BAM! Body, Mind and Child is a joint venture between Moving & Learning, an early childhood education consultancy based in Barnstead, New Hampshire and Jackstreet Media Ventures, a new media firm based in Los Angeles, California.

Management Team:

Rae Pica
Co-founder of BAM Radio Network

Rae Pica is co-founder of BAM Radio Network and an internationally recognized educational consultant specializing in early childhood physical activity. Rae has consulted on various projects including work for the Sesame Street Research Department, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, Gymboree, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae's early childhood insights have been featured in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Child, Family Fun, and Parents Magazine; and in e-zines including ePregnancy.com and iParenting.com. As founder and director of Moving & Learning, Rae has been working in the field of early childhood for 29 years.

The author of 18 books for early childhood professionals and parents, Rae contends she has a "writing disease" but suspects there are worse addictions. Her works include the textbook Experiences in Movement, currently in its 4th edition; the award-winning Great Games for Young Children and Jump into Literacy: Active Learning for Preschoolers, and A Running Start: How Play, Physical Activity, and Free Time Create a Successful Child, written for the parents of children birth to eight. Rae lives with her three cats in a beautiful spot on a beautiful lake in Center Barnstead, New Hampshire.

Holly Hagler
Vice President, Business Development

Holly Hagler serves as Vice President, Business Development and Segment Producer with BAM Radio Network and Jackstreet Media Ventures. Holly's experience spans operations and financial management, strategic planning, business development and marketing.

Prior to Jackstreet Media, Holly was an officer and senior operating executive for a global organization with extensive media, direct mail and Internet marketing functions. Before that, she was a partner with a publicly-traded international professional services firm with responsibilities for business development and client service, global account management, and financial management.

Earlier, Holly was with a major management consulting firm where she conducted strategy and marketing engagements for client companies and also was as a product manager with a multi-national technology services company. Holly earned her MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and completed her undergraduate work at the University of California, Irvine. She makes her home in Southern California with her husband, teen-age daughter and two dogs.

Errol Smith
Director of Business Strategy and Communications

Errol Smith manages the company's communications and programming. Smith is co-founder of the BAM Radio Network and CEO of Jackstreet Media Ventures a leading new media company specializing in combining traditional broadcasting with new media technology.

An 18-year veteran of the media industry, Errol has authored four books, written for the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, and spent three years as a popular radio talk show host at KIEV in Los Angeles. Errol worked for seven years as an "on air" political commentator and co-hosted the Emmy Award-winning program, Life and Times, on PBS television. An accomplished broadaster, Smith is very experienced in the nuances of compelling information programming and has 5 Emmy nominations and one Emmy Award to his credit.

On the business side, Errol brings more than two decades of successes in business, start-up ventures, traditional media, e-commerce and business development to the BAM! management team. When not deeply emmersed in new media ventures, Smith challenges the natural world surrounding him as a private pilot and yachtsman.

Smith is married with one daughter, and lives between Los Angeles and an island in the Caribbean. Oh by the way, Errol Smith went to Harvard. Well... actually, he was invited to speak there once but really learned a lot from the experience :)