Speaker Blair Powers
Blair Powers is a founding partner at Sinking Ship and an Emmy-winning executive producer. He oversees all financial, business and funding aspects of Sinking Ship’s television, film and digital properties. Blair has financed over 300 million dollars over numerous series, working with CBC, TVO, Corus, SRC and Yoopa in Canada as well as KIKA in Germany and Amazon, Hulu, Apple, PBS and Nickelodeon in the US. In addition, he heads up the Interactive division of the company which has produced award-winning games, apps and web content.
Blair has won 4 Daytime Emmys for outstanding Pre-school Children’s, Children’s Family and Educational Series. Blair is a Canadian Media Producers Association member where he is the Co-Chair of the CMPA’s Children & Youth Committee.
