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DAWN HAUPTNER

Film Industry Publicist, Dawn Hauptner, has written, produced and directed over 100 commercials and starred in over 30 television commercials.  She has worked with major names in the Entertainment Industry, both nationally and locally.  Her television commercial for the exotic car company, Motorcars of Distinction, was featured in a national behind-the-scenes segment on NBC’s The Today Show.

Dawn has worked with dozens of major companies and agencies including FFT (NYC), MMG (NYC), Sony Music, Proctor and Gamble, Kodak, NY Film Academy, national magazine photographers, and major television networks.  She has set up photo shoots for magazines such as Palm Beach’s High Fashion Society magazine, Palm Beach Illustrated and has garnered major media coverage through press releases about CineVideoTech (the largest lighting, grip and camera movie production house in Florida), and legends in the Music Industry including Celine Dion, Rod Stewart, Roger Daltrey (The Who), The Moody Blues and Stevie Nicks.  Dawn was the Casting Agent for The Comcast Holiday Spectacular 2011 that was shot at G-Star Studios in Palm Springs, FL for Comcast, the owners of NBC and Universal Studios.

KEVIN SMITH

Kevin M. Smith is an accomplished businessman and entrepreneur. He has resided in Palm BeachCounty since 1962. Mr. Smith bought, and became President of, the Copeland-Smith Insulation and Acoustics Company, a prominent home and commercial insulation firm. He owned the company from 1976 to 1986. In the first year of ownership sales rose 400% and profitability rose 23%. Mr. Smith worked with two other insulation companies from 1986 through 2007. In his first year of employment with the Suncoast Insulation Manufacturing Company he increased sales by 65% in his territory. During his tenure his sales increased by as much as 25% per year. In 2009 he became the President of Browdog Products manufacturing sauces and spice blends for the wholesale and retail markets in South Florida. In 2010 he opened Pepe O’Reilly’s Restaurant and Market in North Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Smith is retired and resides in Tequesta, Florida.

GREG HAUPTNER

Greg Hauptner was named Palm Beach County Ultimate CEO 2010 by the South Florida Business Journal; and one of the Top 50 Entrepreneurs in Southeast USA 2012 by Business Leader Magazine.  He is the Founder/CEO/CFO of the G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting, the largest Film, Digital Media Production and Acting high school in the nation; and the only high school in the world that owns a commercial motion picture production studio, the G-Star Studios.  G-Star Studios is the largest movie studio in Florida where students intern on the sets of multi-million dollar feature films, commercials and music videos.  G-Star also opened the largest motion picture sound stage in Florida.  It is the most technologically advanced sound stage in the world.  The G-Star School of the Arts' graduation rate is 99% with 97% of its students going on to college.  G-Star is the only educational institution we know of that is creating an entire industry, the film industry, to employ its students when they graduate from college.  G-Star School of the Arts was named "The Number One High School for Film in the World" by the Raindance Film Festival, Europe's most prestigious independent film festival, in London, UK in October, 2010.