Michele Nasraway is an Executive Producer at Vin Di Bona Productions, where she oversees the daily operations of America’s Funniest Home Videos and advises on all the brand’s business extensions. She also serves as Executive Producer on our edgier ABC series Videos After Dark. In addition, Nasraway has overseen the production of 110 episodes of Show Me the Funny on Fox’s Family Channel, the ’I Do’ Diaries: Wacky Wedding Videos special for Lifetime, and 130 episodes of World’s Funniest Videos: “Top Ten Countdown”, which is syndicated in over 50 countries.

Michele has been with VDBP for 29 years, having worked her way up from the mailroom. She credits her longevity with the company to the “family atmosphere” and the gratification of playing a role in creating a unifying hour for families to laugh.

Mike Palleschi is Co-Executive Producer at Vin Di Bona Productions, and Head Writer and Supervising Producer for America’s Funniest Home Videos.

Mike joined VDBP 19 years ago as a writer for AFV. Mike’s talents have been further recognized in the industry with two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series for Bill Nye, the Science Guy. His other writing credits include MTV’s “The Tom Green Show” and the syndicated series, “Blind Date.”

Richard Connor is a leading member of the team producing America’s Funniest Home Videos and Videos After Dark. Rich has been part of the VDBP family for 19 years, and is widely recognized as the genius behind AFV’s signature music montages; he has produced nearly one-thousand montages featuring artists ranging from Katy Perry to David Bowie to Frank Sinatra.

He graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in 1985 and started out his career as a Development Executive at Cannon Films before becoming a founding partner at The Matthau Company. In 1999, Rich took a job as producer on “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, where he has made himself an indispensable member of the VDBP team.

Tomika Palmer-Ciaccio is a Co-Executive Producer at Vin Di Bona Productions, and a leading member of the team producing America’s Funniest Home Videos and Videos After Dark. She first joined the VDBP family 19 years ago as a Production Coordinator when AFV kicked off its 11th season with host Tom Bergeron, and has since continued to work her way up the ranks.

A proud UCLA graduate, Tomika originally began her career in the business management field as an Account Supervisor. She is also a co-founder of the non-profit animal welfare organization, Shelter Animal Advocacy Fund, Los Angeles, otherwise known as SAAFLA.

Richard Connor is a leading member of the team producing America’s Funniest Home Videos and Videos After Dark. Rich has been part of the VDBP family for 19 years, and is widely recognized as the genius behind AFV’s signature music montages; he has produced nearly one-thousand montages featuring artists ranging from Katy Perry to David Bowie to Frank Sinatra.

He graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in 1985 and started out his career as a Development Executive at Cannon Films before becoming a founding partner at The Matthau Company. In 1999, Rich took a job as producer on “America’s Funniest Home Videos”, where he has made himself an indispensable member of the VDBP team.

A long time member of the VDBP team, Paul Lapointe was previously CFO for the Vin Di Bona group of companies for twelve years. Since 2013, Paul has served as the company’s COO, responsible for oversight of all day-to-day operations and company finances.

He was formerly CEO for VideoJug America, a company that produced and monetized over 45,000 how-to videos. Earlier in Lapointe’s career, he held key positions with Hoyts Television, an Austrailian production company.

Rob Katz is an Executive Producer at Fishbowl Worldwide Media, helming the unscripted programming division’s sourcing, creative development, and production of new original series.

Rob first joined the VDBP family in 1997, directing various series including: I Survived A Disaster, The Big Moment and America’s Funniest Home Videos.

Rob brings decades of experience as an executive producer of series seen on Syfy, Discovery, Science, Fox, ABC, NBC, TruTV, Comedy Central, and more. One of his most notable credits was shepherding the first seven seasons of the Syfy hit Ghost Hunters.

Jamie Goldstein is a Development Executive at FishBowl Worldwide Media, where she is responsible for creating innovative long-form, non-scripted and scripted formats.

Jamie started at FishBowl in 2016 where her primary focus has been creating documentary and hip-hop driven programming that skews towards a millennial audience. Since starting at FishBowl, Goldstein has developed documentary projects in partnership with Queen Latifah and Flavor Unit Entertainment, The New York Times, and Charlamagne Tha God.

Prior to working at Fishbowl, Jamie graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and worked on scripted productions such as Grandfathered, Mistresses, Mixology, State of Affairs, Playing House, Cougar Town, Scrubs and The Bridge.

Jamie has a background in Comedic Talent Management, working at such companies as Levity Entertainment Group/Triage Entertainment and Southfield Village Entertainment.

Kevin Bloom is Head of Production at FishBowl Worldwide Media, overseeing all aspects of production for the company’s current programming slate.

Kevin joined FishBowl Worldwide Media in 2012. He has been a vital member of the team lending his unparalleled talents to the company’s original series including Insane Pools: Off the Deep End, Caroline & Friends, Trans Am, Toned Up, Upload with Shaquille O’Neal, I’m Married to A, Off Beat and many more.

Prior to FishBowl, Kevin held the position of Vice President of Production at Stone & Company Entertainment. In 2011 he received an Emmy nomination for his work on the Nickelodeon game show, BrainSurge.

Sharon Arnett oversees post production for all Vin Di Bona Productions and Fishbowl Worldwide Media shows. She manages a full service editorial facility that offers the company’s producers leading edge technology for both picture and audio finishing.

Joining the company in 1998, Arnett has been involved with all the company’s broadcast and cable productions. A two-time Emmy award winning Producer and television Production Executive, Arnett also acts as the Post Producer for America’s Funniest Home Videos.

Previously, Sharon produced the syndicated series That’s Funny and the cable series Show Me the Funny, served as Vice President of Production for Foot, Cone & Belding Entertainment, and has worked with all the network major sports networks in the production of NFL, MLB, PGA, auto racing, world cup skiing and the Olympics. Arnett is a member of the DGA, has served on the AD-SM-PA Council as well as the Women’s Steering Committee, and is President of The Caucus Foundation.

Cara has a long history with VDBP dating back to the first project sold to ABC, Animal Crack-ups. She has also spent a great deal of time developing many scripted and non-scripted programs for the cable networks. Cara headed up a development department for children’s programming with the title of Director. Cara helped reimagine a Japanese stunt show, Off the Wall for the company which she sold to the Disney Channel. She then went on to produce 65 episodes of Off the Wall for the channel.

Before turning to Development, Cara spent many years working in all facets of production at Vin Di Bona Productions. During this time, she also became a DGA member as an associate director and stage manager. Cara co-produced and stage-managed 6 episodes of World’s Funniest Videos for the ABC network. She also worked as a stage manager and 2nd AD on America’s Funniest Home Videos for three seasons and also stage managed 65 episodes of Maximum Drive, an off road vehicle stunt show for the Family Channel. Early in her career, she was a production assistant for America’s Funniest People and Conquer Fort Boyard in France.

Cara joined Vin Di Bona Productions in 1994 after receiving her B.S. in Communications from Emerson College in Boston. While attending College, Cara received a New England Chapter Emmy for a documentary she produced on the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Cara has three children: Sam, Kate, and Phoebe.