John Michael Fogelman was born on c 1965 and is an American entrepreneur.
14 Facts About John Fogelman
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John Fogelman is the CEO of FactoryMade Ventures, an entertainment and media incubator.
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Formerly Executive Vice President and Head of the Motion Picture Department and the Intellectual Property Group at the William Morris Agency, Fogelman was a principal architect of the merger between William Morris and Endeavor Talent Agency, and served as a founding board member and an agent after the companies merged in 2009.
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John Fogelman left William Morris Endeavor in 2011 to found FactoryMade.
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John Fogelman attended Tulane University and the University of Southern California and graduated with a BS in Accounting.
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John Fogelman graduated from the UCLA Anderson School of Management with an MBA in 1992.
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John Fogelman was named Head of the Motion Picture Talent Department in 2000, and in 2003 was appointed to the WMA Board of Directors.
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John Fogelman played a significant role in the 2009 merger of WMA and Endeavor, and was a founding board member for the newly formed company, William Morris Endeavor, where he continued to oversee the Strategic Planning and Development Group.
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John Fogelman's group created and brokered several Hasbro films for Universal Pictures.
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John Fogelman helped to build the framework for JJ Abrams' Bad Robot, Michael Bay's Bay Films and Platinum Dunes.
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In March 2011 John Fogelman resigned from WME to co-found FactoryMade Ventures with Cristina Patwa, who resigned from WME, where she was senior vice president and head of strategy and business development.
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In 2020, John Fogelman founded and launched with Cris Patwa, the James Beard Foundation, and Brad Pitt the sparkling cold brew tea company, Enroot.
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In November 2020, John Fogelman partnered with Marc Geiger to found SAVELIVE, an initiative to acquire equity in small clubs and help them to expand as they recover from the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Geiger and John Fogelman worked together as partners at William Morris for more than 10 years.