​Tony's career started with creativity, and creativity was the star to which everything followed. As an ambitious high school student, he took what started as an entry-level sales job and turned it into a career-defining moment. In the wake of the pandemic, he met the moment and helped a mostly door-to-door solar sales company pivot its entire strategy to digital. He was at the right place, at the right time, with the right vision, and he was given the keys to orchestrate the complete pivot strategy and creative direction to reposition the company's operations and brand in the new economic environment that ensued in the wake of the pandemic. After graduating, he began funding creative work and, in addition, took this experience into community development finance, joining one of the most well-regarded nonprofit organizations in deploying more than $130m in cumulative small business and community loans. This followed Tony's academic interests, where he explored human development and was fascinated by how finance could change outcomes and how media can shape perceptions. In the spirit of giving back, during this same time he returned after graduation to lead his alumni association. Later, he left the cities and headed for the mountains; he was inspired to serve, and he joined AmeriCorps. In AmeriCorps, he became a U.S. Forest Service Sawyer and a wilderness first responder on a conservation corps chainsaw crew. Out there in the backcountry, he began to write more and become more in tune with the beauty and art all around us in the story of our world. When his term in the corps came to an end, something changed. The peace and tranquility, and simplicity out there, as it often does, rewired his view of the world, our humanity, and the story we share. He thought about the earliest humans; they painted on cave walls, and they decorated their pottery. These humans, who lived what we could only imagine as the most perilous existence, still cared about that one thing he cared about so deeply: creativity. They told stories; they entertained, they danced, and they found meaning in beauty. Because it was bigger than them, and it was bigger than him, this idea of creativity is core to what it means to be human, and he thought, there's nothing more noble than to create and help others create. Although the story is just beginning, Tony has gone on to co-finance to date $25m worth of films across a diverse slate of genres, produced and distributed with studios such as Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Live Nation Studios, Searchlight Pictures, NEON, Bleecker Street, and Ketchup Entertainment, starring talent such as Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, William Shatner, Nicolas Cage, and John Cena. Tony has also shot photography work with partners such as The Kardashian Family, Selena Gomez, and Kelly Clarkson, and is associated with companies whose clients include Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Zach Bryan, Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, Calvin Harris, and Jerry Seinfeld. Inadvertently, this path in many ways runs in the family, given his grandfather spent a lifetime in television. Tony’s love for talent, story, and the world is prevalent in everything that he does. He's honored to have had the privilege of working with some of the greatest talents of today, and he looks forward to continuing to produce extraordinary creative stories and those "You just had to be there" moments.