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T H E S I X T E E N T H A N N UA L VISIONARY AWARDS P R E S E N T E D TO BILL CLARK HENRY MCGEE November 5, 2013 | The Beverly Hilton | Beverly Hills, CA From the Presidents W elcome to the 16th Annual Visionary Awards. We are so pleased you are able to join us tonight in honoring two outstanding individuals whose ongoing leadership and support in the fight against AIDS ensures that EAA’s work has meaningful impact each and every day. When we began this mission in 1989, we had no idea that we would still be “in business” heading into our 25th year. But the need to fund services for people living with HIV and AIDS, for prevention, education, clinical trials and research marches on and, in the midst of recession and recovery, relies all the more on our continued success. In receiving the 2013 Visionary Award, Bill Clark will join a distinguished group of men and women who are heroes in the cause. Throughout his years at Anchor Bay Entertainment, Bill has consistently supported EAA through sponsorships, media sales and countless other requests. He is always quick to respond in a positive way to any requests made of him, and for that we are grateful. This year marks only the second time in EAA’s history that we’ve recognized an honoree with the Lifetime Advocate Award. Henry McGee certainly meets and exceeds that rare standard. Whether in business, arts, cultural or humanitarian pursuits, his contributions are powerful and enduring. If you are fortunate enough to know Henry personally, you know how well this is reflected in his 34 years of success at HBO, in many years spent on the boards, as a trustee or in service on an executive committee of many a non-profit over at least as many years. It’s not so surprising that education is the next platform that he’s chosen to work from. The students at Harvard Business School are very fortunate to have him. And at EAA, we’re very grateful that Henry has agreed to continue supporting us as a member of our Honorary Board. This evening, our thanks go to both Henry and Bill for helping to sustain and improve the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of people that they will never meet. And for those, like us, who do in fact have the pleasure of knowing them personally, we express our congratulations and heartfelt appreciation for all that they’ve done and continue to do. Most Sincerely, Vallery Kountze Entertainment Marketing Solutions EAA Co-President 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS Sue Procko SPPR, Inc. EAA Co-President 3 2013 EAA VISIONARY AWARDS Entertainment AIDS Alliance’s Visionary Awards celebrate companies and individuals in the entertainment industry that honor us through their longtime commitment to fighting HIV and AIDS, and promoting philanthropy and the greater good of the communities we serve. Tuesday, November 5, 2013 The Beverly Hilton 9876 Wilshire Boulevard Beverly Hills, California Hosted by NIECY NASH HONOREES BILL CLARK HENRY MCGEE Lifetime Advocate Award 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS 5 We congratulate: Bill Clark, President of Anchor Bay Entertainment, Entertainment Aids Alliance Visionary Award C Henry McGee, Former HBO Home Entertainment President / Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School Entertainment Aids Alliance Lifetime Advocate Award. M Y CM MY CY CMY K SMARTER DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT 2013 LIFETIME ADVOCATE Henry McGee Senior Lecturer — Harvard Business School H enry McGee is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. A member of the General Management Unit, he teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA). In addition, he teaches film-based cases in the second-year elective course The Moral Leader. Prior to his appointment to the faculty in July 2013, McGee was president of HBO Home Entertainment, the DVD and digital program distribution division of Home Box Office, the world’s leading premium television company. HBO Home Entertainment’s extensive catalog includes hundreds of titles ranging from HBO’s critically acclaimed and groundbreaking series “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” to the epic HBO original miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific. With offices in New York, London and Toronto, the company’s titles are distributed in more than 70 countries around the globe. McGee joined HBO in 1979 and was named to the post of president in March 1995. Under McGee’s direction the company was one of the first in the video industry to use the Internet to expand its marketing beyond traditional vehicles and in 1995 launched its first website, hbohomevideo.com. In 2006 the company was the first in the world to release television programming in the new Blu-ray high-definition format. In 2008, the company expanded into selling digital versions of its titles