Jon Jashni is a content producer and media investor who recently founded Raintree Ventures, an investment and incubation fund operating in the entertainment space.
Previously, Jashni was President and Chief Creative Officer of Legendary Entertainment where, as part of his duties, he oversaw the development and production of such film projects as Warcraft, Krampus, Crimson Peak, Godzilla, the Jackie Robinson biopic 42 and Pacific Rim. He joined the company in January 2006 and was integrally involved over a ten year period in evolving the company from a film-financing entity into a diversified, multi-platform media company.
Prior to joining Legendary, Jashni was President of Hyde Park Entertainment, a production and financing company with overall deals at 20th Century Fox, Disney and MGM. While there, he oversaw the development and production of Shopgirl, Dreamer, Walking Tall and Premonition.
Before joining Hyde Park, Jashni was a producer on director Andy Tennant's romantic comedy smash Sweet Home Alabama. Jashni's collaboration with Tennant began with the fairy tale Ever After, for which Jashni oversaw development and production as a senior production executive at 20th Century Fox.
Jashni has also co-produced two films that received a total of three Academy Award®nominations: the critically acclaimed drama The Hurricane, which garnered a Best Actor nomination for star Denzel Washington, and a non-musical reinterpretation of Anna and the King, which starred Jodie Foster, and earned two Oscar nominations.
Jashni was earlier partnered with industry power broker Irving Azoff at the Warner Bros.-based Giant Pictures. Together they produced The Hurricane, Jack Frost and The Inkwell. Jashni joined Azoff after a stint as a production executive at Columbia Pictures, where he was involved in the development and production of such films as Groundhog Day and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Jashni began his career at Daniel Melnick's The IndieProd Company, where he was involved in the production of Roxanne, Air America, Mountains of the Moon and Punchline.
Jashni is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America in addition to serving as a Trustee of the American Film Institute. He holds a BS from the University of Southern California and an MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
