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Dana Brunetti is an American media executive, film producer and entrepreneur. He is Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer at Cavalry Media.

Brunetti has produced multiple award winning films, including "The Social Network," a screenplay adaptation written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher that received eight Oscar® nominations; "Captain Phillips," which picked up six Oscar® nominations; the box office phenomenon, "Fifty Shades of Grey," which grossed over $560 million worldwide; as well as the trilogy's follow ups, "Fifty Shades Darker" ($377M) and "Fifty Shades Freed" ($370M). He won a Golden Globe for "The Social Network," amongst many other awards, including The National Board of Review and The Critics' Choice Award. Brunetti's other credits as a producer include "21," "Fanboys," HBO's "Bernard & Doris," starring Ralph Fiennes and Susan Sarandon, which received 10 Emmy nominations, as well as the 2017 limited TV series, "Manhunt: Unabomber" for Discovery Channel.

As the architect of several groundbreaking deals, he helped secure the mega deal with Netflix to produce the political thriller "House of Cards" as part of their new slate of original programming. Brunetti serves as executive producer for the show, which released its 6th and final season in 2018, and has garnered multiple Emmy and Golden Globe nominations and awards.

Building on an award-winning career as a producer and co-founder of Trigger Street Productions, he was one of Hollywood's youngest studio presidents while at Relativity Media's Motion Picture and Television Group, where he oversaw the company's creative content and product.

Also an innovator in social networking, Brunetti launched an online social networking and file-sharing platform for feedback and exposure of undiscovered writing and filmmaking talent in 2002, and set up an eight-year Anheuser-Busch sponsorship, which was the brewing company's longest sponsorship deal ever outside of sports. In 2012, he and Jameson Irish Whiskey launched Jameson First Shot, a short-film competition for up-and-coming filmmakers.