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http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4927634-1.html
Artisan is owned by a group of financiers including Bain Capital; Richland, Gordon & Co. of Chicago; and Canyon Partners of Beverly Hills. More recently, Allen & Co. has hopped aboard and Artisan has already formed “exit” strategies, which in the not-so-distant future consist of raising public funds, merging with a studio, or cashing out in another private placement.
Mr. Alan D. Gordon is the President at Richland, Gordon & Company. He is also the President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director at Atlantica Inc. Mr. Gordon is also the Chief Financial Officer, Principal Financial Officer, and Principal Accounting Officer at Sungard Avantgard (US) Inc. He serves as Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Getpaid LLC. He served as Vice President of Getpaid LLC. He is also Chairman of ALDA Office Properties, Inc. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at AmeriSports Companies, L.L.C. Mr. Gordon has been the Vice Chairman of Artisan Entertainment Inc. since January 2000 and Director since July 1997. He has been a Director of Varsity Spirit Corporation since 1989. Mr. Gordon holds a B.A., Cum Laude, from Dartmouth College in 1977.
http://www.canyonpartners.com/about/people/
Joshua S. Friedman - Founding Partner, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO
Joshua S. Friedman is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC. Mr. Friedman is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Physics), Oxford University (M.A., honors, Politics and Economics, Marshall Scholar), Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude), and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., Baker Scholar). Prior to forming Canyon, Mr. Friedman was Director of Capital Markets for High Yield and Private Placements at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to working at Drexel, he worked in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of Goldman Sachs in New York. Mr. Friedman is also a director and trustee of a number of nonprofit and charitable organizations.
Mitchell R. Julis - Founding Partner, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO
Mitchell R. Julis is Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO of Canyon Partners, LLC. Mr. Julis is a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude), and Harvard Business School (M.B.A., honors). Prior to forming Canyon, Mr. Julis directed a group of professionals responsible for a portfolio of distressed and special situation securities at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to working at Drexel, he was a bankruptcy and creditors’ rights attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. Mr. Julis has authored a number of articles published in law journals and other periodicals on the subject of bankruptcy and distressed credit investing.