Catherine Warren

Catherine Warren, Founder and president of FanTrust Entertainment Strategies, Catherine has led advances in digital media and entertainment since 1985, working in the United States, the United Kingdom, Western Europe and Canada. Catherine’s client work involves strategic initiatives for major broadcast and telecommunications companies such as CTV, CBC, PBS/KCTS and Bell Canada; for computer corporations such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft; and for games and gaming giants Radical Entertainment/Vivendi Universal Games and the BC Lottery Corporation.

As the former Chief Operating Officer of the entertainment portal software company Blue Zone, Catherine was part of the executive management team that propelled the business onto the Nasdaq big board and raised significant capital. An editor and producer, Catherine has published more than 25 books and magazine series for children and adults as well as executive produced 20 websites and interactive broadcast initiatives, including ORCA FM, the world’s first all-whales/all-the-time radio station and the Gemini Award-winning CTVNews.com.

As a Board Director of Canada's Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Catherine oversees financing for leading projects and emerging talent in convergence broadcasting and Chairs the communications committee.
She also serves on the Board of New Media BC, one of North America’s largest professional associations for digital enterprise, and on the national Women in Media Foundation Board as Chair of programs and partnerships.
Catherine has a degree in physics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she broke the story of multimedia on location at M.I.T.
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