Sandy Climan is President of Entertainment Media Ventures, Inc., a Los Angeles-based company active in media investment and strategic advisory work, as well as motion picture and television production. In additon to One Key, current advisory clients include Ford Motor Company, Harrah’s Entertainment, Pure Video, SendMe Mobile, Beliefnet, and Imagination Entertainment.

In the worlds of film and television, Mr. Climan’s productions have included his Co-executive Producer work on the CBS primetime series “Robbery Homicide Divison,” and his work as a Producer of the feature film “The Aviator,” directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Leonardo Di Caprio, for which Mr. Climan was awarded a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award.

Prior to forming Entertainment Media Ventures, from 1986 to 1999, Mr. Climan was a member of the senior management team at Creative Artisits Agency (“CAA”), a leading talent and literary representation firm, working with both talent and corporate clients. Mr. Climan built CAA’s corporate representation practice from its inception in 1987, representing and advising a wide range of companies, including Sony, Matsushita, Coca-Cola, Seagram, and several Regional Bell Operating Companies. As a talent agent, Mr. Climan represented many major actors, directors, writers and producers, including Danny DeVito, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Michael Mann. He also represented a significant group of film production companies, including Jersey Films, Wildwood, Tribeca and Tig Productions.

Mr. Climan’s long tenure at CAA had one two-year period, from 1995 to 1997, where he left CAA to take a senior executive position at Universal Studios, Inc., where he served as Executive Vice President and President of Worldwide Business Development. At Universal, Mr. Climan oversaw corporate international strategy, strategy marketing and five studio operating divisions: Consumer Products, Home Video, Pay Television, New Media and Spencer Gifts.

Prior to joining CAA, Mr. Climan held various executive positions in the entertainment industry. He served as President of Lion’s Gate Studios; President of Wescom Productions, a subsidiary of Chronicle Publishing; and Vice President of Production for The David Gerber Company, a major independent television company. He began his career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, overseeing pay-television, international theatrical distribution and, later, working in feature film production.

Mr. Climan serves on the boards of The American Cinematheque, The Chief Executive Leadership Institute of the Yale School of Mangement; The Fulfillment Fund (an educational mentoring program in Los Angeles); UCLA School of Public Health; Whistling Woods International Institute for Film, Television & Media Arts in Mumbai, India; and The James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness. Mr. Climan also serves as an advisor on entertainment and media to the World Economic Forum and its Annual Gathering in Davos, Switzerland.

Mr. Climan did his undergraduate work at Harvard College, and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from the Harvard School of Public Health. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lori and their two sons.