About Jon Gosier

Jon is an Executive Producer and Financier of Film and TV who develops and co-finances media projects. He is the founder of FilmHedge, a fintech company providing financing of up to $10M per Film or TV production. Prior to his work in film, Jon spent ten years in venture capital and tech. His 2014 TED Talk about ethical innovation has been viewed millions of times. Jon Gosier is the Founder was the CEO of Audigent which was named one of the fastest growing tech companies in the country by INC5000 and Deloitte. He was named one 'the new faces of Black Leadership' by TIME Magazine in 2015. Jon is focused on creating new financial models in the entertainment industry. Audigent, provided artists like Camila Cabello, Eminem, Post Malone, Blake Shelton, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Shakira, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and other entertainers with new ways of understanding audience data. Audigent partners past and present, include Raised in Space, Warner Music, Broadscale, Spotify, Tidal, and Nielsen. Prior to that he was best known for working in crisis-response and counterintelligence in East Africa. While living in Uganda co-founded various organizations in Africa, including AfriLabs (a network of tech innovation hubs that now reaches 90+ cities), Appfrica (a tech consultancy that serviced Google, Facebook and Twitter); was a former Director at Ushahidi (which is estimated to have reached more than 25 million people with its open-source software). His work in these areas was lauded by The White House in 2010, 2012, and 2013. He is an alumnus of Savannah College of Art and Design and the THNK School of Creative Leadership and Innovation. Guest lecturer and presenter at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Lund University in Sweden, NYU, Rollins College, Wharton, Temple, Drexel, U Penn and more.