Member DirectoryBWMEadmin2012December 10, 2014February 21, 2019

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Our members are seasoned broadcast professionals, best-selling authors, Emmy Award-winning journalists and Grammy Award-winning musicians. But that is not all. You are just a click away from in-demand professionals who are producers, audio and video technicians, public relations and social influence gurus, talent agents and buyers, stage managers, set designers, event planners, graphic designers, photographers, entertainment lawyers, literary agents, writers, career coaches and image consultants. And the list goes on. If you’re looking for a seasoned pro or an extra set of capable hands on a project, this is the place to find her in Boston.

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Wendy J Pyne
Financial Planner Pyne Planning
Work Phone: 6176202452work Work Email: wendy@pyneplanning.comINTERNET Website: Pyne Planning

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Wendy Pyne specializes in insurance and investment risk management; a financial services industry professional for 14 years.

Wendy is inspired to help her clients make a significant difference in their lives. She does this via her knowledge as a Chartered Financial Consultant® and Life Underwriter Training Council Fellow®.

Self-described as funny, self-deprecating, honest, and direct, were she not a financial planner, Wendy would be a gym instructor, meditation guru, or travel guide. She might even own a yoga studio or spa. In fact, when asked what one thing would be impossible for her to give up, Wendy responds: “My gym membership”

Wendy admires anyone who is creative and resourceful- people who can make lemons into lemonade, self-made success stories and individuals who use their gifts and talents to help humankind. The one lesson from mom she still lives by today is, “Try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes before judging.”

Speaking of someone else’s shoes, Wendy is committed to volunteering and gives of her time and talents to her community; serving on the Board of Directors for the Ashland Education Foundation as well as contributing her time to the Ashland Emergency Fund, the Ashland Food Bank and to the Ashland Girl and Boy Scouts.

When she is not in the office helping her clients, Wendy and her husband are busy raising chickens, cats, and kids (not necessarily in that order), enjoys a range of hobbies and activities, including participating in the Spartan Races, traveling, hiking, canoeing, camping, reading, weight lifting and museum browsing. Passionate about her job, her family, friends, and pets, Wendy cites adventures with her family, new experiences, and different ways of thinking as invaluable to her life, motivating her career in the financial services industry.

Elaine M. Rogers
Partner Meister Seelig & Fein LLPEntertainment and New Media; Sports
Work Phone: 617-371-2979work Work Email: emr@msf-law.comINTERNET

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Entertainment and new media industry including publishing, licensing, promotion, advertising, interactive media, theater, motion pictures, television, music, other media and entertainment companies, as well as the representation within the sports industry, including professional athletes and broadcasters.

Elaine M. Rogers is a partner and co-chair of the Entertainment and New Media department at Meister Seelig & Fein LLP. Ms. Rogers’ practice emphasizes all aspects of the entertainment and new media industry including publishing, licensing, promotion, advertising, interactive media, theater, motion pictures, television, and music, as well as the representation within the sports industry, including professional athletes and broadcasters. She has recently authored a chapter on “Recent Trends and Hot Topics in Advertising Law” for Aspatore Books: Managing Advertising & Marketing Legal Issues: Leading Lawyers on Preventing Claims, Handling Disputes, and Understanding Recent Trends and Developments.

Ms. Rogers has been listed in The National Registry of America’s Who’s Who (2000), and was named in the cover article as one of Boston Magazine’s “The Best Lawyers” in entertainment law (October 2002). She was also in Boston Magazine’s November 2004-2008 issues as one of Massachusetts’ “Super Lawyers” and featured in ABA Women in Communications Law “Women to Watch.”

Prior to joining Meister Seelig & Fein LLP, Elaine M. Rogers was principal of Fish & Richardson PC, and a member of the firm’s media and entertainment practice group. Fish & Richardson PC is an international law firm and one of the largest in the United States practicing intellectual property, litigation, and corporate law.

As a film and television agent with Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson PC, the firm’s literary and dramatic rights agency, Ms. Rogers has packaged, placed, and/or negotiated a number of film/television deals with studios, distributors, networks, and financiers. She has also produced feature, film and television programs.

Prior to joining the field of law, Ms. Rogers worked as an advertising and public relations executive for several of the world’s largest firms including Burson-Marsteller, Saatchi & Saatchi (The Rowland Group), and WPP, managing a variety of entertainment, consumer, corporate, and health care accounts.

Ms. Rogers is a clinical field supervisor in entertainment law for the internship program at Suffolk University Law School. She is a member of the council of advisers for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, the Boston Bar Arts & Entertainment Committee, the New York based Women’s Association of Venture & Equity Inc., an associate member of the Independent Feature Project organization in New York.

