Joseph Finneran

President / Creative Director

Joseph Finneran is an award-winning broadcast and special event producer based in Washington, DC and Mount Pleasant, NY. He has extensive experience in multi-platform digital design, production and distribution, and often consults on clients’ internal facilities and capabilities development. He supervises multi-camera broadcast and technical production of national and international televised specials as well as concept development, design and production of entertainment, celebratory and policy events. Finneran is also the co-founder of ClipSocial, a tech start-up providing cloud-based clipping of live broadcast and streamed events to social media, in near-real time. He also recently led the development of Podium Arts’s “Paradigm” suite of virtual event services, including its custom web portal and remote-operated live master control, capture, production and live streaming systems.

Finneran has been both the Digital and Associate Producer for the annual “National Memorial Day Concert” and “A Capitol Fourth” live specials on PBS, producing all local and remote recorded media content as well as supervising live streams of both programs to multiple platforms. He produced all the Washington, DC pre-tape artist and host performances for both programs in 2020 & 2021, which despite the pandemic maintained their standing as two of the top three rated shows annually on the Network. He has also led the shows through major digital upgrades, including their first-ever live streams, Facebook Live performer appearances from the West Lawn of the US Capitol, and creation of a new live clipping system that pushes live HD show clips to social media within minutes of live broadcast. Both shows live streams average well over a million viewers and their social clipping operations have converted VOD viewing rates from thousands per clip to 100K+ and in several cases millions of views per clip.

Finneran also produces annual policy events for major national advocacy and non-profit organizations such as the Urban Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Templeton Foundation, Lasker Foundation, Arnold Ventures, the Council on Criminal Justice, the Chamber of Digital Commerce and Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He has also produced several multi-day, leading edge virtual technical conferences including IQT Europe, Additive Manufacturing Strategies and D-Wave’s Qubits21 user conference, a hybrid program featuring staged presentations and simultaneous multi-camera feeds from three cities. For each event he manages all aspects of program content, technical production, event content capture, distribution and post-production. He also recently conceived and implemented a new multi-camera, ultra-high definition (4K/8K) convening, presentation and streaming facility for the Urban Institute.

Joseph was also the event producer for the Emmy-winning “Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner with Samantha Bee” broadcast, shot live at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, DC for TBS, Full Frontal Productions and Bond Events. Prior to that he was the supervising producer of the national and international broadcast pool for the Papal visit to the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. In that role he ran the master control facility for the event, calling nine live remote feeds over two days and coordinating continuous coverage with the US and International TV pools. Two weeks in advance of the broadcast, he supervised development of all remote facilities and shooting plans, and ran the production team creating detailed rundowns, schedules and interstitial graphic and playback elements. His team also supervised the live multi-lingual translation and captioning of the event and distribution to over 60 LED screens throughout the city. He also ran media operations for the opening ceremonies of the National Museum of African American History and Culture for Don Mischer Productions.

Finneran was technical producer for the NATO and G8 Summits at Chicago’s McCormick Place Center and the Camp David Retreat. The four days of combined summit events required months of planning and a production team of over 500 staff and crew. Finneran was responsible for developing the integrated scopes of work and supervising the entire technical team from lighting, sound and video systems to a vast array of office, IT and telecom services for the delegates. He was also responsible for creating the master production schedules for the primary NATO and G8 events as well as multiple offsite events around Chicago. He also supervised the development and implementation of the Host TV system and International Media Center that presented the combined summits to the world.

Joseph also served as Executive Producer of the “Workers Stand For America Rally,” the inspiring national unity event for organized labor gathering over 50,000 attendees in the lead-up to the 2012 National Political Conventions. Finneran provided turnkey production services to his union consortium clients, led by the IBEW, including all site and production planning for the outdoor Ben Franklin Parkway venue in Philadelphia, as well as staging, technical production, media services, graphics, talent booking and a seven camera HD pool that fed national media and was streamed live on the Rally’s event website. He produced “A Celebration of Country Music at the White House” from the East Room for Great American Country Television, featuring Brad Paisley, Alison Krauss and Charlie Pride. Finneran was also the streaming producer for the first two years of Budweiser’s “Made In America” music festival in Philadelphia, for longtime production partner ESM Productions, A Roc Nation company.

Finneran was also supervising producer of broadcast operations for the Mexican Bicentenary, including more than 12 hours of continuous live broadcast events from Mexico City. The project combined four network production partners and over 70 HD cameras integrated over a five-kilometer site. Finneran was responsible for conceiving and managing the overall production plan, from facility integration and production scheduling down to lens selection and individual camera placement.  He personally produced coverage of the main Grito Celebration in the Zocalo, led production negotiations with all local network partners as well as the national and local government, and supervised unilateral press services.

