Program and Speakers

Mr. Adelson is Houlihan Lokey’s Co-President and is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. He is also the Global Co-head of Corporate Finance. His practice embraces all aspects of corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and the issuance of debt and equity capital. Mr. Adelson has been with the firm for more than 25 years and is based in the Los Angeles office.

Before joining Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Adelson had been a serial entrepreneur and he continues to be, founding companies in various industries. He is an active board member of various public and private companies and nonprofit organizations. He is also a member of YPO/WPO.

Mr. Adelson completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Southern California and received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Russell Belinsky joined Duff & Phelps in 2006. He is a managing director and senior advisor in the Restructuring Advisory practice and based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He has more than 20 years of corporate finance and restructuring experience.

In 1990, Russell co-founded Chanin Capital Partners, a leading specialty investment banking firm, which was acquired by Duff & Phelps in 2006. Previously he was with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Russell has extensive experience in all phases of domestic and international financial restructurings and recapitalizations, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and expert testimony. Recent clients include Alliance Entertainment, Bally’s Grand, Inc., Cerplex Group, Leap Wireless, Loews Cineplex, McLeodUSA, Sunterra Corporation and United Artists.

Russell holds a JD, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center and a BS, magna cum laude, in business administration from Wayne State University.

Jeff Berman is an experienced media executive and attorney. He is currently Executive In Residence at Greylock Partners, one of the oldest venture capital firms (founded 1965), with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management.

Jeff started his career in law, politics, and policy, before moving into operational roles at the intersection of media and technology. He worked as Staff Attorney & Title XVI Attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, before joining the staff of Sen. Chuck Schumer and the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight & Courts as Chief Counsel/Staff Director for four years. He concurrently served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.

Jeff then transitioned into the media sphere, first serving a number of senior management roles at MySpace.com including President, Sales & Marketing. He next spent three years at the National Football League as GM, NFL Digital Media, before becoming President of Whalerock Industries, an independent media/technology company which creates, produces and distributes premium content and brands across the media landscape.

Jeff received his BA in Government from Connecticut College and his JD from Yale Law School.

A successful entrepreneur for two decades, Stacy Blackman has a proven track record, having founded and sold her first company, WebWisher.com, in 1999. During this time, Fortune Magazine chronicled Stacy’s career for a span of nearly two years, running stories about her in several issues and featuring her on their cover in May of 2000. WebWisher is now part of The Knot, a publicly traded company.

Stacy earned her BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

After graduating from the Wharton School, Stacy began working in private equity at the Prudential Capital Group in San Francisco. She then went on to earn her MBA at Kellogg.

Following business school, she tapped into her flair for invention and began building businesses, launching WebWisher, evaluating businesses as a Resident Entrepreneur at idealab! and eventually launching Stacy Blackman Consulting, the leading admissions consulting advisory.

Since 2000, Mr. Bronson has been the Chairman of The Bronson Companies, LLC, a real estate development, investment and advisory company based in Beverly Hills, California. For over thirty years, Mr. Bronson has been involved in the development of myriad commercial properties throughout the United States.

Mr. Bronson serves as a Director of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), the largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust in the United States. He is also a Director of Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, a REIT focused on the acquisition of commercial properties in The US and Europe.

Additionally he is a board member at Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH). Based in Dallas, TX the company is the largest owner of single‑family homes in America.

Previously he was the President of New City Development, an affiliate of Mirage Resorts, where he oversaw the company’s new business initiatives and activities outside of Nevada. He was also a Director of Mirage Resorts and a former Director of TRI Pointe Group, Inc. (NYSE: TPH, a homebuilder based in Irvine, California.

He has also served as a Trustee and Vice President of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), an association representing 70,000 industry professionals in more than 100 countries.

Mr. Bronson serves on the Board of the Neurosurgery Division at UCLA Medical Center. He is a past Trustee of The Forman School in Litchfield, CT and is a past Chairman of the Board of The Archer School for Girls in Los Angeles.

A frequent guest on CNN, CNBC, MSNBC and Bloomberg TV he is also the best-selling author of “The War at the Shore” which chronicles his story of the complexities of the development process and the battle between two of the gaming industry’s most iconic personalities, Donald Trump and Steve Wynn.

Erick Brownstein is President and Chief Strategy Officer of SHAREABILITY, the social video content company currently creating the most successful shareable video content in the world. Shareability’s last 15 videos have been shared over 8 Million times, more than the 180 top videos from AdAge’s Viral Video Leaderboard. With over 40 Global Blockbusters, Shareability created and distributed:

— The Most Shared Ad Globally, “John Cena Reacts” for Cricket Wireless. (2017)
— The Most Viewed & Shared Cause-Based Ad ever, “I Sued the School System.” (2016)
— The Most Shared Celebrity Ad Globally, “Ronaldo in Disguise.” (2015)

Erick leads the brand group, supporting companies like Pepsi, AT&T, Hyundai, Hyatt, FOX and The Olympics and global superstars like Cristiano Ronaldo, Rihanna and Leonardo DiCaprio. The company’s end-to-end solution for creating and distributing shareable video consistently drives massive awareness, engagement and measurable conversions.

Before Shareability, Erick generated millions of dollars in sales for tech startups, advised the CEOs of multi-billion dollar companies and directed international environmental and human rights campaigns. As a producer, he created and launched a Vegas show as well as the first Social Media Week in Los Angeles, a massive conference spanning multiple industries with over 80 events across the city. As the Executive Director of ThursdayNights, Silicon Beach’s premier group of decision-makers and investors in companies from Internet, Digital Media, Software, Gaming and Mobile, he helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for at-risk youth.

Back in the day, he worked with Mother Theresa at her Home for the Sick & Dying Destitute in Calcutta and now claims to be an advocate for class clowns.

As Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Cohen oversees the business activities and the strategic direction of Cohen Asset Management, a nationwide operator and value-added investor focused on the U.S. industrial real estate sector. Cohen Asset Management is guided by Mr. Cohen’s approximately 40 years of real estate experience as a hands on investor/operator who has overall responsibility for the management of the firm while serving as a member of Cohen Asset Management’s Investment Committee. Mr. Cohen previously served on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) and was a past member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). Mr. Cohen was raised in Los Angeles where he currently resides.

Ellen B. Cohen is an Entertainment Attorney, Executive and Life Coach, 500 Hr. Yoga teacher and Breathwork/Meditation instructor.

Ellen spent most of her professional career in Business Affairs at major studios (Disney, Sony, ABC Studios), networks (Disney Channel, Showtime) and talent agencies (WMA) as well as in the digital/OTT space (XBox Entertainment). She represents talent/performers, writer/producer/creators and provides Business and Legal Affairs consulting to production companies, branding/content creators and networks through her entertainment law practice, Contracts Matter. She is currently working as a consultant in Business Affairs for Sony Pictures Television. She has also consulted with Entertainment One, Blumhouse TV, Digital Kitchen and Asylum TV.

