Lou is the Executive Producer of The Donna Drake Show, www.thedonnadrakeshow.com, COO of Drake Media Network and founder of Lou Vaccarelli Assoc, a consultancy that gets involved in all aspects of your business, including buy/sell agreements, financial planning and your entire operation.Lou is a Telly Award winner, Silver and Bronze People's Choice and Technical Lou is a POPAI winner, Best of Industry Promotional AwardLou has appeared as an expert in Music Production on FOX News and as an expert witness in Federal Anti-Piracy casesLou has written numerous industry articles and appeared on the cover of the inaugural issue of Media Ware Journal. Lou received a New York City Citation for his work on then Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Value adding Sourcing TeamPrior to Drake Media Lou was the President and co founder of Shape Media an optical media based marketing solutions company, a full service organization capable of handling all aspects of content creation, supply chain management, fulfillment and packaging. He led the company to revenue milestones and profitability in each and every year, pioneered the company into E-commerce initiatives, expanded company’s offerings from a single product into a multi platform suite of products, successfully enforced intellectual property infringement in U.S. court, and penetrated every major ad agency and marketing company for new product introductions and developed a Who’s Who client roster of corporate clientele. (See www.shapecd.com and www.hangtagz.com).Prior to co-founding Shape Media, Lou was Chief Procurement Officer and Vice President, Manufacturing & Production, of BMG Entertainment, the $4.7 billion music and entertainment division of Bertelsmann AG. BMG is the home of RCA, Arista Records, RLG and Windham Hill, among others, and incorporates more than 200 record labels and operations in 54 countries. Lou was responsible for supply chain management, inventory management, production and all strategic sourcing which includes compact disc, DVD video and audio manufacturing for BMG Entertainment. He initiated the digitization of all of BMG’s audio in preparation for Digital Downloading and Streaming. In addition, he was responsible for travel management as well as BMG's Media Asset Management, which oversees the worldwide managing of all BMG's media assets, both physical and digital, and includes audio, video, original art, packaging, advertising and merchandising materials. and the digitization of all media assets