Michael Cappozzo

Director of Media Services

A love of storytelling keeps the fire burning for Michael, and his role as Director of Media Services for Strategia fits him like a baseball glove.

For over 20 years, he has worn just about every hat in broadcast television. For the longest time, Michael’s only goal was to roam centerfield on the South Side for his beloved White Sox. When his baseball career didn’t pan out, he decided the best way to the field was to become a sports journalist. 

 Michael's college education sparked his creative nerve. Creative writing and framing shots with a camera became a second language. He cut his teeth in television by being willing to take jobs in small markets such as Bismarck, North Dakota, and South Bend, Indiana. Crafting his skills and making small market mistakes gave Michael his homecoming shot in Chicago. In 2004 he applied for a job at a new start-up called Comcast SportsNet. The woman who interviewed him was their newly hired executive producer Lissa Druss. She hired Michael on the spot and thus began a decades-long friendship and collaboration. 

At Comcast SportsNet, Michael thrived. Together with Lissa and other amazing colleagues, the two produced several Emmy award-winning stories. Although she left the company, Lissa occasionally hired Michael for freelance work. Meanwhile, if it happened in Chicago sports, Michael was there, and he had a hell of a run as a journalist: a White Sox and a Cubs World Series win each, a Bears Super Bowl appearance, and three Blackhawks Stanley Cup Championships. Michael also crisscrossed North America, covering hundreds of regular-season and All-Star games while constantly sharpening his shooting, producing, and editing skills. 

With the pandemic raging, the company did Michael a favor by letting him go to pursue other passions. Feeling burnt out, he needed out of the sports world. After an 18-month stint with WGN-TV as a videographer and editor, Michael and his wife decided to pull up their stakes and head off on a new adventure: resettling in the “Great White North” of Vancouver in beautiful British Columbia, Canada. Unsure of what to do next with his career, his friend and collaborator reached out to him. Lissa needed some editing done, and after only a few months, he accepted his position with Strategia.

Michael earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Columbia College in Chicago.