As an executive and life coach, Ellen works with senior leaders, executives and lawyers in top companies and law firms to help her clients with leadership, employee development/on boarding/engagement, corporate culture and emotional intelligence as well as many other issues. She also is a life coach working with private clients to “get unstuck” and maximize their life potential.

Ellen holds a double B.A. in Philosophy and French literature & language from Brandeis University and obtained her J.D. from Emory University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the State Bars of CA, NY, FL & GA. Ellen is also a certified 500 Hr. Yoga Teacher through Yoga Works. Ellen earned her coaching credentials and international certification from Coaches Training Institute (CPCC), and International Coach Federation (Associate Certified Coach-ACC).

Mr. Cohen joined DoubleLine’s Global Developed Credit Group in 2012. He is the Director of the group and also a permanent member of the Fixed Income Asset Allocation committee. Prior to DoubleLine, he was a Senior Credit Analyst at West Gate Horizons Advisors (and its predecessor ING Capital Advisors) where he worked as an analyst covering bank loans and high yield bonds since 2001. Prior to joining ING, Mr. Cohen was an Assistant Vice President in the Asset Management Group of Union Bank. At Union Bank, Mr. Cohen managed a diversified portfolio of leveraged loans as well as a portfolio of CDO securities. Prior to Union Bank, he was an Associate Director of Corporate and Investment Banking at the Bank of Montreal in their Natural Resources Group. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the University of Southern California. He is a CFA charterholder.

Born and raised in Chicago, IL, Janet is the seventh child of Renee and Lester Crown. After graduating from Denison University in 1985 with a degree (B.A.) in history, she went on to receive her graduate degree (M.S.) from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, IL.

In 1993, Ms. Crown relocated to Los Angeles, CA, and joined CAA (Creative Artists Agency), to expand the commercial and sponsorship division. In 1995, she became a Vice President of Client Services at Focus Media in Santa Monica. In 2005, Ms. Crown opened one the first boutique HIIT interval training studios, Burn 60, in Brentwood. Burn 60 continues to expand in Southern California.

Ms. Crown is a board member of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), The Painted Turtle, Operation Progress LA, Lollipop Theater Network, Run to Remember, The Watts Bears, and Co-Chair of WE Day LA 2018. Ms. Crown is also involved in other leading non-profit organizations including CHLA (Children Hospital Los Angeles), Every Child Foundation, All Eagles Oscar (AEO), Jewish Graduate Student Initiative (JGSI), and the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. She is a trustee at her alma mater, Denison University, and founded the 1st US Triathlon Team for the Maccabiah Games in Israel.

Ms. Crown resides in Los Angeles with her husband, Steve Robinson, and five children. She recently completed her first in a series of children’s books.

Matt Edelman is the Chief Commercial Officer of Super League Gaming, the leading esports platform for amateur competitive gamers. Super League runs local gaming competitions and national city-vs-city tournaments enabling esports fans to join in-person branded teams and play like the pros. Matt oversees the company’s revenue, marketing, content and business development activities. Matt met the Super League team while serving as the Head of Digital Operations and Marketing Solutions for WME-IMG, where, among other responsibilities, he assisted with the formation of ELEAGUE in a joint venture with Turner.

At WME-IMG, Matt focused on three areas: digital audience and revenue growth across the company’s live events within the sports, fashion, culinary and entertainment verticals; spearheading digital consulting services offered to consumer, media and sports brands, college and university athletics programs, and talent; managing direct-to-consumer digital content businesses inclusive of two OTT properties.

Prior to joining WME-IMG, Matt was the CEO/Founder or on the executive team of multiple early stage digital media companies, after having been an entertainment industry executive responsible for helping to build Marvel Comics film and television business and launch Marvel.com. Earlier in his career, Matt was an investment banking analyst.

Matt grew up outside of New York City, graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Politics and moved to Los Angeles when he was hired by Marvel. He currently lives in Santa Monica with his wife and two children.

David J. Enzer is a Managing Director at ROTH Capital Partners, LLC and helps manage the firm’s efforts in Technology financings and M&A’s in the Software, Semiconductor, and Infrastructure sectors. He has completed over $2.5B in transactions over his career. Prior to joining ROTH in November 2003, Mr. Enzer was a Senior Managing Director and led the Technology Investment Banking effort at EVEREN Securities, the nation’s 10th largest securities firm until their acquisition by Wachovia Securities (fka First Union). While at EVEREN, he was a member of their private equity advisory committee. Mr. Enzer graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. from the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Business School with an emphasis in Accounting and Real Estate and was also Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Gamma Sigma, and thereafter graduated cum laude with a J.D. from Hastings College of Law with an emphasis in Corporate Taxation.

Rick Farber is currently Managing Partner at McKendree Capital, an investment management company in Los Angeles. From 1995 to 2012, Mr. Farber was a Partner at Kayne Anderson Investment Advisors, also in Los Angeles, where he was a porfolio manager for alternative investments and absolute return strategies and head of trading.

Prior to Kayne Anderson, Mr. Farber was Vice President of Lehman Brothers Commodity Risk Management group, specializing in proprietary energy trading and hedging.  He was first employed at Lehman Brothers, Inc.  in 1988 as an institutional equity trader.  Mr. Farber started his career on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers, Inc. as a mortgage bond analyst.

Mr. Farber earned his MBA degree in Finance from the UCLA – Anderson School of Management in 1988. Mr. Farber graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1982 with a BA in Economics, with a focus on underdeveloped economies.

Mr. Farber has served the American Diabetes Association for the past nine years and is currently on the Executive Board of Directors and Chair of the Investment Subcommittee. He is also past Chair of the Finance Committee at the ADA as well as a member of the National Board and Pinnacle Society. Most recently, Rick was Chair of the USA Maccabi Masters Basketball team that won a bronze medal in the 2013 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Mr. Farber has also been a speaker at the first Ira Sohn Conference/ Excellence in Investing in San Francisco.

Eric Fisch is Senior Vice President and Sector Head of Apparel, Diamond and Jewelry, Commercial Banking, for HSBC Bank USA, N.A., a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HBC), one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. In this role, he oversees business development and commercial banking services for apparel, diamond and jewelry companies nationally.

A veteran retail and apparel financier, Eric Fisch has been with HSBC Bank USA NA since 2003. Originally based in New York, Eric moved to Los Angeles in 2011 to develop HSBC’s West Coast presence in the apparel industry. HSBC continues to expand its presence in the Western United States and sees Los Angeles as a key, internationally oriented market where the bank’s global footprint can add value. Over the last seven years, Eric has helped propel HSBC’s middle market lending team from a start-up to a significant contributor, building out a very sizeable apparel financing business. Eric’s national mandate allows him to develop and grow the bank’s apparel sector presence in the existing industry centers of New York and Los Angeles, as well as expand across the country.

Eric serves on the Executive Council for the City of Hope Fashion and Retail Industry Group, as well as being actively involved in several other local charities.

Eric is a graduate of Brandeis University in Waltham Massachusetts, holding a Bachelors’ degree in Economics and Politics. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.

Alexander Fragen is a television distribution executive and new media industry business consultant with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry.
Mr. Fragen currently runs an entertainment and technology consulting practice, Question Media Group, consultancy serving a diverse group of clients including private equity investors, television networks, content creators and technology companies.

Most recently, Mr. Fragen ran Global Distribution Strategy at premier global talent and literary agency UTA, which he joined in early 2014.At UTA, Fragen created distribution strategies for UTA client projects, guiding them through the growing number of revenue windows across an expanding distribution universe to investor return and consumer awareness. UTA created the role in response to the entertainment industry’s ongoing transition to a ‘content everywhere’ model and the needs of creators to exert more control over their projects through rights separation and direct distribution.

Immediately prior, Fragen served as Summit Entertainment’s President of Domestic Television Distribution, where he oversaw distribution efforts for free and pay television, video-on-demand, pay-per-view, and hotel and airline sales across the domestic territory. Fragen was also involved in developing the new media distribution strategy for Summit’s Home Entertainment division. Additionally, Mr. Fragen was a member of Summit’s nine-person green-light committee responsible for selecting films that Summit produced. He was also instrumental in the valuation and negotiation process for the successful sale of the company to Lionsgate in January 2012.

During his tenure at Summit, Fragen negotiated multiple groundbreaking Pay TV output deals and successfully executed Free TV sales including deals with all major cable television network groups. Fragen also created major studio level output deals for the newly created studio with all domestic PPV/VOD and digital distribution partners. He was instrumental in developing and executing the industry’s first day & date release strategy for theatrical films helping lead the way to changing the industry model for release timing. Additionally, he advised Summit’s corporate output partners in Canada and Latin America with regards to free television, pay television and digital distribution output deals.

Prior to joining Summit Entertainment, Mr. Fragen was at Paramount Pictures for 14 years, most recently as Senior Vice President, Domestic Television Distribution.

Ari Friedland is Head of Mobile Partnerships at Uber, having served in this role since 2014.

Before joining Uber, Ari was Head of Strategic Partnerships at Dropbox. Previously, he served as an Investment Analyst at Capital Group and an associate at The Carlyle Group and at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors.

Ari received his MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was Co-President of the MBA Student Association and Co-President of the Jewish Business Students Association. He received his Bachelor of Science from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania in Finance, Management, and Chinese. He is fluent in Hebrew, Mandarin and Spanish.

Scott Greenberg is co-founder and CEO of Bento Box Entertainment (www.bentoboxent.com), a multi Emmy® Award-winning studio that develops and produces animated content for all distribution platforms worldwide. With studios located in Burbank, North Hollywood, Atlanta and Toronto, Bento Box is recognized as the leading producer of primetime animated comedy series for broadcast, cable and digital networks. The company works with the leading networks, studios and distribution companies, including FOX Broadcasting Company, NBC, Netflix, Comedy Central, MTV, Adult Swim, HBO, HULU, IFC, Disney, 20th Century Fox Television, Sony, Lionsgate, Broadway Video, among others. Bento Box projects include: “Bob’s Burgers,” “Legends of Chamberlin Heights,” “Brickleberry,” “The Awesomes,” “Bordertown” and multiple others.

Scott is a two-time Emmy® Award-winner and a five-time Emmy® Award-nominee. Prior to Bento Box, Scott was President and Chief Operating Officer of Film Roman and Executive Vice President of Production at Starz Media. Under Greenberg’s supervision, Film Roman produced “The Simpsons,” “The Simpsons Movie,” “King of the Hill,” ”Super Hero Squad,” “The Avengers” and “X-Men Evolution” animated series and numerous other projects.

Scott is a member of the Producers Guild of America, The Television Academy and the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), and serves on the board of the Zimmer Children’s Museum of Los Angeles.

Mr. Robert E. Hart is the founder, CEO, and President of TruAmerica Multifamily and chairs the firm’s Investment Committee. Mr. Hart brings his experience and industry expertise from his 30-year career in the multifamily industry. Throughout his career, Mr. Hart has overseen the acquisition and disposition of more than $10 billion in assets across the globe.

Previously, Mr. Hart served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group from January 2000—June 2013 where he and his team acquired and sold more than 20,000 apartment units with a total transaction value of more than $4.5 billion.

Prior to his tenure at Kennedy Wilson, Mr. Hart served as a Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management for Heitman Capital Management, where he was involved in turn-around asset management and the disposition of a $500 million real estate portfolio for various pension funds, endowments and domestic & foreign lenders.

Mr. Hart holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

For over a decade, Mr. Hart has served on the Board of Directors of Chrysalis, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a pathway for homeless and low-income individuals to find and retain employment in Los Angeles. He is also a member of the National Association of Home Builders Multifamily Division Board of Directors, the National Multifamily Housing Council Board of Directors, the Urban Land Institute, the Advisory Board of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the Real Estate Investment Advisory Council.

As president of AEG/AXS TV, LLC, Charles Hirschhorn brings more than 30 years of experience in film production, television, cable, broadband, animation, and video games.

Launched in July, 2012, AXS TV partners—Mark Cuban, AEG, CAA, CBS, and Ryan Seacrest Media—are building a multi-platform video service around the live entertainment and touring business.

From 2006-2009, as chief creative officer for Retirement Living TV, Hirschhorn brought a wealth of media and communications experience to the nation’s only television network serving adults over 50.

Hirschhorn conceived G4 Television, the original and only 24/7 television network dedicated to video games in the year 2000. As CEO from 2000 to 2005, Hirschhorn developed the original channel business model, secured $150 million in financing, and oversaw the cable launch in 2002, with 12 originally produced series. In 2004, Hirschhorn managed the $300 million acquisition and integration of TechTV into G4 Television.

Prior to creating G4, Hirschhorn spent 10 years at the Walt Disney Company in various management roles in motion pictures, television, and animation. He began at Disney as VP of production helping launch Disney’s newest studio, Hollywood Pictures, and moved on to become executive VP, where he managed the development and production of more than 20 movies, including The Joy Luck Club, Quiz Show, and The Santa Clause.

Hirschhorn next took on the role of president of Disney Television and Television Animation. Responsible for more than 1,200 employees with an annual operating budget of $400 million and revenues of $800 million, Hirschhorn oversaw all live-action films airing on The Wonderful World of Disney — which he re-launched on ABC in 1997 — as well as all animated television series and theatricals for ABC, Disney Channel, Disney Video Premieres, and Movietoons. Concurrently, he served as EVP of production for the Disney Motion Pictures Group.

Before joining Disney, Hirschhorn was VP of development for Fox Broadcasting, where he helped launch the Fox Network and managed the network’s primetime programming, personally developing the Emmy Award-winning series In Living Color.

In addition, Hirschhorn is the founder of Fountain Productions, an independent production company which produces theatrical motion pictures, TV movies, and direct-to-video films. His credits include: associate producer on the film Bull Durham, executive producer on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Miracle Worker, Inspector Gadget II, and Herbie: Fully Loaded for Walt Disney Pictures

Hirschhorn earned a B.A. from Harvard College and served as an arts management fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition to a volunteer job at Chrysalis in which he offers counseling to convicted felons, he serves on the Board of Trustees at Berklee and the Office for the Arts at Harvard.

Andrew Howard is a Partner of Shamrock Capital Advisors. Mr. Howard currently serves as a director of Branded Cities, Appetize Technologies, Consilio, Questex, Mobilitie Investments III, Screenvision, Wazee Digital and oversees Shamrock’s investment in Omega Wireless. Previously, he served on the boards of K2 Towers, MarketCast, RealD, Publishing Group of America, Naylor Publications, PrimeCo Wireless, Liberation Entertainment, and BASE Entertainment and was a board observer of MetroPCS and OpNext. Mr. Howard is on the Board of Governors for the USC Annenberg School – Center for the Digital Future, the board of the Independent School Alliance and was previously on the Board of the Stanford University Alumni Association. Prior to joining Shamrock, Mr. Howard was a Vice President with Clarity Partners, a media and communications focused private equity fund.

Mr. Howard is a graduate of Stanford University.

As co-founder of global advisory firm Astor Group, Mickey Klein focuses on the food and beverage, retail and consumer sectors. With a diverse background leading and advising some of the world’s strongest consumer brands, Mickey enjoys a robust network that enables him to connect clients to partners and people around the world.

In 2015, Mickey co-founded Brooklyn Brands, which sells Ashkenazi Jewish classics such as babka, marble cake, hamantashen, rugelach and black-and-white cookies to more than 10,000 supermarkets across the United States and online.

Prior to cofounding Astor Group, Mickey served as Vice President of Business Development and Licensing for Elie Tahari, a leading designer of men’s and women’s apparel. During his tenure, Mickey helped the company triple in size and launched the Company’s menswear division into major department stores domestically and internationally.

Mickey began his professional career at Paine Webber in the retail brokerage division. Recognizing how reporting inefficiencies prevented his clients from properly managing their portfolios, Mickey cofounded an investment services firm that provided clients with access to more transparent data which he later sold to a public company. His next venture launched an ecommerce platform for the delivery of food and packaged goods within New York, provided a robust buying co-op for independent grocery markets and served leading consumer brands such as Parmalat, Nantucket Nectars, Starkist Tuna and Anheuser Busch.

Mickey serves on numerous boards of directors, is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and The Turnaround Management Association, and is frequently quoted regarding the consumer goods and luxury sectors.

Mickey immigrated to New York from the Soviet Union as a child, and is fluent in Hebrew and Yiddish. He received a BS degree with a concentration in Finance from Boston University’s School of Management.

Michael Kohn is the Executive Vice President of Business Operations and General Counsel at dick clark productions. Over his 20 years in the entertainment business, he has held network, film and tv production company positions. At DCP, in addition to business and legal affairs, he oversees human resources, clearance and archives.

Prior to DCP, Michael was Senior Vice President and General Counsel at the GSN/Game Show Network for more than eight years. Before that, he headed distribution and marketing legal for Polygram Films.
Michael started his career as a general business litigator at Paul Hastings in Los Angeles. In 1992, he segued to an in-house position at Sony Pictures Entertainment’s litigation department. His transition out of litigation came in 1996, when he moved to SPE’s television arm, Columbia Tri-Star Television.

Michael attended Franklin and Marshall College and Boston University School of Law. He resides in Malibu with his wife and three children.

Mr. Jeff Kreshek is Senior Vice President – West Coast Leasing for Federal Realty Investment Trust. In this capacity, Mr. Kreshek oversees the day to day leasing activities of the west coast portfolio. Primary responsibilities include sourcing new retailer relationships, negotiating all leases and lease related documents, and overseeing and directing third party real estate professionals.

Prior to joining Federal Realty, Mr. Kreshek was the Principal in charge of leasing for The CIM Group where he was responsible for formulating the leasing strategy on CIM’s commercial portfolio of approximately twelve million square feet. Prior to joining The CIM Group, Mr. Kreshek was the Vice President of Development and Operations for Regent Properties, Inc. and before that, Mr. Kreshek formed and operated Vision Property Management, Inc., a full service real estate development, leasing and management company. Mr. Kreshek brings over 26 years of experience to the Trust in leasing, entitlements, property and asset management with an emphasis on redeveloping and repositioning underperforming and functionally obsolete assets.

Mr. Kreshek received his undergraduate degree in Real Estate Finance, his Masters of Business Administration and his Masters of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. In addition, Mr. Kreshek holds the Certified Leasing Specialist (CLS), Certified Property Manager (CPM), Senior Certified Shopping Center Manager (SCSM), Certified Commercial Investment Manager (CCIM) designations, and retains his position as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Southern California, teaching Retail Development in the Masters of Real Estate Development program.

Doug Mankoff is a film and television producer and the Chief Executive Officer of Echo Lake Entertainment, which he founded in 1997. Echo Lake manages writers, directors, and actors and produces film and television. Doug has produced and arranged financing for over thirty films. These include the three most recent films of Pedro Almodovar, Alexander Payne’s NEBRASKA (nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture), and TRUTH starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford.

As a past board member of The Foundation for Jewish Camp and The Los Angeles Jewish Community Foundation, Doug is committed to Jewish continuity. He currently serves as the chair of the Jewish Federations’s PK-12 Committee, which supports children’s programming in the Jewish community.

Doug received a B.A. in History from Duke University, attended the graduate film program at NYU, and received his MBA from Harvard. He and his wife, Marcia, are past participants of the Wexner Heritage Program.

Doug is a member of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producer’s Guild of America.

Steve Markheim is the CEO & President of Electro Rent Corporation, a provider of rental, leasing, and sales of electronic test and measurement (T&M) equipment and lessor of personal computers and servers with revenue of $243.08 million (2013).

Mr. Markheim has been with Electro Rent since June 1980 and has served as COO, CEO and President. Previously, he served as a Controller with Panasonic, an Accounting Manager with the public company Telecor, and prior as Accountant and Senior Auditor with the CPA firms of Stonefield & Josephson and Wolf & Co.

Mr. Markheim is a graduate of Cal State Northridge with a BS in Accounting.

Todd Mendeloff is a seasoned digital media executive and entrepreneur, with over 20 years experience in the media and entertainment industries.

Todd is co-Founder, COO, and advisor to Wisecrack, Inc., a film and video production company founded in 2014 that produces various web series such as Thug Notes, Earthling Cinema, and 8-Bit Philosophy. The group is focuses on an analysis of anime, film, and literature, and video games and analyze them, drawing out philosophy, sociology, psychology and other meanings that can be interpreted from media. Wisecrack was listed as one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2016.

Before founding Wisecrack, Todd was chief product officer & head of production at Volio. Previously, he spent 5 years as Vice President, Digital Media Marketing and Distribution, at The Walt Disney Studios. Over his career, Todd has also founded and/or served in senior management roles at a number of media and entertainment companies, including mobiico, inc., DigOps, and razorfish. Todd received his BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

David C. Mirsky is Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Rim Capital, Inc., the most respected independent lessor of material equipment featuring a roster of Fortune 500 clients nearly $2 billion in lease originations.

Prior to founding PRC in 1990, Mr. Mirsky was President of Capital Associates Portfolio Company. He was also Executive Vice President for Capital Associates International and held management positions for Finalco Inc. and Memorex. He is a graduate, summa cum laude, of Binghamton University (NY) and holds a degree in Management Science.

Mr. Pink received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, a Juris Doctorate degree from Loyola University School of Law, which was earned concurrently with a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Southern California.  He is a member of the California State Bar and a licensed real estate broker in California.

Richard Pink recently retired as Managing Director of Clarion Partners where he was responsible for originating investments in Southern and Northern California and Denver.  He joined Clarion Partners in 2006.  Clarion Partners has a nationwide real estate portfolio in excess of $48 Billion including all the major property types.  Clarion’s primary capital sources for these investments are: US Pension and Endowment Funds.

Prior to joining Clarion Partners, Mr. Pink was Vice Chairman, Executive Managing Director of CB Richard Ellis Investors for over 20+ years. During his tenure at CB Richard Ellis Investors, Mr. Pink held various positions including national acquisitions director and advisor to German based investor acquiring properties in U.S. real estate.

Prior to joining CB Richard Ellis Investors, he was vice president of property acquisitions for JMB Realty Corporation for five years.

Mr. Pink’s 46 year real estate career includes senior executive positions in acquisitions, financing, leasing, brokerage, and property management of commercial properties throughout the U.S. including the legal documentation of real estate transactions.

Richard is also co-owner, along with his sister and wife, of Pink’s Hot Dogs, a 78 year old hot dog stand, located at the corner of La Brea & Melrose in Hollywood.  Pink’s was started with by Richard’s parents in 1939.  Pink’s currently has 15 locations scattered throughout the U.S. with two locations in the Philippines.  The expansion is based on licensing agreements with various experienced operators including hotels and amusement parks.

Lance Rosenzweig is a public and private company CEO and board member with a strong record of generating high returns, primarily through growth, operating improvements, and outsized exits.

Lance was founder, Chairman and CEO of PeopleSupport, which he grew from a business plan into the pioneer of offshore outsourcing in the Philippines, with $150 million in revenues and 9,000 employees. Under Lance’s leadership PeopleSupport raised venture capital from Accel and Benchmark, went public in an IPO on NASDAQ, and was acquired by Aegis USA for $250 million, a 10X return for early investors. Lance subsequently became CEO of Aegis USA, which grew into a global BPO business with 19,000 employees and $400 million in revenues, and sold to Teleperformance for $610 million, setting the high benchmark for valuation in this industry.

Lance was subsequently an operating partner at Marlin Equity, a PE fund with over $6 billion in assets under management. At Marlin, Lance was chairman of DTC, Duncan Solutions and Giftcertificates.com.

Lance currently serves on two public company boards, Boingo Wireless, where he is the lead independent director, and Quality Systems, where he serves on the audit committee.

Earlier in his career Lance was a VP at GE Capital and Dean Witter, CEO of 24/7 Card, president of Newcastle Packaging, and corporate planning manager of JSC.

Lance has an MBA from the Northwestern Kellogg School, with honors every term. He also has a BS in engineering, with Tau Beta Pi honors, from Northwestern University. Lance is a “financial expert” as defined by the SEC, completed the HBS program on corporate boards and governance, and is an annual guest lecturer in M&A at UCLA Law School.

Lance lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Gillian Zucker, president of the LA Clippers, and three children.

Andy Sands is currently Managing Director / Head of Multi-Family of Lowe Enterprises Investors (LEI), a SEC registered investment advisor with in excess of $3 billion of investments in multi-family, hotel and office assets located in 25 markets across the United States. Its investors include public pension funds, insurance companies, international institutions and high net worth individuals. Mr. Sands is responsible for all facets of the multi-family investment program, including acquisitions, asset management, portfolio management and investment performance. He also sits on the firm’s Management Committee.

Prior to joining Lowe Enterprises Investors, Mr. Sands was the Founding Partner of Brooktree Realty Investors, a private investment firm that acquired $90 million of multi-family assets. Prior to forming Brooktree, Mr. Sands was Managing Principal and Senior Manager of the Los Angeles office of ING Realty Partners, a private equity real estate company that acquired over $5 billion of investments throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Mr. Sands received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Masters of Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Larraine is a seasoned senior executive with general management experience, and a world renowned level of expertise in the creation, implementation and management of complex business alliances in multiple industries including healthcare, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, aerospace, financial services and more. She also has startup and turnaround experience, and a strong track record for speedy and innovative problem solving, enabling buy-in for complex change management and cultural change.

Ms. Segil is a member of the Board of Citizens Communications (NYSE: CZN) in Stamford CT., a Fortune 1000 company where she sits on the Nominating and Governance Committee and on the Audit Committee. Ms. Segil is Partner Emeritus and was formerly owner and director of Vantage Partners, a privately held consulting firm with expertise in building competency in both internal and external relationship management. Vantage Partners evolved out of the Harvard Project on Negotiation. Its partner/directors have authored many books including “Getting to Yes” and “Difficult Conversations”. Segil has served Global 100 and Fortune 500 companies assisting them to create and manage their critical business relationships with suppliers, alliances, joint ventures or channel partners. She now consults individually with senior executives and companies worldwide.

Ms. Segil is a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, Austin; serves on the Advisory Board of Edgecast, a Web 2.0 Content Delivery Network company, as well as on the Entrepreneurs Board for the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She is on the board of The Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliances (LARTA) representing 35,000 Southern California early stage technology companies, and has been recognized by The Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue Group and The Corporate Strategy Board as a thought leader in alliances. Ms. Segil also serves on the board of The Committee of 200, a global non-profit group of Women CEO’s. She teaches executive education at The California Institute of Technology, (Caltech), Pasadena CA, where she has presented a two day program on ‘Global Alliances’ for the past 23 years.

Born in South Africa, Ms. Segil immigrated to the USA in 1974. She was formerly CEO of an advanced materials company providing products and services to aerospace and electronics manufacturers worldwide. She co-founded a California Thrift and Loan Company as well as a series of free standing ambulatory care clinics providing medical services, and previously practiced international corporate law. Ms. Segil co-founded The Lared Group, an international consulting firm helping companies develop and maintain successful domestic and global business alliances, which was acquired by Vantage Partners in 2003.

Ms. Segil is a regular commentator for CNN and CNBC and presents keynotes on domestic and global alliances, mergers, and critical customer supplier, channel, and outsourcing relationships. Ms. Segil is the author of numerous books, including: Intelligent Business Alliances, Fast Alliances.com: Power Your E-Business, Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization: Ten Essential Traits for Managers, and Partnering –The New Face of Leadership. Her latest book, Measuring the Value of Partnering, is the first on Alliance Metrics. She has also authored a novel, published by Penguin Books and is presently writing a series of E-Cookbooks. Ms. Segil holds BA Honors in Latin and Classics, JD and MBA degrees.

Mark Schwartz has over 20 years of experience as a public and private company, CEO, CFO, and board member, as well as an active growth equity investor.

Mark assisted Starbucks Coffee in raising their first round of institutional financing and was a member of their board of directors. He later co-founded a Hispanic grocery retailer, Bodega Latina Corporation (El Super)—the largest Hispanic supermarket chain in the Western US—and engineered a successful exit. After serving several years as Bodega Latina’s CFO, he became CFO of a 3D software company, DDD Group, which he took public.

Mark was also Chairman, CEO, and CFO of Hypertension Diagnostics, a medical device company focused on detection and management of cardiovascular disease. He sold the company in 2011 and acquired a plastics recycling business.

Mark is a member of The Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles’s Board of Trustees. He also serves on the board of directors and as vice president for resource development at Temple Emanuel. Mark was a fellow in the Wexner Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Los Angeles class and is currently in the Wexner Summit Program. He served as chair of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Southern California, an angel investment group.

Mark graduated from Claremont McKenna College, where he serves on the board of the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. He was awarded a certified director certification from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mark lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa and two step-children.

Founder and CEO of POPmedia Brands, and PopStar Club, Inc.,  Sherry Gunther Shugerman is a two-time Emmy-Award winning producer, media executive, and entrepreneur.  Sherry spent the first twenty years of her career producing some of television’s most lucrative and successful animated hits, before shifting over to innovate in the new media space.  Currently, Sherry is focusing on building multi-platform media brands with The Beatrix Girls.

Her producer and Executive Producer credits include:  The Simpsons, Family Guy, Duckman, Edith Ann, Rugrats, Dexter’s Laboratory, Cow and Chicken, Johnny Bravo, The Powerpuff Girls, Looney Tunes and more. Aside from being a creator and a producer, Sherry became a prominent entertainment- industry executive, heading-up and launching new divisions and innovating new content and productions for such studios as Klasky Csupo, Hanna Barbera, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century Fox Television, Nickelodeon, Imagine Television, Walt Disney’s Touchstone Television, Carsey-Warner, and The Disney Channel.

In 2006, Sherry shifted her focus to New Media, where she created, co-founded and launched ZooKazoo.com, an innovative new virtual world for kids ages 6 to12.  Zookazoo launched to critical acclaim from established media companies.  The site was named: “Best for kids’ destination on the web” by Real Simple Family Magazine in the fall of 2008 and received a $100M buy-out offer within a year of funding.

Sherry then went on to found a second digital media company, Masher Media Inc., where she and her team built an evolutionary new 3D multi-player social game community for kids ages 6-12 for web, tablet and mobile. Presently, Sherry continues her entrepreneurial efforts with PopStar Club, Inc., where she has developed a multi platform media brand.  The new line of fashion dolls who are a pop-star band, features original music, video webisodes, and a ground-breaking toy line.  The music is currently in wide digital distribution on iTunes, Amazon, Pandora, and Spotify, and the dolls are launched on the shelves of Toys R Us and Justice in the fall of 2013.  The company just completed a round of VC funding, and will be expanding its distribution to mass, specialty and global in 2014.

Through her years in entertainment, Sherry has demonstrated a sincere dedication to quality content. She has been honored for her outstanding work with numerous awards including two Emmy-Awards, a Cable-Ace award, a Humanitas Award, and five additional Emmy nominations.

Sherry earned her BS degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her MBA from the University of Southern California (USC).  She resides in Calabasas, California with her husband and her two daughters who continue to inspire and contribute to her passion for quality entertainment.

Michael Singer is the chairman and CEO of Strategic Partners, Inc. (SPI), the world’s largest manufacturer and wholesaler of medical apparel, footwear and accessories, with sales in more than 60 countries.

Singer formed SPI in 1995 by purchasing the uniform division of Cherokee Inc. SPI designs, manufactures and distributes high-quality, fashion-inspired medical uniforms under the Cherokee, Dickies, HeartSoul, Code Happy and Disney brands; manufactures and/or distributes footwear under the Cherokee, Dickies, Asics and K-Swiss brands, among many others; and manufactures and distributes medical accessories and Classroom brand school uniforms. The company publishes Scrubs Magazine, a leading lifestyle media brand for nurses, and its website, scrubsmag.com, the nation’s number-one online destination for nurses. SPI’s home office is in Chatsworth, and its distribution center is in Dallas, Tex.

Singer is a graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. He was the Entrepreneur of the Year for the university’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in 1997 and was the undergraduate commencement speaker for Marshall in 2006.

Singer is a member of the advisory board for the Greif Center at USC, serves on the board of Governors for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and is the chairman of the board of trustees for Sierra Canyon School, an EK – 12th grade independent school in Chatsworth.

Howard Spector is Co-Founder & CEO of SimplePractice, which provides practice management software for psychologists, social workers, therapists and counselors.

Howard has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. This includes project management of complex multi-million dollar systems and executive management positions for various start-ups. He is an entrepreneur who has conceived, built, managed, and sold a successful technology company, TrackYourHours, that serves behavioral health professionals.

Howard received a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Southern California.

Eric H. Stern is a Partner at Capital International Investors and has worked at the company since 1991. Eric manages US equity and global equity portfolios for retail and institutional clients. Earlier in his career he served as an equity research analyst following health care, insurance, auto and life science companies. Before joining Capital he worked in the mergers and acquisitions department of Morgan Stanley & Company. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Eric is a Trustee and Executive Officer of the University of California, Berkeley Foundation. Together with his wife Rachel, they have established the Stern Family Health Sciences Fund which provides graduate student fellowships for students studying health related fields at UC Berkeley. Eric also serves as a Trustee and Treasurer of the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA. Previously, he served on the boards of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles and Stephen S. Wise Temple.

Jon Vein co-founded and served as the CEO of MarketShare, the leading cloud-based, big data analytics and software company, helping companies grow more efficiently by identifying what is really driving demand. With eight offices around the world, MarketShare has had a significant impact on allocating over $200 billion in marketing investments for more than half of the Fortune 50 companies, as well as many other businesses around the globe. MarketShare matched marketing and media deployment with how the 21st Century consumer actually uses new media, including search, display and social media. In one of the largest transactions involving a Los Angeles-based technology company, MarketShare was acquired in December of 2015 by Neustar, and in December of 2016, after the successful integration of MarketShare into Neustar, Mr. Vein moved on from the company to pursue other endeavors in the public and private sectors. In 2016 Jon was recognized as one of the 500 Most Influential People In Los Angeles by The Los Angeles Business Journal, and he was a winner of the 2016 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Prior to MarketShare, Jon served as Chief Operating Officer of Michael Ovitz’s AMG (Artists Management Group) and APG (Artists Production Group), overseeing all divisions, including talent, literary, animation, sports, music, publishing, and feature film production. Jon engineered AMG’s sale to The Firm, which he joined as co-head of the M&A/Strategic Advisory Services Division prior to departing and forming MarketShare.

Before joining AMG/APG, Jon was Chief Operating Officer of Film Roman, the premier independent animation production company in the United States, where he oversaw all production, development, sales, human resources, finance, and business affairs. He also brought to Film Roman a private equity investment to facilitate growth, and he was instrumental in planning and executing the company’s initial public offering. Film Roman produced shows such as The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Family Guy, and numerous other award-winning shows.

An Emmy Award winner, Jon produced many film and television productions, including King of the Hill, The Simpsons, and the acclaimed Swimming with Sharks. Jon started his entertainment career as a founding partner of noted entertainment law firm Dern & Vein, working with one of Hollywood’s most respected attorneys, Dixon Dern. Jon represented a wide range of individuals and companies, with deals ranging from talent and corporate level agreements to intellectual property licensing and employment agreements.

Before attending law school, Jon utilized his engineering and computer science background as a practicing engineer on the space program at Hughes Electronics and Teledyne Relays.

Jon is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization Gold Los Angeles Chapter, as well as a former Chairman of the Golden West Chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Jon serves as president of the board of the Los Angeles Convention Center and Tourism Development Department and the US Fund for UNICEF’s Southern California Region, as well as serving on the Board of Trustees for the California Science Center, and as a board member of the California Cultural and Historic Endowment, the Los Angeles Coalition, the Los Angeles Police Foundation, the Long Range Planning Committee for Marymount University, the Advertising Research Foundation, the Hancock Park Homeowners’ Association and Los Angeles Television Channel 36. Jon is also a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS). He sits on the University of California’s Regents Selection Advisory Committee to the Governor of the State of California, and on the Advisory Board for the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission. Jon also leads the Los Angeles Mayor’s Fund’s efforts to brand the City of Los Angeles and is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. Jon served on the National Finance Committee for the candidacy of Hillary Clinton for President in 2016. Jon served as an early member of then-Senator Barack Obama’s finance committee for the 2008 election and the President’s National Finance Committee for his re-election. Jon sat on the finance committee for Congresswoman Karen Bass’ election, and served as an early member of Eric Garcetti’s finance committee in support of his candidacy for Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. Jon holds a US Patent in the field of tissue engineering, as well as several other patents in marketing analytics. Jon graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.S. Double-majoring in Material Sciences & Engineering and Electrical Engineering-Computer Science with high honors, and received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. Jon is married to entertainment executive Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and has two rambunctious children, Caroline and Jack.

David Wertheimer is a technology and entertainment/media leader/executive with experience running new and existing businesses in start-up and publicly traded organizations. David’s strengths stem from his deep technical background combined with widespread experience in management and operations. As as a result, he has been an executive and/or trusted advisor to several media companies and major studios and an award-winning thought-leader and keynote speaker on the subject of content distribution trends and futures.

As President, Digital at FOX, David Wertheimer is responsible for the network’s strategies, operations and ventures in digital entertainment content and emerging media platforms. Having founded his first company at 15, worked for Steve Jobs for 5+ years, and become the first President of the Digital Entertainment division at Paramount Pictures, David has consistently helped drive the media, entertainment and technology industries in creating the multi-platform future of television. Today, David’s group at FOX builds and operates digital platforms including online viewing apps, websites, digital network incubation and social network audience engagement related to FOX’s entertainment properties.

Before FOX, David served in executive positions in entertainment companies and technology strategy/product organizations, including the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, the USC Institute for Creative Technologies, iBlast, Inc., WireBreak Entertainment, and Oracle.

Ben Wiener serves as Chief Executive Officer of Wongdoody, Inc. He began his career at Wongdoody as an unpaid intern shortly after the agency’s founding, moving furniture and organizing office supplies. Over the last 19 years, Ben has overseen the growth of the agency, as well as clients including Fox Sports Net, Alaska Airlines, Autodesk, Alpine Electronics of America, CLIF Bar, LUNA Bar and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He spent three years as an assistant editor at the University of Chicago Press acquiring titles in economics, art history, linguistics, musicology and other disciplines that don’t produce many best-sellers. He also serves as chairman of the University of Chicago’s Regional Leadership Council and on the Board of Writer’s Arc, a nonprofit organization that promotes opportunities for aspiring screenwriters. Mr. Wiener is also a partner in the Jewish Venture Philanthropy Fund. Ben also experienced 60 minutes of fame — versus the standard 15 — by appearing twice on the game show “Jeopardy!” (once as a returning champion). He received a BA with academic honors in film theory from the University of Chicago.

Susan Williams concentrates her practice on media finance and entertainment transactions. She routinely advises clients on the legal and business aspects of sophisticated debt and equity financing as well as complex licensing and distribution arrangements for motion pictures, television and new media, both domestically and internationally.

Ms. Williams represents digital media and entertainment companies, financial institutions, major independent production companies, high net worth individuals, completion guarantors, and distributors in a variety of transactions involving the deployment of capital. Over the past several years she has handled more than $2 billion in entertainment financing transactions, including slate deals, overall company capital raises, single-picture financing deals, print and advertising financing, co-productions, and domestic and foreign tax incentivized transactions. She also has extensive experience with new and emerging distribution platforms and represents companies involved in distribution and co-financing agreements with major studios and with international distribution companies.

Ms. Williams is widely regarded as an expert within her field and she is regularly recognized as a leading lawyer by numerous entertainment and legal trade publications. She has been named by The Hollywood Reporter to the magazine’s annual “Power Lawyers” list of the 100 most influential entertainment attorneys in America, and she has been repeatedly recognized by Variety within the publication’s “Dealmakers Impact,” “Legal Impact” and “Women’s Impact” issues. Ms. Williams has lectured and spoken at a variety of industry events as well as at USC Law School. She is also a member of the UCLA Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee.

