SUSIE ALBIN-NAJERA
Susie Albin-Najera is a public relations, marketing and media professional, specializing in the Hispanic market, with experience in entertainment, consumer, healthcare, and non-profit practices. She is also a professional freelance writer in the field of travel, tourism, arts, entertainment, community and culture and has been published in several magazines including Latin Star Magazine, Latin Style and Baja Traveler. Currently, she is a Senior Editor for Latin Star Magazine, contributing writer with LatinoLA and the editor of her own professional blog, The MEXICO Report: www.themexicoreport.blogspot.com. Susie served on the board for the San Diego Media Arts Center (Latino Film Festival/Cine Mexicano) and San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and been honored with San Diego Metropolitan’s “20/20 Tijuana/San Diego Regional Leadership Award” and the distinguished “Forty Under 40 Achievement Award.” She was also nominated for the San Diego Business Journal’s “Multicultural Heritage Award” and “Women Who Mean Business Award.” Susie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and Hispanic Studies from San José State University, studied Spanish at Universidad de Guadalajara extension in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico and holds a Spanish certificate from Instituto Cultura in Oaxaca, Mexico. Susie resides in Los Angeles with her husband, a television and film writer/actor/director/producer, and their three children.

JOSHUA A. BURT, ESQ.

ROY ENGLEBRECHT
Roy Englebrecht is owner of Roy Englebrecht Promotions and Roy Englebrecht Events, California’s third largest fight promotions company. Oscar De La Hoya purchased Roy Englebrecht Promotions in December of 2001 and Golden Boy Promotions was formed, with Roy serving as COO for the first three years. At the end of 2004 he left GBP and reestablished Roy Englebrecht Promotions and Roy Englebrecht Events as owner and CEO.
Englebrecht formed Roy Englebrecht Events, Inc. in 2006 and it currently owns Fight Promoter University, the Mixed Martials Arts “Fist Series” concept, Sports Entrepreneurship Seminars, and its newest concept, Paparazzi University. Fight Promoter University held its inaugural three day session in February of 2006 with 33 students, and this first of its kind fight promotions training experience gained world wide attention. The second and third sessions were held in 2007 attracting future fight promoters from Russia, South Korea, Peru, Canada, and 24 states. Englebrecht was also hired by Fox TV in 2002 to serve as Event Coordinator for their unique Celebrity Boxing Show, which garnered great ratings.
Roy Englebrecht Promotions promotes the highly successful Battle in the Ballroom professional boxing shows at the Irvine Marriott Hotel. This bi-monthly professional boxing show is now in its 23rd consecutive year at the Irvine Marriott, and is the longest running club pro boxing show in the country. 36 current or former world champions have fought at the Marriott, including Shane Mosley and Johnny Tapia. In 2007 he became one of the first boxing promoters to introduce Mixed Martial Arts shows to his Battle In The Ballroom concept, with the inaugural Battle In The Ballroom MMA Style show on April 1st, followed by his SummerFist 2007 and OctoberFist 2007 shows which sold out!
Englebrecht has been involved with minor league sports for the past 20 years, as one of the original owners of the California League Class A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes baseball team, and now as a minority owner of the new NBA D-League team the Anaheim Arsenal. He also had ownership in the Arena Football League’s Anaheim Piranhas and the West Coast Hockey League’s Reno Rage. For the past 23 years he has owned and operated Sportscaster Camps of America, the leading sports broadcasting training school in America with over 2,250 alumni.
Prior to the formation of Roy Englebrecht Promotions in 1981, Roy spent seven years as Director of Promotions for the Los Angles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, and all Forum events. While at the Forum, Roy developed The Laker Girls dance team, and coordinated the 1980 Lakers Championship Parade. He currently is on the faculty and advisory board in the Sports Management Masters Degree programs, at the University of San Francisco and Long Beach State.

GUILLERMO VELASQUEZ GONZALEZ
Guillermo has held a position on the esteemed Comission De Box, Lucha Libre, y Artes Marciales Mixtas in Tijuana for the past 5 years overseeing more than 500 lucha libre events. The commission oversees all wrestling, boxing, and MMA matches within the city as well as licenses all wrestlers and fighters. He is a former luchador himself, having wrestled throughout Mexico and the US.

DR. MARK KEENAN
Mark Keenan’s career in professional wrestling began as a wrestler in 1986. He worked as in-ring talent for the WWF, NWA, AWA and USWA where he teamed with TNA co-founder and world champion Jeff Jarrett to hold the USWA tag team championships. After suffering a broken neck in a match, Mark retired from in-ring performing and began working behind the scenes in the industry. From 1996-2000 he was the promoter for all Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW, now owned by the WWE) live events and Pay-Per-Views in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. It was under Mark’s guidance that ECW broke all previous company records drawing over 5,000 fans and a gate of over $100,000 for the “November To Remember” Pay-Per-View in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2005, Mark serves as the promoter, writer, and producer for the Hardcore Homecoming ECW reunion events. The Philadelphia event broke all independent promotion records for the world famous ECW Arena and drew a gate of over $100,000. Hardcore Homecoming would go on to become one of the best selling wrestling DVD releases of the year shipping over 100,000 units worldwide and claiming the #1 spot on the UK Billboard Sports Charts. From 2005-2007 Mark served as a producer and talent coordinator for MTV’s Wrestling Society X television series. Since then Mark has been involved with promoting Mixed Martial Arts in Pennsylvania and has a number of television properties in development. Mark also holds a Doctor of Chiropractic degree, served as a youth ministry volunteer from 1982-1997, and now coaches youth basketball, baseball, and softball.

