his own), including Women.com,  Visage Interactive, Digital Media Studios (part of Digital Equipment Corporation), and Kurzweil Music Systems.

He is active in a number of industry initiatives and organizations, and serves as the Vice Chairman of the New York Advanced Media Committee. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut with an MBA degree and of Georgia Tech with a Masters Degree in Audio and Acoustical Engineering, and holds two patents on the use of computers in music.