Dany Garcia is a groundbreaking visionary, and the definition of a mogul: an\nentertainment magnate, founder, investor, producer, professional athlete, and\nphilanthropist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia is the architect behind some of today\u2019s most successful enterprises, brands,\nand talent. Her innovative, global approach to every professional and personal\nendeavor has contributed to her continued success. Her precise instincts within the\never-changing media landscape, paired with years of experience in the finance\nindustry, have led to innovative and trusted business partnerships in a variety of\nverticals. Garcia\u2019s passion for bettering the world through socially responsible\ndecisions is consistently reflected in the culture of her teams and the businesses\nshe builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia is the founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of The Garcia Companies, and TGC\nManagement. Through The Garcia Companies, a complex holding enterprise, Garcia\nemploys one main philosophy throughout every facet of her business; to produce\nsynergy amongst all endeavors in order to maximize success for each individual branch of business. The TGC portfolio is as\nextensive as it is diverse, and it includes overseeing various ventures in the entertainment and entrepreneurial spaces \u2013\nTGC Management, Seven Bucks Productions, Seven Bucks Creative, Seven Bucks Digital Studios, Atom Tickets, and CAVA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
TGC Management is a global brand development and management company consisting of an elite team of seasoned\nmanagement executives responsible for guiding strategy and building enterprises for some of the world\u2019s most coveted\nnames and brands. Through her immersive work within TGC Management, Garcia is the visionary behind the careers of\nDwayne Johnson and Henry Cavill. TGC Management has built billion-dollar brands by taking risks and changing business\nmodels to adapt to the needs of its clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia also serves as Co-Founder of Seven Bucks Productions, a multi-platform production company pioneering original\ncontent for television, film, emerging technologies, and digital networks. Crossing all entertainment verticals, Seven Bucks\nProductions creates innovative content rooted in authenticity, strong storytelling, and passion. Garcia looks beyond box\noffice numbers and focuses on how a project can make an international impression, create conversation, and impact the\nsocial landscape as a whole. The company has an ever-expanding slate including tent-pole movies such as Sony\u2019s highest\ngrossing film of all time, Jumanji, Rampage (Warner Bros.), Skyscraper (Universal), and Fighting with my Family (MGM), as\nwell as upcoming films Jungle Cruise (Disney), Hobbs & Shaw (Universal), The King (Warner Bros.), and John Henry and The\nStatesmen (Netflix). Seven Bucks Productions also produces original television programming including one of HBO\u2019s\nhighest rated comedies, Ballers, the groundbreaking athletic competition series The Titan Games (NBC), Rock the Troops\n(Paramount Network), Rock and a Hard Place (HBO Documentary), and the six-episode docuseries Finding Justice (BET).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2016, Garcia and her team launched their digital arm, Seven Bucks Digital Studios, which creates premium long and\nshort-form content for digital platforms. In less than one year, Seven Bucks Digital Studios amassed over two-million\nsubscribers making it one of the fastest growing channels in YouTube history. A year later, Seven Bucks Creative was\nlaunched, serving as the strategic and creative engine behind Seven Bucks and their portfolio of brands and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether it\u2019s launching an original film, TV show, brand partnership, or new venture, this pioneering group is responsible\nfor crafting big picture and disruptive brand purpose and positioning to drive growth with audiences globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through The Garcia Companies, Garcia acts as an advocate for diversity in marketing through investments and executive\ncontributions on behalf of Seven Bucks Productions and Seven Bucks Creative. She serves as an advisory board\nmember for the social media ticketing app and website, Atom Tickets and Mediterranean culinary brand, CAVA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia\u2019s passion and commitment to the entertainment industry is matched by her complete dedication and devotion to\nthe sport of bodybuilding. She first competed in 2011 and went on to earn her IFBB Pro card in 2014. She was the firstever\nWomen\u2019s Physique Division athlete to be signed to the Weider roster. Along with competing, Garcia and Johnson\u2019s\ndigital conglomerate, Seven Bucks Digital Studios has helped produce and promote bodybuilding\u2019s most prestigious and\npremier competition, Mr. Olympia alongside AMI since 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Balancing over 50 other projects in development while simultaneously managing a diverse portfolio of ventures, she\ncontinues to serve as a change agent and a multi-faceted trailblazer to women everywhere. Garcia earned a spot in the\n2018 Variety500 and in Variety\u2019s Power of Women Report in 2016 and 2018. In 2015, Garcia was selected by Women in\nCable Telecommunications (WICT) as a guest panelist for their \u201cProfiles on Champions\u201d which brought together over\n1,000 female media leaders for a motivational and empowering discussion on the many traits of successful athletes who\nhave trained their bodies and minds for competitive high performance and challenging environments. Garcia brought her\nexpertise as a driven athlete, female role model, and multimedia mogul to the powerful discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia founded The Beacon Experience, as part of the nationwide \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d foundation that encourages at-risk\nstudents to continue their educations beyond high school. In 2006, Garcia identified the kindergarten class from Colonial\nDrive Elementary in Miami and committed to providing the group of \u201cDreamers\u201d with countless opportunities and\nresources to help them excel in school. Through the Beacon Experience, she empowered them throughout their lifelong\neducation with weekly tutoring and scholarships for college. Further signifying her belief in the importance of education,\nGarcia continues to support her alma mater by serving on the University of Miami Board of Trustees and as President of\nthe University of Miami Alumni Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born and raised in New Jersey, Garcia moved to Florida where she earned a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in International Marketing\nand Finance from the University of Miami School of Business. Following graduation, Garcia took a job at Merrill Lynch,\nusing the experiences there to increase her knowledge of financial tools, before founding her own private wealth\nmanagement firm, JDM Partners LLC. Garcia continues to be an active angel investor, using her wealth of experience to\nidentify and invest in groundbreaking entrepreneurs and business start-ups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Garcia is a proud mom to 17-year-old daughter, Simone Garcia Johnson. Garcia and her husband, Dave Rienzi, split their\ntime between Florida and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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