via the Internet and that same year began utilizing innovative manufacturing-on-demand technology to broaden its number of releases. The recipient of numerous industry awards for his pioneering use of Internet-based marketing and early adoption of the high-definition format for the company’s releases, McGee was named one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in the entertainment business by Black Enterprise magazine. He is a former board member of Quickflix (ASX:QFX), Australia and New Zealand’s only subscription DVD and rental video streaming service. Since 2004, he has been a director of AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC), one of the nation’s top pharmaceutical service companies and No. 32 on the Fortune 500 list of the biggest corporations in the United States. He is president of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization, and serves on the boards of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Black Filmmaker Foundation. In the past, McGee has served as a trustee of the Sundance Institute, Radcliffe College, the Harvard Club of New York City, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the New 42nd Street, the organization overseeing the revitalization and management of seven historic theaters in Times Square. In 2004 the Harvard Business School African-American Alumni Association honored McGee with its Professional Achievement Award. That same year McGee also received the Entertainment AIDS Alliance Visionary Award. McGee was inducted into the Video Hall of Fame, one of the industry’s most prestigious honors, in 2008. Before joining HBO, McGee worked for three years as a reporter for Newsweek magazine in its New York and Washington, DC bureaus. He covered stories in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, education and entertainment and also served as an on-camera reporter for Newsweek Broadcasting. 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS 7 S O N Y P I C T U R E S E N T E R TA I N M E N T Proudly Salutes HENRY McGEE on receiving the 2013 Lifetime Advocate Award AND BILL CLARK on receiving the 2013 Visionary Award www.sonypictures.com © 2013 Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Joins the Entertainment AIDS Alliance in Congratulating BILL CLARK Recipient of the 2013 Visionary Award and HENRY MCGEE Recipient of the 2013 Lifetime Advocate Award Thank You For Raising Awareness for AIDS Research & Service Organizations 2013 VISIONARY Bill Clark President – Anchor Bay Entertainment B ill Clark oversees all aspects of sales, marketing, acquisitions and product development strategy for Anchor Bay Entertainment worldwide. In late 2010, he negotiated a deal with The Weinstein Company for the home entertainment distribution rights to their films. The first release was the 2011 Academy™ Award-winner for Best Picture – The King’s Speech. This past year, the company released another Academy Award-winner for Best Picture with Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained. The overall agreement includes both TWC and Dimension titles as well as the successful “Scream,” “Spy Kids” and “Scary Movie” franchises and new installments in the “Hellraiser,” “Halloween” and “Children of the Corn” film series. In 2008, he launched the Anchor Bay Films division, the theatrical unit of Anchor Bay Entertainment. Since its inception, the company has acquired more than 100 films featuring talent such as Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Andy Garcia, Maria Bello, Al Pacino, Rooney Mara, Christopher Walken, Kim Cattrell, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, Justin Timberlake and Vera Farmiga to name only a few. Under his direction, Anchor Bay Entertainment offers quality distribution with offices in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. In addition to films, the company releases numerous TV on disc titles under Clark’s direction, including all of the Starz Original Series. Most recently, the company released season three of the award-winning and extremely popular AMC series “The Walking Dead.” The company also expanded its agreement with AMC to include any new original series by AMC, IFC and Sundance Channel. Anchor Bay Entertainment is a category leader in the fitness arena in both the U.S. and Britain. Under Clark’s direction, the company has many proprietary brands as well as several successful licensed fitness brands. Anchor Bay is also the distributor of the world’s fastest growing sports organization, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) product. The company is also the category leader in anime in the U.K. A true veteran in the field of home entertainment, his career spans all aspects of the film, television, video, music, live theater and interactive/new media businesses but more importantly includes numerous groundbreaking and innovative strategies, deal structures, business