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Mark Hason, MVI Founder/President,
is an accomplished video and television producer with 15+ years
in the entertainment business. His production and marketing expertise
has been the driving force behind a wide variety of properties for
industry leaders such as MTV, NBC, Telemundo,
NYC TV, Arista Records, J Records, Jive Records, and Tommy
Boy Music as Creative Director/Video Commissioner. Mark has
worked with Alicia Keys, hip-hop legends
Run DMC and Naughty
By Nature, Wyclef Jean, Daddy
Yankee and Aventura. His creative
vision contributed greatly to multi-platinum success of the 10 volume
series "MTV Party To Go," and the genre-defining
compilation "ESPN Presents: Jock Jams."
He has also worked on projects for Carlos
Santana, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah, Missy Elliot, Lil Jon,
and Fat Joe, among many others.
Mark recognized early on the growing potential in the Urban Latin
market, so in 2000 he began creating programming for this audience.
MVI partnered with Reggaeton superstar Daddy
Yankee to produce the genre's first ever nationally televised
concert and pay-per-view event. Prior to that Mark helped launch
and produce the highly popular Urban Latin lifestyle show "The
Roof," a daily two-hour live music and entertainment program
that aired nationally on NBC's Mun2 Television, and on Telemundo
International. He produced and directed a series of live concert
DVDs for Dominican supergroup Aventura,
and co-produced a music video for Wyclef Jean
featuring Tego Calderon.
Most recently Mark has worked as producer and post-production supervisor
for NYCTV's "New York 360º" an entertainment
magazine show created for broadcast on WNBC. He was instrumental
in the launch of V-Me, a national Spanish
language public television network, created and distributed in cooperation
with WNET in New York. Mark is a well-known executive in the TV
and music industries. He holds a BA and a Master's Degree from Columbia
University, and completed coursework at the NYU Center for Digital
Media, the Jazz Program at City College, and the School of Visual
Arts.
Karen Pattani-Hason, MVI Chief Marketing
Officer
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