CEO: Chris Cozea
Chris is undoubtedly qualified to initiate the ATTV streaming video portal. In his professional life he has repeatedly worn many hats: independent TV producer and film director, writer, cinematographer, actor, oil painter and photographer, social commentator, chef de cuisine and maitre d'hotel, in Europe, North America, Latin America and Africa. He speaks several languages, has a BFA degree and studied theatre directing, semiology and new media. Under the aegis of a multifaceted UNESCO program he also studied and obtained a diploma in organized tourism, hotel management, restaurant operation techniques and culinary arts.
Perhaps one of his current projects, a TV series titled THE HIKING GOURMET, says something else about him...
Chris likes good food and hiking, but also cross-country and down-hill skiing, still and white water kayaking, jet river-boating, tennis, and aerial cinematography (a unique crossover between motion-picture arts and flying).
Chris is also a proven inventor and imaginative entrepreneur. He considers ATTV as his answer to the rich media marketing opportunities Alberta's tourism and travel industry could take advantage of. He hopes that after the successful launch of albertatouristtv.com the Alberta sister streaming portals will also be launched and thus assist in farther promoting Alberta's tourist and travel industry by way of: banfftouristtv.com, calgarytouristtv.com, canmoretouristtv.com, edmontontouristtv.com, jaspertouristtv.com, lethbridgetouristtv.com, medicinehattouristtv.com, reddeertouristtv.com, and many others.
Director of Strategic Development: Carol Ann MacArthur
Carol Ann is viewed in our team as "the balanced thinker and decision-maker" for the ATTV enterprise, evaluating the many enthusiastic ideas produced by the ATTV team and producing valuable opinions. She has a strong background as a seasoned-and-tried business owner, and her organizational skills and knowledge of institutional structure and dynamics have been consistently improved by numerous courses in business management and institutional analysis.
Carol Ann met Chris Cozea while they were both students at the University of Calgary. Ever since they have been together and have a wonderful son, Menna Lucas. Carol Ann loves children and classical piano music and these two passions have often been manifested and applied in courses which she taught to numerous groups of young children.
Carol Ann has volunteered time and resources to many causes with various aims and matters: environmental concerns and urban sprawl, community life improvement and progressive activism, and lately identifying and creating awareness for effective solutions in fighting chronic diseases.
Director of Web Development: Ryan Fyfe
Ryan is well-versed in all stages of web system development and has a proven track record in E-Marketing and application development. This combination of skills, and his ability to stay on top of the quickly evolving web and web technologies, has led Ryan to achieve top results in marketing campaigns and search engine optimization, as well as building powerful Internet and Intranet applications. Recently, Ryan has been focused on studying and developing social networking websites and viral marketing strategies. Ryan's dedication and work ethic has led him to success in many areas of life - most notably competing on Team Canada at the World Track and Field championships in 2001. Ryan is actively involved in his community and, not surprisingly he is a Track and Field coach and mentor to high school students.
Ryan is currently based in Panama and, luckily for our ATTV team, Ryan loves to travel and explore cultures around the world. His passion for discovering exotic places and his thirst for learning more about spirituality and history of other nations and peoples bodes well with the aims and strategic development plans of our company.
Director of Marketing Asia-Pacific: Daniel Chi Dang
Dan arrived from Vietnam in 1980, became a Canadian citizen, and lived in Calgary ever since. Currently with his wife Wendy they are raising two beautiful children.
Dan holds various university degrees including: University of Calgary, Bachelor of Science and a MBA (Specialized in Marketing and Mediacom).
He also studied multimedia & journalism courses at Mount Royal College, attended courses at Roger Cable: Television Production & Script Writing, with practicum at Shaw TV, Rogers Cable and ChinaVision. He held various positions as writer, floor directing, lights and grip, assistant producer, ENG, editing and fundraising.
In 1995 Dan and Chris Cozea met and worked on three documentaries. In 1998 the two of them became partners in the aXis productions group, pitching projects for the group at Banff Television Festival, Bathsheba Maryland (Discovery Channel / Health/Travel) and Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Since then, Dan co-developed with Chris Cozea several TV documentary & drama projects, and was instrumental in launching Alta CineVision Incorporated, the mother company of ATTV, which he will be also promoting on Asian markets.
