Michael Feder

Michael Feder holds an extensive background in business and a highly regarded reputation for the creation of innovative marketing initiatives. Mr. Feder is active in the development of creative promotional campaigns and traveling exhibitions and is additionally involved with the cultivation of tactical business partnerships designed to support the mission and growth of Entertainment Exhibitions.

Michael co-founded Fame Farm, a strategic marketing and branding firm. He has unique expert experience with “place-based” licensing (brands with physical retail venues) having worked on campaigns associated with the House of Blues; The Liberace Foundation; film actor Tony Curtis and others. He is highly skilled at strategy, brand building, business development, and creative execution of licensor corporate objectives, as well as the demands of placing "product" in physical venues.

Born in New York City, Michael performed his undergraduate work at Clark University where he was a University Scholar. He went to Law School at Tulane University, where he was an International Moot Court Competition Finalist and then finished his education at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School where he was an MBA Fellow and Dietz Scholar. A serious collegiate athlete, Michael completed the 1982 Ironman World Championship.

Michael has worked with Isaac Tigrett (founder of Hard Rock Café and House of Blues) on key initiatives, serving as acting COO of Mr. Tigrett’s global Spirit Channel launch and with the development of the licensing strategy for Bozo’s BBQ, Mr. Tigrett’s current franchise restaurant concept. Michael is a co-founder of Waiting Room Theater, a media company providing content programming for over 3,000 dental offices in the United States. Mr. Feder serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Personal Health Insights, a high-tech start-up created by the founders of the leading drug trial firm in the US, Personal Health Technologies. Finally, he is the founder of PrayerSpark.com, a home for spiritual affirmation whose mission is to provide an alternative spiritual network while giving back to local communities through grassroots charitable donations.

Recommendations:

"I am enthusiastically writing this letter of reference as an unqualified endorsement of Michael Feder's creative and managerial skills and his collegial disposition. I would like to evaluate him against the roughly 2,000 Harvard MBA's I taught in my decade