12 Facts About Brian Goldner

Brian David Goldner was an American business chief executive and film producer.

Brian Goldner was the chief executive officer of the American toy and media company Hasbro from 2008 until his death.

Brian Goldner attended Huntington High School and Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he majored in politics.

Brian Goldner began his career as a marketing assistant at a healthcare firm in Long Island in 1985.

In 1997, Brian Goldner was set to head the entertainment accountant division of advertisement holding company JWT, but he was lured away by Bandai America.

Brian Goldner was working at Hasbro's Tiger Electronics unit in 2000, after the company had lost 5,000 jobs.

Brian Goldner served as executive producer on the successful 2007 Transformers film adaptation, which was credited with broadening Hasbro into a character-based multimedia company.

Brian Goldner was responsible for making Hasbro a licensee of Disney's Marvel Universe characters.

Brian Goldner compared the move of these characters to cinema during his tenure to the way they had expanded from mere adverts to television series in the 1980s.

In 2012, Brian Goldner's pay package was estimated to be around $9.68 million.

In 2018, Brian Goldner drew on his friendship with Saban to acquire first the master toy license for Power Rangers, then several months later the franchise and other properties from Saban Brands for $522 million.

Brian Goldner took an immediate leave of absence as CEO of Hasbro for medical reasons on October 10,2021, and died a day later, at his home in Barrington, Rhode Island, at age 58.