Craig H. Shepherd Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

A creative and strategic executive leader that identifies, negotiates, develops, and executive produces new and existing original series in non-scripted, scripted, documentary, digital, and feature films. Sets and achieves targeted branded entertainment content goals by identifying strategic partnerships and distribution strategies. Serve as the internal negotiating point person to outside counsel and responsible for all business and legal affairs relating to ZPZ's general and content-specific entertainment matters, as well as seek opportunities for the exploitation of intellectual property and retained rights. Responsible for and manages in concert with ZPZ senior leadership team company-wide P&L analysis with a direct focus on increasing efficiency, revenue and business operations. Builds and maintains strategic relationship outreach with ZPZ agent representation, networks, OTT platforms, brands, third-party producers, talent, and internal staff to ensure purposefully focused content initiatives and company-wide growth.

New York, Ny, Us

Oversee and Executive Produce feature films, documentaries, scripted and unscripted television. Point person in fielding pitches from 3rd party IP creators as well as networks, streaming services and emerging platforms. Initiate, review and redline all series production services agreements in conjunction with legal counsel. Propose, manage and oversee branded entertainment feature length documentaries, series and short form content initiatives. Analyze all in and out of house production expenditures.

New York, Ny, Us

Develop original and 3rd party concepts to bring to market. Principal in pitching concepts to outside broadcasters and distributors. Manage budgeting, scheduling, milestone payments and negotiation of series commissions at every budget level. Oversee productions at an Executive Producer level- creatively and financially. Point person that interacts with agency and legal representation.

As a Creator, Executive Producer, and Show Runner, I ran television series, documentaries, brand spots, corporate videos, web-series, and live webcasts. Clients included: Media Com, BBC Worldwide, A&E, TLC, Food Network, VH1, ESPN, Fox, Bravo, ABC Family, MTV, CBS, Tennis Channel and Spike. Additionally, provided Line Producer services for the feature films Girlfight (Winner of the Sundance Film Festival) and Edge of Seventeen (Audience Award Winner at the Sundance Film Festival), produced and directed a feature documentary on Martina Navratilova (Tennis Channel) and directed multiple episodes of the scripted police drama series 18 Wheels of Justice (Spike).

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Budget Analyst for NYU Law School managing the cost analysis for the Mueller Fund that financed NYU Law School. Responsibilities included day to day costs as well as financial projections to maintenance of the fund. Part of small finance team that reported to Dean of Law School John Sexton.

Craig was a Sr. Financial Analyst at CBS Sports where he oversaw cost analysis and was part of small finance team that developed multi-billion dollar bids to acquire NFL Football, NCAA College Basketball, Major League Baseball as well as the Olympic Games.

Mfa, Film

Bachelor Of Science, Finance