Sanford R. Climan

Mr. Climan is President of Entertainment Media Ventures, Inc., a company active in media investment and strategic advisory work, as well as the motion picture and television production. Mr. Climan is also Chief Executive Officer of 3ality Digital, LLC, a leading company involved in the creation of technology for and the production of digital 3D entertainment, with which Entertainment Media Ventures has a strategic relationship. Prior to forming Entertainment Media Ventures, from 1986 to 1999, Mr. Climan was a member of the senior management team at Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”), a leading talent and literary representation firm, working with both talent and corporate clients. Mr. Climan built CAA’s corporate representation practice from its inception in 1987, representing and advising a wide range of companies, including Sony, Matsushita, Coca-Cola, Seagram, and several Regional Bell Operating Companies. As a talent agent, Mr. Climan represented many major actors, directors, writers, and producers, including Danny DeVito, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner, and Michael Mann. He also represented a significant group of film production companies, including Jersey Films, Wildwood, Tribeca, and Tig Productions.

Mr. Climan serves on the boards of The American Cinematheque; The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Management; The Fulfillment Fund (an educational mentoring program in Los Angeles); Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, Television & Media Arts in Mumbai, India; and The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness. In addition, Mr. Climan is a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Dean’s Advisory Board at the UCLA School of Public Health. Mr. Climan also serves as an advisor on entertainment and media to the World Economic Forum and its Annual Gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Mr. Climan did his undergraduate work at Harvard College and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health.