HOST BIOS

• Lisa Ronis
• Michael Eckford

Lisa Ronis

Lisa Ronis is one of New York City's most accomplished and celebrated matchmakers. She specializes in introducing singles who are too busy to meet the right people on their own. She has a knack for meeting fabulous, smart, attractive mates for her clients and an innate ability to analyze their compatibility. This has resulted in many committed relationships and marriages.

Ronis received a B.A. of Fine Arts from Hunter College, with additional courses from Parsons School of Design and fashion Institute of Technology. She then entered the fashion business where she held many executive positions, her last being Vice President of Design for Fashion Accessories at Liz Claiborne. Deciding to pursue her passion for meeting and matching the right people, she left the fashion industry to found Lisa Ronis Personal Matchmaking.

In addition to her matchmaking services, Lisa hosts "meet and greet" workshops for singles at the Learning Annex. Topics include "How To Make Any Man Fall For You" and "How To Find A Husband If You Are Over 35."

Lisa has appeared on "Good Morning America", "Dateline ABC", "Channel 7 Eyewitness News" and the Metro Channel's "To Live and Date in New York", "The Radio Chick" and "Naked New York". Lisa also makes regular radio appearances. She has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, USA Today, The Daily News, Cosmopolitan, Marie Clare and New York Magazine.

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Michael Eckford

Michael Eckford is a talented, popular and engaging television personality whose career has included the award winning shows Daytime, Urban Rush, and Breakfast Television. It was on Vancouver's Channel Four that he got his big break, appearing six times a day as co-host (with Fiona Forbes) of Urban Rush. One of his favorite on-air moments was an interview with Quiet Riot (where he sang back-up vocals on "Come On Feel The Noise" very poorly).

After a year at CityTV, Eckford and Forbes returned to host Urban Rush, in its new state-of-the-art downtown studios. The daily interview show has won several awards and has given Eckford a local celebrity status. He is a master interviewer with a charming presence, allowing him to engage people at a very personal level. Some of the well-known personalities among the ten thousand interviews Michael has conducted include Kevin Bacon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lord Richard Attenborough and Judy Blume.

In addition to his award winning hosting Eckford has done extensive voice over work and acted as Master of Ceremonies for many charitable events and high profiles awards shows, including the Leo Awards, a celebration of British Columbia Film & Television accomplishments.

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