models and operational improvements at each stop along the way. Clark has been a force in the entertainment industry for over 25 years most recently serving as COO and CFO of Ventura Entertainment Enterprises. Under his direction, the company was packaged and sold to First Look Entertainment. Prior to Ventura, he served in several senior management positions including worldwide COO of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, COO of Spelling Entertainment, COO/CFO Priority Records and SVP positions for EMI Music and The Walt Disney Studios. In those roles he developed and oversaw a wide array of new media and digital strategies and initiatives, spearheaded the launch of Universal’s global DVD business and was responsible for the creation and management of several incremental revenue and business opportunities along with the revitalization of catalog brands and significant operational efficiencies. He started his entertainment industry career with CBS and held positions in both its International Record and Broadcasting Operating groups. 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS 9 Niecy Nash N iecy Nash was born and raised in Los Angeles and at the age of 5, she witnessed performances by the actress Lola Falana, which inspired her to chase her Hollywood dreams. She has since achieved her dream by becoming an actress, as well as a wife and a mother of three over the last 17 years. When asked what her hobbies are, Niecy proudly replies, “motherhood,” which she considers her greatest success in life. Niecy has hosted and starred in her own Yahoo Web series titled, “Let’s Talk About Love.” Audiences tuned in each week to listen to her hilarious, no-nonsense perspectives on love, dating and relationships. The series premiered in October 2011. She also starred in her own reality docu-series called “Leave It To Niecy,” which debuted in March 2012 on TLC. This came right after Niecy partnered with TLC in the summer of 2011 to follow her as she planned the wedding of her dreams to then-fiancé Jay Tucker. The entire wedding experience aired as a 2-hour television event that over 5 million viewers tuned in to watch. The event was so heartwarming it inspired the docu-series that shows the blending of two families and the hilarity that ensues. In May of 2013 Niecy released her first book, It’s Hard to Fight Naked through Simon & Schuster. In this hilarious, heartfelt book of no-nonsense dating and relationship wisdom, Niecy tells it like it is as she invites you to think differently about traditional norms in hopes of finding the love you deserve. Niecy stars in the TV Land series “The Soul Man” opposite Cedric the Entertainer, and has appeared on an episode on the reality show “Celebrity Wife Swap” on ABC. Niecy is also a series regular on HBO’s “Getting On,” which is set to premiere later this year. Niecy also can be seen starring in two successful TV projects simultaneously: She hosted the Style Network’s #1 rated home makeover show “Clean House” and was a celebrity panelist on the top-rated CBS entertainment news program “The Insider.” For her work on “Clean House,” Niecy won a Daytime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Special Class Special category as Producer/Host in 2010 and The American Women In Radio & Television honored Niecy with the 2007 Gracie Allen Award for Outstanding Program Host. 10 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS About EAA E ntertainment AIDS Alliance (EAA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to funding research, treatment services and prevention programs for HIV and AIDS. 2013 EAA OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Our grantees include community-based non-profits serving diverse populations affected by AIDS as well as organizations whose research and thought-leadership have a global effect on the cause. We’ve distributed over $5 million to more than 155 unique beneficiaries nationwide — a sum that represents over 80% of funds raised. Since our founding in 1989 as the Video Industry AIDS Action Committee (VIAAC), our family of supporters has grown from a committed group of industry professionals to companies and individuals from the entertainment industry, its supply chains, and other affiliated service industries. Thanks to their contributions and influence, we continue to drive awareness and funding to stop a growing epidemic that affects millions of adults and children worldwide. EAA maintains no offices and is run almost entirely by pro bono professionals and volunteers. Co-Presidents: VALLERY KOUNTZE AND SUE PROCKO Vice President PHIL MCKENNA Secretary SILVIA LEYVA Treasurer JEFF JENEST Asst. Treasurer KYLAN FRANCIS Chief Marketing Officer KEVIN MARK LODIE BRETT BROWN BARBARA JAVITZ Executive Director EAA halfpage Ad.pdf 1 2013 VISIONARY HONORS 10/24/13 4:13 PM HEATHER HINKEL 11 Lifetime Advocate Award Beneficiary G od’s Love We