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Our Human Resources Are Our Greatest Asset

News Broadcast Network takes great pride in the high caliber and expertise of its employees, from its executive producers to every member of its operations, production and media relations team.

Meet some of the decision-makers who bring their expertise and broad experience to bear on every project we take on.

Mike Hill
Bob Hill
Steve Gold
Laura Pair
Rick Vasta
Tom Hill
Richard Neuman

Michael J. Hill

President

Mike launched his career at News Broadcast Network 24 years ago by establishing News Broadcast Network's east coast sales offices in New York and Washington, D.C. As Mike assumed greater responsibility, he was promoted, in rapid succession, to vice president of operations in 1986, vice president of sales in 1989 and, finally, president in 1991. In this capacity, Mike helped build the company's video services following the acquisition of Audio TV Features. He also established the company's New York-based video operations office, which was consolidated in Manhattan in 1996, and helped drive the company's growth throughout the 90's. He played an integral role in negotiating the acquisition of TVN Communications Group in 2003 and managing the seamless integration of the two companies.

Prior to joining NBN in 1980, Mike was a professor of European and U.S. History. He taught at Kansas State University, Pittsburg, and in Germany, as part of the University of Maryland overseas program, for seven years.

Mike earned a Masters and PhD degree in European history from Kansas University.

Bob Hill

Executive Producer

Bob Hill has won more than 50 awards for production of video news releases, public service announcements, sales and marketing videos and non-profit and corporate videos.

In a 30-year career in electronic news and public relations as a writer, producer and narrator, he has done stories from the Rose Garden to St. Andrews and on subjects ranging from sleep apnea to warts.

Hill has interviewed everyone from four-year-old children to U.S. Senators to a Nobel Prize winner with an element on the periodic table named after him, the chairmen of the Big Three auto companies, dozens of Olympians and Hall of Fame athletes and 12 past presidents of the American Medical Association.

The Chicago-based Hill has produced video pieces in 31 states and the District of Columbia. He has completed projects for the U.S. Mint, the U.S. Army, Disney, General Motors, Nike and Underwriters Labs.

He has written on sound bites, preparing spokespeople and VNRs in the Public Relations Society of America's Tactics and O'Dwyer's PR Services Report. His work also has been published in The Best of Tactics.

Hill has been honored twice in the PRSA's Bronze Anvil competition as well as by the Mercury, Telly and Communicator awards.

"A dozen people could be involved in a project, and very often I can point to a definitive piece of input from each one that made the production better," said Hill. "At the end of a 14-hour day, teamwork is what makes for good video and the most fun."

Steve Gold

Director, NBN Healthcare

Steve built his extensive expertise as a healthcare production writer, producer and director by his readiness to shoot wherever the news was unfolding; he has even shot footage in the operating room to document heart, brain, eye and kidney transplant surgery.

Steve's work has earned him industry-wide recognition, including a Cine Gold Eagle for the healthcare TV documentary The Best in People, which appeared on FOX; an EMMY award for the public service campaign "Profiles in Courage" for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; a special commendation from Georgetown Medical Center for his work on the initial steering committee (chaired by Ralph Lauren) for "Fashion Targets Breast Cancer," a national fundraising program now in its tenth year. He also created two healthcare television magazines, Eye on Health and MedUpdate, which are currently produced by NBN.

During the past 20 years, Steve has helped launch countless products for the pharmaceutical industry, including Herceptin, Rituxin and Nutropin for Genentech; Synercid and Ketek for Aventis; Paxil and Avandia for GSK; Natrecor for Scios; Coreg for Roche; Combipatch and Zelnorm for Novartis and The Pediatric Institute for Johnson & Johnson. Over the years, many of the healthcare broadcast campaigns that he developed have earned industry kudos in the form of numerous Silver Anvils and Big Apple Awards.

He has worked with numerous newsmakers in the entertainment business, sports figures, artists, politicians and fashion celebrities including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Ross, Walter Cronkite, Princess Diana, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Oscar de la Renta, Yves Saint Laurent, Catherine Deneuve, Paloma Picasso, Ivana Trump and Terry Bradshaw.

Steve formerly served as president of TVN Communications Group, the healthcare broadcast PR company that was acquired by NBN in 2003. Steve Gold holds a BS from Boston University and an MA and PhD from Hamilton University.

Laura Pair

Director, Editorial Operations

Despite the occasional foray into advertising and series television production, Laura has worked primarily in the field of public relations. She has written, pitched, produced and distributed hundreds of video news releases, B-roll packages, PSAs and corporate videos. Healthcare and medical topics are two of her specialties. Laura joined News Broadcast Network as Director of Video Production in 2000. In 2004, she was promoted to Director of Editorial Operations and today oversees the production, media relations and editorial departments.

