A Los Angeles native and graduate of UC Berkeley and the Yale School of Management, Gail Katz began her producing career working hand-in-hand with director Wolfgang Petersen on such feature film blockbusters as In the Line of Fire, Outbreak, and The Perfect Storm. Ms. Katz went on to found her own production company, Gail Katz Productions, which parlayed her life experience as a businesswoman into the 2008 television series "Cashmere Mafia".