About
Mission Statement
SaVoa’s mission is to establish and maintain an accreditation program for voice over artists, and to support continuing education for the advancement of the voice over industry.
Organization and Membership
SaVoa Incorporated is a not-for-profit corporation based in North Carolina. Your membership in SaVoa depends on your successful completion of the peer review process. It tells your clients that you meet or exceed established standards for vocal delivery (performance and technique) and technical delivery (audio quality and technique), and that you conduct business in a manner that enhances the voice over community as a whole.
SaVoa does not and cannot provide the services offered by AFTRA, SAG, ACTRA, EQUITY or any other union. It is not intended to replace or compete with these fine organizations. Similarly, these unions do not provide the specific support and services offered by SaVoa to voice over artists.
Although the Board of Directors of SaVoa and its supporting members are located throughout the United States, Canada and in Denmark. SaVoa currently conducts business only in English for English-speaking voice talent. This is a temporary limitation of the organization and is not meant to exclude voice over artists providing services in other languages. As SaVoa’s peer review roster grows to include speakers of other languages, we expect to expand our accreditation program accordingly.
Read our FAQ. Learn more about SaVoa’s goals, peer review and accreditation criteria. Apply today to become a member of the fastest growing organization in the voice over industry.
Ed Gambill – Ed is a media producer with a background in radio and television advertising as well as acting. He currently produces “Jazz Out of The Mainstream,” a jazz program featuring unsigned artists and airing on WFDD, a public radio station in Winston-Salem NC. Ed is the chair of SaVoa’s board of directors. He, along with others, saw the need for an organization dedicated solely to enhancing the voice over profession. As a member of several organizations that were guild-like in structure, Ed drew upon what he learned to help organize SaVoa for the benefit of the voice over community.
Robert Jadah — After thirty years as a television, stage, and movie actor, Robert moved into voiceover twelve years ago. In addition to having movie credits at IMDb.com, his radio imaging is now heard in England, the UK, Canada, Chile, and Australia. In addition to having many interactive voice roles, he currently plays the evil Ganondorf in Zelda Re-Orchestrated, and is heard on television ads in Canada, Norway, and the U.S.
Kathleen “Kat” Keesling – Kat began in voice over with her first IVR assignment for a telephone banking set-up in 1995. She is a full-time voice talent, recording from 7,000 feet in southwest Colorado. Kat has over 19 years of training experience as well as advanced training in “Train the Trainer” techniques. Kat has successfully instructed students in telephone etiquette, customer service standards and excellence, various software instruction, and banking policy and regulation refresher coursework. Kat also brings a strong operations and management background in medical, banking, and retail. She has special industry experience and competence in Private Sector business with the US and Canadian government and military. Kat incorporates her experience and training to voice work. She has recorded medical and technical narratives and e-learning, as well as web presentations, direct response (short form), television and radio commercials, podcasts, and telephone/IVR recordings.
Scott Pollak – Scott R. Pollak is a veteran broadcast professional who began his career in New Orleans in 1975 while receiving his BA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Over the years Scott worked at numerous radio stations as on-air host, music director, and creative services director (production manager). He also managed a video production department for BellSouth for 10 years, from 1980-1990.
Scott has been a successful freelance voice talent for the past 6 years, while continuing to provide part-time on-air and production work for 104.7 The Fish in Atlanta, 92.5 The Bear (Griffin, GA), and WABE-FM (Atlanta’s National Public Radio affiliate). He has voiced national pieces for the United Way of Illinois, the Boys and Girls Clubs of California, the World Boxing Hall of Fame, American Royal Arts, the Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham, and many more. He also specializes in voicing e-learning projects and has voiced hundreds of hours of tutorials for numerous e-learning producers, whose end clients have included Barrett Firearms, Xilinx computer chips, Embraer Aircraft, and the Atlanta Sleep Study Center. Scott works from his professional in-home studio in an Atlanta suburb. Learn more and hear samples at: VoicebyScott.com
Nikki Saco — Nikki began her voice over career doing children’s narration in the 1980’s and was an acting student of the legendary stage and screen director, Joshua Logan. She is a bilingual voice actor fluent in English and Spanish. She has clients in Europe and the Americas, and has voiced for TV, radio, the web, children’s narration, numerous corporate and medical presentations, and other projects. Last year, Nikki provided character narration in the Marco-Relli documentary Not for Sale: the Return of the Global Slave Trade. She is based in South Florida. For more about Nikki, please visit NikkiSaco.com.
Erik Sheppard — Erik is a full time, non-union voice talent from New York with over 10 years experience in the industry. He has been the voice of thousands of projects ranging from business presentations to national television campaigns and is currently the exclusive male voice for many of the most prestigious IVR, corporate and commercial production houses nationwide. Erik also runs his own audio production house on Long Island which provides voice over services to clients across the globe. More information about him can be found at VoiceTalentProductions.com.
Thom Wilkins – Thom Wilkins is a voice-over talent and well traveled storyteller with over 30 years experience in broadcasting and multi-media development and public speaking. He started in broadcasting at the age of 16 as a licensed broadcast engineer (First Class Radiotelephone License) and has worked in AM, and FM, in Country, Easy Listening and Progressive Rock formats and in Commercial Television. He has also designed and managed multinational corporate interactive satellite television networks. Thom has been on-air talent, announcer, director, editor, producer, and manager of several multi-media production groups. Thom holds an MBA and is currently focused on voice-over full time from his private professional ISDN studio located in Columbus, Georgia. More information including demos and current clients can be found at ThomWilkins.com.