Production Manager Northern Alberta: Trent Martell
Trent is a graduate from Broadcasting Program at Mount Royal College, in Calgary. He worked as radio news announcer and reporter for CJCI Prince George B.C., read morning news for AM and FM channels until September 1988 and covered city beat as a reporter until his departure to Calgary in October 1989. He provided free-lance video services for the local TV stations - "As It Happens" news. While he lived in Calgary, Trent worked with Chris Cozea on various TV commercials and documentaries. He owned a video production company while also working as master control operator for VisionWorks until 1995 when he, Chris Cozea and other independents created ICPC (International Commercial Production Centre, which now operates under the name of ICOM). In 1997 he moved to Edmonton and worked for Corus Premium Television (formerly WIC Premium Television) in various processing positions and as a supervisor of the master controls operations for Teletoon, Family Channel and Movie Central.
Production Manager Southern Alberta: Mitch Nixon
Mitch has an amazing experience gained over two decades in all aspects of motion picture production and art photography. In these two related industries, Mitch consistently acted in many capacities including shooting, editing, developing and printing. His experience includes filming and post-production for independent movies, sound & video editing, and inter-active rich-media production.
Mitch also plays several musical instruments and composes. Not only is Mitch multi-talented, very resourceful and highly imaginative, but he is also a very important and crucial member of our production team because there is nothing he cannot fix. He holds a diploma in digital multi-media and currently lives in Calgary.
Art Photography & Dynamic VR Tours: Chris Thomas
First of all, Chris is an accomplished and award-winning photographer, but for the last twelve years he has mainly worked in the film & television production industry. One of his companies, Alberta Locations (www.albertalocations.com) has serviced most of the international crews that came to film in Alberta and lately BC, or to visually support marketing products by using the breathtaking scenery and amazing talent pool of Alberta.
Chris is the ultimate perfectionist, while an imaginative artist and technical wizard when it comes to creating spectacular panoramas and dynamic 360x360 virtual reality tours.
With his artistic prowess and knowledge Chris will contribute to developing "something other" than video illustrations of what Alberta has to offer to the tourists and travelers who would like to see what our beautiful Canadian province is all about. His virtual tours will compliment video-site explorations by way of digital brochures, eBooks and eMagazines. Some of his stunning work could also be seen at www.christhomas.com.
Production Coordinator: Lee Wm Gaudry
After working in various production and postproduction capacities for the local cable companies, Lee studied broadcasting and acting at the Mount Royal College . He became a new media organizer and acted in various capacities promoting Alberta 's rich pool of talent in motion picture production. He was elected Calgary chapter president of ITVA Canada (International Television Association) and also was a judge at the ITVA Festivals. After attending Acting for Camera seminars instructed by Donna Larson, Lee played or narrated several characters in productions produced and directed by Chris Cozea and other Western Canadian production companies. Always proving his complex 'production smarts' Lee is capable of wearing many hats in almost any facet of television production and radio broadcasting. Ahead of his time Lee started his own streaming portal in 1998 to showcase his voice demos. In 2003 he began working with streaming video, and multi-cam live streaming video in 2004.
Research & Technical Solutions: Ty Reynolds
Ty is also one of the multi-skilled and multi-talented members of the ATTV team. Chris has met Ty while he was working for CBC Radio as a media researcher. Ty had been a writer-reporter with CBC for several years. After obtaining a BA degree from the University of Calgary, Ty studied media law. Yet, not only is he a multi-talented person with a wide range of artistic expressions (photography, acting, multi-media, television production), but he also a humanitarian. By providing his skills, time, and other resources, he manages to see the best in people and to make them achieve their best in their life. For many years Ty was the editor and head writer for a series of trivia books sponsored by CBC. This series of encyclopedic breadth was sold across Canada and raised nearly $100,000 for charities sponsored by local CBC stations (food banks, Red Cross, etc). In 1991 he became the winner of the CBC President's Award.
In 1995 Ty started his own production and post-production company and worked with Chris Cozea on various projects - documentaries, music videos, commercials and short art films.
Ty is the "seer" for ATTV, detecting trends, novel angles and original approaches in production and news editing, and he is also the ultimate provider of simple solutions to ATTV's many technical challenges.
