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Frank Giustra

President and CEO, Fiore Group of Companies

Frank Giustra is CEO of the Fiore Group of Companies, a private firm managing a broad portfolio of private equity investments and companies, specializing in food and lifestyle, art and entertainment, while having a proven track-record in financing and creating public natural resource companies. Mr. Giustra's entrepreneurial success includes founding Lionsgate Entertainment, now one of the world's largest independent film companies. Mr. Giustra is a major shareholder of Thunderbird Films, a company focused on content and distribution in the television and film sector. Mr. Giustra is a strong believer in philanthropy, and devotes much of his time to a variety of causes. He established The Radcliffe Foundation, which supports a wide variety of international and local charities. Since 2005, Mr. Giustra has become an active executive member with the International Crisis Group, a widely recognized independent, non-partisan source of analysis and advice to policymakers on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. Most recently, Mr. Giustra and his Foundation have become actively involved in the refugee crisis by providing humanitarian aid in Greece, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. In 2007, Mr. Giustra and former President Bill Clinton launched the Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, with the focus of creating social and economic development programs through impact investing, in parts of the world where poverty is widespread. Mr. Giustra sits on a variety of non-profit, private and public boards.