New World Media Group Inc. Announces Addition Of Key Executives And A New Advisory Board Member

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- New World Media Group, Inc. "NEWM" f/k/a Empire Film Group, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: EFGU), a fully-integrated mobile publishing, digital media, production and distribution company with capabilities to reach mobile, theatrical, video, television and video-on-demand for the worldwide markets, today announced the addition of Nicole Prentice Williams to the board of advisors to strategically assist the company as it builds its business in the digital and mobile marketplace. Today's announcement comes on the heels of NEWM's addition of a new management team and new corporate identity program on January 20, 2015. Additionally, Robert Galarza, President of "NEWM" is pleased to announce the addition of two key executives to the company. Michael Ghiselli of Los Gatos, California has accepted an appointment to the Board of Directors of NEWM to serve as Vice Chairman and Corporate Secretary, and Michael Weiss of New York, New York has agreed to join the company as Director of Corporate Finance.

Nicole Prentice Williams, Media Advisory Board

Nicole Prentice Williams is a 2-time EMMY Award Winning Producer and Media Executive. She has produced live programming for more than 20 years beginning with television and expanding to multi-platform distribution. As Supervising Producer for Vice President Al Gore's "Current" Network, she launched live programming on television and online during the network's rebranding for the 2012 election year. Prior to joining Current, Nicole produced L.A.'s number one, EMMY Award Winning morning show, Good Day L.A. for six years. She has produced and written shows for MSNBC, WCBS and FOX Television. Nicole is now a media executive who creates video content for clients across many industries and produces live programming projects. She earned her M.A. from The American University in Broadcast Journalism and Public Policy. She received her B.A. in Business Communication and International Studies from Pepperdine University. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America.

As a member of the Board of Advisors Ms. Prentice-Williams will provide strategic guidance, executive leadership, industry expertise, and will further develop the firm's professional network in order to better serve its current clients and develop new client relationships.

Michael Ghiselli, Vice Chairman, Board Member and Corporate Secretary 

Mr. Ghiselli is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Tarsin, Inc., and serves as Secretary and Treasurer. Mike previously held the position of Tarsin's president from 2012-2014. He is a senior management level professional investor and his family has been the lead supporters of Tarsin, Inc. since 2011, providing $2.5 million in venture capital financing. Ghiselli has successfully guided technology companies through the complicated early stage funding and development process. Mike is also CEO of a medical logistics company he founded in 2009 that counts U.C. San Francisco, Stanford University Medical Center, Merck, BD Biosciences and Gilead Sciences among its clients. 

Michael Weiss, Director of Corporate Finance

Michael D. Weiss has served public and private companies domestically and internationally in the capacity of corporate strategist in varied and progressively more responsible positions. Weiss comes from a family in the healthcare industry located in Chicago, has worked with family offices on the East coast region of the US, and internationally as a strategic advisor in finance and technology with a focus on financing core business initiatives. Weiss determined that he provided considerable value to private, public companies and high net worth individuals in financial services, due diligence and strategic business advisory, business management, wealth management, commercial real estate, AR financing and Corporate Finance. Weiss has successfully completed complex transactions in the competitor technology industry in Silicon Valley as a strategist in distressed asset turnarounds and as a DIP lender in US Federal Bankruptcy. Since January 2010, he also served as Director of New Acquisitions for real estate brokerage and management companies in NYC, Chicago and Miami with a portfolio at the time of over 30 properties in which Michael managed day to day operations and assisted in the future growth strategy of the company. Michael positioned a select group of family offices on the East and West coasts as founding partners in a mobile publishing and mobile wagering platform technology previously developed for Motorola and licensed in Nevada for mobile wagering. Weiss is also accomplished in emerging technology strategies.

Highlights / Key Facts

New World Media Group is a fully-integrated mobile publishing, digital media, production and distribution company with capabilities to reach mobile, theatrical, video, television and video-on-demand for the worldwide markets.

About Tarsin, Inc.

Tarsin takes brands mobile, and provides casinos and gaming operators the ability to de-risk launching and monetizing by utilizing our innovative mobile publishing, mobile wagering products on all mobile devices providing operators with the runway to execute their mobile strategy. The Tarsin platform technology is agnostic and services quickly and robustly, therefore the platform is described as secure end to end agnostic mobile publishing and mobile wagering platform regulatory compliant. "Operators want to extend their brands and market reach by putting their loyalty programs, games and betting literally into the hands of their players." People enjoy consuming media, content and games via their mobile devices. Tarsin—"Pushing the envelope of technology while upholding the traditions of the game"

Features and facts

The Tarsin mobile publishing and wagering suite of Licenses and Right To Use agreements offers a unique portfolio of fully featured and proven mobile payment solutions which are critical to the nature of playing and wagering games. Not least of which are identity confirmation, geo-fencing, geo-verification and geo-location by state province, region or country, a suite of consumer payment options and solutions include secure "POS", as well as a high level of personal and corporate security safeguards including device authentication prior to each m-commerce transaction. The platform supports marketing program integration and execution, ensures high levels of distribution for operators, and ease of adoption for consumers. The Tarsin platform's inbuilt scalability and resilience supports propositions that are launched on both national and international footprints and can adapt to an ever-increasing rate of handset development. In 2013, mobile devices were reported to have surpassed the sale of computers for the first time in the history of computer-based devices. Moreover, as of January 2015, the Tarsin platform technology supports over 1500 handsets, smartphones and tablets from 49 manufacturers. It is interoperable with 796 carriers and mobile operators worldwide including 51 in North America, and designs and publishes seamlessly across multiple variants of operating systems based on Apple, Android, Windows, Rim, Nokia, Java and BREW. Tarsin services and operate in 32 languages plus a further 5 regional variants, publishing over 3 million mobile applications to consumers."

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SOURCE New World Media Group, Inc.

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