| Management Team |
 Harold E. Morse Russell Greenfield, M.D. Hank Schlenker Jerrold Schecter Steven Schecter Tom Des Jardins |
Biographies
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder & Vice Chairman, President, Director, VP of Programming, Medical Director and Documentary Participant & Senior Internet Advisor.
Harold E. Morse, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Harold E. Morse, Ph.D., founder, former President and CEO of OVATION - The Arts Network, a cable television network dedicated exclusively to the visual and performing arts, has spent his entire career enriching the lives of millions through his work in the arts, education and television.
Founding The Learning Channel in 1972, Dr. Morse expanded the scope of his influence by bringing educational television into 18 million households and thousands of schools. In 1989, he was a member of a U.S. State Department team that negotiated a treaty to provide new American programming to the former Soviet Union. In 1992, Dr. Morse founded an arts-based television network. OVATION provides documentary and performance programming on classical music and jazz, opera and drama, dance, visual arts, architecture and literature. Extending into the classroom, OVATION works to expand arts in education in the United States.
In awarding the Doctor of Human Letters degree to Dr. Harold E. Morse, the State University of New York recognized "the lengthy career accomplishments and societal contributions of a true visionary in the arts, education and television."
Russell H. Greenfield, M.D., Medical Director and Documentary Participant
Russell H. Greenfield, M.D. is Director of Greenfield Integrative Healthcare, PLLC and President of Greenfield Consulting, LLC. He was founding medical director of Carolinas Integrative Health, a freestanding center in Charlotte, NC owned and operated by the Carolinas HealthCare System, from 2001-2006. He completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Harbor / UCLA Medical Center and subsequently entered into an administrative / teaching fellowship at the same institution. He moved to Charlotte and became involved in the emergency medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center, where he was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Dr. Greenfield was one of the first four physicians worldwide to graduate from the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine under the direct tutelage of D. Andrew Weil. He was a consultant in the development of national model guidelines for the use of complementary and alternative therapies, and is co-author of Healthy Child, Whole Child (HarperCollins, 2001). He directs the creation of wellness information for shoppers for Harris Teeter, Inc and consults on aspects of healthy green home building.
Hank Schlenker, President
Hank Schlenker is President of RealNet Learning and former CFO of The Learning Channel. He began his career as a consultant with Deloitte Consulting, and then became part of the management group that created and developed The Learning Channel (TLC). After the sale of TLC to Discovery Communications, Schlenker co-founded RealNet Learning Services, which provides professional training over a variety of platforms, including satellite, classroom delivery and the Internet. He has more than 35 years experience in cable television, marketing and strategic planning.
Jerrold Schecter, Co-founder and Vice Chairman
Jerrold L. Schecter is a policy expert on Asia, Russia, and the Middle East, based on his prize winning career as a historian, journalist, government official and corporate officer. Through his extensive firsthand experience in Russia, Japan, Korea, China and Southeast Asia he has developed a comprehensive network of high level business, media, think tank and government officials in Washington and New York.
After serving as a U.S. Naval officer in Korea and Japan, Schecter began his journalism career with the Wall Street Journal and then spent eighteen years with Time Magazine. He was a foreign correspondent covering Indo-China, Taiwan and China based in Hong Kong (1960-1963). After a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard he was bureau chief in Tokyo (1964-1968) and Moscow (1968-1970 where he was instrumental in the acquisition of Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs. He was Time’s White Housecorrespondent (1971-1973) and diplomatic editor (1973-1977).
He served on President Jimmy Carter’s White House staff as associate White House press secretary and Spokesman for the National Security Council (1977-1980), headed by Zbigniew Brzezinski. From 1980 to 1982 he was vice president for public affairs of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. He founded Schecter Communications Corporation in 1982 . From 1994 to 2006 Schecter was Senior International Consultant for Cassidy & Associates, the Washington, DC public affairs company.
Steven Schecter, Director, VP of Programming
Steven Schecter, President of Schecter Films, Inc. is an award winning independent producer and director, cinematographer, editor, and writer. He began his career in film and video as an apprentice and production manager at Guggenheim Productions in Washington, D. C. Following an undergraduate degree at Harvard and three years of full-time Smithsonian work, which led him to shoot over 150 hours of 16mm film in Brazil, Micronesia, India, and Nepal, Schecter started his own company as an independent producer in 1983.
Nationally broadcast documentaries and features which he produced, photographed, or edited include:
» 1999 - Mending Ways. The Canela Indians of Brazil. Broadcast by the Discovery Channel as Intimate Truths of the Canela Tribe. In the fall of 1997, 22 years after his first trip to Brazil, Schecter returned to shoot new material on the Canela Indians. A co-production of Schecter Films and the Smithsonian Institution, which premiered domestically on the Discovery Channel and internationally on National Geographic Channels in the fall of 1999. Credits: Producer, Director, Camera, Editor, and Co-writer.
» 1998 - Windhorse. Schecter worked in Nepal and Tibet as Director of Photography on Paul Wagner's dramatic feature about contemporary life in Chinese-occupied Tibet. The digitally-shot drama received the Best U.S. Independent Feature award at the 1998 Santa Barbara International Film Festival among other festival awards, and began its theatrical release in February, 1999.
» 1996 - With God On Our Side. Director of Photography for Lumiere Productions. A six part historical series on the involvement of the religious right in American politics. PBS.
» 1995 - MIR-18: Destination Space. National Geographic Explorer's documentary about the first American astronaut to blast off from earth on a Russian rocket. Credits: Field Producer, Additional Camera, and Translator. TBS.
» 1994 - A Forgotten People. The Sakhalin Koreans. Director of Photography on Dai Sil Kim-Gibson's award-winning documentary about the Koreans abandoned on the island of Sakhalin, in the Soviet Far East. PBS.
» 1990 - The Party Is Over. A Schecter Films production on the impending death of the Communist Party in the USSR. Credits: Producer, Director, Camera, Editor. Broadcast nationally on the PBS show The Nineties.
» Schecter was also director, cameraman, editor and writer of My Russian Friends, a one hour special on the search for spiritual roots by ordinary Russians, a co-production with WGBH Boston. Schecter's work in the nineties includes Preserving Our Global Environment, a one hour program for educational distribution completed for the World Resources Institute, hosted by Jessica Mathews and David Gergen.
Schecter's latest work is a feature documentary: an unconventional look at leadership through great works of literature for the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Professor emeritus James G. March. The program is called: Passion and Discipline: Don Quixote's Lessons for Leadership
Tom Des Jardins, Senior Internet Advisor
Tom Des Jardines is a specialist in online media, having founded, built and sold Lightningcast, the leading video ad company, to AOL in 2006. With decades in internet and streaming experience he is now advising Health and Healing Network, IPTV, video search and video ad companies on technology, revenue generation and distribution strategies.
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