Digital Hollywood Spring, March, 2006 Speaker Albie Hecht, founder & CEO, Worldwide Biggies Inc. Albie Hecht, founder & CEO, Worldwide Biggies Inc.: As president of film and television entertainment for Nickelodeon, Hecht oversaw the development and production of SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairy Odd Parents, Blue’s Clues, and the long running live action hit All That, the first multicultural sketch comedy show for kids, which spun off the hit series’ Kenan and Kel and The Amanda Show. He also co-created Nickelodeon’s Kids Choice Awards as the founding principal and Executive Producer for Chauncey Street Productions. During the 14 years he was executive producer, the award show became a must attend event for Hollywood A-listers. At Nickelodeon Movies, he produced some of Paramount’s biggest films of the last five years, most recently, Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events (four Academy Awards Nominations) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Hecht was also nominated for an Oscar in The Academy’s inaugural Best Animated Feature category, as the Producer of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, which was a Golden Globe Nominee, as well. The Rugrats Movie was the first non- Disney animated feature to cross the hundred million dollar mark. Other Nick Movie hits with Albie Hecht as either producer or executive producer include Rugrats in Paris, and the live-action success, Snow Day with Chevy Chase. In all, Albie Hecht’s movie projects brought in over a billion dollars for Paramount and Nickelodeon in box office and licensing revenue. As the creator and President of MTV Networks’ Spike TV, the First Network for Men, Hecht launched what is now an 89-million-subscriber, basic cable network. Time Magazine hailed Spike as "…an example of how media and marketing are reshaping the idea of American manhood." Hecht scored Spike’s first hit with The Joe Schmo Show, a program that gave birth to the genre of faux-reality. He also introduced the cult hit, MXC: Most Extreme Elimination, which Entertainment Weekly rated an "A" saying "take one part Jackass, two parts Iron Chef and 18 parts pure insanity and you have the recipe for MXC."