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Marcelino Ford-Livene has a wide range of business, operational and creative experience in the interactive and traditional media industries. He is the General Manager of Interactive Content and Advanced Advertising Development for Intel's Digital Home Group. In this capacity, he leads a team charged with developing new interactive content and advertising technology on Intel’s connected CE platforms. Prior to Intel, he was a senior member of TV Guide’s development and planning team. He has also held senior positions with the FCC. He served as special counsel for new media policy and as senior counsel and director of media strategic analysis for the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning. He is a former vice president of NetNoir, Inc., served as director of business development for iBlast, and worked as an associate with Hill, Farrer & Burrill in Los Angeles. In addition to his service as Television Academy governor, he serves on the Academy’s Executive Committee and co-chairs its Diversity Committee. He is also the division chairman of the interactive media division for the American Bar Association’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries. He holds a BA in Economics from UC San Diego and a JD/MBA from the University of Illinois.
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Geoff Katz is a 15-year veteran of the interactive television industry. In 2006, his work on the TiVo service received a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in interactive television. And in 2004, an interactive version of ABC Television's Celebrity Mole that he produced also received the Primetime Emmy for interactive television. Katz has been an active member of the Television Academy’s Interactive Media peer group since 2005. His experience includes serving as the 2007 and 2008 chairman of the Interactive Media peer group’s Awards Committee, responsible for defining areas of competition, and establishing and leading the judging process for awarding the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media. Additionally, in 2007 and 2008 Katz served on the Interactive Media Peer Group's Executive Committee, and in 2007 was a contributor to the Television Academy’s Brand Committee. Katz has held senior product management and user experience design positions at pioneering interactive television companies TiVo and DirecTV, and at breakthrough emerging media platform companies such as Liberate, Excite@Home and PacketVideo. He is a listed inventor on U.S. Patent 6,604,242—filed in 1998—combining television broadcast and personalized interactive information. Currently, Katz is vice president, business development at iWidgets, a venture-funded social network syndication tools and widget publishing startup based in San Francisco, a member of the Producers Guild of America, a strategic advisor to the American Film Institute’s Digital Content Lab and an advisory council member of the interactive television industry’s premier developer’s community OEDN.net.
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