PRINCIPALS

 

KEVIN WALL

Co-founder

Leveraging wide-ranging experience as an entrepreneur, investor and environmentalist, Kevin Wall has started a new company, Sustainable Holdings, a firm that has developed a sustainable investment solution.   Wall will partner in this new company with feature film producer Bill Gerber and with Dimensional Fund Advisors, a global investment firm with $152 billion under management.

In 2005 Wall founded Control Room to create live entertainment accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime.  Its most potent realization came on 07/07/07 with “Live Earth,” the 24-hour, seven-continent concert series which reached an estimated global audience of two billion.  Inspired by the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Wall conceived a groundbreaking musical event that sought to deliver an urgent yet hopeful call to action on global warming.  He designed the multimedia architecture, enlisted over 150 headlining artists and forged a matrix of strategic partnerships, including one with former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore and his organization, the Alliance for Climate Protection.

Previously innovating the “digital, platform-agnostic approach” now followed by major television networks, Wall earned an Emmy award after he executive produced “Live 8,” tapping three decades of experience in music promotion and production, live television, the Internet, and venture capital investments in convergence.

Formerly vice chairman of iXL, a global Internet consulting firm, Wall led the strategic acquisition and organization of 42 Internet design and consulting companies to build a venture with over 3,000 employees, 38 offices worldwide and annual revenues of appx. $400 million (iXL went public in 1999 and reached a market capitalization of $3.5 billion within one year).  Previously, in 1995, Wall founded BoxTop Interactive, a pioneering online entertainment design and marketing solutions company which merged with iXL in 1997.  Co-founder of Shelter Capital Partners, a $300 million venture capital fund and digital business incubator, he is currently invested in a dozen companies in the semiconductor, software and convergence sectors.  Wall also co-owns Ignition, an activation marketing firm based in Atlanta that, under Wall’s leadership, has expanded to become a global service provider.

Recipient of such honors as the MIDEM Green Award, Billboard Touring Conference Humanitarian Award and EMA Outstanding Achievement Award, Kevin Wall is a board member of Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection and founder of the Digital Coast Roundtable.

 

BILL GERBER

Co-founder

Educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz, BILL GERBER first started his entertainment career in the music business, promoting concerts in Los Angeles, including the first Free Concert Series sponsored by the County. In 1979 he joined Elliot Robert’s Lookout Management where he oversaw the careers of Devo, The Cars, Heaven 17, ABC and Scritti Politti.   In 1984, Gerber began his producing career with projects at Warner Brothers and Paramount and in 1985 formed Gerber/Rodkin, a management production company that represented Judd Nelson, Robert Downey Jr., Billy Zane, Sara Jessica Parker, and Dan Hartman. In 1986, Gerber left his firm to join Warner Bros. as Vice President of Theatrical Production. He remained there for twelve years and was successively promoted to President of Worldwide Theatrical Production in 1996. While at Warner Bros., Gerber supervised the films: L.A. Confidential, Unforgiven, Twister, Selena, Reversal of Fortune, A Little Princess, Goodfellas, Heat, JFK, Disclosure, Grumpy Old Men, Passenger 57, Executive Decision,  You’ve Got Mail, Analyze This, and aquired Perfect Storm, Space Cowboys as well as Harry Potter.

In May of 1998, Gerber ventured out to form his own production company, Gerber Pictures, which is tied to a first look deal at Warner Bros.  As a Producer, Gerber has made the films American Outlaws, starring Colin Farrell;the basketball comedy Juwanna Mann; What A Girl Wants, starring Amanda Bynes and Colin Firth; The In-Laws, starring Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks; the Adam Brody & Jennifer Morrison skateboarding comedy Grind; The Dukes of Hazzard with Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, & Jessica Simpson along with the sequel; and the Broken Lizard comedy Beerfest.  Currently, Gerber is developing the action thriller Yakuza and the comedy, Alternadad for Warner Brothers, among others and is readying for release Major Movie Star starring Jessica Simpson for Millennium/Nu Image. Gerber also served as Executive Producer on the Warner Bros./ Franchise Pictures Get Carter;TNT’s Emmy Nominated and Golden Globe winner James Dean, An Invented Life; the Warner Bros./Village Roadshow film Queen of the Damned; and the Warner Bros. film A Very Long Engagement. 

Bill resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters.  He serves on the Board of Trustees at the Center for Early Education and is a Board Chair of the Environmental Media Association. He was also among the original committee members of Tree People.  Bill is also an Ironman competition finisher.

 

DANIEL C. ESTY

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Formerly a senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Dan is one of the world’s leading experts on corporate environmental strategy.  He has advised CEOs and top executives from Honeywell, Northeast Utilities, Kerr-McGee, Limited Brands, Shell, and more than a dozen other companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia.  Dan helped establish and continues to serve on Environmental Advisory Boards at Coca-Cola and Unilever.  

Dan is Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale University with faculty appointments in both Yale’s Environment and Law Schools. He is Director of both the Center for Business and Environment at Yale and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.  The author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles on environmental strategy, policy, governance, and regulation, Dan comments frequently on environmental issues on television and radio, as well as in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, and Fourtune.

In government, he helped to craft air and water pollution regulations and shaped government policies affecting waste, food safety, and other issues. He negotiated the 1992 framework convention on climate change on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and he was the principal architect of the environmental provisions for the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has testified before Congress on environmental issues numerous times.

Dan holds a B.A. from Harvard, a masters degree from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Yale. He lives in Cheshire, CT with his wife and three children.

 

 

DAVID ASARNOW

Principal

A co-founder of Control Room, and currently its EVP Corporate Development, David Asarnow identifies new business opportunities to expand Control Room's product offering and distribution platforms through evaluation and execution of acquisitions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions worldwide. Additionally, Asarnow oversees the monetization strategy of Control Room products globally across multiple business models including licensing and sponsorship.

During the Live Earth concerts in 2007, produced by Control Room, Asarnow oversaw the global media architecture, which included more than 500 media partners around the world, drawing an audience of two billion people across television, broadband and radio platforms worldwide. He previously served as Director of Corporate Development where he was instrumental in the development of the company's original business plan and played a key role in the formation of the company.

His additional experience includes various business development positions at new media companies such as IGN Entertainment and Alta Vista.

David has an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.