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Neil Russell has been a director since June 2007. He is President of Site 85 Productions ("Site 85") a company formed in 2000 that is engaged in the creation and acquisition of intellectual property rights for exploitation across a broad spectrum of entertainment media including motion pictures television video games and publishing. Mr. Russell is a former motion picture and television distribution executive with Paramount Pictures Columbia and MGM/UA where he handled pictures like "The Godfather " "Chinatown " "Death Wish " "Three Days of the Condor" and the James Bond films. He formed his first company Horizon Entertainment in 1983 which after merging with Orbis Communications was acquired in 1985 by Carolco Pictures Inc. producers of such films as "Rambo" pictures and "Terminator 2." He was also founder and President of Carolco Television Productions (CTP) which produced high-profile television motion pictures for domestic and international exploitation. In 1991 CTP was acquired by Multimedia Entertainment producers of Phil Donahue and Sally Jesse Raphael and renamed Multimedia Motion Pictures with Mr. Russell remaining as president. When Multimedia was acquired by Gannett Inc. in 1993 Mr. Russell purchased the assets of MMP and began aggressively acquiring intellectual property rights under his own banner. Since then producing partnerships or licensing arrangements of rights owned or controlled by Mr. Russell have been made with Jerry Bruckheimer Films Activision Simon & Schuster Tribune Entertainment Scott Free Productions MGM Television Heyday Films FP Productions Touchstone Television Hyde Park Entertainment F/X Networks and others. Mr. Russell is currently engaged through Site 85 with several major studios in the development of television series motion pictures video games and an action comic book series all based on rights owned by him. He also authored the book "Can I Still Kiss You?: Answering Your Children’s Questions about Cancer " which grew out of his own two successful battles with the disease. A graduate of Parsons College Mr. Russell is a member of the Naval War College Foundation and a former board member of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis. | 