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Worldwide Biggies

dave — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:39:13 +0000

Worldwide Biggies is a Digital Entertainment Studio that’s redefining entertainment by creating original, hit intellectual properties and immersive experiences for kids, young adults and families. Worldwide Biggies designs properties that launch and live on multiple media platforms—online, TV, film, mobile and consumer products—and involve audiences in meaningful ways.

Worldwide Biggies was founded by Albie Hecht, former president of Nickelodeon Entertainment and Spike TV responsible for launching hits such as Spongebob Squarepants, Rugrats, Blue’s Clues, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Dora The Explorer, as well as Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Biggies was started in September 2005 and has offices in New York and Los Angeles.

Hecht assembled a team from diverse media backgrounds to make Worldwide Biggies a full-service studio that is uniquely positioned to take advantage of new technology and content distribution channels to create a library of original and licensed hits that could be popular across all mediums. Worldwide Biggies develops and produces a range of entertainment content including computer generated (CG) features, hi-definition (HD) movies and television series, direct to DVD series, and broadband and mobile content aimed at the family entertainment audience.

Albie Hecht – CEO

dave — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:57:40 +0000

Biggies is led by Chief Executive Officer, Albie Hecht, a former President of Nickelodeon Entertainment and Spike TV. Hecht is a recognized industry leader who oversaw the development and production of SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Blue’s Clues, and live-action hit All That at Nickelodeon. While at Nickelodeon, he built the Nick Digital Studio as well as the first new animation studio in Los Angeles in 35 years. He also co-created Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards as the founding principal and executive producer for Chauncey Street Productions. Hecht produced some of Paramount’s biggest films of the last five years, most recently, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, which received four Academy Award nominations, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Hecht was nominated for an Oscar as the producer of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which was also a Golden Globe Nominee, and he was the executive producer of The Rugrats Movie, which was the first non-Disney animated feature to cross the hundred million dollar mark. At Spike TV, his hits included the Joe Schmo Show, MXC and signing the Ultimate Fighting Championship franchise. Hecht is responsible for the development and launch of Biggies new multi-platform hit the Naked Brothers Band.

Christopher Romero – Chief Technology Officer

dave — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:57:35 +0000

Christopher Romero (CTO, World Wide Biggies) is a 14-year veteran of interactive development. A San Francisco native, he began his career animating home improvement techniques in Macromind Director for delivery on floppy disks at a start-up in Palo Alto called Books That Work. CD-ROM work followed which included educational and scientific topics at InfoUse in Berkeley, Ca. In 1995 he moved to Toronto, Ontario and joined ICE (Interactive Communications and Entertainment), then Canadaâ€™s largest and most well-known multi-media agency, where he worked on a number of projects including CaribbeanTravel.com (Applied Arts Awards winner), eTrade Canada (their first international port), an intra-net for Nortel in London, and a Location Based Entertainment installation for Playdium (Applied Arts Award Winner). In 1999 he moved to New York City and began work at Nickelodeon Online, where he was quickly promoted to Vice President, Technical Production. There he managed operations, technical strategy and application development on nick.com, nickjr.com, tvland.com and addictinggames.com. Applications and games include: NickPoints, earned points on nick.com; E-Collectibles, virtual trading cards; TurboNick, an online video player; Wildlife Rescue, a game simulation where kids find wild animals in need of care, nurse them back to health and then release them back into the wild; Developer Upload, a way for game developers to get their games on to addictinggames.com; and Nicktropolis, a massive casual game world. Nick.com has won two Webbies and these sites together have won numerous BDA and other awards. With combined traffic of over 30 millions uniques per month, an entire generation of kids has interacted with his work.

Kari Kim – VP of Production and Development

dave — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:55:58 +0000

Kari Kim began her career in the talent department of Saturday Night Live. In 2001, she joined Nickelodeon Film and TV Entertainment as a member of the production and development department. There, she worked on various productions including: Nickelodeon™s Kids Choice Awards as well as the feature films Rugrats Go Wild and Academy-Award nominee Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. She then moved on to support the launch of Spike TV, The First Network For Men, where she was the Associate Producer for Spike TV™s Video Game Awards for the past 3 years. She also produced the first Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival awards show. Currently Kari heads production and development at Worldwide Biggies, where her credits include: Coordinating Producer of The Naked Brothers Band, Nickelodeon™s latest live-action broadcast and web series and Co-Producer of the feature documentary War/Dance. She is also the producer for the webisode series Mo-Cap, LLC and Bigby.

Ian Black – VP Corporate Development & Product Strategy

amber — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:53:32 +0000

Ian Black began his career in equity research at UBS. He founded a hedge fund advisory firm in 2004 focused on healthcare technology investments. Ian is also a writer/producer with two games to his credit, including Disney’s MMOG Pirates of the Caribbean. He received his BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000, completed the CFA certification in 2003, and received his MBA with honors from Columbia Business School in 2008.