Portfolio Review

Owen Leitch /Executive Producer: Owen Leitch is the Executive Producer of Global Brands, where he leads the team developing new video formats and brands for Narcity Media Group. In 2022, Owen launched Technality, Narcity Media Group's (NMG) newest video-first brand focused on all things future, tech & humanity. 

Maxmillien Rosenberg/Director, Social Media: Maxmillien Rosenberg is the Director, Social Media at Narcity Media Group (NMG), where he leads strategy, distribution, creation, and curation of all social media and video content for the Editorial team (including for TikTok, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram). His work covers all editions (including Canada, USA, Quebec, MTLBlog, and Global content). 

Ali Millington/Editor-in-Chief: Ali Millington is Editor-in-Chief at Narcity Media Group, where she oversees the content divisions of the company’s brands: Narcity Canada, Narcity USA, Narcity Quebec & MTL Blog

Christine McDermott, Senior Vice President, Digital Performance, Meat & Produce: At heart, Christine McDermott is a digital strategist committed to creating meaningful connections between brands and people by combining the power of storytelling with media. Her deep understanding of current trends in the online world allows her to strategize and implement digital campaigns across channels. She specializes in creative campaigns focused on compelling content and developed to engage, connect with and inspire action in the audience. ​As SVP of M&P, Christine has strategized and executed impactful campaigns for clients such as Kimberly Clark, Revlon, Church & Dwight, YMCA GTA, Microsoft, SUBWAY Canada, CBC, Volkswagen, Amazon Basics, Campbell’s Goldfish, Wine Country Ontario.​

Jessica Romito, Senior Producer, Meat & Produce: A storyteller at heart and idea-executer by nature, Jessica brings over eight years of experience working in all stages of content production for both broadcast and digital. With a background in Marketing and Media, Jessica uniquely approaches projects with both business and creative expertise. Producing content with impact and heart is always her priority while ensuring campaign goals are met strategically, creatively, and efficiently. Her intuitive ability to understand a brand message and help people bring the best of themselves on-screen to talk about it, is her superpower.​ Jessica is also a proud RTA grad; her practicum project, BUSK, was acquired by CBC while she was still a student. Jessica has since worked with leading productions and brands such as Big Brother Canada, iHeartRadio MMVAs, Kimberly Clark, Revlon, Church & Dwight, SUBWAY Canada, Top Chef Canada and the Canadian Screen Awards.

Dr. Vibe, producer, host: Dr Vibe has been the host and producer of the award-winning online show The Dr. Vibe Show™ for over twelve years. He has done over 4000 online interviews with people from all over the world. He has gotten into the minds of powerhouses such as The Honourable Ahmed Hussen (Canadian Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion), Mario Armstrong (Two time Emmy award winner and the host of The Never Settle Show), Kenneth Braswell (CEO of Fathers Incorporated), Lorenzo Ieraci (Director General · Public Services and Procurement for the government of Canada), Lisa Hickey (CEO - The Good Men Project - one of the most viewed websites for men in the world) and Freddie Coleman (longtimehost on ESPN Radio).

Scott Nihill, Owner, Art Director: Scott has played a producing and creative role (motion graphics & animation) on two of the worlds most watched web-series What If (external link)  (Webby Award Winner) & How To Survive (external link)   (Webby Award Winner) with a combined audience of more than 50 millions followers. And was brought in as a partner to develop & produce the animated children’s web-series What If Kids (external link) . He directed the Webby nominated interactive documentary, Flub & Utter (external link)  that was produced by the NFB. He directed and edited Canada’s Campfire (external link)  an animated storytelling web-series celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary. He is currently creator, producer and director of the animated sci-fi webseries Future Now (external link) . He founded Maker Boost (external link)  as a not-for-profit creative support system connecting arts leaders with those in most need of support.

Paul Bies, President/partner of Mystique Brand Communications. Paul co-founded Mystique Brand Communications in 1986 and is responsible for business development and brand strategy. Working with market research, Paul helps brands find their voice – and works with them to ensure that it’s heard.

Jeremy Porter, Technical Operator, Break coverage of Director, TD, Camera, Audio and Graphics operations. The shopping channel is running LIVE 24/7 and Jeremy ensures that operations all go smoothly.

First/Last name: Gabe Meacher

Company: Apart Inc.

Role: Accounts Manager

Brief Bio: Apart Inc. is a Toronto based boutique creative marketing firm that creates distinct brands, meaningful content, and innovative marketing solutions. We're looking to connect with photographers/videographers, social media managers and creatives.

First/Last name: Natacha Roussy

Company: Dynamite Garage Fashion Groupe INC

Role: Senior Manager, Talent

Brief Bio: Natacha is a Senior manager, talent with the Garage, Dynamite team andGroupe Dynamite is a Canada based clothing company, originally founded in 1975 as The Garage Clothing Company. The company creates, designs, markets and distributes from its head office in Montreal & Quebec, and operates over 300 stores across Canada and the U.S. with more than 3,800 employees (as of 2020)

Name: Navin Vaswani 

Company Name: theScore

Title: Managing Editor, Content

Brief Biography: As managing editor of content at theScore, Nav primarily leads the news team, a department of give-or-take 60 people (supervisors, news editors, copy editors, feature writers, betting writers, and content curators), which is tasked with providing fans the best-in-class mobile news experience on the market. The news team produces a staggering volume of content and push alerts every day - hard news; analysis; betting news; video highlights; and social content - and Nav ensures the department is churning 18-to-20 hours per day, 365 days a year.)

First/Last name: Alex Chippin

Company: theScore

Role: Supervising Editor

Brief Biography: I manage our curation team and help oversee the newsroom as a whole, coordinating our sports coverage and notification strategy on a daily basis. I spent 7 years as a news editor on theScore's football team, writing news articles and features for our NFL and college football audiences before moving up to a supervisor role in 2022. I graduated from the Journalism program at Ryerson in 2014, and began my career journey with an internship at Yahoo Canada Sports.