H Schuster

HUSSLUP Founder + CEO H Schuster is a senior media executive with more than 20 years of experience producing TV and leading divisions at major media companies and startups. She founded HUSSLUP to democratize and diversify access to the entertainment industry by connecting millions of creatives worldwide to each other and to the companies that need to staff them. The company’s mission is to transform Hollywood’s old clique with one click. HUSSLUP is a Techstars NBCU Comcast LIFT Labs alum and is venture-backed. 

Prior to HUSSLUP, she served as the CCO who scaled Detour, a location-aware podcasting company that was one of Apple’s Top 10 Apps in 2016 and sold to Bose. She opened the LA office, scaled a global team of 50 producers, closed content deals with Airbnb and Nike, and worked closely with the product and engineering teams to launch the app. She also oversaw marketing and PR.

Before moving into tech, Schuster was Founder + CEO of Morocco Junction Entertainment, a production company financed by All3Media. She built a slate of global unscripted formats and oversaw creative development and production for projects at Discovery, TLC, Lifetime, History, Spike, MTV and Animal Planet, including executive producing “Abby’s Studio Rescue” for Lifetime and creating series “Tabatha’s Life Takeover” for Bravo. She also provided strategic and content consulting to major production companies and individual producers.

Earlier, Schuster headed unscripted television for premier production companies and studios, including Ryan Seacrest Productions, Reveille, and Shine America, and she produced series for Mark Burnett Productions, Warner Brothers, NBC, ABC, and others. Schuster has shepherded high profile hits including the Kardashian franchises, “The Biggest Loser,” “MasterChef,” “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” and others. During her career, she has worked closely with A-list talent and with numerous Fortune 100 companies to integrate their brands into television and digital content.

H started her career at New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theater, and New Dramatists, helping to develop “Rent” and “Angels in America,” among other shows. She also taught dramatic literature, writing, and other courses to graduate and undergraduate students at NYU  for eight years.

Schuster earned a PhD in Performance Studies at NYU and attended Stanford Law School. She served multiple terms on the Outfest Board of Directors, was a founding member of Chief, and is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Television Academy, and Women in Film. She has moderated panels around the globe for organizations and conferences such as SXSW and Realscreen. She lives in LA with her wife, daughter, mom, and small dog named Spartacus.