Speaker
AJ Tesler
Executive Director - Independent Television Festival
After graduating from Northwestern University as a Theatre major, AJ stayed in Chicago where he formed the small production company Goldingeye Productions, an early effort in web entertainment. After producing tens of short films, AJ relocated to New York City where he worked as a New Media Analyst for d2 Capital, a hedge fund that invests primarily in technology companies. In 2004, AJ began producing television pilots on spec and in 2005, AJ formed the Independent Television Festival Corporation, a non profit, public benefit corporation dedicated to granting independent producers the opportunity to screen and showcase their independently produced original television pilots. In 2007, AJ was hired to produce a web pilot that later sold to Fox Studios and a webseries distributed by Sony Digital. In 2008, AJ was hired to be the Manager of Development for Lion Television, a UK based development and production company.
