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  • DreamWorks beats 3Q estimates with `MvA' on video

    10/28/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • DreamWorks beats 2Q expectations; costs seen down

    7/29/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Jeffrey Katzenberg Principal Partner
Jheryl Busby Head of Urban Music
Terry Rossio
Paul G. Allen Investor

Jeffrey Katzenberg is a principal partner of DreamWorks SKG, which he founded in October 1994 with his partners, Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. Prior to that, Katzenberg served as chairman of The Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994. He began his career as assistant to the president of United Artists and moved on to Paramount Studios where he became president himself. Katzenberg serves on the boards of The Motion Picture and Television Fund, The Museum of the Moving Image, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, California Institute of the Arts, and The Simon Wiesenthal Center. He is co-chairman of both the Creative Rights Committee of the Directors Guild of America and the Committee on the Professional Status of Writers of the Writers Guild of America.

Organization Position Status
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research CEO, Dreamworks Animation Skg Current
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Chief Executive Officer Current
DreamWorks SKG Principal Partner Current
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Board of Directors Current
The Motion Picture Company, Inc Board of Directors Current
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Board of Directors Current
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Board of Directors Current
Simon Wiesenthal Center Board of Directors Current
California Institute of the Arts Board of Directors Current
Museum of The Moving Image Board of Directors Current
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Chairman Former
The Walt Disney Studios Chairman Former

Mr. Jheryl Busby serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of OneUnited Bank. Mr. Busby is currently the head of Urban Music at DreamWorks SKG and the principal and owner of Busby Holdings, a company engaged in artist and executive management, consulting and other businesses. Mr. Busby is a veteran of the music industry. He is best known for reviving Motown Records, creating the Urban Music department at MCA Records, and building the black music division at A& M Records. Mr. Busby has held senior executive positions with Stax Records, Cassablanca Records, Atlantic, CBS, A&M, MCA and Motown.

Organization Position Status
DreamWorks SKG Head of Urban Music Current
One United Bank Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Current

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Organization Position Status
DreamWorks SKG Current

Investor and philanthropist Paul G. Allen creates and advances world-class projects and high-impact initiatives that change and improve the way people live, learn, work and experience the world through arts, education, entertainment, sports, business and technology. He co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, remained the company's chief technologist until he left Microsoft in 1983, and is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. and chairman of Charter Communications. In addition, Allen's multibillion dollar investment portfolio includes large stakes in DreamWorks Animation SKG, Digeo, Plains All American, real estate holdings and more than 40 other technology, media and content companies. In 2004 Allen funded SpaceShipOne, the first privately-backed effort to successfully put a civilian in suborbital space and winner of the Ansari X-Prize competition. Allen also owns the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League, the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association, and is part of the primary ownership group for the Seattle Sounders FC, Seattle's new Major League Soccer team. With lifetime giving totaling nearly $1 billion, Allen has been named one of the top philanthropists in America. Allen gives back to the community through the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, whose goal is to transform individual lives and strengthen communities by supporting arts and culture, youth engagement, community development and social change, and scientific and technological innovation throughout the Pacific Northwest. In 2003, Allen contributed $100 million to create the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a research facility dedicated to performing innovative basic research on the brain and distributing its discoveries to researchers around the world. In 2006 the Allen Institute completed its inaugural project, the Allen Brain Atlas, a Web-based, three-dimensional map of gene expression in the mouse brain which is freely accessible online. Detailing more than 21,000 genes at the cellular level, the Atlas continues to help lead scientists to new insights and propel the field of neuroscience forward dramatically. Allen is also founder of Experience Music Project, Seattle's critically-acclaimed interactive music museum; the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame; the Flying Heritage Collection, an assemblage of rare World War II aircraft restored to flying condition and shared with the public; and Vulcan Productions, the independent film production company behind the award-winning feature HARD CANDY; the Evolution series on PBS; The Blues, executive-produced by Martin Scorsese in conjunction with Allen and Jody Patton; the Emmy-award winning Rx for Survival A Global Health Challenge; and the Peabody award-winning Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.

Organization Position Status
Vulcan Productions Chairman & Founder Current
Vulcan Inc. Founder Current
Experience Music Project Founder Current
The Science Fiction Museum Founder Current
Allen Institute for Brain Science Co-Founder Current
Bickfordmovie.Com Executive Producer Current
Charter Communications, Inc. Chairman Current
Rx for Survival Board of Directors Current
DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Board of Directors Current
Digeo, Inc. Board of Directors Current
DreamWorks SKG Investor Current
Oxygen Media, LLC Investor Current
Microsoft Corporation Chief Technologist Former
Charter Communications, Inc. Founder Former
Microsoft Corporation Co-founder Former
Vulcan Inc. Chairman Current

Executive News

  • Q & A: Google China’s Kai-Fu Lee on his new Chinese startup incubator

    Venturebeat - 9/07/09 - View Story

  • Danger! Horror! Get Out!

    Motley Fool - 9/03/09 - View Story

  • Paramount Sustains a Setback

    The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition - 9/01/09 - View Story

  • Charter Communications, Inc., Snags Experienced Chief Restructuring Officer and GC in Gregory Doody

    Law.com - 8/26/09 - View Story

  • Start-Up Plays Offline

    The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition - 8/26/09 - View Story

  • How Priceline Survives the Recession

    AllBusiness Champions of Small Business - 8/26/09 - View Story

  • Smith & Tinker Secures $29 Million in Venture Funding

    Yahoo! Canada - 8/25/09 - View Story

  • Technicolor dreams of a bright future in digital cinema

    Los Angeles Times - 8/24/09 - View Story

  • Why It's Smart To Be Optimistic

    BusinessWeek - 8/14/09 - View Story

  • Start Your Own Business, Now

    MSNBC Newsweek - 8/12/09 - View Story

  • CBS To Sell 4 Radio Stations To Citadel Founder For $40 Million

    CNN Money - 8/10/09 - View Story

  • Loving machines and the dreams they inspire, airplane enthusiasts pursue their passion

    Seattle Times - 8/09/09 - View Story

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