PERSON: Jeffrey Katzenberg

WndrCo

Founder & Managing Partner

Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənˌbɜːrɡ/; born December 21, 1950) is an American film producer and media proprietor. He was the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, overseeing production and business operations for the company’s feature films. After departing Disney, he co-founded DreamWorks Animation in 1994, where he served as the company’s CEO and producer of its animated franchises such as Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in 2017, which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi the following year, a defunct short-form mobile video platform which lost US$1.35 billion in seven months.

Katzenberg has also been involved in politics. With his active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named “one of Hollywood’s premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party’s top national fund-raisers”. He is a campaign co-chair of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.

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