Gilbert B. Hammer, Producer/Director of Photography

An Internet TV pioneer in his own right, has been working with streaming media since its inception and is a video Producer/DP for the past 20 years. Gilbert studied film and video production at The University of Bridgeport in addition to the Rockport Film & Television Workshops, where he studied under feature film directors such as, Rob Draper, ACS.

Gilbert has worked as a freelance Producer/DP for companies like, Avon, General Foods, IBM, Mercury Marine and Virtus creating VNR's and other product segments. In the mid nineties, Gilbert was part of the team that established streaming media at Morgan Stanley and broadcast content to internal and external websites on a daily basis.

In 2000, Gilbert joined Yahoo! Inc. and was charged with building the streaming media and video production department in their New York City office, this as part of their Broadcast.com division. Among his accomplishments while at Yahoo!

• Worked with Yahoo! FinanceVision, the first ITV platform created which fed real-time video content about the financial markets from both New York City Stock exchanges each day.
• Was Co-Creator of the Giants of Advertising series which features the best known names in the advertising world.
• Implemented use of Vyvx TV-1 Fiber circuits [MPEG-2, 3Mbps] to receive feeds from client studios and remote locations worldwide. Later, added field based laptop capture using Firewire - WM Encoder for faster cycle time to web

Adrian Smith, Director of Client Services

Adrian began his career in London working in the theater as an actor, writer and director. Following on from his theater work, Adrian developed projects for the BBC and became more involved with documentary filmmaking (including segments for the BBCs acclaimed Panorama series). Mr. Smith moved to the USA in 1988 and formed Tricycle Productions, a team of like-minded writers, directors and production staff producing work on a variety of subjects including: environmental issues, indigenous rights, healthcare, and technology.

Projects included work for the BBC, the Smithsonian, PBS, the United Nations and numerous non-profits and NGOs. During this time Adrian continued his love of dramatic projects and directed a series of short films that played on the international film festival circuit winning awards at the London, Chicago and Venice film festivals.

In 2000 Adrian joined Yahoo! Inc. to champion the use of video in distance-learning modules and to create unique training and learning products. Adrian continued his career at Yahoo! by becoming Senior Producer of Media Production for the Yahoo! marketing department where he produces work for Yahoo! advertising and marketing campaigns. Projects also include a series of Yahoo! funded documentaries on the consumer and social impact of the Internet and related technologies.