Gregory Browne
- Producer
Browne has successfully led creative teams in various countries. His
varied career has included advising several Middle Eastern government
clients on the development strategy for the implementation of training
and development for a viable film industry. This work also included the
branding of the major government initiatives Bahrain 2030 and Abu Dhabi
2030, along with several other GCC clients. He is an expert in private
equity and structured finance & investment banking and has done so for
a wide range of companies including the French Merchant Bank Indosuez,
Zurich Bank, Australia's Macquairie Bank, and Babcock & Brown ("I am
Sam", "Shallow Hal", "Lord of the Rings 2 & 3"). Whilst at Babcock &
Brown his team structured the first leveraged leasing structure. This
structure was replicated and closed as Dune (structured as Lattitude),
Melrose was the first to stress test the structure and the rest is
history with 15 billion in film financing raised by various companies
utilizing this structure. For BMCE Bank Morocco he intitaited a fund
structure to invest in major motion pictures which had a positive
impact on local communities. He also worked on British Telecom's
entertainment delivery systems in their infancy, advised John
Malkovich's company Paris Mudd and was the creative consultant for RTV
Arabia, who produce the world's most watched Formula 1 feature.
Recently Gregory played a major role as an exec in putting together
financing for Corsan Nv and the financing of "The Devil's
Double","Singularity" with Josh Hartnett and "The Killing Season" with
Robert de Niro and John Travolta. He represented Corsan in the sourcing
and arranging of the Oscar winning director Paul Haggis' film, "The
Third Person" with Liam Neeson, Mila Kunis, Olivia Wilde and Kim
Bassinger. Browne has developed excellent business relations with major
European, Hollywood and Chinese companies, financiers, financial
institutions and banks. With over 20 years experience Gregory is unique
in the fact that he has not only structured major film finance deals
and single picture financing but has also written produced and directed
over 30 commercials, feature documentaries and films. He was an
originator in the structuring of EIS combined with concessional capital
and cross boarder tax credits. Browne is an accredited journalist and a
member of the National Union Of Journaists, Deutche Journalist Verband
(DJV), The Australian Society Of Cinematographers (ASC).