Chair and Chief Executive , Sony Pictures Entertainment

Heading the smallest of Hollywood’s five major movie studios, Vinciquerra navigates the video streaming revolution as an “arms dealer” — auctioning rights to its content to the highest bidder. The results are fat quarterly profits from content sales and not investing billions to launch a mass-market streaming platform, as the other four majors did. Two years ago, Netflix and Disney locked in five-year deals to license Sony content. In November, Legendary Entertainment contracted to distribute its films via Sony. The Culver City-based Vinciquerra joined Sony in 2017, and previously worked in private equity and Fox.

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