Linda Samuels
CEO and Founder BillionaireBabies, LLCBusiness Coaching and Financing
Work Phone: 877-414-4192work Work Email: LSamuels@BillionaireBabies.netINTERNET Website: BillionaireBabies, LLC Website: UR Business Network

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A distinguished educator and author, I am an evolutionary biologist with an MBA. As a serial entrepreneur, I have founded The Science of Learning Center, Premier Capital By-The-Sea, LLC, and BillionaireBabies, LLC. This evolution of businesses has allowed me to use my specialty, which is working with children of all ages to turn their passions into profits. My internet radio show, ‘The Lemonade Stand,’ broadcasts on the UR Business Network and gives me a platform to discuss my guests’ first business ventures or their first “Lemonade Stands” to inspire the listeners, young and not so young, to create their own business. As Director of Strategic Partnerships, I connect savvy enterprises to the merits of our content marketing solutions at the UR Business Network.

Dayla Arabella Santurri
Media Strategist and Event Architect; Cofounder BWME Dayla Arabella, Inc.
Cell Phone: 781.479.6951cell Work Email: dayla@daylaarabella.comINTERNET Website: Dayla Arabella

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Her clients will tell you: this media relations strategist, event architect, talent buyer, trip host and all around wonder woman LOVES what she does. The former GM of Scullers Jazz Club, founding member of Jazz Boston and long time Boston impresario knows what it’s like to produce over 200 concerts a year. When it comes to talent buying, Dayla is a relationship builder with a rolodex of connections. From Patti LaBelle to Norah Jones, Harry Connick Jr, Michael Buble and Gladys Knight, Dayla is your direct line to the stars when it comes to booking someone for an event. Now at the helm of the events and marketing company that bears her name, Dayla Arabella, Inc. is flying high with an energy that fills her clients with confidence. Dayla’s valuable contacts and reputation in the arts & entertainment community are priceless, making her a driving force in the success of Boston Women in Media & Entertainment.

Cathy Savage
CEO, Founder Cathy Savage Coaching Agency
Website: CathySavageCoachingagency.com

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Cathy Savage is an internationally recognized Success Coach and entrepreneur who is located in Boston. She has been featured on MTV, ABC News, and Fox News and she is currently a member of the prestigious Advisory panel and contributor for Oxygen Magazine and Strong Magazine. Since the early 1990s, Cathy has been the pioneer in successful health and fitness coaching for aspiring women from all over the world. Cathy coaches with sport specific training, nutrition, wellness, marketing and branding careers in the health and fitness world.

Cathy’s online nutrition and training program is the first and most prominent all-inclusive global training program of its kind. Her company is known for transforming the physiques of both athletes and people who simply want to look like they compete, with a natural, non-extreme approach, no matter where they live! Cathy has coached and mentored celebrities, athletes, television personalities for lifestyle changes and business strategies as well. Her clients span the globe from the US to Australia, Asia, and Europe and throughout North America.

As a Boston College graduate, Cathy has used her education and experience of building a multi million dollar fitness empire, to develop into a women’s financial empowerment and marketing service where she coaches women on branding, and how to be money savvy.

Suzanne Schultz
CEO Canvas Fine Arts
Home Phone: 617-470-1889home Work Email: suzanne@canvasfinearts.comINTERNET Website: Canvas Fine Arts

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Canvas Fine Arts was founded in 2007 to assist visual artists with their art careers. In ten years CFA has gone from a small gallery in Acton, Massachusetts to a player on the world stage representing well over a hundred artists. With art having been exhibited locally and internationally, CFA engages corporate commissions with major players such the Legal Seafood Group and Revlon International. Artists have received both national and international press gracing numerous magazine covers, receiving notable reviews.

According to Suzanne Schultz, CEO of Canvas Fine Arts, ”There are not enough venues to support the ever growing population of professional artists. I have established a unique platform intuitively following global trends on the way art is seen and sold.” Suzanne further states, “Artists see momentum, growth and exposure and have access to many unique opportunities within just the first three month of signing on.”

Suzanne is a guest recruiter and a former co host for BNN TV’s, “It’s All About Arts”, Suzanne also writes and contributes to Revolt, a NYC based paper and the national publication, “Art Chaser” as well as” The Boston City Paper”. This further expanding her artists opportunities.

Most recently, Suzanne provides a seminar called, “Exposed” in order to encourage artists to get out of their studios and embrace the marketing opportunities in their trade. Suzanne has been invited to speak at Boston’s prestigious, Copley Society, Art New England Magazine, Providence Art Club, Masterworks Museum in Bermuda, Newbury College and will be presenting at Sothebys Art Institute Manhattan Campus this summer.

