Stephen Zadrick is a Media expert, entrepreneur, film, television, live stage and magic executive producer.  Stephen Zadrick is currently chairman and president of Media Corp. of America and has been since 1989. He has a gift for conceptualization and has developed cutting edge corporate alternative currency programs, arbitrage, television, live stage, defense, travel and new media-related businesses. Steve holds innumerable industry awards and honors, is published, and has been a featured speaker at Real Estate, Military, Tech, Trade and other industry events globally. He brings over 35 legendary years of experience spent specializing in & perfecting his unique model offered to movies, television, hotels, resorts, high rise real estate, Internet start-ups, bank bail-outs and more.  His access to past clients, Media Agencies, Media Companies, friends and colleagues is second to none.  These longstanding C-level relationships are all a statement to Stephen’s ethics, strong character, creativity and professionalism.

Stephen’s passions are Media and unique monetization strategies. He specializes in structuring large trade or alternative financing advertising campaigns, and creating new revenue divisions and programs within companies. Stephen takes a more comprehensive, precise approach that combines exceptional media rates with sophisticated strategies, delivering greater value. Great customer service combined with Stephen’s unique monetization strategies, cutting edge programs and non-dilutive distribution channels help grow businesses. Media Corp. of America provides advertisers in the entertainment travel and hospitality sector with an innovative creative financing package. Clients utilize the programs to leverage excess inventory or capacity for media and other non-media expenditures.

Stephen is also a co-founder and the media expert of Global Pictures Media and sole founder of Global Equity Pictures a cutting-edge company that funds P&A budgets for major motion pictures and independent films. Some recent titles include “War with Grandpa” starring Robert DeNiro, “Replicas” with Keaneau Reeves, “LBJ” a Rob Reiner directed film starring Woody Harrelson, “Book of Love” starring Jessica Biel, “Bad Samaritan” featuring David Tennant & Robert Sheehan, the horror film “Friend Request” and multiple others.

Following the success of “Cops,” a syndicated television special in the early 1990 a wave of new shows emerged within the same genre. Among these, “Highway Patrol” and “Emergency Call” quickly gained popularity as successful TV syndicated programming.  My work on these series took place at our Universal Studios Orlando headquarters, where I also served as a Co-Producer alongside Al Gannaway and Genesis Entertainment.

In 1993 Stephen’s company Z-TV Entertainment pioneered long- and short-form travel entertainment shows that were syndicated on television stations across the U.S. These Direct Response travel shows aired served as a method of lead generation for the travel and fractional real estate industry.

Stephen is listed in Florida International Magazine’s People edition titled Power Players: 100 A-List Floridians (April 2005) where he was included as an Innovator: People Who Use Originality to Reinvent the Status Quo. Other recipients of this honor include Donald Trump, Gloria Estefan, Shaquille O’Neal, and Jorge M. Perez. Stephen Zadrick also founded and was CEO of CenterPoint/Developer Capital Solutions LLC. For two-years in a row he was recognized as one of Builder and Developer Magazine’s Who’s Who in the Building Industry (Jan 2004 & 2005).

The International Real Estate Trade Organization awarded Developer Capital Solutions and Mr. Zadrick Financing Idea of the Year in 2005 and the Chairman of the BIS awarded Developer Capital Solutions the International Business Innovation award for its efforts in forming SourceChina. SourceChina was also presented with the Golden Sourcing award at the CIHAF conference in Shanghai China by IRETO. SourceChina, of which Mr. Zadrick served as CEO and Chairman of the Board, was a joint venture for sourcing Chinese vendors specializing in the real estate industry. Stephen Zadrick and Source China were presented with the 2006 China Housing Industry Contribution Award, Golden International Partnership at the CIEHI Conference in Beijing, China personally presented to Stephen by the Ministry of Construction of the People’s Republic of China.

Mr. Zadrick was an Urban Land Institute Member & Trustee (www.uli.org) and was also a member of the National Association of Home Builders (www.nahb.org), the Building Industry Association (www.biasc.org), the National Sales & Marketing Council and the National Council of the Housing Industry.

Stephen’s past triumphs include an unprecedented $30 million plus, multi-year Media-for-Real Estate Asset Recovery deal with Citibank Worldwide and the Interpublic Group of Companies. The transaction, exchanging prime commercial real estate for media for use in funding the company’s Visa and MasterCard spot radio and television advertising budgets, was the beginning of an industry trend. This was a banking first and required approval by the U.S. Banking Commission following the real estate crash of the 1980’s which we obtained.

