Slated
About Us
Launched in 2012, Slated is the next-generation online marketplace for investing in film — an exclusive community platform designed to connect investors with a global network of filmmakers and industry professionals.
For investors & industry professionals, Slated provides access to a socially-vetted marketplace of high-quality films and filmmakers. Slated makes it easier to follow a film's progress, by tracking trusted people and their portfolios, and to receive targeted updates that will help them find their next great film.
For filmmakers, Slated provides a level of validation for their projects and a platform to promote their films to an active audience including investors, distributors, and sales agents.
Backed by prominent angel investors in the entertainment and finance communities, Slated has built a passionate team with experience from major studios and entertainment companies including Paramount, Sony and Netflix as well as SecondMarket.com and several Fortune 500 firms. Slated is used by some of the world's most prolific filmmakers and actors from films such as: Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, Iron Man, The Kids Are All Right, An Inconvenient Truth, and The Descendants.
Team
Duncan Cork CEO & Co-Founder
As Slated’s CEO, Duncan provides day-to-day creative and strategic leadership to the business and its partnerships. Duncan created the vision for Slated and founded the company in December 2009 with Stephan, Gavan and William and continues to design and develop Slated’s core marketplace product. Read more ›
Prior to Slated, Duncan consulted for entertainment and entrepreneurial organizations in the UK and globally. He was Founder and Executive Creative Director of Katharsis, a consultancy specializing in creative strategy, marketing and production for the media, entertainment, consumer and technology industries. The inspiration for Slated was born out of working with a British independent film seeking financing. Duncan then moved to New York in 2010 to pursue the launch of Slated.
Duncan has also worked as an art director in various design and advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi and TBWA in London, Singapore and Cape Town. ‹ Read less
William Mapother Co-founder
William Mapother is a co-founder and an active member of Slated’s board. William’s twenty-three years in the entertainment industry include work in development, production and performance on more than sixty film and television credits. Read more ›
He is currently writing and producing a film loosely based on ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona.’ His voice work includes animation, video games, commercials, PSAs and documentaries. His acting credits include ‘In the Bedroom’ (whose cast was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award), ‘Another Earth’ (2011 winner of a Special Jury Prize at Sundance), TV's ‘Lost’ (as Ethan Rom). He frequently serves as a panelist and juror at film festivals and events, and he’s been featured in numerous articles and publications. William is a national spokesperson for the cause of elder abuse awareness, a co-founder of the Flyover Film Festival, a member of the Kentucky Film Commission, and a former National Board member of the Screen Actors Guild.
William graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in English.
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Jennifer is Slated’s Chief Operating Officer. In this capacity, she is instrumental in the overall development, strategy and oversight of Slated’s film financing platform. Read more ›
Jennifer also manages the operational aspects of the business including finance & accounting, legal, human resources and strategy.
Prior to joining Slated, Jennifer worked in film finance and distribution, most recently as the Head of Finance & Strategic Operations at Red Envelope Entertainment (Netflix). She was also the VP of Finance at Paramount Vantage, Manager of Motion Picture Planning at Paramount Pictures, and a Financial Analyst at both Butler Capital Corporation and J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc.
Jennifer graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. in Business Administration and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. ‹ Read less
Susan Wrubel Film Industry Relations
Susan Wrubel oversees relationships with US distributors, packaging agents, producers, financiers and international sales agents for Slated. Read more ›
A film executive with over 16 years of experience in film acquisitions, sales, marketing, and distribution, Susan spent 11 years in the NY art-house world, before moving to LA in 2004 as the VP of Acquistions and Co-Productions for Paramount Classics, Paramount Pictures’ specialty division. During her tenure, she oversaw acquisitions of completed features worldwide and potential projects for co-production. In addition to acquisitions and co-productions, she handled the sub-licensing of Paramount Classics’ foreign rights to independent distributors abroad and managed the division’s relationship with United International Pictures.
Susan continues to consult for internationally focused companies in content acquisition and aggregation helping to secure production financing and distribution as well as advising NY, LA, Latin American and European-based independent producers.
