Apogee Opens Headquarters in London and Los Angeles to Oversee Expansion of its Programs in Europe and Asia and its Growing Media & Entertainment Activities

The Apogee Foundation, an international nonprofit dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts, has opened offices in Soho and Beverly Hills to facilitate expansion of its programs throughout Eurasia and its increasing activities in the media and talent industries.

London and Los Angeles (PRWeb) June 27, 2006 -- The Apogee Foundation today announced that the opening of its European Headquarters in England and its Pacific Headquarters in California. These offices will be located at CountyMark House, 50 Regent Street in London and 9595 Wilshire Boulevard in the Beverly Hills "Golden Triangle": in the heart of the world's media & entertainment capitals. For more information on these headquarters as well as Apogee's bureaus around the world, please refer to the Foundation's website: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/contact/index.php

Apogee President Kenneth Schneider will head the Foundation's Headquarters in Europe, and Apogee's Senior Vice President Camran N. Shafii will head the Foundation's Pacific Headquarters. For more information on Apogee's management structure and global network of representatives, please see: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/people/representatives.php

During its ten years of operations, Apogee has become a global force in developing and fulfilling the potential of the world's most talented performing artists. In fulfilling this mission, the Foundation has necessarily become increasingly involved in the motion picture, recording and talent industries. The Foundation will enjoy the use of these world class facilities rent free thanks to its developing collaboration with Aurience Ltd., an industry leader in East-West media and culture. The opening of these two headquarters in the world's media & entertainment capitals thus enables Apogee to provide maximum benefits to its growing constituencies of benefactors and beneficiaries while sustaining its record of maximum financial efficiency.

For more information on Apogee's activities in production, management, consulting and other services relating to the advancement of excellence in the performing arts around the world and overlapping with leaders in the media & entertainment industries, please see: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/productions.php , http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/consulting.php , http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/management.php , and http://www.apogeefoundation.org/programs/services.php

Apogee also announced today that, to further support its expansion throughout Eurasia and to welcome its increasingly international constituencies, it will in the course of the coming year make Foundation materials available in the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Swedish and Ukrainian. This multilingual presentation project will be overseen by John H. Silva, Apogee's Regional Representative for New England and a member of the Foundation's Advisory Council. For more information on Apogee's Advisory Council, please see: http://www.apogeefoundation.org/people/advisors.php

Apogee President Kenneth Schneider said: "Apogee's dynamic expansion around the globe demonstrates the power of our constituencies' potential being unleashed on the world stage. We dedicate these headquarters and the work they enable us to carry out to the thousands of gifted artists who fulfill mankind's greatest vision of itself. On behalf of the entire Apogee family, it is our privilege to serve them and all humanity in this way."

To view this news release with full photographic content as well as in printer friendly format, and to obtain translations into other languages as they become available, please refer to the Foundation's website: http://www.ApogeeFoundation.org/awareness/2005-2006/london_los_angeles.php

About The Apogee Foundation ®

Now beginning its second decade of operations, Apogee is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the development of human excellence in the performing arts. The Foundation provides financial, preparatory, and promotional support to help gifted artists achieve their full potential and to showcase this potential on the world stage.

About Aurience Limited (SM)

Aurience is an international media & technology consulting firm focused on developing new levels of East-West and economic-creative synergy, with particular strengths in facilitating emerging-mature market transactions and relationships. In addition to providing consulting services for the media & entertainment and interactive technologies industries, Aurience also manages the interpenetration of these industries with philanthropic and cultural programs around the world.

Contact

Camran N. Shafii, Senior Vice President

The Apogee Foundation

1001 Avenue of the Americas, 12th Floor

New York, NY 10018-5460

The United States of America

+1.646.224.6960 or +1.888.APOGEE.8

Fax: +1.646.292.5101

www.ApogeeFoundation.org

Kenneth Schneider, President & CEO

Aurience Ltd.

CountyMark House

50 Regent Street

London W1B 5RD England

Tel: +44.(0)20.7870.3990

Fax: +44.(0)20.7990.9966

www.AurienceMedia.com

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