Peter Levin

PETER YORK LEVIN Managing Director, Griffin Gaming Partners Prior to Griffin, Levin served as President of Interactive Ventures & Games at Lionsgate. He is the former CEO & Co-Founder of Nerdist Industries, a multi-platform creator of genre and popular-culture content as well as the former Co-President of Digital Strategy at Legendary Entertainment. Nerdist Industries was acquired by Legendary Entertainment in July of 2012. Levin serves the Board of Directors of N3TWORK and Next Games. He also serves on the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission Board of Directors and as an advisor to Japanese media juggernaut Yoshimoto Kogyo. He also is an investor in and former Chairman of Immortals Gaming Club and is an investor in the Championship League football club Swansea City. Previously, Levin was founder and co-owner of the 2006 World Champion Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League. He was also a minority partner in and strategic advisor to Strikeforce, a mixed martial arts promotional entity, that sold to the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2011. In June 2009, Levin served as the exclusive representative of Nikki Finke’s Deadline.com in its sale to PMC. Levin is the founder of Course of the Force, an annual Olympic torch-style lightsaber relay in partnership with Lucasfilm that led up to San Diego Comic Con International and benefitted the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Levin also co-teaches an esports class at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and serves on the Board of Governors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.