Mr. Suhail R. Rizvi
Co-Founder, Head, and Chief Investment Officer
Age: 51
Mr. John Angelo Giampetroni
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Mr. Todd Knowles CPA
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Ben Kohn
Managing Partner
Mr. Hayden V. Bower CPA
Managing Director
Recent Private Companies Transactions:
>Merger/Acquisition January 4, 2017
>SESAC Holdings, Inc.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/playboy-ceo-exits-as-magazine-explores-sale-1464735204
Playboy Enterprises Inc. Chief Executive Scott Flanders, who orchestrated the storied magazine’s move away from nudity, is leaving as the company explores a sale.
Ben Kohn, managing partner at Rizvi Traverse Management, has been named interim CEO, the company announced Tuesday. In 2011, the private-equity firm took Playboy private alongside founder Hugh Hefner, who holds a roughly one-third stake in the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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A lot of the archives are from October 11, 2013. What happened around that time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhail_Rizvi
Archive: http://archive.is/bY2kY
What is Rizvi Traverse Management? Here's the page describing Suhail Rizvi's role but the site doesn't exist anymore. http://archive.is/ss51C
>Due to his large stake in Twitter, both personally and for other investors, he was the subject of media scrutiny at the time of Twitter's IPO; he is notoriously private
Archive of NYT story describing Twitter IPO: Page 1: http://archive.fo/v6kCv
Page 2: https://archive.is/Soea0
Has a 15% stake in Twitter worth over a billion dollars: http://archive.is/5JSDH
Is on the Board of the Wharton School in Pennsylvania: http://archive.is/WaeV
Bloomberg Overview of Suhail Rizvi circa 2013: http://archive.is/F6yel
> In April 2007, Rizvi Traverse acquired an equity ownership stake in Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the successful “Twilight” series. In January 2012, Lions Gate announced that it had acquired Summit Entertainment for $412.5 million.: http://archive.is/cm6NA
>In 2005, his firm acquired controlling interest in International Creative Management: http://archive.is/SVdq1
What is International Creative Management: http://archive.is/ApssU
http://archive.is/hvSPG
>After management problems with the Hollywood talent agency, Rizvi Traverse Management exchanged its equity, "for a combination of cash, preferred non-voting shares and an ongoing interest in certain assets of the company: http://archive.is/U6Mte
> The firm also helped Hugh Hefner buy back Playboy Enterprises in 2011: http://archive.is/ukx2m
>Hugh Hefner
>deal to make Playboy privately-owned
>In November 2015, the company announced the acquisition of 3D cinema technology firm RealD for $551 million: http://archive.is/OHZyg
http://archive.is/AQFkT
Via Wikipedia:
Suhail R. Rizvi is co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Rizvi Traverse Management LLC. He has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and sits on the Wharton Undergraduate Executive Board.
A venture capitalist, his investments include Twitter, Facebook, Flipboard and Square.
Due to his large stake in Twitter, both personally and for other investors, he was the subject of media scrutiny at the time of Twitter's IPO; he is notoriously private. Along with social media, Rizvi has invested in telecommunications and entertainment.
In April 2007, Rizvi Traverse acquired an equity ownership stake in Summit Entertainment, the studio behind the successful “Twilight” series. In January 2012, Lions Gate announced that it had acquired Summit Entertainment for $412.5 million.