Gigi L. Johnson
Executive Director
Ms. Johnson helps organizations "connect the digital dots." She has been called a “socio-technologist” in her work to understand the interacting transformations of technology and social change. At the Maremel Institute, her activities range from research and programs to helping companies to launch new endeavors in media, technology, and education. She also teaches technology transformation classes and workshops at UCLA Anderson School of Management, USC’s Institute for Communications Technology Management, University of Navarra in Spain, Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, and UCLA Music. Her work at Maremel has expanded into user group education about technology empowerment, including producing the 2009 UCLA Technology and Aging Conference and distributing three online video learning channels.
Until late 2005, she was Executive Director of the Entertainment and Media Management Institute at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Other past endeavors have included running two Video-on-Demand cable, satellite, and online channels for kids at Studio 4 Networks and nearly a decade in media finance at Bank of America in New York and Los Angeles. She continues on the advisory board of the Interactive TV Alliance and is a member of the Interactive Peer Group of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She also is on the advisory board of SparkWords and advises senior management and boards at several other digital media companies.Gigi speaks extensively as a socio-technology futurist around the world at conferences on media, education, and society.
She has an MBA from UCLA Anderson School, a BA in Cinema-TV Production from the University of Southern California, and is completing her doctorate in pre-decisional influences on technology change in organizations at Fielding Graduate University.
gigi@maremel.com
Twitter: @maremel
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