Ryan Kavanaugh is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Relativity, a next-generation studio. The company is engaged in multiple aspects of entertainment, including film and television financing, production and distribution; music publishing; sports management and digital media. Kavanaugh is a highly successful producer and global expert in film finance. Under his leadership, Relativity has produced, distributed or structured financing for more than 200 motion pictures generating more than $17 billion in worldwide box-office revenue and earning 60 Oscar® nominations.

Among the newest Relativity films Kavanaugh has produced or executive produced are McG’s Three Days to Kill, starring Kevin Costner; Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace, with Christian Bale and Zoe Saldana; and Luc Besson’s The Family, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones.

Previous Relativity productions include Safe Haven, directed by Lasse Hallström; Mirror Mirror, starring Julia Roberts; Immortals, which grossed more than $225 million worldwide; Neil Burger’s thriller Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper; David O. Russell’s The Fighter, which earned seven Oscar nominations and won two; and David Fincher’s The Social Network (executive producer), which received eight Oscar nominations.

Kavanaugh began his entertainment industry career as the architect of innovative slate-financing arrangements for a number of major studios. He crafted feature-film funding structures for Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. and others, introducing more than $10 billion in capital to the sector. Relativity evolved from a finance and production company into a full-fledged movie studio after Kavanaugh led its acquisition of Overture Films’ marketing and distribution operations in 2010. He further strengthened the studio’s distribution network by negotiating a first-of-its-kind television deal with Netflix, forging a strategic partnership with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Mobile and Virgin Produced and overseeing the studio’s aggressive expansion into China.

Tucker Tooley is the President of Relativity Media, a next-generation studio. He oversees the company’s day-to-day operations, business divisions, personnel, and all aspects of its theatrical film slate. Since Tooley joined the company in 2007, the film division has earned numerous Oscar® and Golden Globe ® nominations and three of its releases have opened at No. 1 at the box office.

Tooley oversees all of Relativity’s divisions: film, music, home entertainment, TV sales, digital distribution and the digital content studio. He is also responsible for marketing, theatrical distribution and the international business operations of Relativity’s network of foreign output partners, including 18 overall deals with international distributors around the world.

Tooley is also producer of the 2013 summer box-office hit We’re the Millers, starring Jason Sudeikis, Jennifer Aniston, Ed Helms and Emma Roberts, and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber.

Tooley has 20 years of experience in Film, Television and media and has Produced, Executive Produced or overseen over 100 movies.  Among the most recent Relativity films Tooley has executive produced or overseen are McG’s 3 Days to Kill, starring Kevin Costner; Luc Besson’sThe Family, starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Tommy Lee Jones; and Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Beyond the Lights.

Happy Walters has served as Relativity’s Co-President starting 2014 working alongside Tucker Tooley overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations, business divisions such as Music, Sports and Fashion as well as company personnel.  Prior to that Walters served as Relativity’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, helping to guide the company’s strategic direction.

Walters joined Relativity in 2008 as President of Relativity Music Group, bringing to the role more than 20 years of experience in a diverse array of entertainment disciplines including talent management, record-label ownership, film and television production, music distribution and publishing, music supervision and soundtrack production. He has supervised and created soundtracks for more than 60 films, including Immortals, The Fighter, Bridesmaids, Limitless, Brothers, Dear John, Spawn, There’s Something About Mary, Scream 2, American Pie, The Nutty Professor II, The Big Lebowski and Blade II.

Walters began his career in the early 1990s as owner and CEO of Buzztone Music, a management company representing recording artists. Later, he founded the independent record label Immortal Records, which launched and developed the careers of such seminal artists as Cypress Hill, House of Pain, Wu Tang Clan, Korn, Incubus, Rage Against the Machine, Velvet Revolver and Fleetwood Mac.

A certified NBA and NFL player agent, Walters also serves as CEO of Relativity Sports. The division, which was formed through the merger of Rogue Basketball, SFX Baseball and Maximum Football, ranks among the largest sports agencies in the United States. Walters has devoted a substantial part of his professional life to guiding and counseling pro athletes, participating in the management and negotiation of their team contracts in the U.S. and abroad, as well as shepherding their marketing and promotional activities. Athletes he represents include NBA stars Amar’e Stoudemire, Dwight Howard, Chandler Parsons, Monta Ellis, Jimmy Butler, Corey Brewer, DeJuan Blair, Maurice Harkless, Alonzo Gee, Bernard James, and Shane Larkin.

As Managing Director of Relativity Media, Carol Genis oversees the day-to-day operations of Relativity, directly managing corporate legal, business affairs and finance.

Prior to Relativity, Genis was an Equity Partner at K&L Gates for more than 20 years where she specialized in entertainment and intellectual property law, representing several major motion picture and television studios (including Relativity), distribution companies, authors, screenwriters and talent in connection with a variety of complex issues. She has represented clients in some of the industry’s largest financing transactions, as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances. A highly skilled litigator, Genis has successfully tried high profile commercial cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States.

