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Pierre Valette

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Pierre Valette is the Founder and CEO of amplifi, a production and marketing strategy company that works with mission-driven organizations and individuals. His clients range from large global pharmaceuticals, to pre-IPO private equity-backed companies, to non-profits such as the Consensus Building Institute. amplifi is in development on several documentary film projects. Prior to founding amplifi, Pierre Valette served as the Vice President of Marketing and Communications for athenahealth, a cloud-based health information technology which he helped build from $100 million in sales to $1.2 billion. Prior to working at athenahealth, Valette produced cable, network and PBS documentaries including the Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning children's series, Arthur, and the Peabody Award-winning The Life and Times of Jim Crow. He also created the Emmy-nominated Discovery Series, Sci-Squad, and the Emmy-nominated PBS series, Postcards from Buster. Pierre is currently the Board Chair of Haiti Projects, a non-profit that runs jobs, education, and women's health programs in rural Haiti. He lives in Boston with his wife Hilary Selden Illick who is a playwright, executive coach, and senior teacher at the Hoffmann Process. They have four children and two grand sons. Awards: Four Emmy Awards, Two Peabody's, Fourteen Emmy Nominations, British Academy of Film and Television Sciences Award, Five Tellys, seven Cine Awards, Boston Music Award for Best Music Video.