KEVIN KLEINROCK
Kevin Kleinrock has been producing television, PPV and live events for nearly a decade.
Having been named one of “Pro Wrestling’s Most Influential People”, Kevin has co-created, written, and produced several pro wrestling television programs for network TV (MTV), syndication, and international markets (Mexico, UK, Japan, Canada). He has produced over 50 major live pro wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts events, in the U.S. and Mexico, many of which were filmed for pay-per-view, television, or home entertainment.
Additionally, Kevin has served as a producer for Big Vision Entertainment’s Ultimate Blackjack Tour (CBS), Aruba Poker Classic (GSN) and pilots for G4 and TruTV.
He co-created and produced a number of successful home entertainment lines including Xtreme Pro Wrestling, Hardcore Homecoming, GLOW, Pro Wrestling’s Ultimate Insiders, Valor Fighting Challenge, and Desperados Del Ring many of which have spent numerous weeks on the Billboard Sports Charts.
Beyond television, Kevin has served as Big Vision Entertainment’s Executive Vice President, and as such, the executive in charge of numerous divisions including development and acquisitions for television and home entertainment, daily operations of home entertainment division (one of the largest special interest home entertainment labels in the world), new media initiatives (including internet, mobile, pay-per-view, and video-on-demand platforms), licensing both clips from Big Vision’s library to networks including Showtime and HBO and licensing of products including a deal with Cinderblock merchandising for worldwide licensing rights in all categories for Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie and additional Big Vision brands.
He currently has nearly a dozen television formats and programs in development ranging from sports (MMA, pro wrestling) to scripted (drama and sitcoms). Additionally, he has his first two feature films, a comic book series, and multiple apparel lines in development. Kevin also consults with many companies in regards to monetizing live events.

RON MCCARRELL

JEREMY NISEN
Jeremy Nisen is a writer, editor, and beverage enthusiast. He's plied his trade in many sectors, including financial research, business, legal news, and city-focused blogs.
His work can currently be seen at HispanicBusiness.com and Osmosis Online, an Internet magazine.

JESSE NUNEZ

NATASHA STEPHAN
Natasha Stephan has explored much of, and held various positions within the entertainment industry for well over 10 years. Having held an array of positions in post-production, literary management, below-the-line/physical production, and development of television and feature films, it would be fair to say that her experience truly runs the gamut with regards to any project in which she becomes involved. From her key roles in the development of large-scale "tentpole" films, to overseeing the budgeting and marketing of independent features, and working closely with writers to create and further flesh out myriad projects, she makes a point of applying a hands-on approach to each and every entity, with the goal of producing an accessible and successful feature, series or franchise, while attempting to assist in the cultivation of the unique voice of each writer/filmmaker.

MICHAEL A. WEISS
Michael is the CEO/Founder of Media Mobile Management, LLC which specializes in utilizing traditional and new media platforms along with social media tools to establish, develop and manage talent and brands so that they can successfully monetize their products and services within the “new economy” of savvy global customers who seek a more “intimate” relationship in their entertainment choices

Described as an innovative "deal-maker," tenacious "facilitator" of articulated objectives and a straightforward businessperson, Michael’s successful track record is attributable to a unique combination of Business Development and Business/Legal Affairs skills and experience. Michael’s diverse and extensive experiences have also included some failed ventures and it has been his ability to learn from those “trial by fire” situations which has made him a trusted confidante and advisor to several top-level entertainment industry executives and very successful entrepreneurs.

Michael A. Weiss earned his MBA degree in 1986 from Hofstra University (Long Island, New York) concentrating his studies in Management. After successfully implementing his MBA education as a Sales Executive, Michael obtained his Law Degree in 1992 from New England School of Law (Boston. MA) and then practiced transactional Entertainment Law for approximately 15 years. During his tenure as an entertainment attorney, Michael began producing Low-Budget and “SAGIndie” qualified Films and ultimately eased out of practicing law to focus on the feature production and distribution.

As the Internet and New Media began to “democratize” entry to the entertainment industry for talented, but typically otherwise unknown, content creators, Michael adjusted his focus to the burgeoning spectrum of new content vehicles such as webisodes, podcasts, mobisodes and social media outlets. In order to distribute these cutting-edge content creations, Michael concentrated on the new Global/24-7 content mediums which were creating multi-screen demand for these vehicles,”this new and exciting content and for re-purposed existing content overall. These mediums include mobile phones, web streaming, web download, webcasting, various digital/handheld devices, IPTV and digital TV.