George Falardeau

George Falardeau is the Executive Director and CEO of Pasadena Media, the nonprofit that has overseen Pasadena's public, educational, and government access channels since 1983. He came to the role in October 2016 after a career that crossed broadcast television, higher education administration, and deep civic engagement in Pasadena - a combination that made him a natural fit for an institution that sits at the intersection of all three.

Earlier in his career, George worked at NBC-TV in Burbank, where he received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Technical Direction and Camera Work, along with eleven additional nominations in the same category. He went on to spend more than two decades as Senior Vice President for Real Estate and Operations at ArtCenter College of Design, where he helped expand the college's footprint along Raymond Avenue. He studied radio and television at Orange Coast College, graduating in 1972, and later attended the USC Managerial Policy Institute and Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, where he studied crisis leadership in higher education. He is a veteran of the United States Coast Guard. George's civic roots in Pasadena run long.

He served as Board Chair and President of the Pasadena Community Access Corporation from 2014 to 2015, before returning as the organization's chief executive two years later. He is a former Board Chair of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Pasadena Rotary Club, a past President of the Kiwanis Club of Pasadena, and a member of the Southern California Gas Company Community Advisory Committee. At Pasadena Media, he has continued steering the organization through its strategic planning, community engagement, and the ongoing work of keeping four local television channels useful and open to the people they were built to serve.