Biography
RICK PORTIN, takes entertainment to the next level bringing the traditional and integrating the new, by accelerating innovative technologies with creative programming vision to offer audiences opportunities for interacting, watching, crying and laughing, all designed to enhance and wow the digital and broadcast experience. As a techno-entertainment leader, Rick makes the single screen experience come alive with multiple windows, and interactive entertaining content, to capture and provide stickiness for digital and broadcast audiences. Rick's vision and experience for creating and delivering engaging content blends the use of AI, AR, XR, Mixed Reality and Motion Capture new technologies across entertainment, gaming, corporate, and sports genres.
Rick's experience demonstrates his unique blend of creativity and production leadership in streaming, broadcast, episodic, digital, virtual, gaming and live content for clients such as: Fox Television Studios, Viacom, E! Entertainment Television, Bungie, Ubisoft, Vin Di Bona Productions, WME/IMG, Google, Starbucks, Microsoft/Xbox, Dota 2 for Steam on Valve, ITV Studio, Blizzard, Halo, Gears of War and NBC Sports, as an Executive in Charge of Production, Director, Producer, Executive Producer, Futurist and Creator.
In addition, Rick is the winner of Emmy and CableAce Awards, the Broadcast Design Association Silver Award, New York Film Festival Award and is commissioned by The American Film Institute as an "Interactive Television Pioneer". Rick is a member of the Television Academy and The Producers Guild of America.
