Marc Scarpa

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Marc Scarpa (born September 25th 1969 in New York City) is a pioneer in directing and producing live interactive media. His first company, JumpCut, was a part of the dot-com era in New York known as Silicon Alley.

1 JumpCut
2 CNET Networks
3 Media appearances and non-profit service
4 External links

[edit] JumpCut

Main article: JumpCut

With JumpCut, he produced and directed several historical "firsts" in the interactive programming or better known webcast genre. Partial credits include, "Townhall with President Clinton" (now a part of the permanent collection of the Clinton Presidential Library), Woodstock 1999, The Tibetan Freedom Concerts, Vans Warped Tours, "The Lola Pandora Show" a 10 city tour, "HSX/Excite Rocks The Oscars" featuring Beck; along with numerous live music events for artists such as the Beastie Boys, Elton John, Moby, Wyclef Jean, Primus and Pat Metheny.

Simulcast credits (web and TV) include "The A&E Live By Request series", "Backstage at the Tony Awards" and "Online Prayer with the Dalai Lama".

Scarpa is also the architect for New York City Hall's Blue Room multi-platform broadcast facility under Mayor Rudy Giuliani, which enabled press conferences to be distributed live over the web, TV and radio simultaneously and is still in use by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

[edit] CNET Networks

Prior to JumpCut, Scarpa was one of the founding producers and the New York Bureau Chief for CNET television, where he produced news segments for its programs "TV.COM", "The Web" and "C|NET Central". He also co-developed C|NET's early video on demand deployment strategy and produced C|NET's first live webcast from the floor of the 1997 PC Expo.

[edit] Media appearances and non-profit service

Scarpa is a recognized speaker on the subject of converging media and is continually a featured speaker with Internet World, Jupiter Interactive, Digital Hollywood, Art Directors Club, D.G.A., Streaming Media East/West/Europe and was recognized as one of Silicon Alley Reporters Top 100. In 1998, he was the Co-Chair for NYC Mayor's Council on New Media with Deputy Mayor Tony Coles. As of 2006, he is a board member and NY committee chair for the Producers Guild of America New Media Council.