Stephen J. Kerr
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Stephen J. Kerr serves as an Investment Banker to the Entertainment Arts.
He has been a Financial, and Mergers and Acquisitions, Adviser for more than 30 years.
Since partnering with Ms. Bruce's Bel Age Medias in 2014, Mr. Kerr and Ms. Bruce have continued to expand their advisory work in the media industry.
Starting in 2010, Arcus Worldwide Entertainment, LLC was created. Kerr and Norm Andersen joined forces with Mark Lagrimas, Ralph Cooper and Keith Birkfeld (formally of MGM) to form this new company that was dedicated to finance and produce films in Latin America.
In 2009, Mr. Kerr and his partners founded International Film Finance Associates, LLC specifically for the purpose of financing major Hollywood productions in Russia. What they learned through that venture they ultimately applied to their new enterprise in Latin America.
In the early 1990s (after six years based in Asia), Mr. Kerr founded Business Marketing Consultants, a boutique investment banking firm dedicated to mergers and acquisitions in the home entertainment and publishing industries. Mr. Kerr has appeared as a keynote speaker on the topics of intellectual property valuation, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, and capital fund-raising.
Stephen Kerr served as the EVP/Regional Manager of Film Distribution in Southeast Asia for The Walt Disney Company, at Buena Vista International based in Hong Kong, from 1983 - 1989. At Disney he worked in publishing, theme parks, television and motion picture marketing. Mr. Kerr traveled extensively throughout Asia working with Disney's many intellectual properties. Some of the films he helped distribute in Southeast Asia during his tenure were Tron, Winnie The Pooh, Trenchcoast, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Never Cry Wolf, Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Journey of Natty Gann, and The Little Mermaid.
Mr. Kerr earned an MBA in Marketing & Finance at San Diego State University; a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics & German from United States International University; he also studied Business & German at the Tubingen University in Germany; and he started his undergraduate work at Western Washington University.
Since partnering with Ms. Bruce's Bel Age Medias in 2014, Mr. Kerr and Ms. Bruce have continued to expand their advisory work in the media industry.
Starting in 2010, Arcus Worldwide Entertainment, LLC was created. Kerr and Norm Andersen joined forces with Mark Lagrimas, Ralph Cooper and Keith Birkfeld (formally of MGM) to form this new company that was dedicated to finance and produce films in Latin America.
In 2009, Mr. Kerr and his partners founded International Film Finance Associates, LLC specifically for the purpose of financing major Hollywood productions in Russia. What they learned through that venture they ultimately applied to their new enterprise in Latin America.
In the early 1990s (after six years based in Asia), Mr. Kerr founded Business Marketing Consultants, a boutique investment banking firm dedicated to mergers and acquisitions in the home entertainment and publishing industries. Mr. Kerr has appeared as a keynote speaker on the topics of intellectual property valuation, business planning, mergers and acquisitions, and capital fund-raising.
Stephen Kerr served as the EVP/Regional Manager of Film Distribution in Southeast Asia for The Walt Disney Company, at Buena Vista International based in Hong Kong, from 1983 - 1989. At Disney he worked in publishing, theme parks, television and motion picture marketing. Mr. Kerr traveled extensively throughout Asia working with Disney's many intellectual properties. Some of the films he helped distribute in Southeast Asia during his tenure were Tron, Winnie The Pooh, Trenchcoast, Something Wicked this Way Comes, Never Cry Wolf, Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Journey of Natty Gann, and The Little Mermaid.
Mr. Kerr earned an MBA in Marketing & Finance at San Diego State University; a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics & German from United States International University; he also studied Business & German at the Tubingen University in Germany; and he started his undergraduate work at Western Washington University.
