Member Profile
John R De Simio
- Primary Outlet:
- Executive VP, CCA
- Biography:
- John has worked nearly four decades in the entertainment industry, starting with various entertainment Public Relations agencies representing personalities, television shows such as "Happy Days", "Laverne and Shirley", "Mork and Mindy", and "Taxi" as well as television and motion picture production companies. He later held the posts of National PublicityDirector with Twentieth Century Fox and Senior Vice President with Castle Rock Entertainment. At the latter, he supervised all the company's motion picture and television publicity campaigns, which included "When Harry Met Sally..." "City Slickers", "Misery", "A Few Good Men", "Honeymoon in Vegas" and "Shawshank Redemption" among others, as well as the hit NBC series "Seinfeld". He then shifted his career focus and now serves as Executive Vice President for the Critics Choice Association.