Tom Skinner is Executive Producer of all Free To Choose Media productions.  He also served as Developer and Co-Writer of The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman.

Tom is an award-winning television and film Executive with over 30 years of experience in public and commercial television. He is an experienced innovator and administrator with a solid academic background and extensive national production credentials.

From 1970 through 1993 Tom Skinner served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of QED Communications in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in 1993 he joined Resolution Productions in Burlington Vermont where he created several series for TBS, A&E and Discovery including Pirate Tales, Floating Palaces, California and the Dream Seekers, The Story of Money, Battleship, and The Secret World of Air Freight.

Tom taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at San Diego State University. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including four national “Emmy” awards, three Peabody Awards, A Dupont/Columbia Award and was Director of the Academy Award winning film Journey Into Self.

Tom holds a BA in Speech and Education from the State University of New York Fredonia, and a MA and Ph.D. in Communications and Theatre from the University of Michigan. He and his wife Beth Burroughs Skinner have three children and six grandchildren.