Stephen has been in the business of Corporate Trade and Media for his entire adult life and launched a successful media company located on Madison Avenue in NYC that specializes in Real Estate and unique monetization strategies. With programs under his direction, Stephen has been credited with creating a variety of unique media programs over the years including multi-media, local, regional, national and international campaigns for major Fortune 500 companies such as Citibank, Avon, Microsoft, Sprint, Sanyo and real estate clients such as Parker Meridien Group, The Marketing Directors, Crescent Heights Development and Citibank. A few examples of consumer brands that have been represented include Proline, Chimento Jewelry, Damiani Jewelry, AutoChic, Eagle One and Herbalife. Some past and current hotel and travel clients include Real Resorts, Palace Resorts, Hotels.com, Priceline.com, Hard Rock All-Inclusives, Allergro/Occidental Resorts, RCI, Super Clubs, Viva Resorts and many more.

He also successfully partnered with Playbill, the premier national Broadway Theatre magazine within theaters coast to coast, creating a new media division including Miami Visitors & Convention Bureau, Metro, Miami, Coconut Grove, and Adventura Magazines.

Stephen was responsible for the launching and development of his ex-wife’s modeling career, Supermodel Shana Zadrick (Guess Jeans, Calvin Klein Escape, Pantene, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition). The couple were featured on Robin Leach’s Lifestyle of the Rich & Famous, Entertainment Tonight, MTV’s Cindy Crawford’s House of Style, Hard Copy, NYC’s couple of the month in the New York Post, and many more TV shows and publications.

Zadrick also Executive produced the live stage show and Disney prime-time special “Disney’s Melinda First Lady of Magic”, the #1 female magician in the world who performed in Las Vegas for over a decade (formerly a dancer in Siegfried & Roy’s Extravaganza at the Mirage. In 1996, Stephen co-produced NBC’s 40-city North American World’s Greatest Magicians Tour, and was recognized with the IMS’s prestigious Executive Producer of the Year for his never ending efforts in Magic television productions, live stage touring show and propagating the Magical Arts. He is listed as one of the top magicians in the world for his illusion inventions, staging, and Executive production, keeping company with David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy, and other world-class Magical Legends. To top it all off, in 2022 Steve received the Merlin Award for Lifetime Achievement from the International Magicians Society.

In 1999 Mr. Zadrick, as co-CEO and Founder, incubated an ‘in kind’ media-based venture capital fund that closed-out in 2001 following the fall of the tech stock surge, exchanging Media for equity with multiple Internet companies. NetMedia VC was also the exclusive Media provider to one of the largest EcoNet and incubators of the time, Safeguard Scientifics, supplying Media as needed to its billion-dollar plus portfolio of hundreds of Internet companies.

Stephen’s companies specialize in offering unique media promotional opportunities that reach a targeted audience with a strong call to action utilizing performance-based compensation coupled with Television, Radio and Internet video for Hotels and other Travel related providers like hotels, restaurants, attractions, shows, and more. Our core programs include special travel & product related promotions and proprietary programs for Media and Corporate partners like NBC (Today Show), CBS owned and operated, Fox network media and various deal sites. We created unique cooperative programs for Cruise Lines, Resorts, and Hotels like Hard Rock All Inclusives, Palace Resorts, Real Resorts, Rosen Hotels, Palms Casino Hotel Las Vegas, Payless Rental Car, and Kandy Kruise/ Karma Foundation (Playboy Mansion Events). One promotion alone sold 5,000 All Inclusive travel packages in just 4 minutes.

In 2018 his Company formed Emax Group Corp in partnership with Emax Studios, distributors of Latin films and licensees of “Latin Billboard Awards” name for an international concert series.

Steve spent years as an executive leader with extensive field experience from the late seventies into the eighties providing critical timely operations in support of US Government activities in Panama, Nicaragua, and El Salvador during the Sandinista rebel war.

In the early 1980’s Stephen raced cars professionally on the International Motor Sports Association circuit.  He raced I.M.S.A. endurance races at Sebring, Daytona, Limerock, Road Atlanta, Searspoint, Laguna Seco and more.

When not commuting coast-to-coast, Stephen currently works and lives in Tampa FL, Prague, and Pensacola FL. He has also spent ~35 years between Miami, NYC, and the United States horse capital – Ocala, Florida where over three decades he rescued sixteen various big cats such as Siberian and Bengal tigers, leopards, cougars, lions, a lynx and a several as well as horses, llamas, pigs, rabbits, dogs and cats, each with its own unique personality and story. After Hurricane Andrew struck South Florida in 1992, he stepped in to rescue those big cats. Stephen’s definition of relaxation is either traveling or working on his next hot project.