The Team
Bonnie Halper is currently the co-founder/chief strategy officer and a board member of Five Point Networks, Inc. Bonnie began her career in advertising and won a number of creative awards as a copywriter before moving on to the entertainment industry, where she worked for a number of prestigious entities, including Viacom (Showtime Networks), NBC (Saturday Night Live), Time Inc., Sony Music and Bertelsmann, until she was hit by the Internet bug.
Her career in technology began in 1994, when she became one of the Co-Founders of the IMAGIC Awards Festival (Innovative Multimedia Achievement in the Global Interactive Community – affectionately pronounced “I’m-a-geek”), which was the technology industry's first interactive awards festival. There, she organized a very active and involved Advisory Board which included senior executives from companies including IBM, Microsoft, Sony, The Walt Disney Company, Apple Computer, Oracle, News Corporation, CMP, Jupiter Communications, Time Inc., Razorfish, c|net, AOL, Prodigy, BMG, as well as a Stanford University master's candidate named Jerry Yang, who would go on to co-found Yahoo!
Columbia and Oxford University educated, Ms. Halper has been recognized as an industry specialist by the Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Time Magazine, Fortune, Reuters, the San Jose Mercury News and Newsday, among others, and has been invited to speak at industry functions and address academic audiences.
The recipient of Clio, Effie (Effectiveness in Advertising) and CEBA (Creative Excellence in Black Advertising) awards, Ms Halper has also written for Newsday and People Magazine as well as smaller industry publications, and was story editor for Café Digital, a technology program which ran on the Discovery Science Channel.
