David Segel
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Segel (right) with producer, Steve McEveety on the set of Man Down
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| Born | 10 April 1964 |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | Yale University(B.A.) |
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| Website | segelgroup |
“David Alexander Segel” (born April 10, 1964) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. Segel is a founding partner at Mako Global, Mpower Pictures and Structured Data Intelligence, creator of the Video Genome Project.
Segel grew up in Connecticut, Chicago and New York, graduating from Yale University in 1986 with a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy.
In 1992, Segel moved to London, England, where he lived for 16 years before returning to the US in 2008.
Segel began his career in New York as an options market maker and open outcry trader.
Segel has traded as a member of the Coffee Sugar Cocoa Exchange, the , the Chicago Board Options Exchange, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, and the Eurex Exchange.
In 1999 Segel founded a London-based derivatives trading firm Mako Global, a leader in market making of pricing and risk in stocks, bonds, commodities and financial exchange derivatives across major markets.
Segel began investing in media interests in 2007, founding Mpower Pictures with Steve McEveety, John Shepherd and Todd Matthew Burns.
Segel has served as Producer and Executive Producer on several motion pictures. Segel's most recent credits include acting as Executive Producer for Man Down (film) and The Dropbox Film (2015), as well as, Executive Producer of The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) which won several awards including the Los Angeles Film Festival "Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature" and producer of the film Snowmen (2011).
Segel co-founded Structured Data Intelligence with Xavier Kochhar and created The Video Genome Project which “...discovers, ingests, refines and understands the component data and metadata elements of film, television, and online video records." In 2016 The Video Genome Project was acquired by Hulu.
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