Lee Helper is the President of EMbizImpact, Inc. a strategic business development firm that specializes in engineering business development and growth for established and emerging entertainment, media and technology-focused companies. He is also the founder and Chairman of Channel Lab LLC, a cross-platform, media business accelerator – focused on launching new TV networks, Internet video, radio and print enterprises it co-develops and owns. In addition, Helper is the founding partner of Bender/Helper Impact, which together with partner Dean Bender, has built a preeminent marketing communications firm that provides comprehensive counsel and services to the world's leading entertainment and media companies & brands since 1986.
With over 26 years of professional strategic business consulting and development experience, Mr. Helper’s realm has spanned the areas of media, entertainment, general business, government, Wall Street and consumer products.
He has played a key strategic and problem-solving consulting role for a myriad of domestic and international companies and associations, including: Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, TV Guide, Yahoo, Liberty Media, NewsCorp., THQ, USA Network, Telemundo, Antena 3 (Spain), CLT, CineCanal, Fox Latin America, Speedvision, Outdoor Life, Discovery Communications/Networks, Electronic Arts, The Sundance Channel, F/X, King World, Nashville Network, TNT, Lifetime, ACTV, Post Newsweek, Request TV, The Disney Channel, NBC International, Sony’s Game Show Network and Cable Health Club.
He has also greatly contributed to the growth and establishment of such high profile companies and organizations as University of California Regents DIMI Institute, OpenTV, National Geographic Television, The International Council Of The National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences, Amazon.com, @d:tech, Digimarc, InterVU, Shelter Ventures, Tele-Communications Inc. (AT&T Broadband which was acquired by Comcast), Viacom, Americast, Association for Interactive Media (AIM), Interactive Digital Software Association (IDSA)/E3, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), Digital Coast Roundtable and National Association of Recorded Merchandise (NARM). With a proven track record in the strategic development, marketing and successful launch/relaunch of over 25 television channels to date, he also played a lead and instrumental role in the successful launches of such hit television properties as "Oprah", all three "Star Trek Next Generation" series, "Jeopardy!," "Wheel Of Fortune," "Frasier" and over 14 other hit network and syndicated series.
EMbizImpact has very rapidly evolved into an acknowledged leader in the development and launching of media businesses on all platforms and, as such, is designed to be the most focused organization of its kind with extensive key-industry relationships, influence and an unrivaled team of proven top-tier, specialized consultants.
