Seven Arts Entertainment Inc.,an independent motion picture company

BOarD OF DIRECTORS

The Honorable Hubert Gibbs - Chairman
After graduating from Oxford University in 1981, Mr. Gibbs started his career as an editor, reader and translator at Quartet Books UK. Subsequently he worked as a stock market analyst with Banque Bruxelles Lambert and then as an independent communications entrepreneur responsible for starting up various companies including Instlang.com which was sold to market leader SDL in 1999. Most recently Mr. Gibbs has been involved in financing and producing independent films, including As Good as Dead, and The Killing Jar. Mr. Gibbs managed the family estate, Tyntesfield until it was taken over by the National Trust in 2002. 

Peter Hoffman - CEO
Peter Hoffman has been our Chief Executive Officer and one of our directors since September 2004 and is also our founder. Under his direction, we and our predecessors have produced and or distributed over thirty features since our inception including: Johnny Mnemonic, Never Talk To Strangers, 9 ½ Weeks II and Shattered Image. As our CEO, his responsibilities include, among others, the selection and production of motion pictures, strategic planning, business development, operations, financial administration, accounting, and reporting to the Board of Directors. Mr. Hoffman was previously President and CEO of Carolco Pictures. He was directly involved at Carolco in the production of a large slate of independent motion pictures, including Terminator 2, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, and Rambo III. Mr. Hoffman is a graduate of the Yale Law School and has participated as a lawyer and executive in numerous financial and tax preferred financings for more than twenty-five years. Mr. Hoffman is the father of Kate Hoffman, our Chief Operating Officer and our Executive Director.

Michael Garstin - President/CFO
Michael Garstin has been our President and one of our directors since June 2008. As our president, his responsibilities include strategic planning, business development, financial administration and fundraising. He began his career as a Lending Officer at Chase Manhattan Bank, then joined Filmways Corp., later renamed Orion Pictures, as a Board Director and Chief Financial Officer. Subsequently, he returned to Wall Street and worked as a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Media & Entertainment Group at Bear Stearns & Co., during which time he provided advice to and helped raised capital for a number of independent film companies, including Carolco Pictures, on whose Board of Directors he served for a number of years. He later ran the New York Investment Banking departments for both Daniels & Associates and CEA and worked as a Managing Director at Gleacher & Co., and at SMH Capital.

Kate Hoffman - COO
Kate Hoffman has been our Chief Operating Officer and a director since February 2008. As our COO, her responsibilities include supervising the production of motion pictures and licensing and delivering our motion pictures to third parties. She began her career at the age of 17 as an intern for Hollywood casting directors, Mary Vernieu and Risa Gramon-Garcia. Ms. Hoffman then worked for film agent Mort Viner at International Creative Management until his retirement when she joined our predecessors in 1998. She has managed the development, production and delivery of films including The Believer, No Good Deed, Stander, and Asylum. In addition to her production responsibilities, Ms. Hoffman is responsible for international distribution, acquisitions and film financing. Ms. Hoffman is the daughter of Peter Hoffman, our Chief Executive Officer and a director.

Elaine New - Director
Elaine New has been a director since January 2007. From Januray 2007 to July 2009 she acted as our Finance Director. Her responsibilities included overseeing financial administration, preparing accounting and financial statements, liaising with auditors, accountants, and financial community/shareholders; and preparing, paying and organizing our expenses, taxes, and activities, and ensuring our compliance with all financial statutory and regulatory requirements. She is Cambridge University educated and is a Price Waterhouse (London) qualified Chartered Accountant. Elaine has been in the media industry for the last ten years as Finance Director of Metrodome Group plc, a UK film distributor. Ms. New was previously engaged as Financial Controller of Harrods International, helping to establish its airport retailing arm, and as Commercial Director of Outfit, a new division of Sears Womenswear Ltd that she helped to create in the latter part of the 1990s. Ms. New was on the Executive Committee of The Quoted Companies Alliance for almost three years helping represent small to mid-cap companies listed both on AIM and the main list of The London Stock Exchange. She resigned this position in July 2009.

Daniel Reardon - Director
Daniel Reardon has been a director since October, 2010. Dan Reardon is a highly successful entrepreneur with a strong legal  background and a broad range of experience in entertainment and finance. His activities have included arranging public and private financings, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other business consulting including positions with The Albert Corporation, where he presided over the acquisition, financing, development and sales of hundreds of condominium units in the Boston area. He is a founding shareholder of  four successful public companies in a variety of industries ranging from mining to biotechnology.  Pan Africa Mining Corp. and Sacre-Coeur Minerals, Ltd. Both are Canadian companies traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (Toronto).  Mr. Reardon has an extensive background in real estate tax incentive financing programs. He developed and structured tax incentive programs for owners of historic properties for the Architectural Trust in Washington, DC.  Mr. Reardon administers several hundred million of incentives annually through the Federal Preservation Tax Incentive Program. His knowledge and expertise of tax incentive programs has been presented before the US Congress to discuss tax incentives and their economic benefits.  He also served as CFO for Concrete Film Ventures, which financed several independent, feature film projects, raised venture capital through limited partnerships, and secured substantial lines of credit from media banks successfully using off balance sheet receivable Presale and Gap financing on the following feature films: LEGACY starring David Hasselhoff, MY BROTHER THE PIG starring Scarlet Johansson and Eva Mendes, THE PAVILION starring Richard Chamberlain, and CHANGING HEARTS starring Faye Dunaway.  Currently Dan is Executive Producing LUNATIC AT LARGE an original story by Stanley Kubrick based on a treatment by Jim Thompson Starring Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell.

Simon Clement-Davies - Director
Mr. Clement-Davies is Oxford educated and has a strong banking and media background. He started his career in mergers and acquisitions, working in this arena for over a decade, first for Hill Samuel & Co Limited and then for Henry Ansbacher & Co Limited. Mr. Clement-Davies was then appointed a Vice President at Bankers Trust (Deutsche Bank), where he ran the media group in London for five years, numbering many of Europe’s largest media companies amongst his clients. Since 1998 Mr. Clement-Davies has pursued an independent career as a producer and a distributor. He has been involved in the release of over 30 feature films, including several Oscar winners (‘Gods & Monsters’, ‘The Last Days’), and produced the first series of full-length concerts in Hi Definition, broadcast on Virgin One. Mr. Clement-Davies is also a Senior Advisor to the boutique merchant bank Augusta & Co.

Tony Hickox - Director
Anthony Hickox has been a director since January 2007. He is a film director, writer and producer. Mr. Hickox wrote and directed his first film, Waxworks at the age of 21. Mr. Hickox was involved in the production of or direction of Sundown, Warlock: Armageddon; Children of the Corn, Turn of the Screw; Carnival of Souls, and Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth.

committees

Audit Committee
- Hubert Gibbs
- Daniel Reardon
- Simon Clement-Davies

Nomination Committee
- Hubert Gibbs
- Tony Hickox
- Daniel Reardon

Compensation Committee
- Hubert Gibbs
- Tony Hickox
- Daniel Reardon