Pauline Fischer

BOARD CHair

Ms. Fischer is a seasoned content and business development executive with tenure at leading media and entertainment companies including Paramount Pictures and Netflix, Inc. Her passion for taking innovative ideas from concept to launch and beyond is what fuels her current business development projects for early stage companies in the media and technology sectors. In her prior role at Netflix, she spearheaded the Original Film initiative focused on producing and acquiring feature films for exclusive distribution on Netflix and led the U.S. feature film licensing group. In these roles, she executive produced award winning films and film festival favorites including Beasts of No Nation, A Very Murray Christmas, Okja, First They Killed My Father, and Our Souls at Night and brokered several ground-breaking deals that helped revolutionize the Netflix film brand including a four-picture deal with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, a Pay TV deal between Disney and Netflix, and a franchise deal for the film Bright starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Prior to joining Netflix in 2008, Ms. Fischer was vice president of acquisitions for Paramount Pictures International and Worldwide DVD where, in addition to her responsibilities acquiring film and television content globally, she helped launch the company’s DVD Premiere Group.

Her career has also included strategic planning and finance with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Fischer was awarded a High Tech Fellowship from Harvard Business School and authored several published case studies including BET.com, CNET.com, and RadioOne. She serves on the boards ofThe Blackhouse Foundation, a non-profit created to help increase the diversity of filmmakers in the entertainment industry and The Care Institute, a non-profit created by Care.com and AARP to develop and launch workforce training programs that create new economic opportunities in communities. Ms. Fischer received her B.A. in Economics-Business from UCLA and is an alumna of the JD/MBA program at Harvard.

Please contact Pauline at pfischer@ednovate.org