| We believe media and entertainment businesses represent uniquely attractive investment opportunities due to the growth opportunities offered by globalization and new technologies. Our focus on media and entertainment businesses, understanding of and experience with technology, and creative and management experience make us a unique partner for management teams and intellectual property owners. We partner with media and entertainment principals to support the creation and marketing of great content and insure it reaches the widest audience possible.
We are particularly interested in investment opportunities
in the following sectors:
- Interactive entertainment
- Music
- Online content
- Intellectual property assets
Elevation’s professionals have extensive experience building
and strengthening market-leading businesses. As CFO of Apple,
Fred Anderson helped transform the company into a market leader in consumer media and entertainment. Bono is the lead singer
and co-founder of U2, one of the most successful bands in the history
of the recorded music industry.
Roger McNamee has invested
in numerous leading consumer, media, and entertainment companies,
including venture investments in Electronic Arts, Blue Nile, Edmark,
Inktomi, Intuit, Knowledge Adventure, Overture, and Spectrum Holobyte.
Prior to Elevation, Roger was a co-founder and
Marc Bodnick was a founding principal of Silver Lake Partners,
which made large-scale private equity investments in leading technology
companies.
During Bret Pearlman’s
15+ years as a private equity investor with The Blackstone Group,
he invested in and served as a director of numerous companies including
Columbia House Holdings and InterMedia Partners VI.
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