Zachary Hedges
CEO & President:
From Hip to Hoping busy in just 5 years
Zachary Hedges a multimedia whiz starting at the
age of 15. He has created his own multimedia empire. Zachary's
first love resided in the area of Hip Hop music and dance competitions
that he promoted in the Boston Area while living in Massachusetts.
It was not long before Zachary's talents became apparent to other
organizations working in this media arena, which resulted in him
at the age of 16 being sponsored by Saatchi & Saatchi to go
to New Zealand to coordinate & perform for various TV programs
and The Government of New Zealand. Later that year Zachary found
him self promoting break dancing competitions, building websites
& authoring DVD videos for other organizations with in the
Hip Hop Dance Community.
At the age of 17 Zachary started his first company
Gravity Soul Productions. Soon there after he meet other people
involved in different areas of media production & marketing.
This lead to him creating one of the first websites for Casey
Bennett’s HD Production Company, which featured “The
Extremist” ground breaking television show. After authoring
more than half a dozen Hip-hop and break dancing DVD’s including
websites, Mr. Hedges decided to branch out and at the age of 17
and found him self designing web animations for Microsoft MSN
Money as well as working on the website construction of world
renowned artist Justin BUA.
At the age of 19 Mr. Hedges moved up to Santa
Barbra area to do consulting & web design for a large stainless
Steel company, Mr. Hedges likes to think of this as his sag way
into a new aesthetic and marketing arena outside of his roots
in the Hip Hop world. Shortly there after events and other business
opportunities brought him to Las Vegas where he created a multitude
of high end websites, DVD’s & consulting for the following
companies: Hard Rock Hotel, S2artGroup Ltd, Jack Gallery, Michael
Godard, Haigs Printing, PokerStars.com, 24-7 Productions, Green
Star Productions, getdownart.com, to name a few.
Mr. Hedges now divides his time equally between
multimedia development of websites and In house HD videography
and post production services for companies like the Hard Rock
Hotel & Casino. Mr. Hedges has shoot the following entertainers
& celebrities in HD for the Hard Rock & other clients:
50Cents, Steven Tyler, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Puff Daddy,
Akon, The Killers, Lincoln Park, The Bravery, Incubus, Snoop Dog
to name a few.
All of the previous experiences over the past
7 years have helped Mr. Hedges at the age of 23 to form his new
company “Actualize Media” a fully functional multimedia
group that can implement & deliver High end websites, search
engine optimization, all forms of video production and print materials,
utilizing superior aesthetic design and functionality that can
be delivered at a fraction of the cost of his competition.
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