Multimedia Director

Website design, video production, webcasts, social networking, television and radio commercials, documentaries, animations and graphics and musical theming, corporate branding, data base and email management, marketing outreach, sales, and shopping carts on the World Wide Web..

It's not rocket science! Or is it?
If you're not sure, you might want to get in touch with Chad Ely.

He's seen it all - from the studios of Hollywood to the halls of Congress. Done it all - videographer, engineer, editor, executive producer, graphic designer, photographer, website developer and webmaster, stage manager, composer, and recording artist. Along the way, he even invented and patented cutting edge technologies and techniques so widely in use today. He's also made a lot of friends in the dizzying circles of famous celebrities, national political figures, and corporate leaders; but his actual client list is as exclusive as it is confidential.

Chad calls himself a Multimedia Director. Those who have had the rare good fortune to work with him would be more inclined to use the word Wizard.

Early on, he was something of a musical child prodigy, performing on stage at age twelve with BB King and other Blues legends. In high school, his intense interest in emerging computer technologies launched him on path that led to certification to teach the subject at a local school when he was only sixteen.

Music, however, remained a passion and a livelihood. And, he began branching out and building on that stage by working with other musical artists, some in his own recording studio, to produce their work, design graphics, do photography, and produce videos. In 1998, he formed Dok Rok, Inc. and began attracting media attention outside the music industry as he producing producing hundreds of albums, as well as TV programs and Internet webcasts. In 2001, Chad stepped away from Dok Rok and stepped up to a whole new level by establishing ELY MULTIMEDIA.

Among his first major clients: Ralph Nader, for whom he produced promotional videos and DVD's on issues and matters of national interest and importance.

Then, in 2003, he met a rising star on the national political scene, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who was considering a run for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Inspired by the Congressman's political message and by the opportunity to apply his talents to a stage with a national and international audience, he joined the campaign, and in 2004, he was named National Director of Multimedia for the Kucinich Presidential campaign.

In that position, Chad was part of the traveling entourage that accompanied the candidate from town to town and event to event all across the country. Sometimes alone, sometimes with videographers and producers working under his direction, Chad was responsible for filming, editing, mixing, and providing video and audio coverage of the campaign to TV and radio networks and local stations from coast to coast, culminating with extensive work at the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004.

It was during that Presidential campaign that Chad considerably widened his circle of contacts to include national political leaders and entertainment industry celebrities.

It was also during that campaign that technological inspiration struck again: While in a small twin-engine prop plane flying over New Mexico, he was mulling over the technical and logistical challenges - sometimes nightmares of producing and distributing video footage on a day to day, sometimes hour to hour basis, to news-hungry broadcast outlets that might not have the resources of the major news networks to staff political campaigns.

With the germ of an idea, and the sophisticated technical and production background to make it grow, Chad devised a new Internet-based technology that could transmit broadcast-quality video directly into the production and editing studios of television stations and networks anywhere, anytime, without the laborious, expensive, and time-consuming process of first producing and then shipping videotapes. It was the beginning of a new era in video communication, and the beginning of a new venture - Digital Newsreel.

He took a hiatus from the company in 2007 to re-join Congressman Kucinich in his second Presidential campaign, where he directed even more ambitious multimedia projects than in the 2004 effort: Live webcasts of candidate appearances and important public forums at relatively remote locales where major news organizations chose not to travel. A weekly video newscast, produced under his direction, providing in depth coverage of the campaign and available to millions of people on the campaign¿s website.

Major redesigns of the campaign website for the purposes of functionality, navigation, appearance, and content management. Innovative application and modification of available technologies to provide up-to-the-minute news, videos, and information on the campaign website. A major initiative to utilize and capitalize on Internet-based social networks and to take advantage of every information-propagation system from RSS feeds and ning to YouTube. And, he played a crucial role in customizing and applying all of those systems and technologies to create a national fundraising apparatus that set records for financial support.

As an innovator, as a hands-on director and manager, as a consultant and advisor to public and private sector clients, and as an intensely solution-oriented professional who relishes challenges, Chad Ely continues to set new standards in a field -- and a world -- that is being reshaped every hour of every day.

His is an ever-evolving way of looking at things, and a relentlessly applied commitment to make those things work and to get the job done. And those who have become part of the Ely Multimedia Group share the same commitment.


Here's Chad ... and some of his friends.

Dennis Kucinich	Ralph Nader
John Glenn	John Kerry
Sherrod Brown	John Conyers
BB King	Willie Nelson
Sean Penn	Steven Tyler
Janeane Garafalo	James Cromwell
Michael Douglas	Mellissa Ethridge
Joaquin Phoenix	Robert Jr Lockwood
Eddie Izzard	Jerry Springer
Deidre Hall	Ted Ryser
Frank Jackson	Jane Campbell
Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue	Shirley McClaine
Mimi Kennedy	Pat Simmons
Danny Glover	Elizabeth Kucinich
Stephanie Tubbs Jones	TIm Reynolds
Steve Popovich