41 Facts About Peter Guber

Howard Peter Guber was born on March 1,1942 and is an American business executive, entrepreneur, educator, and author.

Peter Guber has produced Rain Man, Batman, The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Gorillas in the Mist, The Witches of Eastwick, Missing, and Flashdance.

Peter Guber's films have grossed over $3 billion worldwide and received 50 Academy Award nominations.

Peter Guber is co-owner of four professional sports teams: the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Football Club of Major League Soccer, and the professional eSports organization aXiomatic Gaming with a controlling interest in one of the world's premier eSports franchises, Team Liquid.

Peter Guber is chairman of the Strategic Board; was an investor in NextVR, which sold to Apple in 2020; and is chairman of Mandalay Sports Media.

Peter Guber is co-executive chairman of aXiomatic, a broad-based esports and gaming company.

Peter Guber is a Regent of the University of California and a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

For 10 years, Peter Guber was an entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business.

Peter Guber is noted for other books that include Inside the Deep and Shootout: Surviving Fame and Fortune in Hollywood, which became a television series on AMC called Shootout.

Peter Guber wrote a cover article for the Harvard Business Review, titled "The Four Truths of the Storyteller".

Peter Guber was born to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth and Sam Peter Guber.

Peter Guber's father owned a junk business in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Peter Guber attended John Ward Elementary School and Newton North High School.

Peter Guber's childhood included a love of the Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park, which foreshadowed his later participation in the group that purchased the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Peter Guber played intramural football and rushed the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.

Peter Guber spent his junior year abroad at Syracuse's Florence, Italy campus.

Peter Guber enrolled at New York University, where he earned his JD and LL.

Peter Guber joined Columbia Pictures in 1968, as assistant to Jerry Tokofsky, who headed the studio's creative affairs department, which had the tasks of evaluating scripts and overseeing actors, directors, and producers.

Peter Guber paid to fly himself to Columbia's New York City office and successfully argued for his promotion to vice-president of creative affairs.

Peter Guber launched his career as an independent film producer with The Deep, which became the one of the highest-grossing films of the year.

Peter Guber bought the rights and served as executive producer for Midnight Express.

In 1976, Peter Guber merged his company Filmworks with Casablanca Records, headed by Neil Bogart, to form Casablanca Record and Filmworks, Inc Peter Guber became chairman while Bogart remained president of the combined company.

In 1980, Peter Guber rechristened the film division of Casablanca Filmworks as PolyGram Pictures, which was going to be PolyGram's motion picture and television division where he was Chairman of the Board and CEO.

Peter Guber sold his interest in PolyGram in 1982 and then formed and served as co-owner of the Guber-Peters Company, along with producer Jon Peters.

Films on which Peter Guber served as producer or executive producer have earned more than $3 billion in worldwide revenue and more than 50 Academy Award nominations, including four Best Picture nominations.

In 1995, Peter Guber formed Mandalay Entertainment as a joint venture with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

From best-selling author Nora Roberts, Peter Guber adapted a number of books into Lifetime movies.

Peter Guber serves as chairman of the board of directors and is the managing partner of Mandalay Baseball LLC, which is a joint venture with ownership of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Peter Guber previously served as the chairman of the board of directors for Mandalay Baseball Properties, which has owned and operated a national array of affiliated Minor League Baseball franchises and venues.

Peter Guber serves as the Co-Executive Chairman of the Golden State Warriors.

The Golden State Warriors won the 2014 Sports Business Journal Award for Team of the Year, with the publication noting that the team "[c]ontinued a sharp trajectory in 2013 under owners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber that produced strong, extensive on- and off-court gains".

Peter Guber is an owner of the 2020 MLB World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

In October 2014, Peter Guber became the owner and executive chairman of Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Football Club.

Peter Guber authored a cover piece for the Harvard Business Review and op-ed pieces for The New York Times.

Peter Guber is a professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, Television and Digital Media and has been a member of the faculty for over 30 years, teaching courses on leadership, digital media, sports entertainment and business storytelling.

Peter Guber is a member of the UCLA Foundation board of trustees, as well as the winner of UCLA's Service Award for his accomplishments and association with the university.

In 2017, Peter Guber received the UCLA Medal, the highest honor bestowed upon an individual by UCLA.

In 2017, Guber was appointed to the University of California board of regents by the governor of California, Edmund G Brown, Jr.

In 2012, Peter Guber was named one of the "Twelve Great Speakers of the Year" by Successful Meetings magazine.

In 2016, Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis, former Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Bruce Stein and Peter Guber founded aXiomatic, a bi-coastal ownership group with a focus on investing in and acquiring esports companies.

Leonsis, Stein and Peter Guber recruited the likes of Johnson, AOL co-founder Steve Case and others as investors in aXiomatic.