George Veras is a 10 time national Sports Emmy award winning writer , producer and director of television live events and documentaries. He began his career at CBS sports producing the NFL Today, pregame shows for the NBA on CBS, MLB, boxing, two Pan Am games and two Winter Olympics. He produced 3 other Olympics for NBC, including the first HD telecasts of the Athens 2004 Summer games. He has produced award winning content for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Cleveland Browns, the New Jersey, Hall of Fame, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and so much more including Yanni live at the Acropolis. He is the president and Chief Operating officer of Veras Communications Inc. and has been part of the legendary Pollack Films company. He has served as an adjunct professor of sports business at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. His first exposure to working in pro sports was in 1965 when he served as a ball boy for the New York Jets and their rookie quarterback, Joe Namath.
