ABOUT US

ABOUT US

Media Supply Chain Cogs

Launched in 2001, Perspective Media Group is the leading media supply chain transformation company that helps clients see immediate benefits enabled through media supply chain and workflow optimization and organizational evolution. We help you optimize your media supply chain to provide for 360 planning and production as well as cost-efficient demand-based multi-platform, multi-market content monetization.

We also help them select, integrate and deploy the right solutions, services and underlying technology architecture to help enable optimization as well as effectively manage change.

Media Supply Chain

  • An aggregation of organizations, roles and people, technology, activities & workflow, interfaces, information and resources – that begins with content/program planning and concludes with content consumption and its analysis

    The internal components of a media supply chain determine an organization’s ability to deliver content and experiences to consumers – when, where and how they want it – as well as the cost of delivering that content

    A contemporary, integrated media supply chain considers the full lifecycle and life of an Intellectual Property (IP) and the associated creative works. Realization of an integrated supply chain requires an action plan grounded in strategic and business objectives, i.e. a Roadmap, as well as a well articulated content strategy

We are the trusted partner of both early adopters making headlines and companies looking for stable proven technologies and solutions.

Our clients look to us - and our deep understanding of the business, operational workflows, technology, and the interplay and governance among them - to identify and leverage capabilities enabled by the convergence of cloud, AI, remote production, automated packaging & distribution, broadcast and IP technologies.

Experience Summary

In each client engagement, Perspective Media Group applies a unique perspective that balances business, creative, operations, and technology considerations.  This includes employing a razor-sharp focus on the cost-effective integration of media and its metadata, its movement, and intelligent management and fulfillment in a distributed, cloud and IP-enabled world.

Unequaled in the industry, Perspective Media Group uses a unique, proven methodology to quickly:

Capture the client’s business objectives and their existing organizational structure, workflow, metadata, media, systems and infrastructure

Develop a plan of action to quickly and predictably move an organization towards its objectives, including new and streamlined workflow and technology solutions

Help deploy selected solutions and the required workflow and underlying technology architecture and infrastructure

Support the action plan with a detailed business case, including financial implications, workflow & process considerations, organizational impacts, governance, dependencies, and risks

Experience, expertise, objectivity, and an extraordinary degree of responsiveness to our client’s needs are the hallmarks of our engagements. A sampling of clients includes Disney, ABC, Fox, CBS, Paramount Global, BBC, CBC, PBS, Warner Media, Turner, HBO, Discovery, McDonalds, General Mills and National Geographic.

Meet Some of the Team

  • Janet Gardner is President of Perspective Media Group (PMG), an industry-leading consulting team that works with major media companies on evolving their workflow, media management, metadata integration and their internal media supply chains to better meet the challenges of the digital and multi-platform on-demand media landscape.

    The core of Janet's focus is helping companies put the right capabilities (people, workflows, metadata and information models, systems and technical infrastructure) in place so they can more fully exploit their assets, and the related metadata, across distribution platforms. Doing so helps drive efficiencies throughout a company’s internal supply chain and amplifies new revenue and marketing opportunities. This includes evolving their internal planning process to consider multi-platform exploitation at the same time as on-air planning and rights deals are crafted.

    Janet received her Master of Science from MIT and BArch from Ball State University. In 2020 Janet received the Futurist Award for Women in Technology from TV Newscheck

  • A founding partner in the Perspective Media Group, Suzanne Donino has more than three decades of experience in the broadcast and advertising industries most recently as Senior Vice President of Network Operations for Turner Networks. In her founding role, Suzanne helps interconnect business owners, technology and workflow in addressing media management challenges, strategies, and opportunities.

    Suzanne spearheads the Perspective Forum, an annual by-invitation-only Executive forum that brings together entertainment and vendor executives to discuss operational issues and challenges. Suzanne conceptualized Perspective in 1996 as a venue for industry partners and vendors to identify and explore issues in a non-competitive environment. She received the distinguished SMPTE Fellowship honor for her efforts in this area and remains a very active participant in the organization.

  • Kevin is a Principal at Perspective Media Group with over twenty years of experience in M&E. Kevin has led and completed strategy, technology and operations engagements in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific focused on media supply chain rationalization and digital media business transformation. Prior to Perspective Media Group, Kevin was an executive at DIRECTV, Ascent Media, Deluxe Entertainment Services and NTC responsible for strategic development, business development, product management, marketing, sales and financial planning. Kevin holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering and an MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford as well as an MBA from UCLA.

  • Steve is a Principal and Architect at PMG with over twenty years of experience in media technology and innovation. Prior to PMG, Steve was a technology executive at Walt Disney Television, Fox Entertainment and Disney Imagineering responsible for media operations, technology innovation and strategy. Steve holds a BS in Computer Science and Physic from UCLA and holds media technology patents.

  • Matt is a Media Architect with PMG where he provides workflow automation solutions and Media Architecture design, leveraging standards such as IMF, MovieLabs and EDIR.

    Prior to PMG, Matt worked at HBO with engineering responsibility for HBO’s MAM systems and mezzanine-level media workflow automation solutions. Matt holds a BS in Computer Engineering and BS in Economics from UC San Diego.