Tom Simon

As a filmmaker, executive producer and television executive, Tom was responsible for some of the world's top-rated documentary programs and won seven Emmy awards. Programs he executive-produced received over 150 awards for excellence including a Dupont-Columbia Journalism Award, Peabody Awards and over three dozen Emmys. He was the co-founder and president of Working Dog Productions, a New York based video and film production company specializing in non-fiction television programming for the U.S. and world markets from 1998 thru 2014. Working Dog's clients included HBO, PBS, the Cooking Channel, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet and The History Channel, Tom served for ten years as vice-president of programming and production, and executive producer of the National Geographic Specials and National Geographic Explorer. Before joining National Geographic, he was Senior Producer of Smithsonian World on PBS. He was also an independent producer and consultant. He produced, directed and wrote programs such as Inca: Secrets of the Ancestors, part of Time-Life's Emmy-winning Lost Civilizations series on NBC. Earlier in his career, Tom was a freelance producer-director of documentaries for NBC and WNET and staff producer for cinema verite pioneers Albert and David Maysles.