Kim Martin has been the VP of Development,
Executive Producer and Dan Cohen's partner since he founded
the company in 1999. In 2005, she won a James Beard Foundation Broadcast Media
Award for Television Food Show, National, as Executive Producer
for
"Bobby Flay: Chef Mentor". Also in
2005, Bobby Flay won the Best Service Host Emmy Award for their
original series
"Boy Meets Grill", now
in its fifth season on the Food Network. She has also developed
and Executive Produced
"A Cook's Tour",
"Bobby's Vegas Gamble",
"Eating
Out Loud",
"Low Carb and Lovin' It"
and was a Co-Executive Producer on
"Dream Chasers".
Prior to Dan Cohen & Sons, she was a producer, writer
and director for television for ten years, working primarily
on documentary and reality series focused on biography, lifestyle,
celebrity and pop culture such as "People Profiles" (CNN),
"Fashion File" (E! Entertainment Television), "Biography" (A&E
Networks) and "Martha Stewart Living" (CBS).
Kim graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in English
Literature and a Certificate de la Langue Francaise from La
Sorbonne, Paris. In 2003 she completed the New York City Triathlon
with Team in Training to raise money and awareness for the
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She lives in New York City
with her husband and son.
Dan Cohen is the President of Dan Cohen
& Sons, LLC, which he founded in 1999. In 2005, he won a James
Beard Foundation Broadcast Media Award for Television Food Show, National,
as Executive Producer for
"Bobby Flay: Chef Mentor".
Also in 2005, Bobby Flay won the Best Service Host Emmy Award
for the company’s original series
"Boy Meets
Grill". Dan has also Executive Produced
"A
Cook’s Tour",
"Bobby’s Vegas Gamble",
"Eating Out Loud",
"Low Carb
and Lovin’ It" and was a Co-Executive Producer on
"Dream Chasers".
Prior
to starting his own company he was Senior Vice President of
Advertising for
The New York Times from 1996 to 1999. He lead
the newspaper to the milestone of $1 billion in advertising
revenue, a historical first for a print publication. During
his fifteen years at
The Times he was also the Vice President of
Advertising, Group Director of Promotion, Managing Director
of Business Development and held positions in corporate planning
and circulation. Before joining
The Times in 1983, Dan was
an independent film producer with Fort Worth Productions.
He also was a cable programmer with Warner Amex Cable in Dallas,
TX and spent five years as an on-air journalist for WESH-TV in
Orlando, FL. Dan Cohen graduated from Tufts University with
a B.A. in Theatre and Biology. He has taken graduate courses
in biology, economics and business from Tufts, M.I.T. and
NYU. He is on the board of All Kinds of Minds NY Regional
Council, Children for Children and The Lorraine Monroe Leadership
Institute. Dan is also on the Board of Overseers
at Tufts University. He lives in New York City with his wife
and two sons.
