William Nix, Chairman, Creative Projects Group® is a Producer with extensive experience in the entertainment, media, sports, and intellectual property fields. He is a member of the Producer's Council of the PGA, a founding member of its Social Impact Entertainment Task Force and a member of its CultureSHIFT Task Force initiative. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the AMPAS Grants Committee, as well as the Television Academy. Will served as Co-Chair of Baker Botts' Entertainment, Media and Sports Practice Group, as VP of Legal and Business Affairs for NBA Properties, and as COO of the MPAA's global Content Protection Group. With Producer Salma Hayek, he served as Executive Producer of an animated feature film based on Kahlil Gibran's iconic work, The Prophet, written and directed by Roger Allers (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin). Among its ten award nominations were three 2015 Annie-Nominations and inclusion in the Oscars Animated Feature Film Nomination Short List. His recent projects include two documentary features: Power, about access to the global and local energy systems, and a historical overview of an important era of American musical and cultural history entitled This is Ragtime: The Birth of American Music. He is also producing a dramatic biographical feature entitled Gibran, a dramatic television series entitled The Black Fives, based on the pre-NBA stories of professional African-American basketball teams, and a feature film about the legendary 1948 Chicago challenge match between the Harlem Globetrotters and the Minneapolis Lakers. His work involves both traditional media and multiple content delivery platforms, technologies and genres. He is a former Advisory Board member of the Austin Film Festival, and currently an Advisory Board member of Journeys in Film, a non-profit organization that develops and produces innovative curriculum, discussion guide and other educational materials for teachers/students to use in order to support the reach, understanding and legacy of films and television programs.