Joseph also served in senior production roles in major national political events over two decades. In 2008 he directed then Senator Clinton’s 3-night live campaign launch and directed and co-produced two national town hall events, including a simultaneous 22-city live satellite event from New York that had a combined Lifetime Network broadcast and live stream audience of more than 1.25 million viewers. Joseph produced the Kerry campaign launch in 2003 and ran the DNC’s digital rapid response unit for that general election. He also co-produced election night 2004 in Boston for the DNC, including site-prep, staging and media operations for the Copley Square concert event and design and production of the multi-camera DNC host broadcast. 

In 2000 he was Supervising Producer of Digital Media for the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles which was the first live-streamed National Political Convention, with multiple hosted HD pool broadcasts, live off-the-podium chat and a digital stills pool of 24 photographers. Joseph conceived and designed the overall digital media system, including substantial enhancements of the then incomplete Staples Center’s digital infrastructure, working with their broadcast engineers and AT&T to triple bandwidth, and cross-connect five broadcast control rooms. Finneran’s first political job was designing and live-calling the 64-monitor video wall behind the podium at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden. This was the first use of a live video display as the backdrop of a national convention dais, requiring six hours of live multi-source content for each of the four days, called with virtually no rehearsal. Joseph then produced and edited the opening segment for the 1993 Presidential Inaugural Gala on CBS. He repeated that design and live call role at the 1996 National Convention in Chicago.

Dorie D’Amore

Coordinating Producer 

Dorie D'Amore is an experienced producer who excels at creating compelling events, top-to-bottom, working closely with clients from initial concept to actualizing a successful program.  She produces events of all sizes, from content-heavy corporate meetings to very complicated multi-media, experiential productions.  She also has a deep background in major live broadcast specials and widely-promoted live-streamed events.

She is one of the lead show producers for the multi-million-dollar marketing extravaganza, the “NBCUniversal Upfronts”, in which she works directly with the client to develop and oversee all the content going to the screens and stage from over 25 different vendors servicing all the brand networks under the NBCUniversal umbrella.

Dorie’s has worked on multiple programs for television - including PBS Television’s “In Performance at the White House,” “Great Performances” and “Library of Congress Gershwin Prize” at the White House.  She has orchestrated master schedules for week-long events such as “Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show” (both in U.S. and abroad) to live broadcasts such as TLC’s The Royal Wedding w/ITV London, and National Geographic’s “Live from Space” which followed the International Space Station’s full orbit of the earth, interacting with the astronauts.

Dorie was recently one of the producers for “Stand for Rights:  A Benefit for the ACLU” (a 4-hour special event launched on Facebook Live).  She organized master broadcast and content for screens for the World Meeting of Families’ “Visit of Pope Francis” (in Philadelphia), production supervised ABC’s Earth Day special - “Seven Continents, Seven Ways to Save the World,” NBC’s “Concert for America”, Amnesty International’s “Secret Policeman’s Ball”, IBEW’s “Worker’s Stand for America” and “Yes We Will” a BET special celebrating the inauguration of President Barack Obama.  

Dorie’s credits include associate directing “You-Tube on Stage at the Kennedy Center,” and supervising “TED Talks Live”, a series of specials highlighting outstanding speakers on the topics of education, science and war & peace, which aired on PBSand YouTube; On TED Talks she briefed 8-10 speakers a day on their presentations (including their script, video content & cues).

Kyle Bozarth

Project Manager / Operations Supervisor 

Kyle Bozarth is a project and production management professional with more than a decade of experience providing senior-level operations management and client services support at the national level, to a diverse array of clients in the special event and trade show industries.  Kyle is a results-oriented problem solver and task-focused manager with well-developed analytical skills, who has proven highly effective in fast paced, high-pressure environments.  He has experience working in partnership with the largest general services contractors in the country with demonstrated excellence in event logistics, strategy and execution, vendor selection and management, project staffing and labor management, project estimating, schedule management and financial planning.

Kyle has managed contractor, vendor and labor teams ranging in size from 10 – 500 people and budgets/accounts up to $15 million. A sample of his project credits includes the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the 2012 NATO Summit in Chicago, the 2012 Obama Campaign “Election Night in Chicago”, 2002-2012 Buyers Market of American Craft in Philadelphia, and 2007 ACE Hardware in Philadelphia. Kyle has been senior project manager of the Washington Auto Show from 2013-2015.

He has held additional supervisory operations positions managing budgets, project schedules and overall logistical operations for various event and trade show clients.  Sample projects include 2002-2011 Philadelphia Antique Show in Philadelphia, Cambridge Health Institute in Cambridge, the Military Vehicle Expo in Ottawa, Canada, the 2002-2011 Philadelphia Auto Show, and 2007-2008 AUSA (Association of the United States Army) in Washington DC. In addition, Kyle managed various aspects of onsite production and logistical operations for the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, 2002-2007 New York Auto Show in New York and 2004-2007 Fancy Food Show in New York.