Charlie Fink (producer)
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| Occupation | Theatrical producer, entrepreneur, arts advocate |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jane Hosticka (m. 1984-present) |
| Children | Dave Fink (Actor) Mike Fink (Film Director) Betty Fink (Student) |
Charlie Fink is a theatrical producer, entrepreneur, and arts advocate. He is an executive and producer of entertainment and new media. He has created and launched new brands for Disney, AOL, and American Greetings since 1985. He received the 2014 Rule Breaker Award from No Rule Theater Company.
Fink started his career in the Animation Division of Walt Disney Pictures, where he rose to the position of Vice-President. In his six years with Disney, Mr. Fink developed and produced live-action and animated motion pictures, including Beauty and The Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, which was based on his idea, "Bambi in Africa". In 1992, Fink left Disney Pictures to become Executive Vice-President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Virtual World Entertainment, a software developer and location-based Entertainment Company owned by Tim Disney. That company was later sold to Microsoft.
In early 1996, Fink joined AOL as Senior Vice-President and Chief Cr. Officer of its Greenhouse Networks, where he created and launched some of the formative Internet's largest content brands, including Love@AOL (sold to Match.com), Electra (sold to Oxygen Media), Entertainment Asylum, and Santa's Home Page (which he also co-produced with the late Brandon Tartikoff and Will Vinton as an ABC TV special).
After leaving AOL in 1999, Fink founded eAgents.com, a daily email service that provided targeted news and entertainment to over five million Internet users each day. In September 2000, less than eight months after founding the company, with its initial product still in beta, eAgents was sold to American Greetings Interactive (AGI). Fink served as President of AGI until 2003, and Chairman until 2005. During his tenure, AG acquired its two largest competitors, BlueMountain.com and eGreetings.com, and transitioned from a free site to a fee based subscription service with over five million paying subscribers.
In 2005, Fink founded and operated digital marketing agency, Charlie Company, specializing in integrated lifestyle marketing campaigns for global brands, startups, and non-profits leveraging SEM, SEO, social, content creation, viral, guerilla and experiential channels; clients included Sprint, eBay, Phoenix Education, Capital One, Moveon.org and others; Developed and executed go-to-market strategy for Erodr, a venture backed geo social app for college campuses, driving 300,000 trials, 2012 - 2014; Created "The Other 98%" for Moveon.org, which today has 2.75 MM followers on Facebook; Created & Produced YouTube series The Two McCains, 2008.
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