Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

9:15 AM - 10:15 AM

Track II: Herscher Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 202

Funding, Start-ups & Angels - Financing the Entertainment, Tech, Wellness & Sports Industries

Richard Greenberg, Motion Picture Financier

Marc Deschenaux, Founder & Managing Partner, Deschenaux, Hornblower & Partners LLP

Bastiaan den Braber, Venture Advisor, Lumo Labs

Keith Newman, Mentor/Advisor, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center

Gene Massey, Chairman/CEO, MediaShares.com, Moderator

Gene Massey is the Chairman/CEO of MediaShares.com, a company holding an issued U.S. Patent for a new and innovative method of Crowdfunding that enables any company to sell its stock on its own Website or Facebook page. Known as the "Social Media IPO," MediaShares' Crowdfunding methodology can be used in any company's IPO and is fully-compliant with SEC rules that now make it possible to advertise and market a company's stock through social media and even sell to non-accredited investors. MediaShares uses Direct Registration, a process that enables companies that already have online fans, customers, or affinity groups to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others to get the funding they need by selling their shares directly to their online

communities. This process is known as 'Crowdfunding." MediaShares' subsidiary, CinemaShares.com, is an innovative film financing company that uses this methodology for building massive online communities around movies. CinemaShares licenses its U.S. patented platform to film production companies who sell single shares of stock to online movie fans and offer a DVD or digital download as a stock dividend. In addition to his expertise in securities, Gene Massey is also known as an Internet Marketing Consultant, with extensive experience in Social Media Marketing and the Branding of Retail products online. In the past Gene has owned and operated a Los Angeles-based advertising and marketing company. From 1990 to 1997 Gene worked personally with Ely Callaway, Chairman/CEO of Callaway Golf, creating over four hundred television commercials that introduced and promoted the "Big Bertha" line of golf clubs. During the period of time that Gene worked with Callaway, their total sales increased from $21 million in 1990 to $843 million in 1997.

Keith Newman, Mentor/Advisor, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center: Keith Newman is an active angel investor, startup advisor and experienced business builder via strategic partnerships with major brands, technology firms and services firms that accelerate revenue and customer growth. Working with Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in SF and worldwide to develop programs and services to support and develop the next generation of entrepreneurs. Recent engagements: Nasdaq E-C, ReCode/VOX, PowerCloud (sold to Comcast) and others.

Bastiaan den Braber, Co-Founder and President/COO, SAMO VR; @basdenbraber: Bastiaan is the co-founder, President / COO of SAMO VR, a start-up that drives revenue in virtual and augmented reality by helping music industry companies define, finance, and deliver their emerging tech strategy. He is also a Venture Advisor with Lumo Labs, a 2-year venture building program for emerging tech start-ups. In addition, he is an advisor to other start-ups, frequent speaker, panel member and moderator at industry events, and judges events like hackathons. Bastiaan den Braber builds on a 15 year career in management consulting with specialties in digital strategy, market entry strategy, business planning, and business development. Bastiaan received his MSc in General Management and Specialization in Strategic Marketing from Nyenrode University, Netherlands. He received his BSc in Commercial Engineering and Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands. He lives in Los Angeles, and is always on the lookout for opportunities to use emerging technology for the greater good.

Marc Deschenaux, Founder & Managing Partner, Deschenaux, Hornblower & Partners LLP: Marc Deschenaux also known as “The Eagle of Wall Street” is a world-renowned specialist in Corporate Finance from private offerings to Initial Public Offerings (IPO’s). He raised private and public, equity and debt, for companies internationally. He also financed various types of operations, from import/export transactions to Real Estate Investment Trusts and organized governments loans. Marc Deschenaux was involved in Entertainment & Music Industry. In 1998, he founded the World Intellectual Property Securities Exchange Corporation (WIPSEC), the first exchange quoting a new generation of securities representing ownership of a patent, a trademark, a music work, a movie or a technology. For the first time, an investor could invest purely in artistic creation or in technology without worrying about management. In this venture, he allied the two fields he was involved in and made one of his dreams come true: to help artists and inventors raise the funds they need to create, through a financial market investing purely in the application of an idea. He sat on the Boards of Directors of more than fifty companies worldwide. He founded 48 companies; he sold 32 of them at a profit and only 7 failed. Through Aback, a record label, he produced artists of various genres. Through Publishing World, he acquired publishing and neighboring rights from songwriters and artists.

Richard Greenberg, Motion Picture Financier: Richard M. Greenberg is a graduate of Harvard College and Fordham Law School, and is currently a member of the New York State Bar. He served four years on active duty as a member of the US Navy Judge Advocate General Corp. Richard is best known for raising approximately $400,000,000 in financing for 27 major motion pictures, including First Blood (the original “Rambo”), Terminator, Excalibur, Easy Money, Platoon, Lone Wolf McQuade, King Solomon’s Mines, and Return of the Living Dead (pictured below).