Monday, June 30, 2008

Biography: Geoff Katz, Advisor

Geoff brings over a decade of experience working with pioneering interactive television companies like TiVo and DIRECTV, and breakthrough emerging media platform companies such as Liberate, Excite@Home, and PacketVideo.

Geoff has contributed to two Primetime Emmy® Award winning interactive television projects. In 2006 his work on the TiVo Service was recognized for excellence by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for outstanding achievement in interactive television. While working at Zetools (acquired by Tandberg Television in 2006), Geoff produced an interactive version of ABC Television's 'Celebrity Mole: Yucatan' for the Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition platform, which was awarded the 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for interactive television. In addition to his role at Method, Geoff is currently acting as chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group Emmy Awards committee, which is responsible for awarding the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media.

Over the last decade he has worked as a creative director for advertising at Organic, developed interactive entertainment properties at Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, broadband content services for Excite@Home, 3G video services at PacketVideo, and interactive TV applications at Liberate. Most recently, Geoff was VP, Media & Entertainment at brand experience agency Method, Inc. Before joining Method, he worked as a Product Designer at TiVo, focusing on the design of new broadband applications and services for the TiVo platform. Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to join TiVo he worked as a producer in the Advanced Services & Content group at DIRECTV, Inc. in Los Angeles where he created and launched DIRECTV Active - an interactive television channel on the DIRECTV Network that provides consumers with data driven services, programming promotions, and advertising.

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