Suzanne is also affiliated with many of Boston non profits and is also a member of Independent Curators International and a board member of The American Friends of Masterworks Museum,

Annmarie Seldon
Founder/Owner AMS Communications
Work Phone: 617.448.7416work Work Email: ams@amscommunicationspr.comINTERNET Website: amscommunicationspr.com

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Annmarie Seldon, founder and principal of AMS Communications, founded the company in 2002 after working as a director at one of the top PR firms in the country in the consumer products and healthcare division. Some of her past consumer clients include The Corning Museum of Glass, The National SCRABBLE Association, The Post-Pregnancy Handbook and Yankee Candle Co.

As a regular spokesperson for consumer product companies she can speak to trends, offer insights into new products, understands product manufacturing and knows what makes a story sell. As a former television reporter and anchor, she also knows what topics are newsworthy and what elements constitute a story.

Annmarie is a senior level communication consultant with expertise in broadcast media, content creation, social media and crisis communication. Her decades of experience includes work with consumer products, healthcare, retail, education and technology clients. She has expertise in marketing to women and moms (including blogger outreach and engagement), women’s health issues, digital media, strategy and planning, content creation, video communication, project management, staff and student mentoring. She has been an adjunct professor at Boston University and Lasell College. Annmarie has served as spokesperson for many corporation and acted as a liaison across organizations between agencies, vendors and on communication issues with board based organization and its members.

In addition to her consumer product knowledge and spokesperson work she is an entrepreneur, a TV and radio contributor and blogger. She blogs at trendymommies where she writes about business, lifestyle, product trends and travel. She is a lifestyle correspondent for 980 WCAP-AM and a television lifestyle contributor for television stations across New England.

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Cara Serio
Senior Director, Global Client Services Endeavor
Work Email: caraserio72@gmail.comINTERNET

Celia Slattery
Singer/Voice Teacher Celia Slattery Voice and Performance Studio
Work Phone: 617-666-3495work Personal Email: celia@celiaslattery.comINTERNET Website: studio website Website: music website

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Celia Slattery is a singer, award-winning songwriter, and voice teacher. Celia’s original music weaves elements of jazz and folk/rock with perceptive lyrics inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. She also covers everyone from Ella to Adele, giving context to the music through humor and stories. Celia’s most recent release, Our Life Together has been called “A wonderfully crafted album highlighted by soul-stirring performances”(Metronome Magazine). She has entertained audiences from Boston to Bangkok, and currently hosts a monthly series at Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge.

Celia teaches Somatic Voicework™ The Lovetri Method – a state-of-the-art voice technique for contemporary styles – in her Boston studio and via Skype. She also coaches singers in all aspects of The Whole Singer™ Approach, including style, musicianship, performance skills and career. Contact Celia to schedule your free voice consultation.

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Sheryl Smith
Owner and Founder Catch Your Dreams Consulting
Work Phone: 978-767-1479work Work Email: sherylsmithrn@gmail.comINTERNET

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Michelle Sodi
Producer Stoughton Media Press
Work Email: msofi21@yahoo.comINTERNET

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Linda Somma
Owner / Director Ironic Music Booking Agency
Work Email: linda@ironic.itINTERNET

Gail Dickersin Spilsbury
Writer/Publisher Bergamot BooksEditor-in-Chief
Cell Phone: 510.323.5764cell Personal Email: gailspilsbury@gmail.comINTERNET Website: Bergamot Books Website: Film Reviews

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Books, film, and arts and culture are my life passion. I write every day, fiction, screenplays, and film reviews. My career has been in museum book publication and book making for private authors or cultural institutions. Currently I have more time for my own creative work, with a fiction podcast launching May 2, 2017, at the Liberty Hotel–open to the public and titled Red Line. My four books include That Year in Boston (21014); Sabina Quartet: Stories from Italy (2013); A Washington Sketchbook (2011); and Rock Creek Park (2004). Currently I review art house and indie films for my blog and the Boston City Paper, and cover film festivals at the Museum of Fine Arts.

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Michelle Spinale
Vice President, Consumer Engagement Hearst Magazines
Home 300 W. 57th Street New York NY 10019 home

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Michelle Spinale is proven marketing strategist, passionate brand storyteller and creative enthusiast. A relationship builder known for her ability to ignite ideas into action, she excels at collaborating and providing integrated solutions that deliver measurable results.

Motivated by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and passion for brand innovation, Michelle has extensive experience orchestrating successful strategies across all media platforms to energize leading brands, engage consumers and drive revenue. Throughout her career, she has held senior marketing positions at Hearst Magazines, Time Inc., 4Kids Entertainment, NBC Universal, Turner Entertainment Networks, The WB Television Network, and the Walt Disney Company. She has also served as a chief creative problem-solver and consultant on projects in the entertainment, retail, financial and health & wellness industries.

Her diverse expertise includes brand management, experiential events, media sponsorships, partnership marketing, sales development, strategic planning and team building. Michelle’s broad skill-set allows her to quickly assess business challenges and pave new paths of possibilities by providing the right solutions at the right time.

