Eric Olander is smallpower’s Chief Executive Officer and a 20-year veteran of international broadcast television production and management. Eric moved to smallpower’s main office in Kinshasa from Los Angeles where he ran production and original programming at KSCI TV LA 18, the largest Asian-language television station in the United States. He is a former producer and foreign correspondent for many of the world’s leading news companies including CNN, CNBC, the Associated Press and the BBC World Service. Eric has a degree in African history from the University of California and is fluent in both French and Mandarin Chinese.
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March 9, 2010Day 2: How to shoot for news — We have less than a week before the JAMA Video Project embarks on its first client assignment at the U.S. embassy in Kinshasa, so it [...]
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March 4, 2010Marketing the JAMA Video Project — No one disagrees that there is an untapped market in Kinshasa for professional video services. Where that market actually is, is something of a discussion. [...]
Tomas Apodaca is a co-founder of smallpower, where he is a writer, director, and the technical lead. He worked at Stamen Design where he co-created visualizations of large sets of data like cabspotting and the MoveOn.org national town hall map, and was a co-founder of the web development, entertainment, and R&D company Angry Monkey.
Ben Olander is co-founder of smallpower, where he is a writer, director, designer and show runner. Ben ran the HIV/AIDS platform for PSI (Population Services International) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, worked with a microfinance bank for UK-based VSO (Voluntary Services Overseas) in Cameroon. Ben also has an extensive background in new media as the co-founder of San Francisco-based Angry Monkey and the former Executive Creative Director at web-development agency Organic.
Tunga Mbia is smallpower’s Executive Producer. She’s worked behind the camera, as a documentary director (Miseducating the World: The Misrepresentation of Africans in the Media), and a production assistant for 40 Acres and a Mule. She’s also worked in front of the camera, as a presenter for Imagine Afrika, a pan-African reality show, and as a VJ for MTV Europe.
Mette Vangso is smallpower’s Chief Financial Officer. Mette has worked as a consultant to top entertainment studios including Disney and Sony. During her consulting tenure, Mette provided guidance and oversight that included managing on-site budget, implementing procedural controls and reporting financial status to studio headquarters. Mette is based in smallpower’s San Francisco office.
