Jason Zachary Haikara is an American businessman, marketing executive, and producer. Currently, he is an independent Senior Advisor and Event Producer for StoryTech, an experiential marketing company that helps individuals, brands and tech companies tell their stories at industry events such as the Consumer Electronics Show.[1]
He served as a producer on two music videos, "Key in the Door" and "Surprise Me" and the upcoming short film "Wasp in the Wind Chime."[2]
Previously, Haikara was an executive vice president at MediaLink, a consultancy firm that provides strategic advisory to companies at the convergence of media, marketing, technology and entertainment.[3] Prior to MediaLink, he was the Co-President of Webby Award winning global digital entertainment studio Filmaka.[4] Before Filmaka, Haikara was a senior marketing executive at Fox Broadcasting Company,[5] and part of the team which launched The Simpsons, In Living Color, Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place (1992), The X-Files, That '70s Show, Family Guy, 24, American Idol, House, and other television hits.
Haikara served three terms as co-chair of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Website Committee[6] which oversees Emmys.com[7] and five terms on its Interactive Media (now Emerging Media Programming) Peer Group Executive Committee.[8] He previously served on its Brand and Marketing Committee. Haikara was the Executive Producer of the web series Apathy Apartments and the feature film The Middle of the Middle. In 2010, he was inducted into the International Academy of Web Television.