Amit Ziv serves as a Business Development executive at MADWOOD Media, a content producer specializing in unscripted programming and brand integration, where he oversees the companies digital distribution strategy, television packaging and contractual negotiations on behalf of the firm. Before joining MADWOOD in 2006, Amit spent two years in talent brand management at Flutie Entertainment, specializing in endorsements and licensing for clients such as Grammy Award winner Tim McGraw, Emmy Award winners Thom Filicia and Kyan Douglas from Queer Eye, and celebrity fashion expert Mary Alice Stephenson from the hit VH-1 television series, “America’s Most Smartest Model.” Amit is a member of the International Radio and Television Society as well as the Museum of Television and Radio.
Amit currently attends the MBA Program at the Fordham University, Graduate School of Business with a concentration in Media Management and Corporate Finance and expects to graduate in 2009. Before moving to New York City, Amit received his BA in International Relations and Economics from Michigan State University.
chip garner/co-president
Chip is a full-time MBA student at Fordham GBA with a dual concentration in Communications and Media Management and Management Systems. A television and film producer, Chip worked for many years at ABC News and produced numerous pilots, industrials, PSA’s and, yes, infomercials. He is also a producer of two award-winning independent films, Lena’s Dreams and The Love Machine.
Originally from Westbury, New York, Chip is a graduate of Amherst College and a member of National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications.
clint studinger/director of finance
Clint is currently employed in the marketing department of Jazz at Lincoln Center as Manager, Subscriptions and Ticketing. He is a first-year part-time MBA student with a dual concentration in Marketing and Communications and Media Management.
Originally from Medford, Wisconsin, Clint received his BA in Musical Theatre Performance with a concentration in Dance from Columbia College Chicago in 2003. While in college, Clint worked part-time at the box office of The Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. This experience led him down the road of entertainment marketing, bringing him to Fordham University’s School of Graduate Business Administration.
steve cofsky/director of outreach and communications
Steve is completing his first year as a part time student in Fordham’s Graduate Business School, planning on concentrating in both Media and Communications and Marketing.
He works full time at HBO Video as a Marketing Coordinator, working on the DVD releases of such shows as Everybody Loves Raymond and Martin. Steve is also a self-proclaimed “entertainment junkie” and loves all things related to movies, music, and television.
noa walsky / alumni relations
Noa Walsky is a full-time MBA student at Fordham GBA, concentrating in Media and Communications Management. Prior to embarking on her graduate business school education, Noa worked at HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corporation, for three years as a digital editor for ebooks and downloadable audiobooks.
After graduating from Cornell University, Noa moved to Boston for one year where she researched global family and employment issues at the Harvard School of Public Health. Noa then moved to New York City to pursue a career in book publishing and a focus on new media studies.
joe pope / director of information technology
Joe Pope is in his second year as a part-time MBA student at Fordham GBA, with a dual concentration in Finance and Media and Communications Management. Joe currently works full time as a Senior Financial Analyst in the Ad Sales department at MTV Networks.
Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Joe graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Information Technology. A guitarist of 11 years, Joe spent 4 years after college playing in a few bands and touring clubs and campuses around the Midwest. His interests include music (of course), television and new media technologies.
