Alan Cole-Ford
Alan is a 15-year veteran of the entertainment industry,
who has also been involved in the worlds of private equity
and education. He was Executive Vice President of strategy
and Development at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. engineering
the company’s turnaround and sale. He was instrumental in
forming MGM’s interactive division in 1995, and had responsibilities
for the Company’s brand development efforts in 1996. For
a period of ten years, Cole-Ford occupied a number of influential
positions at Paramount Communications in New York, the 7-
billion-dollar parent company of Paramount Pictures, Simon
& Schuster, and The Madison Square Garden Group. In 1987
he was appointed Corporate Vice President and Chief Business
Development Officer of the Company.
Following his career in the entertainment industry, Alan
Cole-Ford served as the CEO of the NVST, a private equity
company in the area of technology. He was Managing Director
of Capital Angels Net, a private equity investment group
in Silicon Valley that established more than fifteen start-up
companies with more than 26 million dollars in seed-stage
funding since its foundation in 1999.
Alan has consulted extensively with organizations in the
knowledge sector, including The Brookings Institution in
Washington D.C, and VNU Business Media (covering some of
the most powerful industries in the world including entertainment,
media, marketing and real estate). His interest is applying
sophisticated storytelling techniques and talent from the
entertainment industry to higher education.
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