Plymouth Rock Studios' Master Planning Director is the former President of Paramount Studio Groups in Los Angeles where he led Paramount's studio operations for over 20 years. He reported to industry legends Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, Frank Mancuso, and Sherry Lansing. Earl was responsible for transforming Paramount's studio operations and facilities from a low service $5 million per year loss leader into a high service $50 million per year operating gem. He developed over 500,000 square feet of new facilities on the Paramount lot, updated 10 sound stages to attract television productions such as Entertainment Tonight and Dr. Phil, and expanded the post editing capacity of Paramount five-fold during his tenure.
Earl was instrumental in developing the first studio child care center. He is Vice Chairman
of the Hollywood Historic Trust and Walk of Fame Committee, on the Board of Directors of the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital and is the former Chairman of Goodwill Industries
of Southern California.
David is the former President of Paramount Pictures where he worked for over 17 years, starting there as the studio's story editor. He is also the first person ever in the motion picture industry to hold two studio production chief jobs simultaneously when he ran both Walt Disney Studios and Touchstone Studios. As a motion picture executive, David has overseen some 200 movies including Forrest Gump, Top Gun , The Firm, Ghost, Witness, Ordinary People, Hunt For Red October, Terms Of Endearment, Dead Poet's Society, Elephant Man, An Officer And A Gentleman, Reds and Little Mermaid. He also was responsible for such successful franchises as the Indiana Jones, and the Star Trek series.
In the 1980s, David also oversaw the most successful exclusive arrangement with an actor and a studio in the last 50 years with Eddie Murphy. As the responsible executive for Eddie Murphy, David oversaw such early classics as 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop I & II, Trading Places, and Coming to America. The pictures on which Mr. Kirkpatrick worked have a collective worldwide box office gross of over 10 billion dollars; and have garnered close to 400 Academy nominations and 163 Academy wins.
As a producer, David has been the recipient of the Golden Globe, The Emmy, and The Independent Spirit award, is a member of the Producer's Guild of America and an active member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
In 1989, Black founded the InGenius Center to provide people with a deeper understanding of their unique talents and skills and how to more effectively use their talents in the workplace. He has worked at the executive suite level developing people strategies with such companies as Hewlett Packard, Home Savings of America, Discover Card, Harris Bank, Pharmacia, Advanta Mortgage, All-State, Sears, Hewitt Associates, Price Waterhouse, Rush Medical Center, Arthur Anderson, Motorola, Nalco, The Chicago Bears, HomeBanc, Mannatech and ServiceMaster.
Formerly, Thom was the executive pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in suburban Chicago, one of the largest churches in the United States.
He is the author of several books, all of which champion the notion of individual uniqueness including 30 Days to a Smart Family, 55 Waverly Street, Born to Fly, Kicking Your Kid Out of the Nest, They Call Me Mr. Romance, and Inside the Zone at Pharmacia. Thom has been a regular guest on TV and radio programs around the United States and his one-man theatrical presentation, The MOMENT, has been seen by more than 350,000 people across the country.
Prior to joining Plymouth Rock Studios, Joe was the co-founder and manager of M/D Group LLC, a corporate strategy and business development consulting firm located in the Boston area. For more than eighteen years he worked with the Boston Celtics, primarily as Chief Financial Officer or Senior Vice President of Administration, including roles that helped take the Boston Celtics public on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the acquisition and construction of Fox station Channel 25, the concept and construction of the world class The Sports Authority Training Center and the acquisition of radio station WEEI, respectively, while in those capacities.
Prior to the Celtics experience, Mr. DiLorenzo had leadership roles with the Boston Garden/Boston Bruins organization for eleven years. After leaving the Celtics, Mr. DiLorenzo was Vice President of Strategic Alliances and later Chief Financial Officer of a leading provider of an enterprise infrastructure software and solutions company, specifically designed and engineered to meet the unique requirements of the higher education marketplace.
He graduated from Bentley College with a degree in Accounting and is a two-term past-President, and an officer or director of the Executive Board of the Bentley College Alumni Association since 1992.
Mr. DiLorenzo has many other volunteer roles including the Financial Executives International (FEI), where he is Vice Chairman and is Chairman of its Diversity Task force. The FEI, founded in 1931, is an international organization of 15,000 senior financial executives from 8,000 companies, mostly in North America. Mr. DiLorenzo has been past- President of the FEI Boston Chapter, the Treasurers Club of Boston and Community Work Service, respectively and still active in each. He is a member of the Greater Boston Advisory Board of the Salvation Army. He also has or had various advisory or audit committee roles at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, New England Baptist Hospital and Franciscan Hospital for Children.
Martha Cotton broke in as an investigative producer at the NBC affiliate in Miami, covering the drug wars, the influx of Cuban and Haitian refugees, and the conflicts in Central America. Martha won several Emmys as well as a Columbia DuPont Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation Award during her time in Florida.
