Jon Feltheimer was named Chief Executive Officer of Lionsgate in March 2000; his title expanded to include the role of Co-Chairman in June 2005. His blueprint for Lionsgate's growth, combining the flexibility and entrepreneurial culture of an independent with the financial and strategic relationships of a major studio, draws upon his 25-year career in the entertainment industry.

During Mr. Feltheimer's tenure, Lionsgate has grown into the leading independent filmed entertainment studio through a combination of organic growth and accretive strategic acquisitions. With the acquisitions of Artisan Entertainment, Trimark Holdings and other available libraries, Lionsgate now has one of the most prestigious and prolific libraries in the entertainment industry with nearly 12,000 titles, a diverse portfolio of businesses and an exciting, commercially potent feature film slate of 18 to 20 releases a year.

Lionsgate's feature film slate is on track to generate more than $400 million at the North American box office this year and spans such diverse recent hits as RAMBO, 3:10 TO YUMA, the SAW franchise (the most popular horror franchise in history), GOOD LUCK, CHUCK, Tyler Perry's WHY DID I GET MARRIED?, WAR and the critically-acclaimed AWAY FROM HER, which has earned a Best Actress Oscar (R) nomination for Julie Christie. Lionsgate has earned 31 Academy Award® nominations and seven Oscar® wins over the past nine years, more than any other independent studio. The highly diversified company also features a vibrant television business with several prime-time cable and broadcast network series, including the critical sensations WEEDS and MAD MEN, a $500-million-a-year home entertainment business and a 42% interest in leading online content marketing destination Break.com.

During Mr. Feltheimer’s eight-year tenure as CEO, Lionsgate has increased its revenues from approximately $150 million in 2000 to a projected $1.2 billion this year, grown its market capitalization from $80 million to more than $1 billion, generated consistent and significant positive free cash flow while continuing to invest in growth, built a strong balance sheet and created a unique and successful business model.

In addition to the Artisan and Trimark purchases, Lionsgate has continued to grow its business through a series of acquisitions.  In October 2005, Lionsgate acquired Redbus Film Distributors (subsequently renamed Lionsgate U.K.), which has expanded the Company’s presence in the international arena.  In July 2006, the Company purchased Debmar-Mercury, extending Lionsgate’s reach into television syndication.  In October 2006, Lionsgate launched the FEARNet branded horror channel with partners Comcast and Sony and is currently planning additional branded channels.  The Company expanded into Australia with the formation of Lionsgate Australia in July 2007, giving it a major presence in all of the world's English-speaking territories.  In August 2007, Lionsgate acquired the independent production and distribution company Mandate Pictures, which subsequently released the $100 million-plus box office hit and Best Picture Academy Award (R) nominee JUNO to continue its string of box office successes.  Lionsgate also recently formed a broad strategic relationship with Latin media giant Televisa.

Before joining Lionsgate, Mr. Feltheimer spent nine years at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). He engineered the creation of TriStar Television as part of SPE's acquisition of television assets from New World Entertainment Ltd. He was subsequently named head of the Columbia TriStar Television Group, head of Sony Entertainment Television and executive vice president of SPE, leading the television group's evolution into an international powerhouse that launched or partnered in nearly 30 branded channels, regional networks and co-production ventures around the world. While at Sony, Feltheimer's strong creative talent relationships helped lead to such hits as MAD ABOUT YOU, THE NANNY, DAWSON’S CREEK, PARTY OF FIVE and KING OF QUEENS, and he oversaw the company's distribution business, including the syndication launches of shows as diverse as SEINFELD and RICKI LAKE, as well as managing the Company's production of the top two game shows in the world, WHEEL OF FORTUNE and JEOPARDY!, and leading daytime soaps THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS and DAYS OF OUR LIVES.

He also served as the architect of SPE's investment and management of the U.S.-based Spanish-language network Telemundo in conjunction with Liberty Media and Apollo Partners.

Previously, Mr. Feltheimer spent eight years at New World Entertainment, where he was promoted to president and chief operating officer, directed the company's domestic and international distribution businesses and managed its New World Television division, which he launched, as well as its Marvel Productions and Learning Corporation of America units.

Since joining Lionsgate's Board of Directors in 1999 and becoming Vice Chairman of Lionsgate in March 2000, Mr. Burns has joined with CEO Jon Feltheimer in building Lionsgate into the leading independent filmed entertainment studio in the world. Reflecting Mr. Burns' conversance with the digital marketplace, Lionsgate has also been a leader in leveraging its content into fresh digital media initiatives and recently made a 42 percent equity investment in leading viral content marketer Break.com.

