John Textor Email & Phone Number

Décines, Fr

Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Région De Bruxelles-Capitale, Be

Rio De Janeiro, Rj, Br

London, England, Gb

New York, Us

New York, Us

fuboTV, Inc. (formerly FaceBank Group) is a leading digital entertainment company, combining fuboTV’s direct-to-consumer live TV streaming platform with FaceBank’s technology-driven IP in sports, movies and live performances. This business combination, operating as fuboTV, Inc., will create a content delivery platform for traditional and future-form IP. fuboTV plans to leverage FaceBank’s IP sharing relationships with leading celebrities and other digital technologies to enhance its already robust sports and entertainment offerings.

New York, Ny, Us

Facebank Group, Inc. (NYSE: FUBO) is a character-based virtual entertainment company, and a leading developer of digital human likeness for celebrities and consumers, focused on applications in traditional entertainment, sports entertainment, live events, social networking, mixed reality (AR/VR) and artificial intelligence. In April 2020, Facebank Group acquired (and changed its name to) fuboTV, Inc., a leading OTT digital entertainment company.

Mr. Textor is also the Founder of Wyndcrest Holdings, LLC, a Florida-based private holding company focused on technology-related opportunities in entertainment, telecommunications and the Internet, and has served as its (and its predecessor’s) President since 1997. Wyndcrest was best known for its role as an early lead investor in Art Technology Group (then Nasdaq “ARTG”), a principal pioneer of internet personalization technology, that achieved a liquid $10.5 billion valuation as one of the most successful IPOs of 1999. He also served as the Chairman and CEO of BabyUniverse, Inc., a leading e-tailer of baby-related products, which Mr. Textor saved from insolvency with only a $300,000 investment in 2001, increasing revenues from $1 million to $40 million, and selling in October of 2007 for roughly $90 million. Mr. Textor was also a founding director and the largest shareholder of Virtual Bank, a Florida-based Internet banking startup that ultimately became a multi-billion dollar diversified financial services company. He was also a director of Multicast Media Technologies, Inc., a global provider of Internet-based broadcast media, which was sold successfully to KIT Digital of Czechoslovakia.

Pulse Evolution Corporation is the pioneer and leading developer of hyper-realistic digital humans for holographic live performances, virtual reality, augmented reality and artificial intelligence. With a business model focused on technology and intellectual property ownership, Pulse was founded by leaders in the digital human space who created the globally recognized Tupac Hologram at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music Festival and Virtual Michael Jackson at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. Among its strategic advantages, Pulse has long-term revenue share agreements with three of the highest earning late celebrity estates in the world, a virtual catalogue of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.In its first year of operation, Pulse emerged as the “gold standard of human animation” in the new, globally relevant virtual performance industry. The Company acquired the digital likeness rights of three late celebrities - Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe – and produced the Virtual Michael Jackson Show at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards. This performance was broadcast live to more than 11 million live television viewers, generating 35 million YouTube views and more than 98 billion Internet impressions.The Company is initially focused on putting its digital human celebrities to work in daily live performances, virtual reality experiences, mobile applications and branded entertainment – in theaters, television, tablets, phones, VR Goggle and AR smart glasses, Pulse digital celebrities are built to be globally distributable and ubiquitously accessible across all entertainment platforms in the quickly evolving world of digitally distributed content. Today, the applications for digital humans are obvious and in high demand in the entertainment sector. Tomorrow, digital humans will drive globally relevant - and highly lucrative – uses in surgical simulation, military simulation, telecommunications, education and artificial intelligence.

Ender's Game is an American science fiction action film, directed by Gavin Hood, based on the novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Mr. Textor was previously Co-Chairman of Digital Domain, having led its acquisition and restructuring from May 2006, through a NYSE valuation of $450 million in Spring 2012, until his resignation in August 2012. Together the companies were responsible for the visual effects of more than 80 large scale feature films, 25 of which were completed during Mr. Textor’s leadership, including such films as Transformers, Flags of our Fathers, Tron:Legacy, Real Steel and Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s End. During Mr. Textor’s leadership, Digital Domain experienced a doubling of its revenues in just three years, was re-established as a market leader in visual effects, winning multiple Academy Awards, CLIO advertising awards and, importantly, being recognized as the first visual effects company to deliver a believable digital human actor in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. This achievement, known as the ‘Holy Grail of Animation’, earned the company a 2009 Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects.