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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Film space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Farhad Massoudi
CEO & Founder of Tubi
Farhad Massoudi founded adRise with a vision that the future of TV advertising will be targeted, measurable and interactive ads, just like the web on TV. Farhad holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley.
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About Tubi: Tubi is the world’s largest ad-supported video on demand (VOD) service. Available on Connected TV devices, Mobile, and the Web.
Michael Golomb
Founder and CEO of FanVestor
A hands-on company builder, Michael’s background as an entrepreneurial CFO with three exits behind him, is the culmination of twenty years of senior management experience across a broad spectrum of industries. His expertise has been successfully applied across verticals ranging from startups to large public corporations including Blockchain, manufacturing, digital health & medical devices, consumer electronics & hardware, software/SaaS, and real estate. In addition to Michael’s global experience in raising equity though variety of public and private equity/debt instruments, as well as experience in handling complex M&A transactions, he also brings exceptional knowhow of Blockchain technology to DASAN Zhone Solutions. Earlier in 2017, (prior to joining DASAN) together with the other Blockchain industry veterans, Michael co-founded the ICO Governance Foundation, a non-profit decentralized global organization with a protocol-based global community mission that performs a self-regulatory function for ICOs in decentralized capital markets. In Oct 2016, Michael founded EdenCoin – a global cryptocurrency quantitative market-maker start-up with offices in San Francisco and New York: a proprietary liquidity aggregation platform to consolidate trading volume and data from major cryptocurrency market sources to run algorithmic market-making and liquidity provisioning, as well as other, quantitative strategies. From June 2015 to May 2017, while CFO at Breathometer, a hyper-growth digital health and medical device company, he helped take that company from pre-revenue to shipping in the FDA regulated space, forming OEM partnership with Philips, raising capital from venture capital firms and global strategic investors, as well as successfully achieving the ISO13485:2003 Certification milestone. Prior to Breathometer, Michael was the first employee (CFO, Board Member, and Head of SF Office) at BitFury, and helped build the market leading full-service Blockchain technology company, and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem, taking it from zero to over $500M valuation and from 3 to over 120 employees in 7 countries between December 2013 through April 2015. Other notable roles include: ” Co-Founder and Co-President at Mayak RE, where he led the formation of JV with Morgan Stanley and MCP Private Equity Fund in Europe. ” CFO of Sistema Hals, he directed a highly successful London/LSE IPO with market capitalization at $2.7B. ” Head of Compliance / Sr. Finance Manager at Trimble, he effectively implemented global Sarbanes-Oxley compliance program, participated in private debt placement, as well as acquired/integrated several international technology companies. Michael received MSc in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2013, his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000, and his B.A. with double major in Economics and Diplomacy & World Affairs from Occidental College in 1996. He is also a CPA (inactive) in California.
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About FanVestor: FanVestor is a FINRA-regulated crowdfunding platform that enables entertainment and sports celebrities to capitalize on their fanbases.
Maureen Fan
Co-Founder & CEO of Baobab Studios
CEO & Co-Founder of Baobab Studios.
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About Baobab Studios, Gold House, Producers Guild of America, The World Economic Forum: Baobab Studios is a VR animation company that creates story and character driven cinematic experiences.
Amit khanduja
CEO of Reliance Entertainment
Amit Khanduja, CEO of Reliance Entertainment – Digital, leads a team of young creative wizards on digital businesses which include gaming companies Zapak and Reliance Games and movie steaming service BigFlix. Amit’s rich expertise in the digital space ranges across consumer marketing, sales and business development, partnerships, developer evangelism and product monetization. Over an 18 year career he has been a successful business leader in the digital and mobile industry with the best brands and organizations’ like – Sun Microsystems, HP & IBM. Prior to Reliance, Amit was Managing Director APAC and North America for Tira Wireless (a VC funded Startup). He has also worked in an executive position with Sun Microsystems where he managed Business Development for Java Micro Edition and Content Delivery Server product lines and led BD and marketing for 90 global operators to deliver new Java data services with 1.5 Billion Java handsets.
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About Reliance Entertainment, Reliance Games: Reliance Entertainment is the flagship motion picture arm that focuses on broadcasting and new media ventures.
David Sanderson
Founder & CEO of Reelgood
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About Guidebox, Reelgood: Reelgood provides a complete guide to online streaming content.
Eugene Chung
Founder, CEO of Penrose Studios
Eugene Chung is Director, Film & Media at Oculus VR. Previously, he was an investor and filmmaker based in New York City. He was with TechStars and New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he focused on venture capital and seed investments in technology companies. Prior to NEA, Eugene worked in film production at Pixar Animation Studios. Earlier in his career, Eugene was a private equity investor at Warburg Pincus and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. He earned his BS degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.
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About Penrose Studios: Penrose is a group of artists, engineers and storytellers pushing the boundaries of virtual and augmented reality.
Joseph Reth
Founder & CEO/CTO of RethDigital
Joseph Reth is the Founder & current CEO/CTO at RethDigital, one of the nation’s fastest-growing digital agencies.
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About Martha5 Agency, RethDigital: RethDigital is a global creative digital agency
Paul Scanlan
Cofounder and CEO of Legion M
Paul Scanlan is Cofounder and CEO of Legion M, the world’s first fan-owned entertainment company.Additionally, Paul plays an active board role in a select group of innovative tech and media companies, including his continued role board member for MobiTV, founding board member of New York Rock Exchange, global board member for Haufe, and as a founding board member for GetClose. Prior to founding Legion M, Scanlan was Cofounder and President of MobiTV, Inc., a global pioneer and leader in monetizing media outside the living room. In this role, Paul has played a critical role in all aspects of the company’s success – from its very beginnings as a scrappy start-up all the way through to its current position today as the market leader in a fast growing space. Paul’s entrepreneurial vision is balanced with an effective make-it-happen approach: he has pioneered an entirely new industry and proven MobiTV’s commercial success as the platform powering nearly all of the tier 1 operator branded services in the United States, including AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, CenturyLink, US Cellular as well as many new deployments worldwide, including Deutsche Telekom’s in Germany. In 2005, the Academy of Television Arts awarded Paul and the MobiTV team with the TV industry’s highest honor, an Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in Advancing Television. Additionally, Paul’s accomplishments and success with MobiTV were recently profiled in a detailed chapter of Tarang Shah’s popular new book, Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes. Paul has been a frequent speaker and industry representative for several media outlets and events, including CNBC, MSNBC, CNET, CTIA, CES, Streaming Media West, Digital Hollywood, NAB, IBC, Mobile World Congress and more.
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About GetClose, Legion M, Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management: Legion M is a fan-owned entertainment company producing a slate of movies, TV, and digital content.
Alex Hagan
CEO and Founder of Explainly
Alex Hagan is the CEO and Founder of ReviewPoint and Explainly | Explainer Videos.
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About Explainly, ReviewPoint: Explainer Video Production Company
Daniel Kenyon
Founder / CEO of Furious M
Chief Commercial Officer Furious M Furious M: media lifecycle management applications & platform that tightly integrates on-demand media creation, distribution and monetization solutions in a cloud platform and infrastructure as a service. Television, Film and new media/VR creators have limited options to leverage the cloud for media creation and want to control the monetization of their media assets by distributing directly to large audiences. Furious M is the exclusive media asset lifecycle management solution supporting end-to-end creation-distribution and monetization.
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About Furious M: VR production studio creating unique VR content with emotional storylines
Geoffrey Strage
CEO of Clipcanvas
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About Clipcanvas: Clipcanvas is a stock footage website that provides high definition clips for clients.
