Todd Wagner
Co-owner, Wagner/Cuban Companies

Todd Wagner is co-owner of Wagner/Cuban Companies and founder of the Todd Wagner Foundation. Together with partner Mark Cuban, Wagner has established a vertically-integrated media and entertainment company with holdings that cover all aspects of the entertainment pipeline: from development and production to distribution and exhibition, spanning film, TV and home entertainment with a specialized niche in digital content.

The Wagner/Cuban entertainment holdings include movie production companies HDNet Films and 2929 Productions, distributor Magnolia Pictures, home video distributor Magnolia Home Entertainment, the Landmark Theatres art-house chain, high-definition cable networks HDNet and HDNet Movies, film and television library Rysher Entertainment, and a minority stake in Lions Gate Entertainment.

Wagner is utilizing several of these vertically integrated companies to experiment with a “day-and-date” model in which he is releasing films simultaneously across theatrical, television and home video platforms, thus collapsing the traditional release windows and giving consumers a choice of how, when and where they wish to see a movie. Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is directing six movies under this model, beginning with the Jan. 27 simultaneous release of “Bubble” in theaters, on DVD and on HDNet Movies.

In 2000, Wagner created the Todd Wagner Foundation, dedicated to improving the lives of at-risk children and inner-city entrepreneurs. He serves on the National Board of Directors of the After-School All-Stars (formerly Inner-City Games), a foundation championed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger that provides year-round technology, academic, sports and cultural programs for children in the nation's inner cities. In July 2001, Wagner launched the Dallas chapter of the All-Stars program, which is currently reaching more than 4,000 children with programs ranging from chess and art classes to volleyball, running clubs and math competitions.

In conjunction with After-School All-Stars, he is also developing the breakthrough MIRACLES technology, education and life skills program, a groundbreaking initiative to provide a comprehensive after-school program for inner-city children that is currently in nine cities across the country. Wagner also provides funding and resources to minority-owned, technology-focused businesses based in Dallas through a Minority Technology Fund, and sponsored bringing a KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) charter school to Dallas in 2003.

Wagner co-founded Broadcast.com in September of 1995, and as CEO led the company to becoming the leading destination for audio and video programming on the Internet. After broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for 5.7 billion dollars in 1999, Wagner led the division as Yahoo! Broadcast until May 2000, when he declined an offer to become Yahoo!’s Chief Operating Officer to focus on his current interests.

Wagner serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Film Institute and the Tribeca Film Institute. He received the Trailblazer Award at the 2004 Dallas Film Festival and was named national Kappa Sigma 2003 Man of the Year for his philanthropic efforts, the youngest recipient in the organization’s history. He has delivered speeches at dozens of business and technology conferences, has appeared on CBS, CNBC and CNN and has been profiled in leading publications including Business Week, Fortune, New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Variety.