Michael Hoff is President & Executive Producer of Hoff Productions. An Emmy-award winning producer, writer, and director for more than 30 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. For three consecutive years Hoff Productions has been selected by Realscreen magazine and included in their “Global 100” – a list of the top 100 independent production companies in the world.

Since launching Hoff Productions in 1993, Hoff and his team have developed and produced more than 700 hours of programming for dozens of broadcast and cable networks including Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, Animal Planet, History Channel, Investigation Discovery, WEtv, Weather Channel, Fine Living Network, Military Channel, FOX, TLC, TruTV, Science Channel, Discovery Health Channel, TV One, Travel Channel, PBS, Speed Channel, NGC Wild and HGTV.

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 the Executive Producer of Evening Magazine and Show Producer of Mac & Mutley, Hoff established the foundation that would launch his independent production business.