Susan is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. ‹ Read less
Stephan Paternot Chairman & Co-Founder
Stephan is co-founder and Chairman of Slated. Stephan is also co-founder and Chairman of PalmStar Entertainment. Founded in 2004, the film production company specializes in literary adaptations and true stories. Read more ›
Stephan is also the founder and general partner of the Actarus Funds. Founded in 2002, these angel investor funds provide seed capital to Internet start-ups. Prior to this he co-founded one of the first Internet community sites, theglobe.com in 1994. The company set stock market history when it went public in 1998 with a record setting IPO pushing the company valuation to over $1 Billion. Over a six-year span, the company grew to over 300 employees with the website becoming one of the top thirty most trafficked sites in the world with nearly 10% of all internet users visiting the site monthly. In 1999 Stephan won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and in 2001 published “A Very Public Offering”, a non-fiction business book detailing his experience at theglobe.com. Stephan grew up in Switzerland and the United Kingdom before attending college in the United States.
Beyond his duties at the Actarus Funds, Stephan sits on the board of the Heineman Foundation, based in New York, and on the board of its sister organization the Heineman-Stiftung, based in Berlin. The aims of the foundations are to give financial support to educational, artistic, cause based and scientific non-for-profit institutions. Stephan also sits on the board of the Independent Filmmaker Project IFP.org, the largest national non-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting independent filmmakers. Stephan resides between New York City and Los Angeles.
Stephan went to Cornell University where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. ‹ Read less
Gavan Gravesen Co-founder
Gavan Gravesen is a co-founder and an active member of Slated’s board. Gavan is also part of the executive management team at Fashion GPS, a technology company. Read more ›
A graduate of the Berlin Conservatory of Music and New York University School of Law, Gavan has worked in creative industries and financial markets.
Gavan originally qualified as an attorney in the State of New York, working in New York, London and Brussels for Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, one of the world’s preeminent securities law firms. Subsequently, Gavan held positions with various investment banks (Deutsche Bank AG, RBS Securities Inc.) helping to grow their European and American strategic equity solutions businesses.
Gavan’s portfolio of executed financing and investment transactions over the course of his career represents combined aggregate amounts in excess of U.S.$15 billion.‹ Read less
Mark Chackerian Lead Developer
Mark is Slated’s lead developer with 19 years of experience as a software developer and manager in interactive media, including experience in television, music, news, and finance. Read more ›
Previous positions include VP Product Development at UrFilez.com, Technical Director for the American Stock Exchange web site, and the first programmer on reuters.com. ‹ Read less
Selected Investors
Autumn Partners
Autumn Partners was started in 2007 to offer a new kind of publishing partner for some of the world’s leading film and video game development studios. The company is headquartered in New York City, with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Barry Silbert
Barry Silbert is the Founder and CEO of SecondMarket, the largest secondary market dedicated to creating liquidity for alternative assets. The company has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions through its network of more than 20,000 buyers and sellers, and currently there is more than $20 billion in assets available for sale on SecondMarket.
Actarus Funds
The Actarus Funds are a series of angel seed capital investment funds aimed at financing startups in the internet sector. Stephan Paternot serves as General Partner of the funds.
Advisors
Nelson Cheng
Nelson Cheng is a former Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager for Google and Amazon.com with experience in product development, strategic planning, and marketing. He currently is an advisor to tech startups including Signpost and Miso Media, both backed by Google Ventures.
Chris Hyams
Chris is a technology executive with broad experience in product, engineering, marketing, business development, and operations for early and late stage startups. He was CEO and founder of B-Side Entertainment. B-Side provided film market research, marketing, and distribution services to filmmakers, producers, and distributors. Chris is currently VP Product at Indeed.com.
Charles Seely
Charles Seely is an entrepreneur who has been starting, building and advising early-stage companies for 15+ years. He is also the Founder of Esos Ventures, an investor/advisor in early-stage companies.
Tory Metzger
Tory Metzger was President of MRC Film, where she was responsible for sourcing and structuring MRC’s film projects. Prior to MRC, Ms. Metzger was a Partner at Creative Artists Agency where for 16 years she worked with artists including Tom Cruise, Ang Lee and Cameron Crowe. Ms. Metzger is a Member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and on the Advisory Board of the Carsey-Wolf Center.
John Gibbons
John W. Gibbons spent 13 years leading monetization for the Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com), an Amazon.com company. His role involved global site product and ad format development, sales strategy, and operations. He is currently the Vice President of Studio & International Solutions at Unicast, an acknowledged publisher partner for digital ad product innovation, development, serving, and analytics. His role involves leadership for driving revenue via global publisher relationships.