This week, Rand Brenner legendary licensing manager for the Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) Batman movies brand will be teaching at CEOSpace educational forum, which is being held unti March 28 at the Loews (NYSE:L) Lake Las Vegas Conference Center.
Rand Brenner, Founder & Principal Broker, has over 25 years experience in launching new start-ups, financing businesses, strategic planning, and consumer products marketing. He has started, managed and sold several start-up companies in the fitness, consumer products and business-to-business industries.
Rand Brenner had an extensive business career in the entertainment industry, where he held executive positions at Saban Entertainment and Warner Bros Consumer Products. Mr. Brenner negotiated numerous merchandise and promotional licensing agreements, many with Fortune 1000 companies including Hewlett Packard, Kellogg’s, Bandai America, Hasbro, Quaker Oats, Pepsi, and others. Key among the entertainment properties he managed was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (a $3 billion worldwide retail sales licensing phenomenon),two Power Rangers Movies (produced in conjunction with 20th Century Fox Film Corporation), the Batman movie (Tim Burton/Warner Bros production generating over $500 million in merchandise revenues), the classic Looney Tunes(i.e. Bugs Bunny)and Tiny Toon Adventures (Spielberg/Warner Bros).
Mr. Brenner sits on the advisory board of several private companies. He serves as a business development advisor to WallStreet Research, an investment research firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles, specializing in covering emerging growth and middle market public companies on the OTCBB, NASDAQ and AMEX exchanges. He is also a project consultant for Growthink, an international strategic business consulting firm providing customized business planning, market research, and M & A advisory services for public and private emerging and middle market companies.
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Rand Brenner is also a public speaker and has taught classes at the university level. He is a guest lecturer at the CEoSpace entrepreneurial program, a week long intensive business training for small to midsize business owners, entrepreneurs and individuals. Mr. Brenner was a guest at the Hong Kong FilmArt, where he was invited to speak on licensing at the Cross Media and Cross Business Symposium. He was also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Redlands, where he taught undergraduate classes in marketing.
Rand Brenner received his undergraduate degree from California State University – San Jose and his Masters of Business Administration from Pepperdine University.
CEO Space, Inc., founded by Berny Dohrmann, a best-selling author, radio show host and economic visionary. CEOSpace, boasts an innovative model for fostering cooperation instead of competition among business leaders, providing five annual trade shows for their lifetime members where the focus is on resolving issues through consultation and concentration on mutual interests. At any one of CEO Space’s week long retreats, members have access to a host of experts from all over the world who will share their experience and their business savvy in the spirit of confidentiality and mentoring. Members can attend seminars with titles like Mentor Mixing, Brain Tithing, Super Niche Marketing and Time Management. CEO Space is often used as an exceptional employee reward plan, and tax deductible group tuition encourages companies to send their best and brightest to get a “software upgrade in business leadership.”
CEO Space designs their retreats to make the most of a busy executive’s valuable time, and divides meetings into ninety minute intervals so members can still ‘run the empire’ while participating in the workshops and seminars. CEO Space’s trade shows run from Tuesday morning through Sunday noon. Members are encouraged to bring their families and a teen entrepreneur and study aide program is offered concurrently with the adult programs. CEO Space also has university affiliated curriculum for senior management with 350 corporate trainers and major law firms on faculty. CEO Space claims endorsements by the following well-known experts in corporate training: Anthony Robbins, motivational speaker and author of “Awaken The Giant Within;” Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, co-creators of the bestselling series “Chicken Soup for the Soul;” Bob Proctor, who was featured in “The Secret” and wrote “The Science of Getting Rich;” Lisa Nichols, CEO of Motivating the Teen Spirit and author of “No Matter What” and was also featured in “The Secret;” Dr. Jeff Magee of “Performance Magazine;” Jill Lublin, a professional self-promotion expert; Jane Whilhite, co-founder of PSI World; Dr. John Gray, bestselling author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus;” Ron Zeller, creator and co-presenter of “Winning The Second Half;” T. Harv Eker, bestselling author of “Secrets of the Millionaire Mind;” and Rick Frishman, founder of Planned Television Arts.