Martin Hinton, Managing Director/Producer: Martin is an award-winning journalist and international storyteller with broad experience writing, developing, editing, and producing high-profile business and political content that drives viewership for networks and news organizations. He has a proven ability to distill complex ideas into compelling and impactful narratives across video, print, and digital media.

He most recently served as co-showrunner/Executive Producer on the History Channel program The Proof is Out There: Military Mysteries. The show began in development and will debut in 2023 with hosts Rudy Reyes and Ronnie Adkins.

Martin was an executive producer with Fox News, where he launched the first investigative unit in 2017. He led a 12-person team that created over 700 pieces of original reporting on topics ranging from infrastructure to social media to sex crimes. During this time, Martin led the launch of the company’s first true-crime podcast. Prior to that role, Martin led the Fox News Reporting Documentary Unit and the Political Insiders, a live, weekly, half-hour panel and digital program. The television element was a ratings leader in its time slot. The 10-person documentary unit produced over two dozen hour-long episodes, as well as numerous long-form stories covering a range of topics from religion to ISIS to the 2016 presidential election. Additionally, Martin advised senior executives on social media strategies to expand viewer engagement.

As a senior producer in program development, Martin developed a series on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. He successfully gained access to Ground Zero, managed complex negotiations between the Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey, Silverstein Properties, and the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Earlier in Martin’s career he was a senior producer and writer on the military history program War Stories with Oliver North. There he gained permission from the Vietnamese government to summit Dong Ap Bia (Hamburger Hill), something no film crew had done since the battle in 1969. He located and interviewed the last living member of Winston Churchill’s secretarial staff and led the production of The Tuskegee Airmen. Martin has also mentored veterans transitioning to civilian life via a program run by American Corporate Partners.

Martin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University. He was born in England, grew up in America and holds passports from both countries and Ireland.

Mark Sauter, Managing Director/Producer: Mark’s management, entrepreneurial, editorial and content production expertise was developed in sectors including television, online media/interactive, e-learning, books and newspapers. Once called the “king of the minutely-news” by the Washington Post, Mark and the teams he’s managed have won large audiences and numerous journalism awards.

His media career began as an on-air reporter for Seattle’s KIRO-TV. After time as a newspaper reporter for McClatchy’s Morning News Tribune, he became an investigative correspondent for the nationally-syndicated television shows Inside Edition and American Journal. Mark has co-written four books, two optioned for television movies. His textbook, McGraw Hill’s Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, is used in universities across the nation.

Mark has served as a senior executive at an interactive media company, leading online university, language e-learning startup and America’s first business accelerator for security technology, where he managed the organization’s partnership with the U.S. government’s largest intelligence agency. He co-founded APBNews, a multimedia company that syndicated content to organizations from Yahoo! to NBC and won a large online audience, and major journalism awards, for its innovative interactive programming. Mark has also worked as an M&A advisor in the defense/security, technology and healthcare sectors.

A graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia School of Journalism, Mark served as an Army officer in Special Forces and infantry units, where his service included leading missions in the Korean DMZ. He is founder and president of the non-profit POW Investigative Project, which deploys multi-lingual international crowd-sourcing to uncover clues on the fate of U.S. servicemen reported captured but never returned during the Korean, Cold and Vietnam Wars.

Richard Zlotowitz, Managing Director/Producer: Richard’s notable career in television includes founding 11 Media, LLC, the premier resource for caught-on-tape video and related produced content for production companies and others creating content for cable, broadcast, theatrical films, advertising, the Internet and VOD/mobile. His deep expertise on the Freedom of Information Act, state open-records laws and other methods for acquiring videos has built 11 Media into the world’s largest privately-held archive of caught-on-tape video clips. His expertise includes production and program development for broadcast, mobile and digital platforms.

Richard’s career in television includes producing for the groundbreaking show A Current Affair, as well as Inside Edition, American Journal and Extra. He is also the consulting producer for Red Arrow Studio’s Cops Uncensored and developed the show John Douglas Profiles: The Faces of Evil. He distinguished himself as the driving force behind the APBNews Video Center, then the pre-eminent source for crime, justice and safety videos. Under his direction, APBnews produced a series of live-action police videos for television and Web broadcast under the title APBNews-The Real Video.

Co-creator and associate editor of the award-winning reference book, Film Review Annual, Richard is a recipient of the Philip Morris Jazz Grant for the development of a documentary on the history of jazz, which he co-wrote with Nat Hentoff.

A native New Yorker, Richard is a graduate of New York University – Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied both classic film and television.