About VOD Cars

Derek "Derek D" DeAngelis, host of Fast Lane Daily, is an actor/comedian/host from New Jersey. He's been in national commercials, tv shows, films, print ads, and worked with many celebrities. Derek D. has done stand-up at some of the top comedy clubs in NYC & NJ, and hosted numerous shows & events around the country. You may have seen him on MTV, Lifetime, Oxygen, featured on Yahoo!, YouTube, MySpace, etc. He's pretty much an internet whore, just minus the whole porn thing. Derek D. walked in over two years ago to audition for Fast Lane Daily, and is still the funnyman host you've grown to love or love to make fun of. Right now, he would rather be eating filet mignon in his movie trailer with Megan Fox, but he'll settle for a Pork Roll, Egg, & Cheese and a Jersey Girl.

Ian Jenkins is a cameraman, photographer and editor. Currently he lives in Brooklyn, NY. After being undecided as to what to do in life, his path lead to video and photography, mostly because it was easy. He doesn't really have any skill, just enough ADHD and OCD to make it work. He's currently the editor for Fast Lane Daily, and does some camera operation when necessary.

Fast Lane Daily's supervising producer / promotions producer / very occasional host Alan Kaufman has worked in every aspect of film and television for nearly 30 years. He started out as a sound recordist in Adult Cinema, made and appeared in television commercials, produced recruiting films for the military and was a long-standing member of Nickelodeon's production department. He left traditional media in fall 2006 for the Digital World. He see the progression from Porn to Internet Television as a natural, almost poetic progression. He lives in NYC with his long-suffering wife, 2 kids, 2 cats, and ton of squirrels, who appear in many of his promos.

Next New Network's Automotive producer and editor J.F. Musial has grown into the miserable life of having two letters for a first name. He started his career by working in the engineering divisions of the the highway authority in the New York City area. When bridge inspections turned boring, J.F. went on to be a freelance automotive journalist and photographer. Such a move resulted in J.F. getting involved with planning illegal cross country races with Alex Roy. In 2006 after working with the team that set a world record of driving from New York to Los Angeles in just over 31 hours, J.F. was recruited to build automotive content at Next New Networks. On the side, J.F. acts as a supportive role for Team Polizei in the Grand-Am racing series and is an active member of the Princeton Mime Company.

FLD's Production Coordinator, Donny Nordlicht, has been coordinating cars since his feet could reach the pedals. Starting by arranging his friends' cars in his driveway, he now makes sure the Next New Networks Automotive machine runs as smoothly as possible. Joining the Automotive Team originally as an intern in 2007, he hasn't looked back. In fact, Donny's enthusiasm for all things auto has picked up and taken over his entire career path, leading him to become the Rye Record's car columnist, and Contributing Editor and Manager of Operations for GayWheels.com. He hails from Rye, New York, where he can still be found sitting on the same rock eating blue ice cream while he watches all the cars drive by.

FLD writer and creative director of automotive at Next New Networks, Mike Spinelli's served the dual masters of the internet and cars for more than a decade. In 2004, he left a career in dot-com and IT market research to launch New York-based automotive website Jalopnik.com for Gawker Media. He left the top job at Jalopnik in 2007 to sleep late and eat risotto, while recuperating from the perils of blogging for a living. Since then, Spinelli has written on automotive topics for Wired, Popular Science, Maxim, Performance Car, and Outside magazines. He is currently contributing senior editor of 0-60, and a regular contributor to Popsci.com. He lives in New Rochelle, New York, where the rubber meets the road. Right now, he would rather be geeking out on Can-Am racing, dekotora trucks and vintage Group B rally footage.