William Pravda, President
Mr. Pravda is the founding head of Light of Day Films (LoD) formed in 1996 and incorporated in 1999. LoD produces didactic videos for profit and non-profit organizations. Since 2004, ATI VP, Robert Gros, has worked in association with LoD. From 2004 through 2008, they spearheaded the effort to finance the independent production of feature film “Amnesia Jam: A tale of media bias”. Mr. Pravda has sat on the board of the New York Rotary Foundation, among various other New York City boards. Mr. Pravda studied film extensively at NYU and the New School. He is a longstanding member of the Harvard Club of New York City where he has lead the Shakespeare Group. Mr. Pravda graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where he studied government. He focused his studies on the Soviet-American propaganda wars under the tutelage of renowned Gurney Professor of Government and head of Harvard’s Russian Research Center, Adam B. Ulam.
Robert Gros, Vice President
As lead producer for thousands of hours of major network prime-time narratives, Mr. Gros is one of the most prolific producers in the history of television. He is the person most responsible for making Salt Lake City the United State’s largest alternative production mecca, second only to Hollywood. For the past decade, Mr. Gros has worked with Bill Pravda at Light of Day Films. (Bill often says he hired his boss.) Mr. Gros produces independent films, while he’s here to work with ATI. He has established relationships with an amazing array of Hollywood’s most notable actors.
Benton Anthony, Secretary
Working with various advertising agencies and design studios, Mr. Anthony is a commercial artist. Mr. Anthony studied art at the Leo Marchutz School in Aix-en-provence, France, and received a BA in graphic design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Mr. Anthony is a board member of the Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church and the Brighton Ambulatory Group.
PRO BONO PROFESSIONALS
Ronald Coleman, attorney
Ronald David Coleman is widely recognized for his work in the areas of First Amendment and intellectual property rights, especially pertaining to the Internet. A partner at the law firm of Archer & Greiner PC, he works out of their New York City office. Mr. Coleman is prominent legal blogger, author of The Federalist Society’s Likelihood of Confusion blawg. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on legal issues. He is the general counsel of the Media Bloggers Association. Mr. Coleman wrote the first article on Internet law in the American Bar Association Journal in 1995. He also co-authored a chapter entitled Responses to Complaints in the first edition of the American Bar Association Litigation Section’s treatise, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, was the principal author of an American Bar Association public education work on consumer law and wrote the Princeton Review Pre-Law Companion for aspiring law students. Mr. Coleman was also a contributing editor for the American Bar Association publication, Student Lawyer, during the 1980s, winning a Chicago Newspaper Guild Stick-O-Type Award for Feature Writing in 1987 for his work there. He represented Steven Brodsky in the early cybersquatting dispute Jews for Jesus v. Brodsky in 1998 and The National Debate’s online parody of The New York Times’s corrections page against legal threats by the paper. Mr. Coleman has subsequently become associated with the defending the rights of bloggers. Other reported blogger clients include Rogers Cadenhead, Lance Dutson, Joan Stewart, Patrick “Patterico” Frey, Katherine Coble, Kevin Aylward, Jeffrey Wright and Michael Bates. He has also drawn attention in connection with his representation of businesses in disputes over the use of intellectual property on the Internet, and his experience with respect to Web-based defamation claims. Coleman has also, on behalf of the Media Bloggers Association, participated in the legal representation of various defendants involved in the Righthaven “copyright troll” litigation. A graduate of Princeton University and Northwestern University School of Law, Coleman is credited with coining the term “blogola” to refer to supposedly illicit consideration given to bloggers in return for favorable reviews or other mentions of products or services in their blog postings.
John Vento CPA
John Vento established his firm, John J. Vento, CPA, P.C., in June of 1987.
Vento, the firm’s president, is a former accounting professor of Wagner College and Saint Francis College. Professor Vento is also a lecturer to the medical and dental profession. He has been the keynote speaker at various seminars and conferences focused on the financial aspects of establishing a successful medical and/or dental practice. He has lectured through Lutheran Medical Center’s resident teleconferencing training program throughout the United States, as well as at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, and at NYU School of Dentistry. Mr. Vento also lectured at The Greater New York Dental Meeting 2009, on “Tax and Financial Strategies that Create Wealth”. Mr. Vento holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in Public Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in Taxation. Mr. Vento is a licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the State of New York. He is a Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) and holds a Series 7, Stock Broker license and a Series 24, Security Principal license in the State of New York. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.
