BusinessPOV.com is an online video magazine featuring completely original, locally produced video profiles of companies, people and products that drive innovation and entrepreneurship in Chicago and beyond.
Everything you see on BusinessPOV is journalism. That is, we seek these stories and subjects out and report on them as we would any newspaper or magazine story. The segments are divided into four categories: Perspective, Process, Product and Profile.
We think of the site as a community builder and hub for unique business voices in the city.
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Mark Scheffler
Principal and Executive Producer
Mark Scheffler is the founder of BusinessPOV.com and is in charge of the content and editorial direction. In addition to shooting and editing segments, he oversees each production as well as the site's team of videographers.
Mark is an all-platform journalist who has shot and edited video stories for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and PBS.
His written work has appeared in Slate, Salon, the Huffington Post, the Hindustan Times, the Chicago Tribune Magazine and Crain's Chicago Business, where he was on staff for two years.
His work and travels have taken him to over 35 countries, and he's reported from India, China, Chile, Cyprus, Burkina Faso, Ghana and Indonesia, working on everything from articles about United Airlines in Beijing to videos about slum-dwellers in New Delhi.
He's currently a multimedia correspondent and Senior Video Producer for GlobalPost.com, an international news site. His video work for GP has been featured on both the PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as well as Worldfocus, the PBS global-affairs show. He oversees GlobalPost's international roster of video journalists and produces the site's two video series: "StreetLife" and "On Location," which was a Webby finalist in 2010 in only its first year of existence. He also develops content for GlobalPost's broadcast-TV partners, including PBS.
He's won two journalism awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW), the most prominent business association in the U.S. His first was for "In-depth reporting" for a Crain's section called "Enter the Dragon: Doing Business in China," which sent him to Beijing and Hong Kong to chronicle the market entry strategies of Hyatt, United Airlines and a $2 billion private-equity firm.
He was the co-creator, co-producer, shooter and editor of "Entrepreneurs in Action" for Crain's. The series won a SAWBEW in 2009 for "Online Reports," which recognizes excellence in video storytelling.
He was a frequent contributor to the Chicago Tribune Magazine. One of his cover stories chronicled recruits vying to be elite Navy SEALs and in 2005 won a “Distinguished Reporting” award from the Association of Military Reporters and Editors.
He and his wife Sonya live in the Ukrainian Village in Chicago.
mscheffler at businesspov.com
773-330-9485
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Peter Scheffler
Principal
Peter Scheffler is in charge of business development and handles the financial management of BusinessPOV.com.
A member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), he has worked in the financial services industry since 1990, serving in various capacities within the Chicago futures and options exchange community.
He’s a co-founder and Managing Member of X-Change Financial Access LLC (XFA), the largest independent floor brokerage serving Chicago’s three main exchanges: the CME, the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Board Options Exchange.
Prior to starting XFA in 2001, he served as Vice President of CME trading-floor operations for BNP Paribas Brokerage Services from 1996 to 2001.
In the mid-90s, he was Vice President of equity-trading floor operations for Cargill Investor Services.
He began his career in 1990 working for International Futures and Options in various positions in the Swiss franc, German deutschmark and S&P trading pits.
He graduated from Loyola University of Chicago in 1991 with a BBA in Economics. During that stint he spent a semester studying at the John Felice Center in Rome.
He received an MBA from Depaul University in 2001.
pscheffler at businesspov.com 312-399-8295