Jeffrey Katzenberg

Jeffrey Katzenberg
Katzenberg in 2022
Born (1950-12-21) December 21, 1950 (age 73)
New York City, U.S.
Alma materNew York University (attended)
Occupations
  • Media proprietor
  • film producer
Years active1979–present
OrganizationWndrCo
Notable workWho Framed Roger Rabbit
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Aladdin
The Lion King
American Beauty
The Prince of Egypt
Shrek
Kung Fu Panda
How to Train Your Dragon
Title
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Marilyn Siegel
(m. 1975)
Children2
Signature

Jeffrey Katzenberg (/ˈkætsənˌbɜːrɡ/; born December 21, 1950) is an American media proprietor. He was the chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1994, a position in which he oversaw production and business operations for the company's feature films. After departing Disney, he co-founded DreamWorks SKG in 1994,[a] where he served as the company's CEO and producer of the Oscar winning film American Beauty and many of its animated franchises including Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon until stepping down from the title in 2016. He has since founded the venture capital firm WndrCo in 2017,[1] which invests in digital media projects, and launched Quibi in 2020, a defunct short-form mobile video platform which lost US$1.35 billion in seven months.

Katzenberg has also been involved in politics. With his active support of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he was named "one of Hollywood's premier political kingmakers and one of the Democratic Party's top national fund-raisers".[2] He is a campaign co-chair of Joe Biden's re-election campaign.[3]


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  1. ^ Garfinkle, Alexandra (June 23, 2023). "Jeffrey Katzenberg's unexpected take on AI – here's what he and Netomi CEO had to say". Finance.Yahoo.com.
  2. ^ Daunt, Tina; Masters, Kim (October 30, 2013). "Jeffrey Katzenberg's Secret Call to Hillary Clinton: Hollywood's 2016 Support Assured". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
  3. ^ "Joe Biden is redefining presidential campaign frugality". POLITICO. July 16, 2023. Retrieved July 18, 2023.