Jim Pagliarini
President & CEO
Jim joined tpt in September of 1997. Prior to joining tpt, he was CEO and General Manager of public television station KNPB/Channel 5 in Reno, Nevada, a position he had held since 1982. Jim, with a team from the University of Nevada, Reno, helped found KNPB in 1983. Jim served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). He has held positions on the PBS Board on the Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, and Vice Chair of the Board's Finance Committee. He has also served on numerous national task forces exploring and refining the business of public television, including the National Task Force on Future Funding, the PBS Task Force on Pricing Policies and Programming, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's (CPB) Television Policy Committee. He is a past Chairman of the Pacific Mountain Network's Board of Directors; past President of the Nevada Broadcaster's Association, and served a two year term as the National Coordinator of public television's Small Station Association. Jim also serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT), a non-profit Canadian-U.S. corporation devoted to the production and development of educational media. Jim received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his graduate degree from Temple University.

Dan Thomas
Chief Operating Officer
Dan oversees tpt's three Operating Divisions - National Productions,Minnesota Productions, and Broadcast Services - as well as the key service areas of Resource Management and Technology. He is responsible for the successful implementation of tpt's strategic plan and has led the strategic development of the Minnesota Channel – tpt’s major public service initiative.

Dan joined tpt as a video editor in 1987 and has served in various management positions. As Director of Post-Production and Internet Services, he launched tpt's web site in 1995. As Vice President of Operations and Engineering, he launched tpt's first digital channel.  As Executive Vice President, he led the creation of a new strategic plan for tpt.  He has also had the pleasure of producing television shows, negotiating labor contracts, writing grants and hosting donor cultivation events, among other things!

Before coming to tpt, Dan worked at 3M in the Communications Department. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, graduating with a double major in English and German literature and a minor in Music Composition. His graduate degree in Film Studies is from the University of Wisconsin. He is a past board member of the Minnesota High Tech Association.

Jenny Masters-Wolfe
Vice President, Human Resources
Jenny leads the Human Resources Department and all of the employment practice functions within the organization. Prior to tpt, Jenny lived in the Pacific Northwest where she was formerly the Vice President of Human Resources for Restaurants Unlimited. She has worked in numerous business sectors in senior management positions. Her primary focus at tpt is to direct and support the strategic objectives of "creating a great place to work," by aligning HR strategy and organizational development to our strategic plan. She attended Eastern Washington University where she majored in Science and Psychology.

Bill Hanley
Executive Vice President, Minnesota Productions
Bill is responsible for the creation of all of tpt's local and regional programs including the creation of tpt's new "Minnesota Channel" program service. He also oversees tpt's national reporting for the nightly"NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" series. Bill has been with tpt since 1978, serving in a series of progressively responsible production and management positions. In the early 1980's he managed public television projects all over the world including Japan, Korea, the Philippines and the Soviet Union. In 1984, as Executive Producer for News & Public Affairs, Bill presided over the creation of Almanac, the most successful local series in the history of public television. In 1994, as Vice President, he supervised the creation of "NewsNight Minnesota." Currently, as Executive Vice President, he oversees creative and business development of tpt's first digital production and programming initiative, the tpt Minnesota Collaborative and the Minnesota Channel.

Gerry Richman
Executive Vice President, National Productions
Gerry has been with the station since 1980. In that time, he has helped develop one of public television's most highly regarded production departments. Gerry started at tpt as the Executive Producer of the daily live/local series NightTimes, and in 1984 became head of both local and national production. In the mid-1990s, he turned his focus exclusively to overseeing national programming. Gerry's credits include bringing the acclaimed film Hoop Dreams to the station and serving as Executive-in-Charge of this Peabody Award-winning production. He also was Executive-in-Charge of the Peabody Award-winning miniseries Liberty! The American Revolution, was one of the creators of tpt's Emmy Award-winning science seriesNewton's Apple, and also helped create tpt's long-running personal finance series, Right on the Money! Gerry received a B.A. in Theater from Brandeis University and attended the UCLA Graduate School of Film.