Under the stewardship of Messrs. Burns and Feltheimer, Lionsgate has grown its annual revenues from $150 million to a projected $1.2 billion in the past eight years and increased its market capitalization from $80 million to more than $1 billion. Lionsgate has acquired and integrated such companies as Trimark Holdings (2000), Artisan Entertainment (2003), UK-based Redbus Film Distribution (2005), the Debmar-Mercury television syndication company (2006) and independent film production and distribution studio Mandate Pictures (2007) on its way toward building a slate of approximately 20 feature films a year and a prestigious and prolific 12,000-title library.

Mr. Burns played the lead role in the Company’s successful completion of several common stock offerings and private placements of convertible debentures and notes, virtually eliminating Lionsgate's corporate bank debt by converting it into long-term subordinated debt at a blended annual rate of approximately 3%. In addition to his leadership of Lionsgate's corporate management team, Mr. Burns has played a key role in the acquisition, production and distribution of some of Lionsgate's most successful films, including the Best Picture Academy Award® -winning Crash (2006), the Oscar® - winning Monster's Ball, and the creation of the Saw horror franchise.

Lionsgate’s feature films are on track to generate more than $400 million at the North American box office this year and include such recent box office hits as Rambo, Saw IV, 3:10 To Yuma, Good Luck, Chuck, Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? and War in addition to the critically-acclaimed drama Away From Her, which has earned an Academy Award (R) Best Actress nomination for Julie Christie. The diversified company also features a vibrant television business including the critical sensations Weeds and Mad Men, a $500-million-a-year home entertainment business, a minority interest in video-on-demand company CinemaNow and the branded horror channel FEARNet, launched with partners Comcast and Sony. Mr. Burns is a member of the CinemaNow Board of Directors.

Mr. Burns has recently been profiled or featured in such varied major media outlets as AMC Sunday Morning Shootout, Barron's, BloombergTV, Business Week, CBS MarketWatch, CNBC "Power Lunch", the Financial Times of London, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and has been a featured speaker on a wide range of media, trade and other issues.

Previously, Mr. Burns served for nine years as managing director and head of Prudential Securities’ Los Angeles investment banking office. While at Prudential, he specialized in raising equity within the media and entertainment industry. Prior to joining Prudential, he spent nine years at Shearson Lehman Brothers (now Citigroup Smith Barney) in New York and Los Angeles. On the entrepreneurial front, Mr. Burns has served as chairman of Ignite Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based entertainment production company, was cofounder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (www.hsx.com ) and serves as chairman and cofounder of Novica.com(www.novica.com).

Mr. Burns graduated with a B.S. from Arizona State University and received his M.B.A. from the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Steve Beeks
President and Co-Chief Operating Officer

Steve Beeks was named President of Lionsgate in February 2004; his title was expanded to include the role of Co-Chief Operating Officer in 2007. Beeks joins Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer, Vice Chairman Michael Burns, and Co-Chief Operating Officer Joe Drake as a member of Lionsgate’s senior team. He is responsible for all corporate operations, plays a key role in the strategic direction for the Company and is involved in all major production and distribution decisions. He also has direct oversight of Lionsgate UK and Lionsgate Australia as well as Lionsgate’s home entertainment businesses, including packaged media and all digital media initiatives.

Following the merger of Lionsgate and Artisan, Lionsgate’s home entertainment division has emerged as one of the largest and most powerful in the industry, capturing nearly 8% market share for the year to date. Under Mr. Beeks’ stewardship, the Lionsgate filmed entertainment library has maintained a trend of steady growth year-over-year and is on track for nearly $300 million in revenue this year.

Beeks previously served as President of Artisan Home Entertainment, which he joined in January 1998, following the purchase of the Company by Bain Capital. The revenue of the division grew from $115 million to $300 million during his tenure. As president of the division, he spearheaded the marketing, advertising, sale and distribution of Artisan’s theatrical films and extensive library of feature films in the videocassette and DVD market as well as overseeing the acquisition and/or production of new programming.

Previously, Mr. Beeks started Hallmark Home Entertainment, for the Hallmark Cards Company, as an independent home video distributor in October 1994, distributing filmed entertainment produced by the Company as well as several other independent suppliers. He became one of the leading independent home video distributors with exclusive relationships with The Samuel Goldwyn Company, October Films, Showtime Original Pictures and others.

From early 1986 until early 1994, he was Vice President, Business Development for The Paragon Group, a limited partnership formed to invest in the entertainment industry, and Executive Vice President and President, Home Entertainment Group for Republic Pictures Corporation.

Mr. Beeks holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California

When Mandate Pictures was acquired by Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) in August 2007, Joe Drake returned to his old stomping grounds as co-chief operating officer and president of Lionsgate’s motion picture group, with oversight of all areas of the company’s theatrical production, distribution, marketing, acquisition and international theatrical operations. He joins Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer, Vice Chairman Michael Burns and co-Chief Operating Officer Steve Beeks as a member of the senior decision-making team of the fast-growing $1 billion-plus diversified company, the leading independent filmed entertainment studio.

Joe is founder and CEO of Mandate Pictures, an independent entertainment company dedicated to the self-financing, development and production of filmed entertainment. Drake has been the driving force since launching the Company (previously Senator International) in 2005, which aims to deliver broad-appeal films to studios and major independents worldwide.

Mandate has carved a distinctive signature in the world marketplace with the blockbuster The Grudge, Harold & Kumar and Boogeyman franchises and a diverse portfolio of other hits including Jason Reitman's sleeper hit Juno, starring Ellen Page (Hard Candy), Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman, which has earned four Academy Award (R) nominations (including Best Picture) and grossed more than $100 million at the domestic box office, Marc Forster's Stranger Than Fiction, The Messengers, directed by Danny and Oxide Pang and the horror film 30 Days of Night.  Mandate's horror films are produced and released through Ghost House Pictures, the successful horror label run as a joint venture between Drake and legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (Spider Man franchise, The Evil Dead) and his partner, Rob Tapert.

Mandate's upcoming theatrical slate includes the crime thriller Horsemen, starring Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang; and the New Line Cinema comedy sequel Harold & Kumar 2, which features the directorial debut of the films’ writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.

Jim Keegan is Chief Financial Officer of Lionsgate and is responsible for all aspects of the Company's financial planning, forecasting, financial management, accounting and capital structure.  A 20-year veteran of the entertainment industry, he has previously served as Chief Financial Officer of such entertainment companies as Artisan Entertainment and Trimark Pictures.

Mr. Keegan is a member of Lionsgate's senior decision-making team.  During his five-year tenure with the Company, Lionsgate has implemented streamlined and centralized state-of-the-art accounting systems, bolstered its credit facilities and strengthened its balance sheet through a series of convertible subordinated debenture and secondary stock offerings. 

Mr. Keegan began his career at the Big Four accounting firm Price Waterhouse Coopers.  He joined the entertainment industry as a manager of pay television accounting at Columbia Pictures Television.  He was subsequently promoted to director of pay TV accounting at Columbia Pictures Television and then was named Controller of the RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video joint venture.

Wayne Levin is General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Corporate Operations for Lionsgate.  He is the Company's senior legal and business affairs executive and is a member of Lionsgate's senior decision-making team.  He reports to Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer in his capacity as General Counsel and to President and co-Chief Operating Officer Steve Beeks in his operational capacity.

In addition to his operational management responsibilities, Mr. Levin has successfully negotiated and drafted a wide range of agreements, including agreements related to mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructurings and securities offerings.  He has played a key role in Lionsgate's growth strategy, negotiating and overseeing the acquisitions and subsequent integration of such companies as Artisan Entertainment, Redbus Holdings (subsequently renamed Lionsgate U.K.), Debmar-Mercury and Mandate Pictures as well as Lionsgate's equity investments in Roadside Attractions and Break.com.

Mr. Levin was also the architect of Lionsgate's $400 million theatrical slate financing with a Goldman Sachs-led consortium of financial institutions (Pride Pictures) and the Company's $140 million theatrical and television slate financing with Quebec-based Societe generale de financement du Quebec.  In addition, he manages closely the legal and business aspects of Lionsgate's relationship with top creative talent such as Tyler Perry, the Twisted Pictures' principals (the Saw franchise) and After Dark Films.  

In his entertainment work, Mr. Levin has concluded agreements related to motion picture financing, including German tax funds and sale/lease-backs, slate financing transactions, acquisitions, negative pick-ups, co-productions, and distribution agreements, including output deals and home video revenue sharing arrangements.   He has also concluded various motion picture production agreements including writer, producer, director, actor and other talent arrangements.  Mr. Levin has negotiated with all major and independent studios and television networks.

Prior to joining the Company when Lionsgate acquired Trimark Holdings in October 2000, Mr. Levin headed up the Business & Legal Affairs department at Trimark Pictures from 1996 through 2000. 

Mr. Levin worked in private practice for several years before joining Trimark Pictures. His practice primarily emphasized entertainment law, criminal law, and litigation. He completed a number of jury trials and arbitration proceedings as lead attorney.

Mr. Levin has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law for Southwestern University School of Law since 1994. As a professor of law for advanced entertainment studies, he teaches courses that outline the production, distribution and financing of theatrical motion pictures and the primary collective bargaining agreements.