Jon Feltheimer is the Chief Executive Officer and has been a member of the Board of Directors of Lionsgate since May 2025.
Mr. Feltheimer served as a director and Chief Executive Officer 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 January 2000 to May 2025 (where he also served as Chief Executive Officer from March 2000 to May 2025).
During his entertainment industry career, Jon Feltheimer has held leadership positions at Lionsgate, Sony Pictures Entertainment and New World Entertainment. He has been responsible for tens of thousands of hours of television programming and hundreds of films, including the global blockbuster Hunger Games and John Wick franchises, multiple Academy Award® winners La La Land, Crash, Monster’s Ball and Precious, and critically-acclaimed hits such as Wonder and Fahrenheit 9/11.
Under Mr. Feltheimer’s leadership, Lionsgate has grown into one of the world’s leading independent content platforms with a 20,000+-title film and television library, a valuable portfolio of brands and franchises and a reputation for innovation. In December 2023, Lionsgate enhanced its studio business by acquiring the global entertainment platform eOne while increasing its equity investment in leading talent management and production company 3 Arts Entertainment. In May 2025, the Company separated its Lionsgate studio and STARZ businesses into two separate, standalone companies with Lionsgate trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol LION as one of the world’s largest pure play publicly-traded content companies.
Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group has generated over $15 billion at the global box office, earning hundreds of Academy Award nominations and 71 Oscars. The Company’s success is also driven by a television business that is a leading independent supplier of premium scripted series to streaming, broadcast and cable platforms, including the ground-breaking hits Orange Is the New Black, multiple Emmy Award® winner Mad Men, one of the most acclaimed television series ever, Weeds and Nurse Jackie. The studio currently has more than 100 series spanning its scripted, unscripted, 3 Arts, eOne and Debmar-Mercury businesses with eight current series renewed through at least their third seasons.
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. While at Sony, he orchestrated the Company’s 1997 acquisition of Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo Group in partnership with Liberty Media and Apollo Management.
He has received MIPCOM’s prestigious “Personality of The Year” Award, was inducted into Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame, received NATPE’s coveted Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, the Producer’s Guild of America Milestone Award and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Humanitarian of the Year Award. He serves on the Board of Directors of Televisa