RANDY TAT

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Randy Tat, currently Executive Vice President at CFP Productions, housed at Paramount Pictures, has carved out a career as one of the industry's most versatile executives. He boasts experience in both television and film, from his start as an NBC page to his current post, where he helped develop the hit film How to Lose a Guy In 10 Days, which grossed more than $177 million worldwide.

Tat's career path began at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he specialized in Film and Television. He landed a job as a production and casting coordinator for a Seattle-based production company where he worked on a variety of projects. Among these were the motion pictures Black Widow for Columbia Pictures and An Officer and a Gentleman for Paramount, as well as several movies of the week, series and mini-series for network television, including Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, The Rape of Richard Beck and Divorce Wars for ABC, and Innocent Love and 12 episodes of the series Hot Pursuit for NBC.

Taking a staff position at NBC in on-air promotions, Randy produced and coordinated promos, trailers and image campaigns for Family Ties, The Cosby Show, Matlock, The Golden Girls, The Tonight Show, Night Court, Bob Hope Specials, Crime Story and NBC Sports.

Tat joined the fledgling Fox Broadcasting Company in 1987 as Producer and Acquisitions Manager for On-Air Promotion, working directly under Barry Diller. He was one of the first 12 people hired at the network, helping launch the networks' on-air promotions department. While there, Randy did all the licensing for music on-air, directed voice-over talent for trailers and promos as well as produced and developed innovative program launches, marketing strategies and image campaigns for such groundbreaking programs as Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, The Simpsons, The Outsiders, the Emmy Awards, Married With Children, America's Most Wanted and Cops.

Tat's responsibilities quickly expanded to include Manager, Room Producer and creator of the Music Licensing and Legal Clearance Department, where his duties included supervising, negotiating legal contracts and compiling network feeds. "I was an integral part of building these divisions from the ground up," says Tat. "We established the template that helped sell Fox as an innovative company willing to take programming risks."

He segued to the Disney Channel, where he produced affiliate and sales presentations for the Creative Development Group, supervising on-line editing sessions and audio post-production. He also coordinated production on commercials for Propaganda Films, Ridley Scott's commercial agency, RSA/USA and GMS.

As a segment producer, he supervised and coordinated several TV pilots for Columbia Pictures, as well as A Current Affair for Fox and Hard Copy for Paramount. Meanwhile, moonlighting as a cartoonist, he created the cult comic strip, "Hollywood Moguls," a popular feature for Movieline magazine.

Looking to move from television to motion picture features, Tat joined the Paramount Motion Pictures Group, where he worked in creative production under Sherry Lansing and John Goldwyn for four years, developing and coordinating such projects as Braveheart, Brady Bunch 1 and 2, Eye for an Eye, Face/Off, Event Horizon, Double Jeopardy, Evening Star, Phantom and Mission: Impossible 1.

"At Paramount, I learned every facet of development and production," says Randy. "It was a crash course in the movie business and I soaked it all in." An organized team player, Randy is not afraid to be creative and pro-active in making things happen, showing his versatility in various areas of both Film and Television. "I've worked in every aspect of the studio, from marketing and publicity (both domestic and international), interactive to home video, product placement and network television."

In 1997, he joined Christine Peters at the Robert Evans Company, where he became an integral part of her CFP Productions unit, helping turn How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days into an international box office hit, spending much of that time on location. Tat also had a crucial role in the coordination, research and development of such films as Out-of-Towners, as well as upcoming projects like How to Tell He's Not the One in 10 Days, Bullrider, Fashionistas (with Lindsay Lohan), Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief and two videogame-turned-film projects: Area 51 and John Singleton's Fear and Respect. He was also instrumental in marketing and promoting Entertainment Express, a credit card company started by Peters with MBNA, marketed to theater owners.

Showing his wide-ranging skills, Tat produced more than 250 episodes (five shows a week) of the daily half-hour syndicated comedy/relationship reality series, Rendez-View, for Paramount, directing talent on-set, writing guest intros and overseeing every creative aspect of the show, including writers, talent and editors.

Tat's influence extends to every area of CFP Productions, including finance, business affairs, development and production. Married with two kids, Randy continues to utilize his vast industry contacts and knowledge, built over a two-decade career, to make it one of Hollywood's cutting-edge companies, developing, producing and marketing quality, commercial entertainment for the young adult market, both male and female.