Title: The First Major Hollywood Executive | Ryan Kavanaugh
1Ryankavanaugh
2Film producer and Financier
3BIOGRAPHYRyan Kavanaugh
Ryan Colin Kavanaugh is an American businessman,
film producer and film financier. He is the
founder and CEO of Relativity Media. Through
Relativity, he has financed more than 200 films
representing more than 17 billion in revenue
(earning the nickname "Billion Dollar Producer").
He is credited as of April 19, 2014 as the
producer of 61 films and known for creating a new
"Moneyball" model of film finance. He was named
by Variety as 2011's "Showman of the Year" and
was 22 on the Fortune "40 Under 40" list. He was
19 on the Forbes 2013 list of youngest
billionaires, and he entered an investment
partnership with Ron Burkle. He is active in
philanthropy and was named a Hollywood
Humanitarian by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He
is the 24th highest grossing producer in box
office of all time.
4Early lifeRyan Kavanaugh
- Ryan Kavanaugh was born to a Jewish family in Los
Angeles, California, where he was raised in the
Brentwood neighborhood and attended Brentwood
High School. His mother, Leslie (Levin), is a
real estate broker, and his father, Jack Konitz,
a dentist turned businessman, was born in Germany
and later changed his surname to "Kavanaugh"
before his son's birth. After attending UCLA,
Kavanaugh founded a small venture capital firm,
which struggled in the aftermath of the September
11 attacks and was eventually wound up. Read More
5Career
Ryan Kavanaugh
Relativity Media
Kavanaugh founded Relativity Media after briefly
serving as a consultant to other small businesses
and venture capitalists. In the late 1990s, he
asked his father for a 50,000 Loan to start his
own hedge fund his father declined, but this
did not dissuade Ryan Kavanaugh, whose aim was to
use mathematical tools to connect financing and
movie projects in a more efficient manner than
traditional Hollywood finance. At Relativity, he
created what is now known as "the model", a
monte carlo model designed to predict the odds
of a given film being successful.
Films produced
Kavanaugh has produced such films
as Immortals, Limitless, The Fighter, Mirror
Mirror, Safe Haven, and Beyond the Lights. He
executive produced The Social Network, which
received eight Oscar nominations. His other
films include Mamma Mia!, 310 to Yuma, Grown
Ups and Dear John. He lost his bid for an
Academy film credit as producer of The Fighter.
6PHILANTHROPY
RYAN KAVANAUGH
Ryan Kavanaugh recently became involved in dog
rescue through his acquisition of FreeHand,
saying that "We hope this will become a staple of
Hollywood, and if you are not involved in this,
then youre not promoting social good amongst the
animal world." He has been recognized for his
charitable work by organizations including
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, whose Board of
Governors honored him as the sole winner of the
2010 Hollywood Humanitarian Award the Sheriffs
Youth Foundation, which presented him with its
Community Champion Award in recognition of his
outstanding dedication to inner-city young
people and by First Star for his dedication to
improving life for child victims of abuse and
neglect. Read More
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PERSONAL LIFE
Ryan Kavanaugh
Kavanaugh currently resides in Malibu,
California. In 1998 he married makeup artist
Tracy Tanner in 2011, he married ballet dancer
Britta Lazenga. They divorced in 2014. The
bachelor party was thrown by actors Leonardo
DiCaprio and Bradley Cooper. In 2015, Ryan
Kavanaugh married model Jessica Roffey. He is a
member of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple.
8Contact Details
Place- California, United States
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