James Ganiere

Personal Bio

James Ganiere is an executive producer in the Producers Guild of America, who serves on the Events and Education super committees, a television executive and producer at the TV Academy and judge for the EMMYS®, an Alumni of USC School of Cinema, Serves on the USC Alumni Board for special events, a TEDX speaker, and known as the ultimate family man.

Founder and CEO of Rio Vista Universal, a fixer, growth strategist, tech expert, block chain board advisor, Ganiere is the consummate empire builder with past clients ranging from Hewlett Packard where he headed up the the Worldwide Database Team saving them 34 Million the first month to establishing the first U.S. Bank presence in California to state and federal agencies, to the latest block chain startups, and from EMMY®, OSCAR®, GRAMMY® winners to sports team owners.

James truly does “Carpe Diem” with projects that range from GEAR HEADS on DISCOVERY and popular franchises, to directing an epic historical battle in Asia like “300”, to live events like FARSCAPE: 20th Anniversay San Diego Comic Con VIP Party, to VR for WARNER BROTHERS and DISNEY, to films with an Oscar® winner. He creates teams and relationships which operate at the highest level of efficiency. James gravitates to highly commercial projects and those with heart.

When not heading up a full slate of projects, he can be found speaking at Comic Cons (like How to Conquer The World of Animation covered by EXAMINER.COM, with DREAMWORK’S Dean Deblois, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 1, 2&3), conferences (such as teaching for 3 days at Weber State University), helping the next generation of TV Academy interns, developing new talent or working with See Me Learn (SeeMeLearn.org) which has enriched thousands of intercity children with hands on S.T.E.A.M. classes crafted by Ganiere that helped them learn the magic and excitement of TV/film making, cartoons, comic and passion for science.