Bio

Mike is an experienced entertainment and media industry executive with more than twenty five years of extensive responsibilities in general management, content production and distribution, strategic planning, finance and administration. He has significant international and multicultural experience in many content genres and formats, and he has extensive experience in corporate restructuring and business turnarounds. Mike has most recently served as the Chief Restructuring Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of a publicly traded Canadian television producer and distributor. He has also recently worked as a Managing Director in a prominent private equity firm to increase its portfolio presence in the entertainment and media sector. He is also an advisor to a number of privately held companies in the entertainment, media, sports and high technology space, including a significant entity in the emerging mixed reality arena. He has deep operating experience in the motion picture, television, music, broadcasting, cable, games, advertising, agency and gaming verticals within the entertainment and media space. His industry experience covers all facets of the strategic, creative and operational management of content production and distribution. Mike also has extensive experience in the high technology sector, particularly with communications and content delivery platforms. He also has extensive global business experience, particularly in the development of strategy, business development, execution of transactions, and general management. He is a former member of the Board of Managers of Tropicana Entertainment Inc. where he assisted the company in a successful restructuring and emergence from Chapter 11 proceedings. Mike is also former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Atari, Inc. He has also held board positions at ACME Communications Inc. and at Sonar Entertainment Inc. where he also served as Co-CEO. He is currently a member of the Boards of Directors and Boards of Advisors of a number of privately held entertainment and technology entities, including Dr. Seuss Enterprises LLC and Magic Leap Inc. Mike was previously Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Metro Goldwyn Mayer Inc (MGM), a major Hollywood studio where his duties also included membership of the Board of Directors of United International Pictures, then the worlds largest theatrical film distributor. He was also previously a senior partner in the Entertainment, Media and Communications practice at Price Waterhouse LLP where he was responsible for global strategic planning for the Entertainment, Media and Communications practice. He also formerly managed that firms’ Corporate Finance practice in the Western United States. Mike is a graduate of the Law School of Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and of The Honorable Society of the King’s Inns, Dublin, Ireland. He resides in Malibu, California.