Nicholas de Wolff
International Social Media Strategist and Brand Builder
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Nicholas gave a great perspective on the industry, where it's moving and how he keeps inspired and learning. Overall, an engaging and thought provoking talk for many currently in or considering taking on marketing challenges.
Evisors webinar on Careers in Marketing
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Nicholas de Wolff has built a career of helping to build companies and brands, in both the commercial and non-profit sectors. He has been responsible for launching, relaunching, refining, or otherwise helping to improve the market position of such entities as Calvin Klein, Lexus, Technicolor, RCA, Grass Valley, Aramis, MPC, Screenvision, Johnson & Johnson, FX Networks, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Playhouse Disney, The Indonesian Government, Fashion Acts, Truefitt & Hill, The National Film Festival for Talented Youth, Chicagos Shakespeare On The Lake Festival, The Los Angeles Performing Arts Festival, McKinsey & Company, NPR affiliate KCRW-FM, and the Screen Actors Guild, among others.
Until recently, de Wolff served as a Chief Marketing Officer at Technicolor (formerly Thomson), one of the world's largest media and entertainment technology providers. He was responsible for shaping and communicating the identity and activities of the company's research and development hub. His responsibilities included branding, business strategy, events, Internet, promotions, and public relations. While at Technicolor, de Wolff directed a review of - and implemented new initiatives in - the company's Corporate Social Responsibility activity, launching a variety of new programs to heighten the firms attention to its environmental and community responsibilities, as a global sustainability steward.
Previously, de Wolff was Vice President and Group Creative Director of Dream Theatre, a leading digital marketing and production studio. There, he oversaw some of the earliest promotional campaigns on the Web for clients including Disney, the Jim Henson Company and Sony, and his work received Promax awards for creative direction and production of Feature Film promotional websites.
Prior to his career as a creative executive, de Wolff was an award-winning director and playwright, with credits in Europe and the US, and awards or nominations including Jefferson Awards (Chicago), Ovation Awards (Los Angeles), LA Times Best Bet, Play of the Year (Los Angeles), and the Phillips Award (UK).
His global activities, both creative and operational, have led him to work with a variety of organizations on a wide array of issues, including urban planning, education, social justice, and environmental activism, and he continues this work today, serving on various governmental and national non-profit medical and environmental advisory committees.
de Wolff's professional affiliations include serving as a founding Governor of the Producers Guild of America's New Media Council. He is also a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and has served several times on the jury for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Additionally, he is a member of the advisory boards of the CMO Institute, Charter High School for the Arts, National Film Festival for Talented Youth, American Lung Association, and the Business Marketing Association, as well as a founding member of the Digital Watermarking Alliance. In 2009, he was elected to serve as a member of the City of Burbank's Sustainability Commission, driving policy on issues relating to the environment, human capital, transportation, energy, and more. He was subsequently appointed to lead the City's related subcommittee on Transportation and Urban Design.
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Nicholas gave a great perspective on the industry, where it's moving and how he keeps inspired and learning. Overall, an engaging and thought provoking talk for many currently in or considering taking on marketing challenges.
Evisors webinar on Careers in Marketing
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Nicholas was invited to present the mornjng keynote at the 26th ASEI National Convention on Sep 24, 2011 at Cal State Fullerton. The attendees included professional engineers, information texhnology leaders and entrepreneurs. Nicholas challenged and inspired the attendees to understand the value of "social engagement" (his term), not just as a corporate branding opportunity, but also as a personal one. I found him to be concise, dynamic, and engaging, as did the many executives who eagerly lined up to talk with him after the speech. I would definitely invite Nicholas again to the event.
ASEI National Convention - New Frontiers in Information Technology. Sep 24, 2011
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We've asked Nicholas to speak and or moderate panels at NFFTY every year. No one else has received such high praise from the audience. Nicholas brings years of insight and intelligence and continuously pushes the boundaries of any discussion he's apart of, making for the most enjoyable and informative discussion possible.
NFFTY 2011
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As the moderator, Mr. de Wolff was adept at asking questions and proposing concepts that engaged the panelists as well as the audience.
2008 National Association of Broadcasters
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Nicholas is a marketing and brand expert. He captured audience with charisma and incredible knowledge. I was very impressed and learned a lot from his speech.
Chief Marketing Officer Summit
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Mr. de Wolff Moderated a celebrity panel of film producers and international business leaders, managing to keep them all on topic, while providing his own very insightful contributions once or twice. He let nobody, including himself, use the panel as a platform for self-promotion, but instead pushed the panelists to dig deeply into issues of great interest to the many hundreds of people in attendance, such as myself, who came from all over the world.
National Film Festival for Talented Youth, April 2011
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I run a marketing agency, and I find myself regularly turning to Nicholas de Wolff for advice on brand strategy. His grasp of this oft misunderstood topic is unmatched.
I've heard him speak at a large international film festival as well as small-group settings, and I'm always impressed by his ability to deliver His message with a finely tuned balance of polish and personality.
If your organization needs an injection of actionable advice and intellectual inspiration, contact this man immediately.
NFFTY 2010
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Nicholas brings extraordinary intelligence and erudition to the topic of community building and brand establishment, particularly in the digital space. His strong convictions are well-supported by a great breadth of knowledge and a rigorously analytical approach towards recent and trends and developments.
2010, Producers Guild of America
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Very insightful panelist, with a unique perspective on where the entertainment industry is headed.
DEMEXPO
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Nicholas was both immensely engaging and knowledgeable. More than that, though, he inspired me to rethink my approach to the functional value of creative thinking.
CMO Summit
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