Craig Caryl

Entrepreneur

I love to think up a "baby" and then one day watch it walk & talk. It's a drug!!

Google.com

people think it happens overnight. The world is filled with overnight millionaires who toiled in obscurity for years eating leftovers.

They don't vet their project and become too emotionally attached.

Cut quickly and mercilessly when the Sh$t hits the fan. Employee will be there when they are getting a check. But don't expect one ounce of dedication or loyalty even if they own stock when they are not receiving that check. Never under estimate the power of people to think small and bash your project for sport.

Craig Caryl

Tel: 310-436-6960

Cel: 718-839-0115

ccaryl@drmarion.com

craigcaryl@me.com

Doctor M Media, LLC

www.DrMarion.com

www.DrMarionU.com

http://drmarion.lifeledger.com/

www.DrMariontotherescue.com

5/8 – Present

Founder & CEO

I co-created a branded personality (think Martha Stewart) in the elder care space to help guide 77 million aging baby boomers through the coming caregiving crisis for the next 20 years.   I took a well respected Ph.D. gerontologist from NYC and through an understanding of the media and production I created a now nationally recognized expert who is regularly featured on the Today Show, Fox n Friends, Brian Williams and 100’s of smaller electronic, radio and print outlets across America.  Dr. Marion is now the voice and face of the long term care industry representing such storied brands as Prudential, John Hancock and Mutual of Omaha among others.  Through the production of a book, extensive web site, various first to market elder care software programs, online certification programs and a variety of web-based materials like a downloadable Home Safety PDF Dr. Marion is the go to personality in this space.  We recently produced the first ever TV pilot in the space and I have a created and directed 160 radio PSA’s, 2 iPhone App’s. and a syndicated article series currently read monthly by over 8,000,000 people monthly called “Ask Dr. Marion”.

The Film & Music Company, LLC

www.TheFMCo.com /

3/06 –  4/08

CEO

Developed and ran full service production company specializing in viral marketing with adjunct web site as a sales tool for selling stock footage, stock music & sound F/X. 

Metro Image Group, NYC

3/04 – 12/05

Consultant – Head of Development

Hired to create an internal sales program to augment the company’s reliance on a single client: MSNBC

Worked to create additional clients and income streams from stock footage to multi-party commercials for clients, such as an optical firm. Consulted with their Satellite division to grow through acquisition.

T-Bone Films, Inc.
1/92 – 2/04 (company was moth balled for 1 year in 1999)

Co-Founder and Executive Producer
I created a full service production company specializing in extreme sports programming and social issue documentaries for high schools (Channel One News). Starting with a base investment of $20,000 I built a multi-million dollar, award winning production company with a full service editorial facility specializing in projects from the bumpers for the Emmys to a skateboarding series for MTV Sports, to a contract with ABC for the Miss America Pageant year ’00, ‘01 & ’02.  Check out www.t-bone.com for precise dates and productions.

Duties include:
- all sales and contract negotiations;
- Executive Production of all commercials, series programming and social issue
documentaries series, extreme sports series and oversight of entire post facility;
- managing 16 employees;
- developing new series projects.

For specific project overviews please see t-bone.com web site

Logic Skateboard Media, Inc.
10/98 - 2/02

President
I created a quarterly video magazine to compete with 411, the premier skateboarding video magazine.

Duties included:
- Creating and implementing concept;
- Developing marketing strategy;
- Overseeing print advertising campaign and annual advertising/sales contracts

More info available at logicskate.com

Media Webcast Inc.
1/2000 – 12/2000
SVP, Head of Production
I assisted the founders, Ross Love (Mothernature.com) and Gene Fein, with creating and implementing the business plan for a “transmedia” company. I successfully built properties that were TV and Web based and distributed through outlets like Fox Sports Net, Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.

Duties include:
- Direction and Production of the Planet Extreme Championships a 13 episode extreme sports show featured on Fox Sports Network and @ planetextreme.com;
- Executive Production of Street Pace another Fox Sports Show;
- Purchasing and organizing tape libraries for our Web and TV properties like UFOTV;
- Creating a production workflow to manage all of the elements of the libraries we are acquiring and shows we are producing;
- Hiring the Web team that implements our various strategies;
- Staffing up the production personnel for our various projects;
- New Business Development like our integration of World Spy Inc.

Digital Entertainment Network, Inc.

DEN.net
1/99 – 12/99
SVP, Executive In Charge Of Production
As the Head of Production I was tasked with the creation of a 100+ strong production
department to produce narrative and reality based programming for the Den.net site. The programming included producing 30 half-hour pilots and 20 ongoing series released twice weekly on the site.

Duties included but were not limited to:
- building an entire production infrastructure and creating programming simultaneously;
- creating a production management team and overseeing the production work force of 120 people;
- integrating the web and production teams to work in tandem project by project;
- creating and developing original pilots for ongoing series;
- acquiring existing programming for series release;
- creation of new shooting and editing techniques to maximize the 56k experience;
- overseeing 3 facilities build outs including a 10,000 square ft. production/interactive facility, a 5,000 square foot interactive facility and a 5,000 square foot stage facility.

Adventures, hobbies, history of Craig:
- Motorcycled across Europe from England to the tip of North Africa;

- Featured in the Seville Expo ’92 (Spain Worlds Fare)
- Mt. Biked from the tip of Northern Australia to the Southern tip and then the entire

  South Island of NZ;
- Bicycled across Alaska, Canada and throughout the US;
- Competitive Century Road Racer for many years
- Skied the volcanic chain of Chile;
- Avid reader;
- Mt Biker & Scuba Diver

- Competitive Ocean Sailing

- Tennis & squash

- Falconry my newest hobby!!

Professional and personal references available upon request