Rick Morris

Rick Morris has over 20 years of business management and diverse professional visual communications experience. In 2000, Mr. Morris founded EndGame Productions to develop strategic video projects for corporations. EndGame has delivered national broadcast commercials, sales and seminar support tapes, employee award videos, video news releases and special event productions for a variety of clients, including SunGard Availability Services, Allstate Insurance and Analytical Graphics.

In addition, in 2002 Mr. Morris produced a pilot for The Relationship Doctors, a television talk show in which a panel of psychologists views a reenactment of a therapy session, then holds an engaging discussion on how the patient(s) might handle the problem. He is also Executive Producer for the feature film God In The Machine, currently in production and scheduled for release in early 2004. Mr. Morris is currently providing production consulting to ESPN for an upcoming documentary on Satchel Paige.

As co-founder of The DEM Group, the Philadelphia area's first full-service marketing firm dedicated to the high-technology sector, Mr. Morris served as Executive Vice President/CFO from 1995 through 1999. He successfully built the company's annual revenues to $4,000,000 in 5 years, earning the company ranking on the Philadelphia 100 list of fastest growing companies for the third consecutive year in 1999. In addition to managing daily operations and the company's major, strategic accounts, Mr. Morris was responsible for producing corporate videos for clients, including Lucent Technologies, PECO, Martin Marietta and Johnson & Johnson.

Previously, Mr. Morris worked seven years for GE Aerospace, where he was the Manager of Video Communications. He oversaw all aspects of studio operations and video production, where he produced television commercials, executive communications, recruiting tapes and video brochures to promote several business units within GE Aerospace. His experience also includes 7 years providing corporate communications for GE, as well as copywriting for various ad agencies in the Philadelphia area.

In addition to his corporate communications, Mr. Morris has done extensive documentary work through Kimshi Productions, a company he founded in 1985. In 1998, he received the Robert Peterson Award from the Society for American Baseball Research for his work producing "Closed Doors," a documentary on the integration of baseball. He is currently chairperson for the Oral History Committee of the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Negro League initiative to compile a comprehensive audio/video archive on black baseball.

In 1988, he founded the US-Asian Music Foundation and went to Seoul, S. Korea, where he executive produced and promoted Yong Lee's Faded Bench, the first Korean album ever produced by an American producer.