Joan Karpeles, Producer

A native New Yorker, Joan established her production career in Atlanta. Since 1983 she has been producing national and local TV commercials, PSA's, corporate and educational video's. Along the way, collecting several cool awards such as Best of Show at Show South; Finalist at Cannes Film Festival, Finalists at IFTV Festival of NY and several Telly’s.

While at BBDO she produced million-dollar commercials for Delta Air Lines. How many people can say they've actually made it rain around an L-1011?

She got to oversee the special features for "The Powerpuff Girls Movie" DVD and even worked with the big-haired lady on spots for LongHorn Steakhouse.

As executive producer for McGraw-Hill she produced a social studies video series that’s still being used in schools today. Fortunately they were for elementary schools so she was able to keep up.