Mr. Sloan is a founder, public company chief executive officer and a leading investor in the media, entertainment and technology industries. Mr. Sloan is the Chairman and CEO of Eagle Equity Partners LLC (“Eagle Equity”). Under Mr. Sloan’s leadership, Eagle Equity has acquired and taken public, through special purpose acquisition companies, several digital media companies including, during 2020, Draft Kings, Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) and Skillz Inc. (NYSE: SKLZ). Eagle Equity has also been behind: Screaming Eagle Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: SCRM), which completed a business combination with Lionsgate Studios Corp. (formerly trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol LION) in May 2024; Soaring Eagle Acquisition Corp., which raised $1.725 billion in its initial public offering in February 2021, and in September 2021, completed its initial business combination with Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DNA) (“Ginkgo”); and Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: BEAGU), which raised $250 million in October 2024. Mr. Sloan has been at the forefront and evolution of the video gaming industry as one of the founding investors and a Board Member of Zenimax/Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning studio acquired by Microsoft in March 2021. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sloan was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MGM Studios and founded and led two public companies in the entertainment media arena, New World Entertainment and SBS Broadcasting, S.A. Mr. Sloan was also one of the founding investors of Lions Gate and served as Lions Gate’s Non-Executive Chairman from 2004 to 2005. In May 2023, Mr. Sloan was appointed by President Biden as a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Mr. Sloan is a director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Starz Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: STRZ) since May 2025, a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit Committee of Ginkgo, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of DraftKings.
Mr. Sloan served as a director of Lionsgate Studios Corp. (formerly trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker symbol LION) from May 2024 to May 2025, and as a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. (formerly trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbols LGF.A and LGF.B) from December 2021 to May 2025.
Mr. Sloan has been a director of Lionsgate since May 2025.
Mr. Sloan is the Chair of Lionsgate’s Transaction Committee and a member of Lionsgate’s Compensation Committee.