Team Gallery

Chief Financial Officer — Mark is McGee Media's Chief Financial Officer. Mark has a BA from Cornell University in Government. He started his career as a credit analyst at Citibank in the early 90's. He Left Citi after 4 years to pursue an MBA at Boston College and was nominated for one of BC's Executive Fellowships as an analyst for State Street Global Advisors the summer between his first and second year. Upon graduating BC, Mark moved to Westchester, New York to be a financial analyst in IBM's Services division. While at IBM, Mark worked in various capacities; as the finance manager on a number of IBM's largest Services contracts; as a pricer on several of IBM's Services deals; and as a member of the management team consolidating IBM's North America financial measurements. Mark is also a CFA Charterholder. In his spare time, Mark is a backyard musician as well as chicken and apple farmer.

Supervising Producer — Deb is a documentary filmmaker at McGee Media with over 25 years of experience. She began working with Dyllan McGee in 2013 as Supervising Producer of the highly successful PBS series MAKERS and Finding Your Roots. In addition, she collaborated on the Discovery Channel productions First in Human and Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman (2017 Sundance Film Festival). Deb has continued in her role at the company overseeing productions such as the Emmy-nominated Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa’s Great Civilizations, and Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (duPont-Columbia Award recipient). Prior to joining McGee Media, Deb worked at Apograph Productions, with Writer/Director Rob Rapley. Her credits include Coordinating Producer and Line Producer overseeing business and production activities for all of the company’s documentaries, including Emmy nominees Poisoner's Handbook and The Abolitionists, and Peabody Award winner, Triangle Fire. Deb spent the early part of her career working with documentary filmmaker Roger Weisberg at Public Policy Productions, collaborating on numerous social issue documentaries, including the Academy Award nominated films, Sound And Fury and Why Can't We Be a Family Again? She lives with her husband and twin daughters in New Jersey.

Executive in Charge of Production — Robert Yacyshyn loves to make television and tell stories. A graduate of Penn State University, Rob started his career at MTV working on such hit projects as TRL: Total Request Live, the VMA’s and Run’s House. Some of his proudest work at MTV was on MADE, for which he worked on eight seasons winning three Daytime Emmy Awards in the process. In 2010, he earned his MBA from Columbia University and began to moonlight at One Louder Productions as the resident Line Producer. He grew into the Executive in Charge of Production (EIC) for One Louder, managing all logistical, financial and legal details for the company. In 2014, One Louder formed a partnership with Follow Productions and Rob signed on to serve as EIC of both entities. Rob enjoyed working on food & lifestyle programming but when McGee Media offered a return to longer form storytelling Rob had no choice but to accept. Rob couldn’t be happier and is excited to see what the future holds at McGee.

Finance Manager — Jennifer Weigel graduated from Brown University with a degree in History in 1986 and obtained her MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2004. She was a Vice President in Citibank's International Private Banking division, supporting Private Bank clients in Europe and Latin America. After leaving Citibank to live for several years in Alaska and Oregon, Jennifer opened her own bookkeeping and accounting practice back on the East Coast, with small business clients in municipal and not-for-profit enterprises, sole proprietors and retail and real estate businesses. She has been responsible for McGee Media's financial transactions and payroll full-time since 2016.

Producer — Sara Wolitzky is a documentary filmmaker who has spent over a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming. With McGee Media, she has been a key contributor to the documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. She produced the feature-length MAKERS: Once and For All (Amazon/AOL), and the television hour MAKERS: Women in Space (PBS). She served as a co-producer for the three-hour documentary MAKERS: Women Who Make America (PBS) and as a founding producer for the award-winning digital platform, MAKERS.com, an Oath brand. She began her career at the startup television network Plum TV, where she produced and edited dozens of hours of unscripted programming on the arts, business, politics, food, and ideas and supervised branded content integration for Fortune 500 clients. She can be found with multiple hard drives on her at any given time.

Ventura is a Brazilian-born, multi Webby Award-Winning producer. He has spent almost a decade as a creative and operational force behind thoughtful non-fiction programming, including the multi-platform documentary series MAKERS, which chronicles the U.S. and global women’s movement and the stories of hundreds of female trailblazers. He produced and directed profiles for MAKERS.com, videos for social campaigns, conversations for live events, as well as privately commissioned feature- length films, including a six-part documentary series. Most recently, he co-created, produced and directed the four-time Webby Award-Winning Series Black History in Two Minutes (or so) in partnership with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. Ventura lives in New York City with his partner James Duguay.

Producer — Stacey L. Holman’s work expands across two continents. From the United States to South Africa, this Harlem-based filmmaker has directed/produced award-winning shorts (Mirar Mirror, Girl Talk), content for cable TV (Red Heeled) and critically acclaimed documentaries (Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, Freedom Riders, Jesse Owens). Her most recent work as producer, Tell Them We Are Rising the Story of Black Colleges and Universities, aired on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2018. Stacey recently finished the short-documentary Dressed Like Kings, which she produced and directed. Currently, she’s teaching a new generation of storytellers at City College of New York.

Senior Producer & Show Runner — Julia Marchesi is the series producer on Reconstruction, a four-part series on the post-Civil War period that will broadcast in early 2019. A film and television producer for over ten years, Julia has worked on a variety of projects for PBS that explore race, ethnicity, and immigration in America -- including Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and The Italian Americans. Recent projects have focused on the intersection between culture, the arts and American history. She directed two episodes of the GRAMMY-nominated 2016 PBS series Soundbreaking, which tracked the evolution of the art of music recording. In 2017 she was the senior producer on Soundtracks, an eight-part CNN series on the popular music tied to pivotal events in American history.

Post-Production Supervisor — Veronica started her career in television at the Montel Williams Showwhere she tried her hand at production, until finding her passion in post-production. She moved on to become post-coordinator on Sundance Channel’s The Al Franken Show, and has since set on a course to work in as many different genre as possible, from Reality TV and Live to Tape events to Corporate Videos, finally moving into Documentary series. Leib has worked with different networks like Nick@Nite, Oxygen Networks, TLC, Scripps, truTV, InDemand, Lifetime, History Channel, Discovery Science, Nickelodeon, and is currently working with PBS. This has allowed Leib to keep her experience current in this ever-changing media-savvy world. As a working mom, Leib finds balance in post-production by selecting projects that will keep things exciting, fresh and challenging each and every time.

“To me post production is like a puzzle, figuring out where all the pieces go together after the cameras are shut is the best part of my job.”