Glenn Fisher
Vice President, Broadcast Services
Glenn Fisher is Vice President for Broadcast Services with Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minnesota. During his 22-year tpt career, Glenn has served as membership manager, vice president for development and communications, and now as VP for broadcast services. Prior to his public television days, Glenn spent many a day in the music world - including time with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and even days in the classroom as an elementary music teacher. We like to say that Glenn really works for PBS, as he serves not only as a Membership Academy master teacher, but has also been a member of the Communications Advisory committee, and chair of the Development Advisory Committee. Glenn received the prestigeous C. Scott Elliott Development Professional of the Year Award from PBS in 2005.

Allen Giles
Vice President, Legal & General Counsel
Allen Giles is a leader in both the American Bar Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association in the areas of public law and ethics. His previous position was as General Counsel for the Minneapolis School District, a position he held since 1999.  Prior to that he served as an Administrative Law Judge for 10 years and has had long tenures with the Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Human Rights.  Allen is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. 

 

Keith Olson
Chief Financial Officer
Keith directs tpt's financial affairs, which includes general accounting,budgeting, internal control, bank relations, financial management and building administration. He began his career with tpt in 1984 supporting the database management systems for fund raising and financial management. He has provided leadership in the implementation of information technology tools to support business functions and served as the Information Services Manager. In 1997 he assumed the position of Controller, in 1999 he was promoted to Vice President, Finance and in 2003 Keith was named Chief Financial Officer for Twin Cities Public Television. Keith received his undergraduate degrees from the University of Minnesota in Business and Economics.

Christine Maloney
Executive Director, Resource Mgmt. & Administration
Christine oversees the financial, project management, and business administration aspects of all tpt projects, as well as the production management and the technical production staff. Christine began as a production assistant with tpt in 1984. She then became a production manager, and later, the Associate Director of Production, overseeing the financial, resource and administrative aspects of tpt's productions. As a director of tpt production, her duties expanded to include the supervision of the production management staff and the other administrative support positions in the Production Department. Her administrative role expanded to cover all project-related work in 1999, when she became Director of Project Planning. She has played a leadership role in the design and implementation of station-wide systems, including the Xytech scheduling software and the project budgeting tools. Before joining tpt, Christine spent eight years as a production Stage Manager with the Minnesota Opera Company.

Bruce Jacobs
Chief Technologist
Bruce Jacobs serves as Chief Technologist, overseeing Television Engineering and Information Technology. Bruce is a past chair of the PBS Engineering Committee, served on the Digital Steering Committee to develop the model for public television's digital conversion and led the first national simultaneous demonstration of the new DTV image formats. He co-wrote and edited the CPB-sponsored ETVCookbook.org, a nationally recognized resource for television professionals. Prior to joining tpt in 1998, he served as Director of Engineering of Prairie Public Broadcasting in Fargo. Bruce holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and earned the Senior Television Certification from the Society of Broadcast Engineers. He has produced award-winning television musical specials, has designed acoustic systems for worship and performance, and is an avid amateur musician.

Stephen Usery
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
Stephen joined tpt in September, 2003 from US Airways, where he was Vice President of Marketing & Revenue Management. Prior to that, he held a number of marketing-related positions at Northwest Airlines and, earlier still, at SunTrust Banks. Stephen began his career in public accounting and consulting after earning his MBA from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. He also holds a BA from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Stephen fondly remembers growing up with PBS as an intellectual lifeline in rural Arkansas and is now determined to ensure that current and future generations of Minnesotans have the same lifeline available to them.

 

Claudia Cackler
Vice President, Philanthropic Funding
Claudia oversees fund development including major gifts, Studio Society annual fund, planned giving, corporate and family foundations and special events. Claudia joined tpt in December 2005 from Drake University, where she was Senior Advancement Officer. Her position at tpt is the second public broadcasting post Claudia has held, the first being Director of Major Gifts at Iowa Public Television, where she developed the first major donor program for the network. Claudia has served in leadership positions with The Nature Conservancy, American Institute of Architects, The Des Moines National Poetry Festival and the Iowa Historical Foundation. Claudia holds a BA in history from the University of Iowa, and did graduate studies at Drake University in Des Moines.