Who We Are

Professor Jasper Kim, Board of Advisors

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Jasper Sirny Kim is a U.S-qualified lawyer with legal and investment banking experience in New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong. Educated in the U.S. and England, he received legal training at Harvard Law School (PON, 2005), received his Juris Doctor in Law from Rutgers University and an MSc. (Economic History) from the London School of Economics, as well as an MBA from the University of London. He was in-house legal counsel with the global investment bank of Lehman Brothers (Tokyo), where he worked on various structured cross-border transactions, and thereafter joined Barclays Capital Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong) as Associate Director of the firm's Debt Capital Markets team.

Kathryn Linehan, Board of Advisors

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Kathryn Linehan brings over twenty years of experience in the fields of film, wellness, education and finance to the Board of Advisors of Creative Projects Group®. Her business training was with Mellon Bank in Wealth Management, Wells Fargo's Commercial Bank, and in sales management with Xerox. In establishing Mellon Bank within the film, television, and music industries, she became a trusted advisor to entertainment industry executives and talent. Within Wells Fargo's commercial banking division, Kathryn served as a business development officer and earned the highest ranking for cross-selling throughout the nation. Kathryn was extensively trained in Xerox's consultative selling program as an account executive where she managed a team of product specialists to serve Fortune 500 clients.

Elliott Nix, Board of Advisors

elliottnix Elliott Nix is the Head of YouTube Sales: Retail, Consumer Electronics and Telecom at Google. With over 18 years in Media & Advertising, spent primarily at the OMD USA Advertising Agency and Google, Elliott has worked on blue chip clients such as AT&T, Comcast, Bank of America and Macy's. His experience includes TV Buying, V.O.D., Mobile App promotion, Search, Programmatic and Online Video. Since joining the Video Sales team in mid-2016, he has focused on client Video challenges, and the shift from "Television first" marketing to a Video Neutral approach. Prior to that, Elliott worked specifically on Google mobile marketing in Telecom, Tech & Retail, as mSearch Head of Industry-Finance and as Senior Account Executive for Google TV Ads. He helped Google become the largest mobile Search, Display and Video Network in the world.

Eric S. Philo, Board of Advisors

philo3 Eric Philo is a Managing Director at Avalon Worth, an investment bank in New York. He started his career at Goldman, Sachs, where he spent 13 years as a senior equity securities analyst following media companies. He also served in senior positions at Brompton Cross Capital Advisors, a long/short hedge fund, Shopkorn Associates, a family office/hedge fund, and Jennison Associates, a money manager serving institutions and individuals. Mr. Philo's particular focus is media, internet and telecommunications, although he has broad experience across many industries.

Rob Shalhoub, Board of Advisors

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Rob is a business strategist and creative producer whose work spans film and television, experiential entertainment, digital media, and technology. As a strategic consultant, he has helped raise more than $25 million in equity and debt capital for various independent productions and startup ventures. As an independent writer and producer, Rob created and sold scripted comedy series “Homeland Insecurity” (Sony Pictures / CBS), unscripted docu-series “Petit Tresor” (Style Network), and biopic “Gibran” (Creative Projects Group). He launched, produced, and promoted immersive entertainment experiences such as “I Like Scary Movies” (Warner Bros / New Line), “Tour Pick Tequila Lounge” (Rolling Stones / Jose Cuervo), “Pan Am Experience” (Pan Am). For nearly twenty years, Rob has consulted on hundreds of major film and television productions including “Kill Bill” (Miramax), “Red Eye” (Dreamworks), “Moneyball” (Sony), “The Wolf of Wall Street” (Paramount), “Bridesmaids” (Universal), “House” (NBCUniversal), “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC), “Scandal” (ABC), “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” (FX Television), and “Ray Donovan” (Showtime). Rob graduated from Tufts University with a degree in International Relations. He currently lives in Simi Valley, California with his wife and three children.

David J. Schreff, Board of Advisors

schreff David Schreff is Founder/CEO of Bedare Sports & Entertainment, a Connecticut based global sports, social/mobile media, entertainment, marketing tech, smart wearables, consumer products licensing and content design firm. Bedare guides clients, investors and partners through social/mobile media distribution, marketing tech placement, venue marketing, optimizing corporate sponsorship revenue and developing patent and other IP licensing platforms. Bedare expertise also includes monetizing water quality remediation services, renewable energy tech products, extended shelf life food package technology, and anti-microbial safety technology).

Matthew Jordan Smith, Board of Advisors

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Matthew Jordan Smith is an iconic American fashion & beauty photographer. His commercial clients include Olay, Pantene and Revlon. His celebrity subjects include Oprah Winfrey, Zendaya, Danial Day-Lewis, Halle Berry, Jennifer Connelly, Martha Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Samuel L. Jackson and more.

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