Laura's recent projects have included the production of The Great Tony the Tiger Awards, a live theatrical event for the cereal giant, Kelloggs. Other clients have included GlaxoSmithKline, Procter & Gamble, the Centers for Disease Control, DuPont, drugstore.com, Condé Nast Traveler Magazine, Self Magazine, LVMH, Montblanc, 3M, MasterCard, TAG Heuer, the U.S. Mint and L'Oreal.

Prior to joining NBN, Laura worked as a publicist at Miramax Films, head of Production and Distribution at Target Video News, and staff producer at Steve Gold Productions. Laura has also been a segment producer on the TV series, The Winner Next Door (WNBC-TV), and a producer on the TV special 7th on Sixth: Inside New York's Fashion Week (NBC).

In 1996, Laura and Richard Quigley co-founded OnCue Productions, during which time she produced numerous corporate/industrial projects and television commercials for clients such as The New York Health and Racquet Club. Acting as a producer/director/copywriter, she also created spots for TAG Heuer Watches and Cosmetic Surgery America.

Laura received a B.F.A. in Film and Television from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Rick Vasta

Director, Video Production Services

Rick Vasta has been in video production for nearly 25 years, beginning at the CBS New York News desk. Five years later, he created Citibank's first internal video production department, building it into an extensive production and post-production facility.

In 1986, Rick started his own creative services company, Media Solutions, specializing in video, film and multimedia production. His client list included American Express, Solomon Brothers, and Citicorp.

In 1994, he returned to Citibank to play a key role in its communications effort as executive producer of video programming for Citibank's international and domestic consumer business. Later, he arrived at TVN, where he worked across the board in healthcare, technology and consumer. He joined NBN in 1998.

Tom Hill

Senior Vice President

Tom Hill has worked in the broadcast journalism field for more than 30 years. He began his career in the early nineteen seventies as a freelance correspondent for major radio networks in Milwaukee, and later, Phoenix. He began working for News Broadcast Network (NBN), then known as News/Radio Network, in 1977 as a national reporter providing on scene coverage of a wide variety of sports, medical and news stories.

Tom moved to Los Angeles in 1982 where he opened NBN's first California sales office. He was named a vice president for NBN in 1987 with responsibility for overseeing radio operations, client reporting and editorial content. Following NBN's acquisition of Audio/TV features in 1992, he was named Vice President of Operations with overall responsibility for NBN's Video and Radio Operations. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President and board member.

Richard Neuman

Vice President, Broadcasting & Technology
Executive Producer, Live & Special Events

Richard joined News Broadcast Network in 1996 as Director of Operations, bringing with him more than 16 years of experience in live broadcast production, facility management and news operations.

Richard is responsible for everything from producing live television broadcasts, coordinating sales/news operation assignments and maintaining all production facilities and companywide computer systems to facilitating personnel and broadcast equipment nationwide. Sometimes, these responsibilities find him in unfamiliar territory. In 2000, Rich huddled shoulder to shoulder with enlisted Army personnel jammed inside a Black Hawk helicopter buzzing caribou and polar bears in Alaska. (Rich was traveling to Denali National Park to produce a live event for the U.S. Army mountain climbing team which marked the army's 200th anniversary by showcasing, among other things, its high altitude rescues).

When Boeing Aircraft moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, Rich was on the tarmac, coolly ignoring the approaching aircraft and methodically putting tape down to indicate where the plane's front wheels should stop, just so he could get the best shot of the Boeing logo with the Chicago skyline in the background.

That same year, just a month following the 9/11 terrorist attack of New York's World Trade Center and working under intense security, Rich ably produced the historic and highly complex logistics involved in providing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's live, nationally televised and interactive teleconference to the American people. With deployed assets that included 12 uplink trucks, 22 cameras, multiple digital and analog satellite & microwave transmissions, and audio-visual and public address systems, along with a production staff of 150 technical crew and 35 producers and directors, the videoconference was the most complex multi-city television production ever conducted via digital technology in NBN's 36-year history.

Prior to joining NBN, Rich worked for six years at Times Square Studios, one of New York City's largest television studio production facilities. Starting as Marketing Manager, he assumed positions of increasingly greater responsibility, including director of marketing & sales, and then, general manager. Here Rich was responsible for the production of such programs as The Montel Williams Show and many other nationally syndicated television productions.

Rich also worked as a consultant for New York City Studios and at Metropolis Studios.

Rich earned a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College's School of Communications.