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Meet The Ride
While on THE RIDE, you’ll meet your hosts Scott and Jackie. You’ll also meet a cross section of New Yorkers… some of them part of the show and others simply part of the city. Half the fun is figuring out which is which.
Our locals, visitors, dreamers, schemers and people from every corner of the Earth are what make NYC unlike any other place you'll ever experience. On THE RIDE, we celebrate that and understand that no matter what time it is or where in the city you happen to be, exciting things are happening. Yeah, like right now!
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Meet The Big Guns
From the people who dreamt it up to the performers who bring it to life, the creative team behind THE RIDE has some major street cred.
Our founders, producers and writers have credits that resemble a must-see TV line-up, including “Late Night with David Letterman,” “The Colbert Report,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.”
Get the scoop on just a few of the brains who helped bring THE RIDE to life. After all, they deserve a little recognition.
Jonathan P. Danforth | Director and President/CEO
For more than twenty-five years, Mr. Danforth has led and grown service-based businesses in the incentive travel, transportation, and special event industries. He recently served as CEO of Silvercast Inc., a worldwide event planning company specializing in corporate, non-profit, and association events. Having founded the company in 2008, Mr. Danforth has since created an entertainment division producing concerts. Previously, he served as President and CEO of BostonCoach Corporation, a Fidelity Investment-owned company, where he elevated the brand from an airport transfer service to a premium global transportation company and doubled the size of the company in 4 years. Prior to joining BostonCoach, he led Navigant Performance Group (NPG), an international incentive, meeting, and group travel company, and a wholly owned subsidiary of publicly-traded Navigant International. Under his leadership, NPG grew to become one of the industry’s top tier firms and was recognized by the parent company as one of its most profitable divisions.
Mr. Danforth’s career at Navigant International began when it acquired his company, Cornerstone Enterprises, a single source incentive, meeting, and special event provider to Fortune 500 corporations including companies such as Goldman Sachs, Colgate-Palmolive, and IBM. He established Cornerstone Enterprises by merging two other companies he had founded over the prior decade, Destination Management, Inc. and Incentive Strategies.
Barry Tatelman | Director
Mr. Tatelman is a businessman, entrepreneur and Broadway producer. He co-owned the wildly successful Boston-area chain of furniture stores Jordan’s Furniture, which was sold to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (a Warren Buffet portfolio company) in 1999. Jordan’s is known for its innovative stores, merging of entertainment and consumer environments and creative advertising (including an IMAX theater and an indoor trapeze in stores). In partnership with his brother, Eliot, Mr. Tatelman grew Jordan's furniture to 1,200 employees and annual revenues of $250 million. He remains actively involved in the business today. He is also a producer of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” on Broadway and has numerous other entertainment and creative projects under development.Scott Carlin | Director
Scott Carlin has been President, Domestic Program Distribution, for Home Box Office since fall 2002. He built the domestic distribution business for HBO and has been responsible for exploring distribution opportunities for the entire HBO library. Notably, he constructed record-breaking deals on cable and free-TV for “Sex and the City” and “The Sopranos” on the A&E Network. Other notable deals include licensing “Entourage” in free-TV to the Tribune Television Stations and other free-TV stations as well as a basic cable license to Spike TV. He also managed the sales of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Six Feet Under,” “Band of Brothers,” “The Wire” and dozens of HBO original movies, comedy specials and series.Prior to joining HBO, Carlin was president of the Media Group of DigitalConvergence Corporation, responsible for developing the strategic business plan for licensing DigitalConvergence technology to all electronic media and co-managing the process of raising $200 million in strategic financing.
Jeffrey S. McCormick | Director
Mr. McCormick is the Chairman and Managing General Partner of Saturn. McCormick has over 25 years of experience as an investment banker, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He founded Saturn Capital in 1993 and began financing early stage companies including the successful business to business e-commerce company, FreeMarkets (FMKT, acquired by ARBA); the largest U.S. biodiesel company, Twin Rivers Technologies (acquired by FELDA); the 2007 high-tech offering, Constant Contact (CTCT); and the extremely popular Boston Duck Tours. He currently serves on the boards of Apangea (e-learning), American Made (specialty materials), SureLogic (software), Knopp Neurosciences (an ALS treatment), Applied Clean Tech (waste management/energy) and NHXS (healthcare processing).Michael Counts | Creator
As the co-founder and artistic director of GAle GAtes et al., Mr. Counts led one of the fastest-growing performance and visual art companies in New York City from 1996 to 2003. Considered a founding artist of Brooklyn’s celebrated DUMBO, he united businesses and cultural interests through his unique and unconventional vision, contributing significantly to the redevelopment and economic revitalization of the community. Mr. Counts has also done work at the Center for New Theatre at the California Institute of the Arts, The Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, and at the Performance Annex of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Upcoming works include, John Zorn/Schoenberg/Morton Feldman Monodramas at The New York City Opera (2010-11 Season) and JC Bach’s Edimione(2011-12 Season).
He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Sharon and his son Wilder.
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Putting THE RIDE Into Drive
We'd like to give a big shout out to all of our Partners who have helped us keep THE RIDE rolling. Your support has helped to make THE RIDE what it is today and our team thanks you for that.
Check out our Partner Web sites for special packages, deals and offers.
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Behind the Scenes
THE RIDE is a sophisticated production that operates daily. To keep it all moving, it takes a talented team of experts working round the clock to make sure the action happens on cue just for you.
