Michael Bellavia is an Emmy winning producer with more than 30 production credits[1] and a digital marketing executive.
He is also an owner of HelpGood, an advertising agency and certified B Corp[2] in New York City and Los Angeles that works with nonprofits and organizations focused on making a social impact including California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, Housing Works, and the Ad Council on the Smokey Bear campaign for which the company was the recipient of the Gold Smokey Bear Award.
While at Animax, in 2006, Bellavia won one of the first broadband Emmy Awards[5] for a series of animated shorts that were produced for ESPN.
He is a former Chair of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council,[9] a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a former mentor at the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab.
He has been a contestant on several game shows, including Let's Make a Deal, 25 Words or Less, Wheel of Fortune, Smush, Pyramid, Emogenius, Boom!, Lingo, The Great Escape, and On the Cover.