A natural collaborator, Michelle loves getting in a room with people from multiple disciplines – creative, sales, finance, and IT people to solve problems or create new solutions. “In order to ignite ideas into action, you must spark creativity, passion and teamwork,” she says. “I get people to believe in the bigger process, and then get them excited about what they can bring to it.”

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Joanna Springer
Box Office Manager Boston Philharmonic
Work Email: joannaleespringer@gmail.comINTERNET

Maria Stephanos
Anchor, Reporter WCVB Channel 5
Website: www.wcvb.com

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Maria Stephanos, highly-regarded local journalist with more than 25 years of experience as an anchor and reporter in New England, is co-anchor of NewsCenter 5 at 7:00PM and 11:00PM with Ed Harding, Chief Meteorologist Harvey Leonard, and Sports Anchor Mike Lynch. Stephanos also anchors The 10 O’Clock News on WCVB’s second television station MeTV Boston.

Stephanos joined WCVB Channel 5 from Boston’s WFXT-TV where she was a news anchor and reporter for nearly eighteen years. Before that, Stephanos was a reporter at WJAR-TV in Providence, RI. She began her career as a Statehouse reporter working for several local stations including WBUR in Boston. She has also reported for several NPR radio stations and WCBS Radio and WABC Radio in New York.

Over the course of her distinguished career, Stephanos has covered many of the most significant news events including: the plane crash of John F. Kennedy Jr., the Worcester Cold Storage fire, the Presidential recount vote live from Florida, the 9/11 attacks reporting from both Washington DC and Boston, Red Sox World series wins, Patriots’ Super Bowl wins, the deaths of Senator Edward Kennedy and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, the Boston Marathon bombings, the capture and trial of Whitey Bulger, and many more. She recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Alpha Omega Society presented by former Governor of the Commonwealth, Governor Michael Dukakis.

A self-proclaimed “…‘homer’ and proud of it,” Stephanos is a native of Groveland, MA and a graduate of Emerson College in Boston where she received both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mass communications. Stephanos resides in Foxboro with her husband Dale and their children. She enjoys cooking (especially Greek recipes), playing sports with her family, and vacationing in New England “anyplace there is water.”

Denise Swidey
TV Journalist/Food Critic PBS/Boston Globe
Work Email: denise@deniseswidey.comINTERNET Website: deniseswidey.com

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I’m a Boston-based television producer, food stylist, food writer and culinary instructor. I am the supervising producer of PBS’s The Food Flirts starring Marilynn and Sheila Brass. I worked on a dozen seasons of PBS’s Simply Ming, holding several positions including culinary producer, for which I earned an Emmy Award nomination. I’ve also served as culinary producer for Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke, and A Moveable Feast with Americas Favorite Chefs, running the cooking operation for Rick Bayless, José Andrés, and four other celebrity chefs. The show was nominated for a 2010 James Beard Foundation Award in the television special category.

A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and Tufts University, I got my start in TV food styling working for various Food Network shows. I’m a contributing writer for The Boston Globe’s food and travel pages, have recipe-tested for The New York Times Magazine and other publications and am a private cooking instructor. I also am an on-air chef for the web-based video service How2Heroes. My husband and I have three daughters (who all love to cook).

Ann Texeira
NEP and Speakeasy Stage Co. Boards of Directors
Work Email: ann.teixeira@gmail.comINTERNET

Carolyn Tidwell
Performing Artist
Work Phone: 781-424-1371work Personal Email: carolyntidwell1@yahoo.comINTERNET

Terri Trespicio
Content/Branding Expert, TEDx Speaker, Writer
Website: www.territrespicio.com

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A former magazine editor and radio host at Martha Stewart, she has delivered two TEDx talks—one of them, “Stop Searching for Your Passion,” has earned more than 1.8 million views. In addition to helping individuals and businesses nail their brand messaging, she also helps individuals create, pitch, and deliver talks at TEDx, SXSW, and CES. She delivered a free online training, “5 Steps to a Killer TEDx Talk—Even if You Don’t Have a Topic in February 2017.
Terri is a regular media contributor, and has appeared on the Today show, Dr. Oz, The Early Show, The Martha Stewart Show and The Anderson Cooper Show. Her work has appeared in Jezebel, XOJane, Marie Claire, Prevention, MindBodyGreen, and DailyWorth, among others. She’s also the co-creator of Lights Camera Expert, a six-week online course designed to help authors, experts, and entrepreneurs get media attention. She speaks widely at national conferences and events, and was rated the #1 speaker by attendees at How Design Live. Terri is also a stand-up comic in New York City and performs at Caroline’s, Dangerfield’s, Gotham, and New York Comedy Club.

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