Nicholas de Wolff

Nicholas de Wolff has a strong interest in the ways social media is changing how people and organizations connect and communicate. He's worked with companies of all sizes across North America and Europe, and been responsible for launching, relaunching, refining, or otherwise helping to improve the market position of some of the most well-known brands in the world (in both the commercial and non-profit sectors), and some not so-well-known but just as compelling ones, too!

Until recently, Nicholas served as a Chief Marketing Officer at Technicolor (formerly Thomson), where he oversaw strategic and tactical aspects of the Group's technology market position in the U.S, Europe, and Asia. Previously, he was Vice President and Group Creative Director of Dream Theatre, a leading digital production studio. There, he produced and directed some of the earliest online games and web-based promotional campaigns for clients including Disney, the Jim Henson Company and Sony, and his work received Promax awards for creative direction and interactive production.

Concurrent with these ventures, Nicholas has served as the Senior Advsior to what has now become the world's largest youth film festival and advocacy organization (nffty.org); Founding Governor of the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council; member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; and advisor to such august bodies as the CMO Institute, the Charter High School for the Arts, the American Lung Association, and the Business Marketing Association.

In 2009, Nicholas was elected to a 4-year term as Sustainability Commissioner for the City of Burbank, driving policy on issues relating to the environment, human capital, transportation, energy, and more. He was subsequently appointed to lead the City's related subcommittees on Transportation and Urban Design. In 2013, Nicholas was elected Chair of the Commission.