Deliver is the New York metropolitan area’s leading provider of life-sustaining meals and nutrition counseling for people living with severe illnesses. Begun as an HIV/AIDS service organization, today God’s Love provides for people living with more than 200 individual diagnoses. God’s Love cooks and home delivers the specific, nutritious meals a client’s severe illness and treatment so urgently require. Meals are individually tailored for each client by one of our Registered Dietitians, and all clients have access to unlimited nutrition counseling. God’s Love supports families by providing meals for the children and senior caregivers of its clients. All of the agency’s services are provided free of charge, and in its history of more than 28 years, God’s Love We Deliver has never had a waiting list. For more information, visit godslovewedeliver. org. God’s Love is a non-sectarian organization. Follow God’s Love on Facebook (facebook.com/godslovewedeliver) and on Twitter and Instagram (@godslovenyc) and join the conversation with #FoodisMedicine THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY IS PROUD TO CONGRATULATE BILL CLARK ON HIS VISIONARY AWARD Past EAA Lifetime Advocate Award Recipient 2012 David Bishop, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Past EAA Visionary Honorees 2012 Chris Long, DIRECTV Amazon.com, accepted by Dana Luthy 2011 Walmart, accepted by Louis Greth Steve Tisch, The Steve Tisch Foundation Pam Grier Ted Sarandos, Netflix Jim Urie, Universal Music Group Distribution and Vivendi Visual Entertainment New Orleans Task Force 2005 Buena Vista Home Entertainment Steve Feldstein, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment David Kahn, DMK Entertainment Kimbirly Orr, Advanstar Communications, VIAAC AIDS Project Los Angeles Target Stores, accepted by Darrell Tucker Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, accepted by Lori MacPherson Sandy Friedman, DreamWorks Home Entertainment Joe Amodei, Hart Sharp Video Neal Hettinger and Nigel Sherry, Lead Pencil Advertising and Design Dave Rubenstein, Cinram International Inc. Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Services of Greater Kansas City 2007 2004 Richard Foos, Shout! Factory Vicki Greenleaf, Greenleaf & Associates Ron Sanders, Warner Home Video Aid for AIDS Thomas K. Arnold, Video Store Magazine David Bishop, MGM Home Entertainment Fritz Friedman, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment Henry McGee, HBO Video Sue Procko, Sue Procko Public Relations The Actor’s Fund Ben Feingold, Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment Eileen Fitzpatrick, Billboard Shane Rasmussen, Buena Vista Home Entertainment Don Rosenberg, Advanstar Communications Steve Scavelli, Flash Distributors UCLA AIDS Institute and Dr. Peter Anton 2003 2000 Jim Cardwell, Warner Home Video Bob Chapek, Michael Becker, Video Room Steve Beeks, Artisan 2009 Michele Bell, Paramount Home Entertainment 2008 2006 Kelley Avery, Paramount Worldwide Home Entertainment Tim Fournier, Anchor Bay Entertainment Maral Kaloustian, mPRm Public Relations 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS 2002 Stephen Einhorn, New Line Home Entertainment Ray Jewell, Mister Video Maria LaMagra Arny Schorr, Rhino Home Video AIDS Action Committee 2001 Home Entertainment Marty Greenwald, Image Entertainment Tony Lynn, Playboy Entertainment Group Jere Rae-Mansfield, monterey media Debbie Sleezer, Playboy Entertainment Group Tom Rooney, Panasonic Disc Services Corporation 1999 Bruce Apar, Video Business Tylie Jones, Tylie Jones & Associates Mitch Koch, Buena Vista Home Entertainment Bill Mechanic, 20th Century Fox Dave Mount, WEA Janice Whiffen, Event411.com, VIAAC 1998 Steve Ades, Fast Forward Marketing Louis Feola, Universal Family & Home Entertainment Production Bernie Gainey, PDS Vallery Kountze, The Art of Giving, VIAAC Len Levy, VIAAC Tania Moloney, DreamWorks SKG Bill O’Brien, Cahners Travel Group Jeff Jenest, Playboy 13 EAA’s Beneficiaries CURRENT/STANDING: tAIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), Los Angeles, CA tAIDS Project New Haven, CT tAIDS Research Alliance (ARA), Los Angeles, CA tCallen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York City tColorado AIDS Project, Denver, CO tCommon Ground, Santa Monica, CA tKeep a Child Alive, Brooklyn, NY tLos Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center/Griffith Center, Los Angeles, CA tLos Angeles Jewish AIDS Services, Los Angeles, CA tProject Angel Food, Los Angeles, CA tThe Actors Fund, New York City, NY tUCLA AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA tVillage Health Foundation, Los Angeles, CA PAST/ROTATING: qA Positive Approach, Rapid City, SD tAction AIDS Philadelphia, PA tAID Atlanta, Atlanta, GA tAid for AIDS/Serra Project, W Hollywood/Pasadena, CA tAIDS Action Baltimore, Inc., Baltimore, MD tAIDS Action Coalition, Huntsville, AL tAIDS Action