On October 12, the Women's Steering Committee hosted Finding Your Executive Team, a networking event for DGA women feature directors that offered one-on-one "meet and greet" sessions with executives who specialize in this area.
After the welcome from event producers Martha Cotton and Kari Skogland, the participants met briefly with the invited executives: Cooper Alexander of CineTel Pictures; Myriad's VP of Development & Production Amanda Blue; Story and Script Consultant Bobette Buster; Financiers Rob Cain and Eleonora Granata; Casting Directors Lindsay Chag and Emily Schweber; Roadside Attractions Co-President Howard Cohen, Producers Rudy Cohen, Cassian Elwes, Stu Pollard, Sara Rose, Jeremy Wall and Ralph Winter; Branded Pictures Entertainment CEO J. Todd Harris; Inferno Distribution's Co-Chairman Bill Johnson; Rick Myerson of AK Distribution & Financing, Essential Pictures Development Executive Karin Ostrander; Chickflick Productions CEO Sara Risher; MPower Pictures President of Production John Shepherd; Jimmy Spitz of AK Distribution & Financing; Palisades Tartan’s CEO Soumya Sriraman; Vendome Pictures Executive VP of Production Tracy Underwood; and Joe Wehinger of connect-i.com and Marquee Entertainment. Each of the visiting executives was also presented with the DGA participants' resumes.



