CEO & Founder, Proxima

Ryan Kavanaugh

CEO of Proxima Media, Ryan Kavanaugh has produced, distributed, and/or structured financing for more than 200 films, generating more than $17 billion in worldwide box office revenue and earning 60 Oscar nominations, making him the 25^th highest grossing film producer of all time. Kavanaugh created and implemented the structure and financing of Marvel leading to Marvel becoming a studio and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kavanaugh created the SVOD window through a first of its kind deal with Netflix and launched Skyland Entertainment; the first and only U.S. company granted a government-issued distribution license to distribute films in China. Kavanaugh was cofounder of Precash/Noventus which sold this year for approximately $400 Million and was a seed investor in ZetaRx renamed Juno the largest Biotec IPO of 2014.