Masaru Ikeo,
Executive Producer
Media
International Corporation
Masaru Ikeo
is Executive Producer, Co-production & Business Development for Media
International Corporation (MICO) which is an affiliate company of NHK in charge
of distribution, acquisition and development for the visual content. Masaru
worked for NHK as a producer and an executive producer for natural history and
science programs before joining MICO in 2006. Since joining NHK in 1973, Masaru
has been involved in the production of NHK Special series including The
Miracle Planet and The Arctic. He also worked as Executive Producer
for The Global Family, a popular weekly natural history program which
has been on the air since 1990, Production Controller in Sapporo Regional
Headquarters (1996-1998) and Executive Producer of Programming for the HD
Channel (1999-2001). In 2003, he led The Antarctica Project which
included a series of science documentaries and live HD transmissions from