2019 Dinner Chairs

During his 30-year entertainment industry career, Jon Feltheimer has held leadership positions at Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Entertainment and New World Entertainment and has been responsible for tens of thousands of hours of television programming and hundreds of films, including the global blockbuster Hunger Games franchise and multiple Academy Award winners La La Land, Crash, Monster’s Ball and Precious.

During Mr. Feltheimer’s 18-year tenure as CEO of Lionsgate, the Company has evolved into a next generation global content leader noted for its innovation.  Lionsgate’s market capitalization has grown from $80 million in 2000 to more than $5 billion today, and its revenue has increased more than 15 times over.  Lionsgate’s success has been driven by a nearly 17,000-title library, a slate of more than 40 feature films annually and one of the largest independent television businesses in the world, including the ground-breaking hits Orange is the New Black, Mad Men, Weeds and Nashville.

Before joining Lionsgate, Mr. Feltheimer spent nine years at Sony Pictures Entertainment as head of the Columbia TriStar Television Group, shepherding a string of hit TV shows and leading the television group’s launch of nearly 30 branded channels around the world.

He received MIPCOM’s prestigious “Personality of The Year” Award in October 2010, was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame in October 2012, received NATPE’s coveted 2014 Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, the Producer’s Guild of America Milestone Award in January 2015 and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2016.