Council Boston, MA tAIDS Action Committee of MA, Boston tAIDS Action Foundation, National 14 tAIDS Alabama, Birmingham, AL tAIDS Community Residence Assn, Durham, NC tAIDS Delaware, Wilmington, DE tAIDS Foundation Houston, TX tAIDS Foundation of Chicago, Chicago, IL tAIDS Foundation St. Louis, St. Louis, MO tAIDS Fund, Inc. (was Tidewater AIDS Crisis Taskforce), Norfolk, VA tAIDS Leadership FoothillsArea Alliance, Hickory, NC tAIDS Outreach Center, Fort Worth, TX tAIDS Project Arizona, Phoenix, AR tAIDS Project of Central Iowa, Des Moines, IA tAIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA tAIDS Project New Haven, New Haven, CT tAIDS Project Ventura County, CA tAIDS Resource Center, Dallas, TX tAIDS Resource Center of WI, Milwaukee, WI tAIDS Rochester, NY tAIDS Service Center, Pasadena, CA tAIDS Service Center, Bethlehem, PA tAIDS Services Foundation Orange County, CA tAIDS Task Force of Alabama, Birmingham, AL tAIDS Task Force Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA tAIDS/HIV Health Alternatives, N Hollywood, CA tAlliance of AIDS Services – Carolina, Raleigh, NC tAmigos Sin Barerras, Long Beach, CA tAthens AIDS Task Force, Athens, OH tB.E.A.T. AIDS Coalition, San Antonio, TX tBeing Alive Long Beach, Long Beach, CA tBelle Reve, New Orleans, LA tBering Community Service Foundation, Houston, TX tBethany Place, Belleville, IL tBienstar, Los Angeles, CA tCalcutta House, Philadelphia, CA tCamp Laurel, Los Angeles, CA tCARE Coordination Team, Wichita, CA tCare Resource, Miami, FL tCascade AIDS Project, Portland, OR tCenter Long Beach, Long Beach, CA tChattanooga Cares, Chattanooga, TN tClinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero, Los Angeles, CA tColorado AIDS Project, Denver, CO tDesert AIDS Project, Palm Springs, CA tDoorways, St. Louis, MO tElizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation, National/ Global tFenway Community Health Center, Boston, MA tFood for Life Network, Miami, FL tFoothill AIDS Project, Claremont, CA tFriends of People with AIDS Coalition, Portland, OR tGay Men’s Health Crisis, Inc., New York, NY tGod’s Love We Deliver, New York, NY tHealth Education Resource Organization, Baltimore, MD tIntl. Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, National/Global tJenesse Center, Los Angeles, CA tJerusalem House, Atlanta, GA tLong Beach AIDS Foundation, CA tLong Island Assoc for AIDS Care, Inc., Huntington Station, NY tLos Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA tLos Angeles Jewish AIDS Service, Los Angeles, CA tLow County AIDS Services, Charleston, SC tMaitri, San Francisco, CA tMama’s Kitchen, San Diego tMANNA, Philadelphia, PA tMetro Teen AIDS, Washington D.C. tMid-Fairfield AIDS Project, Norwalk, CT tMinnesota AIDS Project, Minneapolis, MN tMinority AIDS Outreach, Nashville, TN tMulticultural AIDS Coalition, Boston, MA tNew Mexico AIDS Services, Albuquerque, NM tNew Orleans AIDS Task Force, New Orleans, LA tNorthern Nevada Hopes, Reno, NV tNorthwest AIDS Foundation, Seattle, WA tPeople of Color Consortium Against AIDS, Denver, CA tPeople with AIDS Coalition of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS EAA’s Beneficiaries t Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, Pittsburgh, PA tPositive Directions, Wichita, KS tPositive Gourmet, Sacramento, CA tPositive Resource Center, San Francisco, CA tProject Angel Food, Los Angeles, CA tProject Inform, San Francisco, CA tProject Lazarus, New Orleans, LA tProject Open Hand, San Francisco, CA tRAIN – Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK tRhode Island Project AIDS, Providence, RI tRural AIDS Network, Little Falls, MN tSaban Free Clinic (Los Angeles Free Clinic), Los Angeles, CA tSafe House, N. Hollywood, CA tSan Antonio AIDS Foundation, San Antonio, TX tSan Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA tSarah House, Santa Barbara, CA tSchenectady Damien Center, Schenectady tShanti Orange County, Laguna Hills, CA tSouthern Arizona AIDS Foundation, Tucson, AZ tSouthwest Boulevard Family Health Center, Kansas City, KS tThe Center, Long Beach, CA tThe Center San Diego, CA tThe Damien Center, Indianapolis, IN tUCAN, Olympia, WA tUCLA AIDS Institute, Los Angeles, CA tUtah AIDS Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT tValley Community Clinic, N Hollywood, CA tVenice Family Clinic, Venice, CA tWhitman-Walker Clinic, Washington D.C. tWhittier-Rio Hondo AIDS Project, Whittier, CA tWomen’s AIDS Project, Denver, CO tYale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT Salutes BILL CLARK 2013 Visionary Award and HENRY McGEE 2013 Lifetime Advocate Award 2013 VISIONARY AWARDS WWW .H OME M EDIA M AGAZINE . COM 15 H B O® P R O U D LY S U P P O R TS T H E ENTERTAINMENT AIDS ALLIANCE CONGRATULATIONS TO HENRY McGEE Lifetime Advocate Award Recipient ©2013 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO® and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.