Speaker Profile: Don Levy

Don Levy is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Sony Pictures Digital (SPD), a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Levy directs the corporate communications, marketing and public relations for SPD’s operating units including Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation and Sony Online Entertainment. In addition, Levy is responsible for the coordination of marketing and brand strategy between Sony Pictures Digital and Sony Pictures Entertainment as well as other Sony companies including Sony Electronics and Sony Computer Entertainment.

He joined Sony Pictures Imageworks in 1996 during the group’s founding stages. Since then, with Levy directing its communication efforts, Imageworks has gone on to become an award-winning visual effects and digital character animation company. In 2003, Levy oversaw the Academy Award® campaign for Imageworks’ animated short film, “The ChubbChubbs,” which garnered the group’s first Oscar®, and guided the company to win the 2005 Academy Award for Best Visual Effects for its work on “Spider-Man 2.”

Over the years, Levy has assumed additional communication responsibilities as SPD has expanded to include Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing , which concentrates on extending entertainment into the digital marketplace, including mobile and broadband video delivery; Sony Pictures Animation, formed in 2002 to produce all-CG animated feature films; and Sony Online Entertainment, the industry-leader in massively multiplayer online games.

Prior to joining Sony Pictures Digital, Levy served in a similar capacity with Sony Pictures Digital Studios, supporting the studio’s digital production and post-production businesses. Levy joined Sony Pictures in 1995 as Columbia Picture’s Awards campaign consultant working on the Oscar®-winning campaign for “Sense and Sensibility.”