Mason Media is a TV, film, and podcast production company co-founded by Alex Rodriguez, Marc Lore, and CEO Nora Ali. Mason Media is the leader in powerful stories that center around business and innovation, while elevating historically overlooked voices. Specializing in compelling content at the intersection of the founding team's areas of expertise – business, sports & entertainment, entrepreneurship, and forward-thinking – Mason Media focuses on premium formats, docuseries, documentary features, and IP-driven scripted content, produced for broadcast, streaming, and digital buyers. In addition to premium long-form content, Mason Media's branded content studio serves as a bespoke production hub for startups, venture firms, corporations, and other brand clients.
A “mason” is a builder who lays the foundation, and we believe deeply in enabling a more diverse landscape of storytellers by providing that foundational access to others. Mason Media actively seeks out and promotes communities that have historically been excluded within the media landscape.
With combined experience building multi-billion-dollar companies and producing content for every major platform, the Mason Media team has a unique combination of deep industry expertise, plus the benefit of being “outside thinkers” who are willing to challenge the status quo.
Meet The Team
Nora Ali
CEO & Co-Founder
With a degree in Statistics and Quantitative Finance from Harvard, Nora began her career at Goldman Sachs advising institutional investors, including in media & entertainment transactions. She then helped build and launch e-commerce company Jet.com as an early member of the marketing and product teams, seeing the company through its $3.3 billion acquisition by Walmart. She took her Wall Street and startup-building experiences to journalism as an on-air anchor & host across Cheddar and Morning Brew (where she hosted the Brew's flagship Business Casual podcast), specializing in tech, business, and entertainment news. At Cheddar, Nora also co-created & produced several specialty series centering inclusion & innovation. Nora is a child of Bangladeshi immigrants, and a proud Minnesotan now living in New York City. She is an award-winning violinist and pianist, having frequently performed the national anthem on violin at MLB games, appearing as a soloist with several professional orchestras, and making her Carnegie Hall debut in 2023.
Alex Rodriguez
Co-Founder
Alex is a businessman and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of A-Rod Corp, a broad-based investment firm that bets on world-class startups and partners with leading global companies across the real estate, health and wellness, technology, and sports & entertainment industries. While best known as one of the world's greatest athletes (a 14x MLB All-Star and a 2009 World Series Champion with the New York Yankees) for more than 25 years, Alex leads a team of experts building high-growth businesses and is co-owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA Lynx.
Marc Lore
Co-Founder
Marc is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Wonder Group, a company that is revolutionizing the food industry by creating a collection of vertically-integrated, delivery-first restaurants and pioneering a new category of “Fast Fine” dining. Lore is also an NBA owner having purchased the Minnesota Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx in Spring 2021 with his friend and business partner, Alex Rodriguez. Prior to this, Lore started and sold four companies, most recently, Jet.com which was acquired by Walmart in 2016 for $3.3 billion. Until 2021, Lore served as the president and CEO of Walmart U.S. eCommerce.
Dana Z. Currier
Chief Operating Officer
Before joining Mason, Dana was the Senior Vice President of Operations at Westbrook Media, a subsidiary of Westbrook Global Inc. focused on short and long non-scripted content, as well as brand and social media management. In this role Dana was responsible for managing a diverse team of over 40 professionals across various business units, ensuring efficient and profitable performance for the media subsidiary while growing to a $40+ million revenue business in under four years. She provided oversight to multiple verticals including Business Affairs/Production Legal, Production, Post-Production, Finance/Accounting and Client Services. Prior to Westbrook, Dana served as the Director of Production for CNN Development, Original Series & CNN Films. She played a vital role in the CNN Program Development Group, overseeing production on a wide range of critically acclaimed and award-winning shows and films, including "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," "RBG," "Three Identical Strangers," and "This is Life with Lisa Ling," among others. In her non-professional life, Dana likes to sometimes pretend she's a designer along-side her actual interior designer husband, Dan, and gracefully stumbles her way through parenthood to their little boy, Benson.
Amanda McPhillips
SVP of Development
Amanda began her career at MTV where she worked on live events and series spanning VMAs, artist specials and daily live programming. After a stint in daytime syndication on the Harpo/Sony-produced Nate Berkus Show she took over Development at Embassy Row Productions. There she was responsible for developing, showrunning and Executive Producing projects for Netflix, CBS, AMC, CNN, Tru, Lifetime, VH1, E!, Discovery, TLC, USA, and Bravo. She has since worked with companies including UCP, Anonymous Content, Den of Thieves, STX, Main Event, and Sirens on projects spanning syndication, broadcast, cable, streaming, and audio. And while producing video content for a Presidential campaign was a career highlight, her greatest challenge and highest achievement is managing the daily disorganized chaos of two boys under the age of five.