Genis has consistently been named an Illinois “Super Lawyer” by “Chicago Magazine.” She earned both her undergraduate and law degrees from Northwestern University.

As Chief Financial Officer and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Relativity Media, Andrew Matthews supervises overall financial strategy and planning for the next-generation studio.

Before joining Relativity, Matthews served as President of RKO Pictures, Chief Operating Officer of Senator Entertainment, and Executive Vice President of Finance and International Affairs for New Line Cinema, leading these companies through significant growth cycles, restructurings, expansion of international business activities and multilayered capital market transactions.

He has managed projects totaling over $4 billion and raised over $3 billion in production financing through public and private markets. Matthews has participated in the development, production, acquisition and distribution of over 300 feature film and television projects, which have grossed more than $8 billion. These projects include The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Austin Powers series, Rush Hour and its sequels, Wedding Crashers, Magnolia, Seven and The Mask.

As Relativity Media’s Co-Chief Operating Officer, Gregory Shamo oversees the company’s corporate, business and legal affairs, technology, human resources and operations departments, working alongside Co-Chief Operating Officer Andrew Matthews to manage the company’s day-to-day activities. He has shepherded some of Relativity’s most significant deals, including the acquisition of Overture Films’ marketing and distribution assets, Relativity’s home entertainment distribution agreement with Twentieth Century Fox, a distribution joint venture with EuropaCorp and Relativity’s major finance agreements.

Shamo joined Relativity in 2009 as Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs/General Counsel and was promoted to Co-Chief Operating Officer in 2011. He had previously represented the company for two years as outside legal counsel at Loeb & Loeb, where his practice focused on entertainment finance and corporate representation. He represented Relativity’s co-financing film funds with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Studios and its acquisition of Rogue Pictures from Universal Studios, in addition to a broad range of other matters.

Prior to working at Loeb, Shamo represented banks and other lenders in commercial and corporate finance matters at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Before his tenure at Paul Hastings, Shamo maintained a bankruptcy practice at Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz. He began his career with a litigation practice at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.

Shamo graduated with distinction with a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. He earned his juris doctor at the University of Southern California, where he was a notes editor for the Southern California Law Review.

As Chief Marketing Officer of Relativity Media, Angela Courtin is responsible for all film, television and sports marketing initiatives as well as all branding and advertising campaigns across the company.

She also oversees Madvine, the company’s branded entertainment and consumer products arm, and Relativity Digital. In addition, Courtin is launching a new digital division that will grow Relativity’s audience and provide brands with a fully integrated approach to marketing. The division will partner with Relativity business units to develop, produce and distribute compelling original content.

Before joining Relativity, Courtin was President of Dentsu Aegis Network U.S. where she worked across the global agency’s stateside businesses, including Carat, McGarryBowen, Isobar, Vizeum, Posterscope, 360i and iProspect, and also helped launch The Story Lab, Dentsu’s branded content agency. Courtin previously served as Chief Content Officer for Aegis Media.

Prior to Aegis, Courtin’s roles included co-head of Integrated Marketing at MTV; Senior Vice President of Marketing, Entertainment & Content for MySpace; and associate producer on the hit HBO series “Big Love.” Courtin was named one of Ad Age’s “Women to Watch” for 2013 and one of the “30 Most Powerful Women in Advertising” by The Business Insider in 2012.

She was also featured in the OUT 100, Out magazine’s annual list of the year’s most influential LGBT people. Courtin is a recipient of the Spears School of Business Outstanding Young Alumni Award and was recognized as one of Oklahoma State University’s 50 distinguished MBA alumni of the past 50 years.

David Shane is Executive Vice President and Chief Communications Officer at Relativity. Shane is responsible for directing and developing the company’s global communication strategy.

Prior to Relativity, Shane opened the Los Angeles office of Hiltzik Strategies, a strategic communications firm representing influential companies and high-profile individuals in media, entertainment, sports, and politics. Earlier, he served as senior vice president of corporate communications for International Creative Management (ICM), one of Hollywood’s leading talent agencies.

In addition to his entertainment experience, Shane has deep expertise in the technology sector. In Silicon Valley, he served as vice president of global external communications at Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), the world’s largest technology company. At HP, Shane bolstered the company’s reputation, managed crisis communications, and led M&A communications efforts for nearly $20 billion in acquisitions. During his tenure, he secured Chairman and CEO Mark Hurd on the cover of Fortune’s “Word’s Most Admired Companies” issue, Forbes and Barrons.

Earlier in his career, David was vice president of public relations at Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSK). He began his career in television news at CBS in Philadelphia.

Honored with numerous accolades for his work, Shane has won an Emmy Award and was named to PR Week’s “40 Under 40” and “30 Under 30.” He holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Arthur Page Society, and The University of Pennsylvania’s Southern California Regional Advisory Board.