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GREG REITMAN</strong>, <em>Founder, Executive Producer, Writer, Director</em></h5>
<p>Greg Reitman is the founder of Blue Water Entertainment, Inc., an independent production company focusing on environmentally conscious entertainment. Widely regarded as Hollywood’s “Green Producer,” Greg Reitman produced the 2008 Sundance Audience Award-winning feature documentary “FUEL.” He wrote, produced, and directed the feature documentary “Hollywood's Magical Island - Catalina'” (2003), syndicated on American Public Television (APT).  Greg is currently in production on his new feature documentary film, “ROOTED in PEACE.”  He is the Creator and Executive Producer of the webisode program “On The Green Carpet.”  <br /><br />Greg Reitman is a green correspondent for “The Environmentalist” a leading online news agency that focuses on green issues and trends in the geopolitical marketplace.  Greg was written up in Movie Maker Magazine as one of the top ten producers in the Entertainment industry making content that makes a difference in the world.</p>
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<h5><strong>NIA STEFANY</strong>, <em>Attorney, Investment Banker</em></h5>
<p>Ms. Stefany is a Managing Partner and a founder of Xnergy. She brings to Xnergy a distinguished career of over 12 years of accomplished experience in mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, finance, business management, and law. Her experience extends from startups to New York Stock Exchange-listed companies and over a diverse range of industries including advertising and marketing, communications, computer hardware and software, consumer products, e-commerce, entertainment, financial services, Internet, manufacturing, multimedia, restaurants, technology, and venture capital. She has extensive experience in acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, roll-ups, private placements, and venture capital financings. <br />Ms. Stefany has successfully formed, acquired, managed, developed and sold several companies in the consumer products, technology, and specialty services industries and a national franchise business. As chief executive officer of these companies, she has been responsible for management of all aspects of businesses, including strategic planning, structuring, finance, operations, product development, marketing, and sales. <br />Ms. Stefany has held several senior management positions and has especially strong experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, operational improvement, and business development. She was a senior executive in the mergers and acquisitions department of a New York Stock Exchange listed company. <br />Ms. Stefany was a mergers and acquisitions, securities, and corporate attorney with a major Beverly Hills, California law firm, where she was responsible for negotiating, structuring, documenting, and closing mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, dispositions, public and private equity and debt financings, and franchising. Her clients ranged in size from large, international corporations to small startups. She worked with financial institutions, venture capitalists, investment bankers, and securities firms throughout Southern California.</p>
<p>She is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth, the Los Angeles Venture Association, the Chamber of Commerce, the California State Bar, and the Beverly Hills, San Diego, and Los Angeles County Bar Associations. She is also active in other professional, charitable and civic organizations.<strong><br /> 
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<h5><strong> POLLIE GAUSCH</strong>, <em>Trademark &amp; Licensing Attorney</em></h5>
<p>Pollie Gautsch created G&amp;&amp;A Legal, a firm with a specialty niche of trademarks because of the importance of the protection of intellectual property. Trademarks are significant assets for the companies that own and use them. G&amp;&amp;A Legal has the infrastructure necessary to cope with the critically important deadlines involved in a trademark registration practice. Pollie Gautsch offers much more than the typical lawyer, she delivers sound legal counsel and in-depth expertise in intellectual property law. <br />Ms. Gautsch is a California licensed attorney with extensive experience in corporate legal work. She began her career as a trademark specialist at an international intellectual property law firm and transitioned into Akkadix Corporation, a La Jolla based agricultural biotech company as a Corporate Counsel specializing in intellectual property, employment and corporate governance. Ms Gautsch continued her career advancements by becoming a Senior Corporate Counsel for The Upper Deck Company, LLC, a large sports and entertainment publishing company. <br />As Senior Corporate Counsel, she headed the company’s fraud investigation team protecting valuable brands; managed the intellectual property group, handling the company’s over 2,500 trademarks and its large patent and copyright portfolio. Additional she also negotiated and drafted license agreements with licensors including Disney, Nickelodeon, Marvel and DC Comics, and advised all departments of the company with their legal needs including human resources, executive, operations, facilities, manufacturing, purchasing, finance, travel, and sports and entertainment licensing. <br />She is a member of the California and San Diego Bar Associations, International Trademark Association, The Lawyers Club, and the American Corporate Counsel Association.</p>
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<h5><strong>RICHARD ROSENTHAL</strong>, <em>Production Attorney</em></h5>
<p>Richard Rosenthal has been practicing law for over 22 years and currently maintains an entertainment transactional and litigation practice in Los Angeles. He represents independent producers, writers, actors, directors and managers, both in ﬁlm and television and also handles publishing, theater, and animation clients. He has served as production counsel for many ﬁlms and has negotiated acquisition agreements and distribution deals with major studios and distributors and P&amp;A deals for independent ﬁlms.</p>
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<h5><strong>CHUCK LIDDELL</strong>, <em>Marketing, Retail Sales on Catalina Island</em></h5>
<p>The Catalina-born Liddell has a history with the island few can match. His family first visited Catalina in the 1880s and his grandfather helped build Avalon's Descanso Avenue for William Wrigley. More recently Liddell's father, a civil and mechanical engineer, was also instrumental in building one of the island's main thoroughfares, the road between the Airport-in-the-Sky and El Rancho Escondido. Chuck Liddell's own resume on the island began at the museum in the early 1970s and evolved into running his own company, the Catalina Island Odyssey, which organized the Catalina Island Film Festival and the 50th anniversary of the Casino, for the Wrigley family. Today, Liddell still lives in Avalon, where he works for the Santa Catalina Island Company running tours and providing security for special events at the Casino.</p>
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<h5><strong>HEIDI STOKKA</strong>, <em>J&amp;S Fulfillment</em></h5>
<p>J &amp; S Fulfillment Services is a branch of “VCM started in 1989 by Harry Goldstein and run by Heidi Stokka, VP Operations. .J &amp; S Fulfillment Services is a full-service fulfillment company providing Blue Water Entertainment with quality services including:  DVD &amp; video replication, order processing and management, pick and pack fulfillment, product assembly, domestic and international shipping with tracking (via UPS, Fed Ex, and U.S. Postal Service), inventory management, storage returns processing, customized packing slips, and invoicing, personalized and professional customer service.</p>