The founder of the independent production company Evolution Media, Douglas Ross heads up the company’s varied slate of reality programs. 

Currently, Ross is Executive Producer of Bravo’s hit franchise The Real Housewives of Orange County and the spinoffs The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules, as well as the E! format Botched and it’s spinoff Botched by Nature.  Ross is also an Executive Producer on the upcoming Nick Cannon format, Like a Boss, which will air in March on Oxygen. 

Other Evolution credits include ABC Family’s Beverly Hills Nannies, WE’s critically acclaimed High School Confidential, Disney’s hidden camera comedy, Code: 9, MTV’s comedy Yo Momma, truTV’s action drama Ocean Force and TLC’s long-running Clean Sweep and 10 Years Younger. 

Ross is considered an innovator in the “reality” television genre having created TV’s first teen docu-drama, Disney’s Bug Juice, and having launched the first season of NBC’s alternative series Fear Factor, and the first season of CBS’s Big Brother.  Ross is also known for challenging convention with Bravo’s controversial gay dating series Boy Meets Boy and the network’s docu-series Gay Weddings.  

Speaking on: Meet a Mentor: Douglas Ross, Evolution Media (3:00pm-3:45pm)