Jana Winograde serves as President of Business Operations, West Coast for Showtime Networks. Winograde oversees the network’s production, program operations and business affairs teams, and leads the financial and business strategy relating to the acquisition, development and distribution of SHOWTIME content.

In this role, Winograde services the business demands of SHOWTIME original programming, while developing new business models for the company. She holds key responsibilities in the monetization of SHOWTIME content domestically as well as internationally, working closely with Armando Nunez (President and CEO, CBS International Distribution) and Scott Koondel (Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Licensing Officer, CBS Corporate Licensing and Distribution).

Prior to joining SHOWTIME, Winograde spent 23 years at ABC Entertainment in numerous senior roles, most recently as Executive Vice President, Head of Business Operations. There, she oversaw the network’s business endeavors, including managing the network’s operating, development and programming budgets and playing a key role in strategic planning. She also oversaw business related to the development and acquisition of all primetime, daytime and late-night programming for the ABC Television Network and first-run syndication, as well as all related deals and agreements, including marketing and digital. In addition, Winograde managed the business aspects of the music department, which sets music policy and handles music business affairs for ABC, Disney Channels Worldwide, Disney Consumer Products and Disney Theme Parks and Resorts.

Prior to joining ABC, Winograde was an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Born and raised in California, Winograde graduated Order of the Coif from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and holds a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband and two daughters, and is based in the Showtime Networks’ West Coast office.

Joseph Woolf is the owner of Trowbridge Capital, a specialty advisory and financial consulting firm exclusively focused on the entertainment and media industries.

Mr. Woolf has over 25 years of banking and investing experience and over that time has advised, underwritten or arranged many billions of dollars of capital commitments to a broad range of entertainment and media companies including filmed entertainment, music, digital media, and sports

From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Woolf was Executive Vice President at OneWest Bank, where he launched and led its Media and Entertainment Finance division. At OneWest, Mr. Woolf assembled and oversaw a team of 6 banking professionals and arranged or underwrote over $2.5 billion of capital commitments, including numerous agencies ranging from single picture financings to debt facilities collateralized by film and music catalogues. Mr. Woolf has also successfully created and established entertainment lending divisions for Citibank (2003 to 2007) and Union Bank (1997 to 2001). From 2007 to 2010, Mr. Woolf was Managing Director – Media for Carval a subsidiary of Cargill Incorporated. At Carval, he directed an international portfolio of opportunistic and value-added media investments from acquisition through asset management and disposition and invested equity capital consistent with fund’s investment objectives. Mr. Woolf started his banking career at Irving Trust (later Bank of New York) in 1987. Mr. Woolf holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Art History from Boston University and an MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Mr. Woolf is a frequent speaker on entertainment finance and has done so before numerous conferences and organizations on four different continents.

There are few events that take place in arenas, theatres or other venues that Lee Zeidman has not been involved with during his career. As President of STAPLES Center, Microsoft Theater and L.A. LIVE the sports, residential and entertainment district, Zeidman oversees the venues event operations, production, including guest services, booking, box office, event security, event staffing, guest relations, facility presentation, marketing, communications, hospitality and food and beverage services. Along with his hard working team of employees Zeidman also supervises STAPLES Center’s overall day-to-day support for its tenants, sponsors, clients and partners including the Los Angeles Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Sparks franchises hosting seven NBA Finals, two Stanley Cup Finals and three WNBA Finals in which the home teams won five NBA Championships, two Stanley Cup Championships and three WNBA Championships

With AEG Facilities continuing expansion, Zeidman was a crucial member of a team that oversaw the overall development of L.A. LIVE, the 4 million square foot / $2.5 billion sports, residential & entertainment district featuring Microsoft Theater (7,100-seat live theater) and Club Nokia (2,300 capacity live music venue), a 54-story, 1001-room convention “headquarters” destination (featuring The Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriott hotels and 224 luxury condominiums – The Residences at The Ritz Carlton – all in a single tower), a 14-screen Regal Cineplex, “broadcast” facilities for ESPN, along with entertainment, restaurant and office space. Microsoft Theater has been named the national “Theatre of the Year” in 2008, 2009 and 2010 with Zeidman having been nominated nine times for “Facility Executive of the Year” and honored in both 2008 and 2016. Both awards were presented by the highly respected concert industry publication Pollstar.

Since opening in October 2007, Microsoft Theater has hosted six sold-out nights of the Eagles and Dixie Chicks, Sugarland, Kings of Leon, Neil Young, Mary J. Blige, So You Think You Can Dance Tour, John Fogerty, George Lopez, John Mellencamp, The Who, Duran Duran, Rush, Tool, Aretha Franklin, Lady Gaga, Juanes and Jenni Rivera to name just a few of the performers who have played the theater. Microsoft Theater is also home to the American Music Awards, ESPY Awards, Primetime Emmy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, BET Awards, the Grammy Premiere Awards, 2013 Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame Induction and the 2010, 2011 & 2015 MTV Video Music Awards all of which Zeidman played a critical role in the negotiations of the contracts and the execution of the shows.

Zeidman played a key role in the overall design and construction of STAPES Center as a member of the arena’s development team. Under his guidance, the nation’s most state-of-the-art arena operating systems have blended together and made it possible to successfully host an unprecedented schedule of events since opening in October, 1999 including the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the 42nd, 43rd, 44th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd , 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th , 57th, 58th & 59th annual GRAMMY Awards, multiple summer X Games competitions, the 2002 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, 2009 ISU World Figure Skating Championships the 2004 & 2011 NBA All Star Game, the 2002 NHL All Star Game, 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, the 2013 & 2015 NCAA West Regional Finals and over 225 sold-out concerts including The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, The Eagles, Eric Clapton and multiple performances of U2, Garth Brooks, The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Mana, Muse, Sade, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Prince and Bruce Springsteen among others. Having twice received the Pollstar “Arena of the Year” award, as well as being nominated for all 16 years since it opened its doors, STAPLES Center is the home to four professional sports franchises and hosts over 250 events annually.

During his time with AEG, Zeidman has also played a substantial role in the development, construction, and operation of The Stub Hub Center in Carson, California which includes a 27,000-seat soccer stadium, 8,000-seat tennis stadium and other major facilities for track & field, cycling, beach volleyball and other sports which has been designated as an Official U.S. Olympic Training site. Zeidman was also a part of a team that developed and opened The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, a 4,000-seat theatre which was the home of Celine Dion’s A New Day as well as assisting in the opening of such iconic AEG venues such as the O2 in London and the Mercedes Benz Arena in Berlin.

Prior to AEG and STAPLES Center, Zeidman was the Great Western Forum’s Vice-President, Operations, overseeing all areas of that facility’s management. During his 10-year tenure, he coordinated operations for all Los Angeles Kings and Los Angeles Lakers games, concerts and special events. Previously, he directed operations for the 6,000-seat special event center at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

A native of Detroit, Michigan, and graduate of California State University Northridge, Zeidman currently resides in Venice, California.