Meet the NPACT Leadership

Ed Wilson
Executive Chairman

Ed Wilson is an entrepreneurial media executive who moves seamlessly between traditional and emerging media and gracefully from the executive boardroom to the free-thinking space of content and talent development.

In March 2020, Wilson was named Executive Chairman of two Apollo Investment Corp. portfolio companies: CoxReps, the country’s leading national television representative company, and Gamut, a digital advertising organization. He is a sought-after advisor in the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sector, serving on the Board of ATAC, a publicly-traded SPAC focused on the TMT space, and as a partner at Whisper Advisors, the boutique advisory and banking firm.  READ MORE ABOUT ED.

Michelle Van Kempen
General Manager

A veteran television production executive, Michelle joined NPACT in 2016 as Head of Policy and Development, and began serving as General Manager in 2019. 

Prior to joining NPACT, Michelle was co-principal and executive producer at Film Garden Entertainment in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years, where she oversaw all business, production and daily operations of the prolific production company and served as executive producer on over 2000 episodes of content. 
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Meet the Rest of the Team

Mike Mistovich
Research Analyst and Member Services

Mike is a Research Analyst and Member Services Associate at NPACT where he works with members of the Leadership Team to ensure efficient operations and member communications.

After graduating from Ashland University in Ohio, Mike was an editor then a producer and director at the CBS (now Fox) station, WJW, in Cleveland. During his time there, he also served as stat and spotter support on local CBS NBA and NFL game coverage. Then he packed up his car and drove west to Hollywood where he worked in a variety of positions on TV series and films such as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Brady Bunch Movie, TekWar, Coldblooded, Star Trek: Generations, and Seven Days, for which he wrote two teleplays.

Mike was administrator for PactUS when it merged with NPA to become NPACT, whom he's assisted since 2016.

Leslie Oren
Media and Public Relations

For nearly two decades, Leslie Oren has been a public relations and image-management executive and consultant in Los Angeles, working primarily in television. Babygrande PR, founded by Leslie in 2008, specializes in entertainment public relations, with an emphasis on content creation.

Orchestrating campaigns that encompass corporate strategy and communications, as well as development, distribution and programming, clients include Pilgrim Media Group; the Leftfield Entertainment group (including Leftfield Pictures, Loud TV, Outpost Entertainment and Riot Creative); True Entertainment; Original Media; 3 Ball Entertainment; A+E Networks/FYI; the Z Living network and the Non-Fiction Producers Association (NPA), with longtime/project clients including Fox Television Studios and Game Show Network, among others.  
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J. Patrick Butler
Legal Counsel

Since his graduation from the George Washington University Law School in 1998, Patrick has represented clients in a wide variety of labor management and employment matters, including those related to union organizing campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations, employee discharge and discipline, discrimination and retaliation claims, wage and hour complaints, contract interpretation, strikes and reductions in force. He has served as the chief spokesperson and strategist in numerous collective bargaining negotiations. He also has handled complex labor and employment matters before the National Labor Relations Board and labor arbitrators, and in various federal and state courts.