Original Productions

Company Profile

www.origprod.com

THOM BEERS

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Producer

Leslie Beers

President

As President of Amygdala Music, the music publishing and soundtrack division of ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS, Leslie D. Beers oversees the placement of original music in all series, specials and documentaries. This includes such popular shows as Deadliest Catch, Monster Garage and Biker Build Off on The Discovery Channel, Plastic Surgery Before and After on Discovery Health Channel, and The Messengers on TLC (The Learning Channel.) The company received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for Zen House from composer Daniel Mackenzie in the Discovery Channel series Monster House. The company also licenses music from its extensive catalogue for use in other television productions and has released four soundtrack albums available through Amazon, iTunes and local retail stories, as well as on its own web site. (www.Amygdalamusic.com). Those albums are Monster Garage 1, Monster Garage 2, Monster House and Motorcycle Mania featuring Jesse James and Kid Rock. The soundtrack for Deadliest Catch is currently in the works.

Ms. Beers, who is a passionate singer and artist herself and believes strongly about helping musicians, works with established and up-and-coming artists to bring new audiences to their music through AMYGDALA MUSIC. She prides herself on recognizing quality music by cutting edge artists such as composer Dieter Hartmann, Andrew Kubiszewski and the band Pilot Drift.

With the arrival of ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS UK, Ms. Beers looks forward to expanding Amygdala's licenses throughout Europe and Asia.

Ms. Beers has been instrumental in the design of the ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS corporate offices, adding a touch of whimsy with vibrant colors, utilizing the colors of nature. Her vision and design sensibility is evident in the building, as she believes that environment is crucial to inspiring her employees plus the balance of female and male energy.

Ms. Beers is married to Thom and they have one son, Max. A self-professed gypsy, Ms. Beers also has her own line of jewelry.

PHILIP D. SEGAL

President

Tim Beers

Chief Financial Officer

Tim Beers has served as the Chief Financial Officer for Original Productions since March 2003. Original Productions is the television production company known for the hit Discovery Channel series Monster Garage, Monster House, Biker Build-Off and the Primetime Emmy-nominated series Deadliest Catch.

As CFO, Tim is responsible for all accounting, financial reporting, financial planning and analysis, tax, internal audit, strategic planning and analysis functions for Original Productions. Beers is also President of O-Merch, the product placement, licensing and merchandising affiliate of Original Productions.

Prior to joining Original Productions, Beers worked in the banking industry, including JP Morgan Chase in New York where he worked in the corporate banking department for five years, and Key Bank in Buffalo.

Ernie Avila

Chief Operations Officer

As Chief Operations Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Affairs, Ernie Avila is in charge of all business operations plus management of IT, facilities and Max Post for ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS.

Mr. Avila joined ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS in 1999 when the company was producing just five hours of programming. Since then, he has been instrumental in helping to negotiate all of the company's production deals, including talent agreements, footage and still clearances and working with vendors including the DISCOVERY CHANNEL, THE HISTORY CHANNEL, TLC (THE LEARNING CHANNEL),NBC Universal, and other networks for all of ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS reality programs. He also oversees Max Post, the company˙s post production facility.

Prior to joining ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS, Mr. Avila spent eighteen years at Reuters where he worked in the financial services department which managed broker workstations. There, he was also a member of the financial team that audited the company˙s communications network in order to reconcile communications costs to the company˙s budget.

Mr. Avila studied business at the University of Phoenix in Los Angeles. He and his wife Shavaun live in Los Angeles, where they have raised their three children.

George Puckhaber

Vice President of Production

As Vice President, Production for ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS, George Puckhaber oversees the production of all series and specials for the company. Mr. Puckhaber supervised the production of 120 hours of programming in 2005 and is currently involved with a dozen programs in active production, including the Discovery Channel hit series DEADLIEST CATCH, which has garnered three Emmy nominations including Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is also leading the way on the new season of Discovery˙s BIKER BUILD OFF and FUGITIVE STRIKE FORCE, a new series for Discovery slated to air in Fall 2006. Mr. Puckhaber recently wrapped five seasons of MONSTER GARAGE, the Discovery Channel˙s top rated series starring Jesse James. Other projects he has overseen for ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS have aired on networks including TLC, Discovery Health, Spike, and FX.

Mr. Puckhaber has over 19 years of production supervision experience in the television industry. A veteran television executive, he started his career in the mailroom at Turner Broadcasting System in Atlanta. Mr. Puckhaber worked his way up through a variety of production and management positions and was promoted to vice president, production for Turner Original Productions after five years at the company. In this position, Mr. Puckhaber was responsible for overseeing the financing, production and delivery of over 150 hours of original programming for TBS, TNT and the CNN Networks. During his tenure at Turner, he worked on the award winning series THE COLD WAR, David Attenborough˙s TRIALS OF LIFE and TBS four part series DRIVING PASSION: AMERICA˙S LOVE AFFAIR WITH THE CAR.

In April 1997, Mr. Puckhaber moved to Washington, D.C. where he was Vice President of Production and Business Affairs for ALEXANDRIA PRODUCTIONS. While there, he produced shows for TLC (The Learning Channel) including ROME: POWER AND GLORY narrated by Peter Coyote, HERO SCHOOL, MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE for NBC and Animal Planet˙s 1999 CANINE FRISBEE DISC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP plus 60 episodes of ballroom dancing competition for GoodLife TV and a weekly science/news program for Discovery Science.

Mr. Puckhaber has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and he is an avid motorcyclist.

JEFF CONROY

Vice President, Programming

Justin Killion

Vice President, Development

As Vice President, Development, Justin Killion works with company president, Phil Segal, and CEO/Executive Producer, Thom Beers, to oversee the firm’s development slate for both scripted and non-scripted programming. Killion is charged with creatively developing concepts internally as well as hearing pitches from agents, managers, talent, and other producers. Killion is also responsible for pitching Original’s newest concepts to the networks and studios.

Prior to joining Original Productions in March 2009, Killion spent three years working on the Columbia Pictures lot as a literary talent manager/producer for Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment. During his tenure he sold film/tv scripts and pitches to most major studios and networks. Killion worked to represent some of Hollywood’s best up and coming writers and directors whose film credits included BLADES OF GLORY, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, THE ROCKER, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, 5 KILLERS and KNOWING and whose television credits included CBS’ THE UNIT, Cartoon Network’s ROBOT CHICKEN, Discovery’s ONE WAY OUT and MTV’s ROB & BIG.

In addition, several of Killion’s projects were listed on the 2007 and 2008 Blacklists, Hollywood’s yearly index of the top 100 screenplays, and he also Co-Executive Produced the series KEYS TO THE VIP for Fuse Network. During his term at Kaplan/Perrone, the firm produced several films including YOU, ME AND DUPREE for Universal Pictures, MADE OF HONOR for Columbia Pictures, and KNOWING for Summit Entertainment.

Killion began his career under the guidance of producer Mason Novick (JUNO, JENNIFER’S BODY) before going on to work in the Alternative Television Department as well as the Motion Picture Literary Department of the Endeavor Agency (now known as WME) where he gained an intimate knowledge for television/film development, packaging, and deal-making.

Killion was born and raised in Massachusetts and is a graduate of Assumption College as well as Boston University’s Film/TV Entertainment Program. In his spare time, Killion enjoys reading, watching television & film, video games, basketball and relaxing in Green Harbor, MA.