Digital Hollywood Spring, March, 2006
Speaker
Mariana Danilovic, Managing Director, Hollywood Portfolio, LLC

Mariana Danilovic is the founder and Managing Director of Hollywood Portfolio, LLC, a developer, owner and operator of cable networks, digital media companies and television programming. The Company focuses on fundraising from institutional investors and brand integration through Fortune 500 companies. Through Hollywood Portfolio, Ms. Danilovic launched the luxury eco media and lifestyle company by extending a sustainable fashion brand to home, beauty and lifestyle products. Mariana also developed the Eco Your Life television show with Jane Sparango, former Producer of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and the Boom cable network, an entertainment channel for baby boomers. Previously, Ms. Danilovic was the Chief Executive Officer of Women in Technology International (WITI), an international events planning and media company that managed forty (40) chapters worldwide and organized three major conferences each year. During her tenure, WITI’s primary source of revenue was sponsorships from Fortune 500 companies, including Daimler-Chrysler, Dell, Eli Lily, GE Capital, IBM, Intel, Raytheon, Texas Instruments, Visa International and many others. Prior to WITI, Ms. Danilovic was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Media Incubator, LLC, which provided venture, later stage private equity, and business development services to digital media, film, music, technology, television, video, and convergence companies. Ms. Danilovic also founded and directed the Digital Media Incubator at KPMG LLP. This group developed numerous entertainment and digital media companies, including CatchTV, Digital Entertainment Network, E-Poll, Enband, FirstLook.com, Market Wire, mySMART, QSTV, Tonos, Thirsty, WalkThisWay. The strategic investors in these ventures included Intel, Hewlett-Packard, LG Electronics and Cox. The group successfully facilitated the sale of the Well to the Salon prior to its initial public offering. The companies Ms. Danilovic developed at KPMG LLP received first round institutional funding from such well-known venture capital firms as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Hummer-Winblad, Constellation Partners, Softbank and North Star Ventures. Prior to joining KPMG, Ms. Danilovic headed business development for Peter Guber’s Mandalay Entertainment. She also was part of the management team for the $60 million media fund at Sony Pictures Entertainment that made investments in companies worldwide. Ms. Danilovic also worked with Michael Milken’s Knowledge Exchange and at the Twentieth Century Fox International Television Group. Prior to attending business school, Mariana worked in Product Management as well as Mergers and Acquisitions for Transamerica and SunAmerica. Ms. Danilovic currently serves on the Board of Directors of VIC Network, and she previously served on the Board of Directors of Tim Draper’s Zone Club, California Culture Net, and was a member of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's Digital Coast Roundtable. Mariana earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from University of California, San Diego.