Lionsgate executive Jay Faires and Matthew Weiner, creator of the show, with "A Night on the Town with 'Mad Men' " cast, musical composer David Carbonara.
Faires has executive produced A Night on the Town with 'Mad Men'[3] and concert films EDC: Experience,[4][5] and the Coldplay concert film licensed to Epix.[6][7]
Atlantic Records, Disney, Lionsgate
As part of the Mammoth records JV, Faires became SVP of A&R at Atlantic Records[8] where he oversaw the rock and alternative rosters. Later when he bought the company back from Atlantic and sold to Disney,[9] he became an SVP there while running Mammoth.
At Lionsgate, Faires was President of Music and oversaw all music for their TV and film slates including such hits as Mad Men and the Oscar winning Crash. The music team received two Oscar nominations for Marco Beltrami's score for 3:10 to Yuma and Bird York's song "In The Deep" for Best Picture winner Crash.[10][11] Lionsgate released 3 of the 5 soundtracks for the Best Television Golden Globe nominees of Californication, Mad Men and Weeds.[12] While there, the value of the music publishing asset doubled.
He earned a bachelor's degree with honors from The University of the South, where he was Young Alumnus of the Year in 2000, executive-in-residence for the Babson Center for Global Commerce in 2009 and sat on the university's board of trustees.[17][18] He received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he gave the keynote address at the inauguration of their Center for Entrepreneurship in 2006.[19] In 2008, he received the Joseph Papp Racial Harmony Award from the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.[20] He serves as an advisor or board member for Women @ the Frontier,[21] 15X15,[22][23]Invisible Children / 4th Estate[24] and My Friend's Place.[25]
