Paul Wagner

Paul Wagner is a 10 year veteran in the interactive space, Emmy Award winner and CEO/co-founder of GabCast.TV, an innovative online platform that allows anyone to broadcast their own multi-person live shows. GabCast.TV was co-founded in partnership with the brilliant luminary Fred Silverman, Chairman. Michael Eisner (of Disney fame) and Lloyd Braun (Lost, Sopranos) are advising. Wagner sourced the multi-million dollar content distribution deal between Will Ferrell's FunnyOrDie.com and content sensation Babelgum.com. Wagner was also EP on a vast content deal at Babelgum and created hundreds of videos for distribution on AOL, Google and Sprint. Paul also produced a sketch-comedy TV pilot with rising stars - and a reality TV pilot featuring Snoop Dogg's production studio and his producer LT Hutton. From 2006-2008, Wagner ran his own content company Creative Lab LLC. As CEO, Wagner executive produced, created and developed comedy content for Sprint, Google, AOL and DivX. During this time, Wagner produced an unique reality TV pilot featuring Snoop Dogg's production studio along with his key producer LT Hutton. Early in his career, Wagner won several New England Emmy Awards and other accolades including Best of Gannett and ACT Awards for his children's TV show, public service announcements and TV specials when he was host, writer & co-producer of The WLVI Kids Club. Wagner was also one of four international comedians (chosen from 2 thousand world-wide) in the world's first reality program that followed comedians from their home countries to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The series followed Paul for 8 weeks and was aired on Channel 4 in the UK and Europe. Paul's stage show won 5-star reviews at the festival. Paul taught at the NY Film Academy and lectured at Boston University and other institutions on creativity, improvisation, interactive media and the future of entertainment. Paul wrote & produced a sketch comedy pilot called BabbleOn TV!, created hundreds of videos for online and mobile - and he's directed, produced, written and performed with hundreds of creators and artists around the world. Wagner has a degree in Computer Science and Child Psychology with a minor in Mathematics from Boston College. Paul Wagner brings a unique combination of excellence, education, experience and vision to the industry and embodies the perfect merger of technology and entertainment. Mr. Wagner consults for media & entertainment companies on interactive pursuits, new media ventures and branded entertainment around the world.