Peter Guber: The Man Behind It All

Peter Guber is the Chairman and CEO of the Mandalay Entertainment Group. He became the head honcho of this multimedia giant because he's got incredible credentials, including being the Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the Co-founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, and President of Columbia Pictures. And throughout his colorful career, Guber has executive produced or produced films that have received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture (Rain Man won) and/or went on to become box office hits like Batman, The Color Purple, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right, and Midnight Express.

As if that's that not impressive enough, Guber is also the owner and Co-executive Chairman of the Golden State Warriors, an NBA franchise. He also co-owns the Los Angeles Dodgers, a Major League Baseball franchise, while serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors for a subsidiary of Mandalay Sports Entertainment, Mandalay Baseball Properties. Some of the other sports franchises owned and/or operated by Mandalay Baseball Properties include the Oklahoma City RedHawks, the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees, the Frisco RoughRiders, and the Dayton Dragons.

Mr. Guber also keeps his days busy as a full professor at the UCLA and a weekly entertainment and media analyst for Fox Business News. He's also part of the Demand Media Board of Directors and co-founder of Geek Chic Daily. Surprisingly, he's also found time to write books and articles, including Inside The Dee, Shootout: Surviving Fame and (Mis)Fortune in Hollywood, Tell To Win – Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, as well as the Harvard Business Review cover article The Four Truths of the Story Teller.

Born in 1942, Guber has spent more than 30 years in entertainment and sports. He went to the Syracuse University and the New York University, married Tara Lynda Guber, and has four children.