Michael Hoff is President & Executive Producer of Hoff Productions. An Emmy-award winning producer, writer, and director for more than 25 years, Hoff's proven successes in creating highly-rated programming include Animal Planet’s Weird, True & Freaky, National Geographic Channel's Hooked: Monster Fish, Investigation Discovery’s Extreme Forensics, and WEtv’s Chain Gang Girls. In 2008, Michael Hoff Productions was selected as one of Realscreen magazine’s “Global 100” – a list of the top 100 independent production companies in the world.

Since launching Michael Hoff Productions in 1993, Hoff and his team have developed and produced more than 500 hours of programming for 20 broadcast and cable networks including Discovery Channel, Fox Television Studios, National Geographic Channel, HGTV, TLC, History Channel, Travel Channel, and TV One.

Hoff marks his time teaching radio and television production in West Africa as the transformative event that focused him towards pursuing his dream of making non-fiction television. The experience inspired Hoff to develop and produce impactful and entertaining shows about real people. Hoff continued his career at San Francisco’s CBS affiliate KPIX-TV. As Show Producer of Mac and Mutley and Executive Producer of Evening Magazine, Hoff established the foundation that would launch his independent production business.