Guinevere Orvis

Guinevere Orvis is an Interactive Producer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Factual Entertainment division where she leads online and mobile content strategy and production for several prime time television shows. One of these shows, Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister, broke new ground this year by becoming the first prime time show in North America to be released via BitTorrent, DRM-free.

Prior to CBC, she was the team leader for MuchMusic.com at CHUM and producer for several online properties at Alliance Atlantis.

Guinevere is also an entrepreneur who grew a design agency for eight years, a social media evangelist, new media presenter who has covered topics such as blogging and eCommerce to business groups, a five-year blogging veteran and a graduate of York University’s Film & Video degree program. She’s been quoted in The Toronto Star, CNET, BoingBoing and will retire happy when people can watch any show they want online.

She is @Guin on Twitter.