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Digital Hollywood, May 2-5, 2011 Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina del Rey, California Monday, May 2nd 10:00 AM 11:15 AM
Track II: DHFi-1, The Admiralty
Valuing Entertainment CONTENT: Movies, Television and Games Hosted by: Media Valuation Partners Moderators: Larry Gerbrandt, Principal, Media Valuation Partners and Managing Director of Janas Consulting Seth Shapiro, Principal, New Amsterdam Media
Panelists: Chuck Bush, CEO, Great Road Capital Scott Ehrlich, CEO, Agility Studios Clark Hallren, Managing Partner, Clear Scope Partners Schyler Moore, Partner, Strook & Strook & Lavan
Chuck Bush is Founder and CEO of Great Road Capital, Inc. (GRC), a media finance advisory firm. Mr. Bush has more than 18 years of film finance, corporate finance, and strategic consulting experience. He founded GRC in 2006 to lead client companies in film, television and digital media from inception to successful exit. Through GRC, Mr. Bush arranges and sources capital for film and media ventures with the goal of maximizing investor returns while helping creative individuals realize their vision. He co-produced and brought equity financing to the Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning film "The Kids Are All Right. He is an expert in raising equity and debt capital for film and media companies and has held numerous senior positions in film finance, including Chief Financial Officer of Hollywood Studios International, Chief Financial Officer of Our Stories Films, Senior Vice President of Finance and Business Development at Patriot Pictures, and Assistant Vice President in JPMorgan Chase's Entertainment Industries Group. Mr. Bush received an AB in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Scott Ehrlich is CEO of Agility Studios and is responsible for day-to-day business operations including strategy, marketing initiatives, creative development and developing key industry partnerships. He also serves as Executive Producer on Agility's properties including The LXD (Paramount), Ultradome (MSN) and The Tastemaker (MSN). As a media industry leader, Mr. Ehrlich brings more than a decade of top-tier television and Internet management experience to Agility. Mr. Ehrlich is a proven innovator in the creation and distribution of digital video, who in the past six years has bought and sold more than $200 million in digital content. Throughout his career Mr. Ehrlich has fostered numerous high-level strategic deals with major media entities including CNN, MLB, WSJ.com, NBA, E! Entertainment, FOX Sports, Starz, PGA Tour and Playboy. Before joining Agility, Mr. Ehrlich founded and served as the Managing Partner at Impulse Media, a Seattle-based digital business consulting company and Red Tie, Inc., a development company with offices in New York and Seattle. Through Impulse Media, he served as a consultant and advisor to senior management at Sony Pictures Digital Networks, Rivals.com, Infospace, Disney/ABC Digital Media Group, Navio Systems, DivX, iFilm (now part of MTV Networks, Inc.), Lightningcast (sold to AOL), Rhythm Networks, BBC, Weather Channel and Microsoft
Larry Gerbrandt is founder and principal of Media Valuation Partners, which provides valuation, market research and litigation support and in 2010 I also became a managing director of Janas Group, an investment banking and management consulting firm. Prior to MVP he was SVP/gen. mgr. of Nielsen Analytics, a division of The Nielsen Company, focusing on emerging media technology economics and advertising models. During as 20-year career at Kagan World Media he launched more than 25 newsletters and databook products, including The Economics of Basic Cable Networks, Cable Network Investor, TV Program Investor, VOD Investor and Streaming Media Investor. His background also includes experience in film and video production, commercial photography, cable TV system operations and magazine publishing.
Clark Hallren is a Managing Partner of Clear Scope Partners, an exclusive Los Angeles-based advisory firm with a specialty serving operators and investors in the media and entertainment sectors. Clear Scope was founded in August 2009 by Mr. Hallren and Rizvi Traverse Management, an opportunistic private equity fund with multiple interests in the entertainment industry. In leveraging its principal's unique expertise and relationships cultivated over 30 years in the industry, Clear Scope offers its clients the highest caliber of strategic, financial, management and investment services at all levels of a transaction or operating initiative. Prior to the formation of Clear Scope Partners, Mr. Hallren was a Managing Director of the Entertainment Industries Group of JPMorgan Securities, Inc, a subsidiary of JPMorgan Chase and Company. During his 23 year tenure at JPMorgan, Mr. Hallren exclusively focused on providing capital and financial advice to media and entertainment production and distribution companies. Mr. Hallren played a key role in arranging in excess of $25 billion in financing for entertainment companies, developing an in-depth knowledge of virtually every product, business strategy and structure used over the last 25 years. Mr. Hallren's product experience includes Senior Debt Syndicated Loans, Public and Private High Yield Debt, Public and Private Equity Placement, Direct Equity Investment, Asset Backed Securitization, Acquisition Financing, Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives, Foreign Exchange and other risk hedging products.
Schuyler M. Moore is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. LLP. Mr. Moore holds his undergraduate degree from UCLA (Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude) and his law degree also from UCLA (first in class). Moore has been practicing in the entertainment industry since 1981, and he represents a broad spectrum of clients throughout the entertainment industry, including producers, sales agents, foreign distributors, and financiers, and he has handled some of the largest financing transactions in Hollywood. He is the author of (a) The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial Aspects of the Film Industry (Silman-James Press), (b) Taxation of the Entertainment Industry (CCH), and (c) What They Don't Teach You in Law School (William S. Hein & Co.). He is an adjunct professor at both the UCLA Law School and the UCLA Anderson School of Management, teaching Entertainment Law and Finance, and he is a frequent speaker and writer on a wide variety of entertainment subjects. He was listed as one of the top three media lawyers in the U.S. by the National Law Journal in 2011, one of the top 100 California Lawyers by the Daily Journal in 2009, and is consistently listed as one of the top 100 entertainment lawyers by The Hollywood Reporter.
Seth Shapiro is a two-time Emmy® Award winner and a leader in the creation of profitable digital media businesses. He has worked on digital initiatives with companies including Disney, Comcast, DIRECTV, Universal, TiVo, Time Warner, Showtime, HBO, STARZ, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Goldman Sachs, McCann Worldgroup, TVG and Tim Kring Enterprises. As Head of Production at DIRECTV Advanced Services, Shapiro managed over 20 service launches, including the production and content launch of DIRECTV TiVo, the world's first major DVR platform. He is currently Principal of New Amsterdam Media LLC, partner at the Opportunity Management Company and co-founder of Media Valuation Partners. He was previously co-founder of ARC, a VOD service available in 18,000,000 Comcast homes, and has provided litigation support and analysis in matters involving Comcast and Cablevision. Shapiro is an Advisor to OVP Venture Partners, the IP Media Expo, 3D World and the Dutch Media Hub and the PICNIC Festival Amsterdam. He is chair of Events for the Television Academy's Interactive Media Peer Group, a member of the Producer's Guild New Media Council, a magna cum laude graduate of NYU, and was Adelbert Alumni Scholar at Case Western Reserve University.