SHERRY LANSING

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Sherry Lansing

Sherry Lansing served as chairman of the Motion Picture Group of Paramount Pictures from November 1992 until March 2005.  Currently, she serves as the CEO of The Sherry Lansing Foundation, which encompasses many aspects of her philanthropic work. During her chairmanship at Paramount, Ms. Lansing oversaw more than 200 films, three of which won the Academy Award® for Best Picture. A pioneering studio executive, she is the first-ever woman in the film industry to oversee all aspects of a studio’s motion picture production. Ms. Lansing has received numerous honors and awards, including the Horatio Alger Humanitarian Award in 2004. She serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of Friends of Cancer Research, as a trustee of the American Association for Cancer Research, and as the chair of Stop Cancer, a non-profit philanthropic group she founded in partnership with Dr. Armand Hammer.  She is a Regent of the University of California 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, established by California’s groundbreaking proposition 71, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research. Ms. Lansing graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science degree.