NBC News hired Cotton and brought her to work in the Los Angeles bureau, where she worked for NBC Nightly News and the Today Show. Her work took her around the world covering wars, disasters, politics and the Olympics continuing to earn the praise of her colleagues with yet another Columbia DuPont, a Chicago Film Festival Award, and several Emmy nominations.
As either a network staff or freelance documentary producer/director, Martha has worked in such far-flung places as Pakistan and Afghanistan, Cambodia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and the Philippines. She transitioned to the world of drama as a consultant on Up Close and Personal, a movie set in the world of TV news. That film led to Volcano, where Martha produced, wrote, cast and directed all the news elements in the film. She served as either a first unit video producer/director or consultant on other films, such as Deep Impact, Enemy of the State, and The Negotiator, as well as an NBC pilot about the TV news business.
Martha was selected as one of eight participants in the American Film Institute's prestigious Directing Workshop for Women. The short film she directed, Glory Girl (produced with generous support from Dreamworks), won her critical recognition, including an award for creative excellence at Telluride Indiefest.
She was recently hand-picked as one of 12 promising minority director fellows by the Directors Guild of America Single Camera Directors Program, in cooperation with the ABC, NBC, and CBS and Fox entertainment divisions.
Taking charge of public affairs for Plymouth Rock Studios, O’Neill and Associates integrates communications and government relations to create a better brand of public relations—one that achieves the greatest reach and the highest results. They have seasoned professionals with diverse backgrounds and represent Massachusetts’ finest. Their reach extends throughout Boston, New England and nationally focusing on state, local and government relations, media relations, lobbying, crisis management, litigation support, business development, relationship marketing and more.
Gensler is one of the world's leading entertainment architecture and design firms, involved in the full spectrum of projects. They are a multiple winner of the prestigious Business Week Design Award and British Council for Office Awards which recognize innovative design solutions driven by strategic business purpose. They were named "Most Admired Firm" by their peers in Contract magazine, and the American Institute of Architects named them "Firm of the Year," the highest award to a collaborative practice. The award recognized Gensler as a "model of a 21st century design firm."
Gensler is a leader in sustainable design strategies that create healthier environments, preserve natural resources and deliver greater asset value to their clients.
Their achievements have been recognized by the inaugural Leadership Award of
the U.S. Green Building Council and the European Building Exchange Sustainable Regeneration Award. They have more than 2000 employees in 28 cities worldwide
and more than 2000 clients, covering 13 practice areas.
Tishman and its affiliates provide construction management, owner's representative, and project management services to a wide range of clients, including many in the entertainment industry. Tracing their origins back to 1898, they are one of the few national construction firms privately held by U.S. owners. Their roster of affiliated companies, depth of experience, and heritage set us apart from most builders. With regional offices across the United States and the affiliated companies focusing on specific areas of expertise, their clients benefit from a local presence, their national resources and comprehensive services.
Creative Strategies specializes in meeting the needs of corporate and political clients including project management, government relations, crisis communications, strategic political planning, permitting and local approval, public opinion survey research, public strategies implementation, grass roots community organizing, media and corporate communications, special event coordination and fundraising and direct marketing, market research & advertising. Plymouth Rock Studios relies heavily on Creative Strategies and its CEO Kevin O’Reilly to provide strategic insight on many issues as it relates to preserving the historical treasure that is the Plymouth area.
Ed Angley is one of the most respected and successful zoning attorneys in Southeast Massachusetts. Gillis & Angley practices in the following areas of law: energy, utility, natural resources, corporation, administrative, commercial, admiralty, maritime, real estate, probate, and fishery law.
Bob Betters is a prominent Southeast Massachusetts attorney who focuses on real estate law and especially zoning and title issues, where Plymouth Rock Studios will rely on this expertise.
Coler & Colantonio was founded in 1986 for the sole purpose of providing high quality engineering services. Since its inception, the firm has experienced a dramatic growth in the number and diversity of its staff. Coler & Colantonio Inc. currently employs professionals with expertise in civil engineering, transportation, water, waste water and surveying engineering; land information; planning; environmental sciences, permitting and services; pipeline services, telecommunications, transmission and distribution.
Shindler Perspective is west coast management consulting team that provides a unique blend of hands on management roles, strong educational credentials and many years of professional service work to companies all along the entertainment and entertainment technology food chain.
Their backgrounds include Big 4 consulting/CPA firm experience, top 5 business graduate school with work experience at Bank of America, 20th Century Fox, MGM, Industrial Light & Magic and Kodak’s Cinesite. The types of projects include business and strategic planning, operational reviews, market assessments, research & analysis and consulting on trends in the various market segments in which they are involved.
Many clients of The Shindler Perspective are world renown and include an unusual number of high profile organizations that have earned a significant number of Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Clios, Visual Effects Society Awards, Monitor Awards, Broadcast Designer Awards and general recognition by their peers.