Have lunch with Jeffrey Katzenberg in Los Angeles on October 19, 2018.
Jeffrey Katzenberg is a co-founder and partner of WndrCo, LLC, which invests in companies operating at the intersection of media and technology. Katzenberg draws on more than 40 years of experience as an entertainment industry leader. After serving as President of Production at Paramount Studios, he became Chairman of the Walt Disney Studios, overseeing a renaissance of animation and helping usher the studio’s transition to digital production.
In 1994, along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG. A decade later, DreamWorks Animation became a publicly-traded company, with Katzenberg serving as CEO. Under Katzenberg’s leadership, DreamWorks Animation moved into all-CG production, becoming the largest animation studio in the world and a global branded entertainment company, releasing 32 animated feature films and 24 television series that featured such characters as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Alex the Lion and Toothless the Dragon, who have been embraced around the world.
In 2013, DreamWorks made a major expansion into online media with its acquisition of AwesomenessTV. In August 2016, DreamWorks Animation SKG was sold to Comcast for $3.8 billion.
Among Katzenberg’s many honors, he has received the Motion Picture Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or and was presented with France’s highest honor – induction into the Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board for the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, Katzenberg sits on the Boards or serves as a Trustee of the following organizations: AIDS Project Los Angeles, American Museum of the Moving Image, California Institute of the Arts, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Geffen Playhouse, Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research, University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts and The Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The lunch will take place as part of CAA Foundation & CISLA’s "Lunch with a Leader" event. You and your guest will be seated with Jeffrey at a private event including other industry leaders. "Lunch with a Leader" participants include Richard Lovett, Larry Miller, Brian Grazer and many more!