The AMEC Advisory Boards sets the organization’s strategic goals,maintains relevancy in the constantly evolving Entertainment and Media industries’ landscape and assures the fulfillment of our mission.
Each Board member is appointed to serve for one-year term. Board members may serve a maximum of three consecutive one-year terms (three years).
Leadership Advisory Board
Peter Steckelman (Chair Emeritus), Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, Tennis Channel
Chad Levy (Chair), Assistant Chief Counsel, Legal Affairs, Disney
Claudia Teran, Executive Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Fox Networks Group
Richard Patti, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Live Nation
Christa Zofcin Workman, Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, River Road Entertainment
Law School Advisory Board
Nancy Rapoport(Chair), Gordon Silver Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
William Nix (Chair Emeritus), Chairman, Creative Projects Group, Adjunct Professor and Industry Adviser to its Entertainment, Media and Sports Dispute Resolution Project, Pepperdine/Straus Institute
Jay Dougherty, Professor of Law and Director, Entertainment & Media Law Institute and Concentration Program, Loyola Law School
Women Who Lead Advisory Board
Lauren Pagoni (Chair), Legal Counsel, BuzzFeed
Julie Adler (Vice Chair), Legal Counsel, Dentsu Aegis Network
Caroline Mankey (Chair Emeritus), Partner, Akerman LLP
Krystle Brown, Deal Management, FCRA TV Participations, Warner Bros.
Grace Duplissea, Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, The H Collective
Jamie Lynn Frieden, Associate, Leopold Petrich & Smith
Tracy Rane, Partner, McPherson Rane
Erica Van Loon, Partner, Lathrop Gage
Rahwa H. Ghebre-Ab, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, Lionsgate
Jocelyn Hanamirian, Associate Principal Counsel, The Walt Disney Company
Jennifer Seigle, Counsel, Mattel
Law Firm Adversary Board
Erica Van Loon (Chair), Partner, Lathrop Gage
Robert Roby, Partner, Knobbe Martens
Randi D. Bandman, Attorney, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
Alan L. Friel, Partner, BakerHostetler
Lisa Harrington, Special Counsel, Cooley LLP
Owen Sloane, Partner, Eisner LLP
Emerging Leaders Advisory Board
Azita Iskandar (Chair), Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
Vera Golosker (Vice Chair), MGM
Stephanie Ward (Chair Emeritus), 44 Blue Productions
Ethan Dietrich, Discovery
Aerin Snow, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
Michael Harris, Sony Pictures Television
Ellen Villar, Paradigm
Kiara Williams, FabFitFun
Raisa Garvin, Sidley Austin, LLP
Funmi Akinmulero, Ruthless Vapor Corporation
Yael Resnick, Twentieth Century Fox
Lauren Ebrahim, Ingrooves Music Group
International Advisory Board
Gowree Gokhale, Nishith Desai Associates, India
Ramy Torbey, Eptalex, Lebanon
Amit Mor, Naschitz Brandes Amir, Israel
