Mathew Baxt serves as director of development for the rapidly growing cable network truTV. In this capacity, he is responsible for finding and developing new programming for the network. Baxt is based in New York and reports to Marissa Ronca, vice president of development for truTV.

Baxt joined truTV in January 2011 after serving as executive vice president in charge of development for Eyeboogie, Inc. While there, he oversaw all program development for the company and supervised the production staff. He also created such popular online series as Who Knew? for Yahoo! and the Effie Award-winning, James Beard-nominated series Appetite for Life with Andrew Zimmern for MSN.

Baxt previously served in a variety of production capacities on such programs as American Gladiators (consulting producer); Extra (supervising producer/ development) and Access Hollywood (head writer/senior field producer).

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