Gerry Richman 
Gerry Richman is Vice President of National Productions at tpt. In his 20+ years with tpt, Mr. Richman has helped develop one of the country’s most highly regarded production departments. A four-time Emmy Award-winning producer/director, Mr. Richman was executive-in-charge of the Peabody Award-winning productions Hoop Dreams and Liberty! The American Revolution.
More recently, Richman was executive-in-charge of the Emmy Award-winning specials Benjamin Franklin and The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s as well as Good Ol’ Charles Schulz for the PBS American Masters series.

Fritz Bergmann 
Fritz Bergmann is the Senior Director of tpt National Productions, managing operations, planning and production. Before joining tpt National Productions, Bergmann served as Director of Institutional Relations at Minnesota Public Radio | American Public Media from 2001-2008. Prior to that, he spent 13 years in various leadership roles with the American Composers Forum.

Catherine Allan 
Catherine Allan is a Senior Executive Producer at tpt National Productions. Allan’s executive production credits for PBS include two Peabody Award-winning productions: Liberty! The American Revolution and the acclaimed feature-length documentary, Hoop Dreams, recently named the number one documentary film of all time by the International Documentary Association. Other productions include the Emmy Award-winning Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and Kinsey for PBS’ AMERICAN EXPERIENCE series, the Cine Golden Eagle-winning Continental Harmony, The New Medicine and Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope.

Richard Hudson 
Richard Hudson, Senior Executive Producer, is the Director of Science Production at tpt National Productions. In this role, Hudson oversees tpt’s nationally broadcast adult and children’s science programming, including the long-running children’s science series DragonflyTV, recent winner of two Daytime Emmy awards. Other executive production credits for PBS include the Emmy-winning family science series Newton’s Apple and the NOVA specials Flood!, Dying to be Thin and Absolute Zero. He is currently executive producing three new projects for 2009 and 2010: A NOVA special on the history of the telescope, The Quest to See Infinity; a new DIY-series, Make:, and a new children’s science series, SciGirls.

JoAnna Baldwin Mallory 
JoAnna Baldwin Mallory is the Executive Producer for Bioscience and Health at tpt National Productions. She is an experienced media executive in both science and history programming. Since 2000, she has brought the academic medical community into the public media arena, with aligned agencies and industries, in the development and production of international media initiatives, spanning neuroscience and genetics, as well producing communications plans for top ranked hospitals and public health programs. Prior to joining tpt she held leadership positions, managed departments, developed new programming initiatives, and secured funding at and/or with leading stations in the PBS system, including WNET, New York, WGBH, Boston, and WQED, Pittsburgh. Baldwin Mallory has produced award-winning films and series for broadcast and theatrical release in biomedicine, life sciences, and the scientific process including the giant screen films Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, Flight of the Butterflies, Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance, and the PBS series Out of the Past, among others. Human Odyssey, on human genetics, is in pre-production.

Ginger Wange 
Ginger is the STEM Development Manager of tpt National Productions. As a professional fundraiser and manager of marketing, communications and events, she has over nine years of experience in non-profit fundraising, for-profit sales and trade association membership. Most recently she managed member company engagement and new member relationships as Manager of Member Services for the Minnesota High Tech Association, MHTA. At MHTA Ginger enthusiastically supported sponsorship of STEM programming. Ginger is a returned Peace Corps volunteer and a graduate of St. Catherine University with a degree in Business Management and Marketing.