Sherry Lansing

Sherry Lansing served as Chairman of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures, a unit of the Viacom Entertainment Group, from November 1992 until March 2005. Ms. Lansing was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company's motion picture operations. Under her chairmanship, three of Paramount's pictures won the Academy Award" for Best Picture during a four-year period - "Forrest Gump" (1994), "Braveheart" (1995) and"Titanic" (1997).

Prior to becoming Chairman of the Motion Picture Group, Ms. Lansing headed her own production company, Lansing Productions, which produced Paramount Pictures' "Indecent Proposal." Before that, during her partnership with Stanley Jaffe, formed in 1983, Jaffe/Lansing Productions produced a variety of films for Paramount, among them "The Accused," "Black Rain," "Fatal Attraction," "Racing With the Moon" and "School Ties." From 1980 to 1983, Ms. Lansing served as President of Production at 20th Century Fox. She was the first woman to hold that position in the motion picture industry. Prior to joining Fox, Ms. Lansing served as Senior Vice President at Columbia Pictures.

Lansing has received numerous honors, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, the Milestone Award from the Producers Guild of America, the Overcoming Obstacles Achievement Award for Business, the YWCA Silver Achievement Award, the Outstanding Woman in Business Award from the Women's Equity Action League, the Distinguished Community Service Award from Brandeis University, the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Memorial Award and an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from the American Film Institute. She was also the recipient of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Distinguished Service Award for the Performing Arts and was named the 1996 Pioneer of the Year by the Foundation of the Motion Picture Pioneers. On July 31, 1996, Ms. Lansing's birthday, she became the first woman studio head to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2004, Lansing received the Horatio Alger Humanitarian Award.

Lansing serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Friends of Cancer Research and as a Trustee of the American Association for Cancer Research. Additionally, she serves as the Chair of Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer. Lansing is Chair of the University of California Board of Regents and a member of the American Red Cross Board of Governors. In 2005, Lansing was appointed to the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The CIRM was established by California's groundbreaking ballot measure, Proposition 71, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research.

Ms. Lansing graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University in 1966.