It’s a time of transformation across Los Angeles—a period of palpable change that presents challenges and, more importantly, potential. Propelled by a local economy that expanded by roughly 3% in 2018, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the region’s businesses are reshaping the city in myriad ways. Not surprisingly, the people who comprise this year’s LA500 are featured players in the city’s development. Their vision, energy and resourcefulness are on full display as they bring about changes to Los Angeles that run from the subtle to the seismic. READ MORE>
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
Anna Magzanyan
Publisher & CEO
LA500 FEATURES
- LA500 Leaders Reshape Region With Infrastructure Spending Boom
- Innovative Startup Founders Refashion the Fashion Business
- Deep-Pocket Donors Drive Massive Projects at Museums, Arts Venues
- Executives at Streaming Services Increase Content Production Across Hollywood
LA500 LIST
- Raul Anaya
- Bita Ardalan
- Timothy Armour
- Mark Attanasio
- Ed Bagdasarian
- Thomas Barrack
- Darrin Beer
- Scott Beiser
- Donald Bizub
- Claudia Bodan
- Todd Boehly
- Kevin Burke
- Ron Burkle
- Michael Casey
- Dunson Cheng
- Kelly Coffey
- David Cohen
- John Danhakl
- Olivier de Givenchy
- Philip de Toledo
- Jacky Dilfer
- Jason DiNapoli
- Mike Dokmanovich
- Gene Dunford
- Behdad Eghbali
- Lewis Feldman
- José Feliciano
- Steve Flynn
- Rob Francais
- Jim Freedman
- Joshua Friedman
- Jeffrey Glassman
- Stanley Gold
- Russell Goldsmith
- Alec Gores
- Tom Gores
- Bob Graziano
- Lloyd Greif
- Jeffrey Gundlach
- Jim Haney
- Don Hankey
- Jeri Harman
- David Kaplan
- Bruce Karsh
- Richard Kayne
- Kevin Kim
- Joanne Kim
- Brad Larsen
- Bonita “Bonnie” Lee
- Lauren Leichtman
- Arthur Levine
- David Lippman
- David MacDonald
- Howard Marks
- Howard Marks
- Rory McKinney
- Rudy Medina
- Noor Menai
- Ron Meraz
- Douglas Merrill
- Kevin Miller
- Scott Minerd
- Kenneth Moelis
- Joel Montminy
- Andy Moore
- Charlie Munger
- Bruce Munster
- Christopher Myers
- Marc Nathanson
- Dominic Ng
- Jocelyn Pastore
- Nishen Radia
- Jason Reese
- Michael Reinstein
- Antony Ressler
- Bryant Riley
- Bennett Rosenthal
- David Shaheen
- Kevin Shields
- Robert Sinnott
- Jonathan Sokoloff
- Marc Stern
- Steve Streit
- Duane Stullich
- Stender Sweeney II
- Peter Thiel
- Betty Uribe
- Mark Vidergauz
- Matthew Wagner
- Daniel Walker
- Eric Wedbush
- Gary Winnick
- Randall Wooster
- J.J. Abrams
- Byron Allen
- Irving Azoff
- David Benioff
- Alan Bergman
- Karen Brodkin
- Stephen Burke
- Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter
- Maverick Carter
- Peter Chernin
- Ted Chervin
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Ava DuVernay
- Michael Eisner
- Ariel Emanuel
- Jon Feltheimer
- Jennifer Ferro
- Randy Freer
- Bob Gazzale
- Jim Gianopulos
- Sam Gores
- Lucian Grainge
- Brian Grazer
- Alan Horn
- Dawn Hudson
- Kevin Huvane
- Robert Iger
- James Iovine
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
- Kathleen Kennedy
- Beyoncé Knowles Carter
- Donna Langley
- Kevin LeGrett
- Tim Leiweke
- Bryan Lourd
- Richard Lovett
- Ron Meyer
- Ilyanne Morden Kichaven
- Rupert Murdoch
- James Murdoch
- Lachlan Murdoch
- Sam Nazarian
- David Nevins
- Jordan Peele
- Jay Penske
- Michael Rapino
- Sumner Redstone
- Shonda Rhimes
- Tom Ryan
- Haim Saban
- Jennifer Salke
- Ted Sarandos
- Frank Scherma
- Ryan Seacrest
- Jeff Shell
- Maria Shriver
- Chris Silbermann
- Bill Simmons
- Michael Sitrick
- Jeffrey Skoll
- Stacey Snider
- Steven Spielberg
- D.B. Weiss
- Patrick Whitesell
- Oprah Winfrey
- Paul Yanover
- Andre “Dr. Dre” Young
- Jeremy Zimmer
- Josh Altman
- Rob Antrobius
- Santiago Arana
- Sonny Astani
- Peter Belisle
- John Bendheim
- Stanley Black
- Phil Brodkin
- Sean Burton
- Rick Caruso
- Victor Coleman
- Arthur Coppola
- Chris Cortazzo
- John Cushman III
- Paul DeMartini
- Bert Dezzutti
- Todd Doney
- Josh Flagg
- Sally Forster Jones
- Tom Gilmore
- Ronald Havner Jr.
- Rick Hilton
- Lewis Horne
- Jeff Hyland
- John Kilroy
- Aaron Kirman
- Shaul Kuba
- Jonathan Larsen
- Garrett Lee
- Jaime Lee
- Syd Leibovitch
- Kevin Litwin
- Robert Lowe
- Jay Luchs
- Robert Maguire III
- James Malone
- Andrew McDonald
- Alex Meruelo
- Jade Mills
- Steve Needleman
- David Offer
- Thomas O’Hern
- Geoffrey Palmer
- Tami Pardee
- Gerald Porter
- Kurt Rappaport
- Wayne Ratkovich
- Richard Ressler
- Nelson Rising
- Christopher Rising
- Edward Roski Jr.
- David Schwartzman
- Nick Segal
- Kevin Shannon
- Avi Shemesh
- Sandy Sigal
- Jerome “Jerry” Snyder
- Stephen Somer
- Donald Sterling
- Rochelle ”Shelly” Sterling
- Mark Sullivan
- Frank Symons
- James Travers
- Mauricio Umansky
- Nadine Watt
- Mark Weinstein
- Richard Weintraub
- Justin Weiss
- Jeffrey Worthe
- Richard Ziman
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