Advisory Board

Harold L. Vogel

Harold L. Vogel is the author of Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (Sixth edition, 2004) and of the companion volume, Travel Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis (2001), both published by Cambridge University Press. He was ranked as top entertainment industry analyst for a record ten years by Institutional Investor magazine and was the senior entertainment industry analyst at Merrill Lynch for seventeen years. A chartered financial analyst (C.F.A.), Mr. Vogel served on the New York State Governor's Motion Picture and Television Advisory Board and as an adjunct professor of media economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. He is currently a venture capitalist and fund manager specializing in early stage investments in media and entertainment and aviation and is based in New York.

He is also a corporate director of NearWare Networks and is on the advisory boards of Rightsline, TransMedia, and several other companies.

John C. B. LeGates

John C. B. LeGates joins TransMedia after a distinguished career as strategist, entrepreneur and executive in the computer and computer networking industries.

Since 1973 he has been Managing Director and cofounder of Harvard's Program on Information Resources Policy; and President and cofounder of The Center for Information Policy Research. In that role he has been a policy and strategy advisor at the most senior levels to the major companies and governments in "the information age".

As executive director of the Educational Information Network at EDUCOM, he headed the development of nationwide academic computer networks and was a member of the ARPANET

NWG, the Internet's first design team. As cofounder and vice president of Cambridge Information Systems, Inc., Mr. LeGates headed the team that built the first hospital integrated-information system. He was a founding member of Computer Advisory Services to Education, Inc. and Cambridge Information Systems, Inc. At Bolt, Beranek & Newman, Inc. he pioneered the use of computers in schools.

Mr. LeGates has served on panels of the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council and on the board of the National Telecommunications Policy Conference. He was the US delegate to the First World Conference on Computer Communications (Amsterdam, 1970). He has testified many times before both houses of Congress, before state legislatures and regulatory commissions, and before their counterparts abroad. He has authored or managed the authoring of numerous books on the information technology industry, its forces, trends and issues. Mr. LeGates is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. mathematics) and Phillips Exeter Academy.