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Keri Putnam
Former CEO, Sundance; Harvard AB ’87
Shorenstein Advisory Board Member
Keri Putnam is a producer, strategic advisor to companies and nonprofits, former senior executive and CEO, and public company board director who works at the intersection of the creative and business sides of the media and arts fields. As CEO of Sundance Institute, President of Production at Miramax, and Executive Vice President at HBO, Putnam guided strategy and led global creative and production teams to support, develop, finance, and supervise production on a wide array of highly acclaimed work from new and established talent.
In 2022, Putnam founded a production company, Putnam Pictures, to make television and film projects focused on premium stories from creators with distinct and adventurous vision. She was the ’23-24 Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy, Board Director at AMC Entertainment where she serves on the audit and nominating committees, Board Chair at New_Public, and co-founder of ReFrame which advances women in the screen industries.
Putnam is a consultant or advisory board member to media companies, foundations, arts organizations, and start-ups including Portrait, Picturestart, and First-Look Media, Pivotal Ventures, among others. She is a frequent speaker, an A.D. White Professor at Large at Cornell University, mentor at the USC Stark Producing Program, and advisory council member at Brooklyn College’s Feirstein School of Cinema. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Theater History and Literature.
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