Chris Campbell is a business owner, a well-known educator in the areas of organizational communications and an established creative presence in the video and film industry for the past three decades. He owns several businesses including Praxis Media Inc. and is the Chairman and CEO of the Palace Production Center, which operates several media production studios in Connecticut and Manhattan. Chris is also the managing partner of Rabbit Ears Entertainment, a children’s Television Company, and general partner in developing the Palace Theater in South Norwalk.
In his creative capacity, Chris has worked for more than 25 years in the television and electronic production industries. His credits include a wide range of award-winning television dramas, music specials and documentaries as well as several award-winning children’s video series. The latter include the Rabbit Ears series, the Dr. Suess home videos and Sesame Street Start-To-Read, among others. He is the President and CEO of Praxis Media Inc. and has completed in excess of $50 million in contract programming over the past decade. Praxis Media Inc. is rated one of the nation’s top 100 independent contract producers by Hope Reports. Chris is recognized as an expert in applying emerging new media technology to the creative process and as the majority owner of the Palace Production Center, is actively engaged in creating the next generation of internet, World Wide Web television & film production techniques.
In his capacity as a business organizational communications consultant, he has worked on strategic communications projects with some of the largest of the Fortune 500 companies in the world. Projects included mergers and acquisitions, product rollouts, brand repositioning and crisis management. His particular specialty is applying new technologies with the most sophisticated of human communications skills in the areas of leadership, quality and global competitiveness. He has taught communications seminars and courses at many corporations and also provides media presentation training to highly placed corporate executives.
The winner of numerous awards, Chris’s honors include ‘Best Drama’ from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, various Emmy nominations and over 100 other industry citations and film competition awards, including the New York Film Festival, the Telly’s and ITVA.
Chris has taught at several universities including Fairfield University, Sacred Heart University and various professional institutes. He holds a BA in Psychology, a Masters in Education and a Doctorate in Communications, Computing and Information Technology from Columbia University in New York. He serves on the Board of Directors of Summit Bank, Connecticut, as well as a variety of non-profit boards, including the National Corporate Theater Fund, The Evergreen Foundation for Aids Relief, The Fairfield University Trustee Advisory Board and the Film Makers Educational Cooperative in Bridgeport.
Chris’s most important project to date (and probably forever) is his family. He is married to Deborah Weingrad Campbell and is blessed with two extraordinary children, Matthew and Rachel, both of whom place his previous contributions to the world in proper perspective.