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Elise Doganieri is Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the five-time consecutive top Emmy Award winning CBS hit adventure/reality series THE AMAZING RACE. This last consecutive Emmy win (at the 59th Annual Emmys in 2007) placed this unique reality series in the ranks of such legendary and prestigious Emmy winner shows as “Cheers,” “Frasier” and “West Wing.” The hit reality series continues on CBS in 2007- 2008.

Elise is also Executive Producer and a partner with Oprah Winfrey and her Harpo Productions forthcoming reality series for ABC, “The Big Give.”

Elise, with her partner, Bertram van Munster runs Earthview Incorporated, a highly regarded television and documentary production company based in Los Angeles, which has spawned such production companies as World Race Productions (THE AMAZING RACE) and Profiles Television LLC (ABC’s “Profiles from the Front Line”). Earthview maintains worldwide satellite offices from South America to Africa to Asia.

Elise was also honored with the 2005 much-coveted Producers Guild of America award for non-fiction television during ceremonies in Los Angeles. The series also received a Family Friendly Award in 2005, in addition to award nominations in the reality category from the PGA, The Directors Guild of America and GLADD.

Earlier in 2003, she served as Producer for ABC’s critically acclaimed reality series “Profiles from the Front Line,” which depicted the men and women in the armed forces battling the enemy in the Middle East.

Her other TV credits include serving as Producer and Story Editor for the “Wild Things” pilot which launched the successful Paramount Television adventure series that saw three championship TV seasons with the studio from 1997 to 2000.

Previously, Elise, a native New Yorker, worked as an advertising executive both in Manhattan and Los Angeles for a wide range of top agencies; including Ogilvy & Mather, DDB Needham and Chiat/Day.

In 1994, Elise co-founded New York-based Open-I-Media, a cutting-edge Internet consulting firm that today still develops strategies, design and interactive solutions for several Fortune 500 companies.

She began her ad career as a graphic artist in New York, working with, among others, the Kirshenbaum & Bond agency.

Elise attended the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York City where she received a Bachelor of Fine Art degree, graduating with honors. In 2006 The Fashion Institute of Technology honored her with the Marvin Feldman Award, recognizing achievement in business and technology.

Elise was a featured speaker at the 2007 National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) convention held in Las Vegas, attended by the world’s television community. Also, earlier year she addressed the Dynamic Women in Business Conference, held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She makes her home in Los Angeles.

Bertram van Munster has carved a very special place for himself in global television. He possesses a very imaginative and daring spirit for creating high quality, unique and even rarified cinema verite styled reality television, while at the same time maintaining a keen business sense of the worldwide entertainment industry. Again in 2007, Bertram, with producer Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI), his distinguished partner of seven years, earned his fifth consecutive top reality television Emmy Award (Outstanding Reality Competition Program for award years of 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) for his CBS series THE AMAZING RACE. His fifth win catapults his show into the ranks of such Emmy winners as “The Daily Show,” “Frasier” and “The West Wing” for multiple, consecutive Emmy wins.

Bertram and his partner, Co-Creator/Co-Executive Producer Elise Doganieri, won the much-coveted 2005 Producers Guild of America award for Non-Fiction Television for THE AMAZING RACE. THE AMAZING RACE won a Family Friendly Award in 2005. Bertram was honored with a Best Director Award nomination in 2007 and 2006 from the Directors Guild of America, in addition to receiving top award nominations from both the PGA and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD Award).

With his production company, Earthview, Bertram and Elise are the creators and producers of the more than 150 one-hour editions of the award winning and media favored hit adventure/reality series THE AMAZING RACE, which he produces with CBS Productions and Touchstone Television. The series premiered on CBS in the 2001-2002 television season. THE AMAZING RACE continues on CBS in 2007. Additionally, Bertram has wrapped the second edition of “Amazing Race Asia” and is launching “Amazing Race Brazil.”

Bertram is Executive Producer, partnered with Oprah Winfrey and her Harpo Productions’ upcoming ABC reality series, “The Big Give.”

He also serves as Executive Producer with Thom Beers for Original Productions’ (“Deadliest Catch,” “Ice Truckers”) and Discovery Channel’s forthcoming reality series “Raw Nature,” a wildlife natural history series depicting how animals and people co-exist in fascinating locations around the globe.

In early 2003, Bertram created and was Executive Producer of the critically- acclaimed ABC reality series, “Profiles from the Front Line,” which put a human face on the war on terrorism by profiling the incredibly brave men and women in the armed forces engaged in battling the enemy. Bertram brought this compelling and powerful series to television, filming in the most perilous battle-torn regions of Afghanistan, oftentimes barely escaping serious personal injury or even death.

Bertram is the Creator and Executive Producer of “Wild Things”--the hit syndicated adventure series from Paramount Domestic Television, which premiered in 1997 and ran for three consecutive championship seasons. In order to create some 80 hours of “Wild Things,” Bertram and his crews traversed some of the world’s most inaccessible and inhospitable regions--from Africa to Alaska--in search of compelling, reality-style stories.

Prior to his association with Paramount, Bertram most notably served as Producer on more than 200 half-hour episodes and three one-hour specials of Fox Broadcasting’s long-running prime time series, “Cops.” During Bertram’s tenure, the Fox series received four Emmy Award nominations and was honored with a Television Critics Award. He also served as a Consultant on a special Fox sweeps edition of “X-Files” meets “Cops.”

Born and raised in Holland, Bertram first worked as an apprentice cameraman for Fox Movietone News. Later, he became a much sought after director-cinematographer on high-end commercials with his Amsterdam-based company, Film Group One, regarded as the premiere European production house by the world’s top ad agencies.

Earthview maintains satellite offices throughout the globe, including Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg, South Africa; New Delhi, India, and Bangkok, Thailand.

He makes his home in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Littman began his career in entertainment on Broadway, working as both a stage manager and casting director while still a student at Vassar College. After school, Littman moved from theater to television, starting at ABC in Children's and Late Night Programming, which led to his first producing job as a segment producer for "Day's End," a late night news show that followed "Nightline."

Moving to California in 1989, Littman joined NBC as Director of Daytime Programs. He left two years later to join the still fledgling FOX network, and spent the next six years working in both current programming and drama development, where he was involved in the development and day-to-day management of "Beverly Hills, 90210," "Melrose Place" and "The X-Files."

In 1997, Littman left FOX to create and run a television division for film producer Jerry Bruckheimer. As President of Jerry Bruckheimer Television (JBTV), Littman has been responsible for the development and production of all Bruckheimer series which include CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, CSI: MIAMI, CSI: NY, COLD CASE, CLOSE TO HOME, WITHOUT A TRACE and the Emmy Award-winning series THE AMAZING RACE. Littman serves as an executive producer on all the series, which air on CBS.

Born in New Jersey, Littman now resides in Los Angeles.