WNDRCO - Key Persons
Ann is a long-time entertainment industry leader and innovator. Prior to WndrCo, she served as President and COO of DreamWorks Animation, where she was responsible for business strategy, creative, production, technology and operating business units, helping build the company into the world's largest animation studio as well as a center of production technology innovation. Ann focuses on Control investments, and led WndrCo's investments in The Infatuation / Zagat, Tinkergarten, Quibi, and Mixcloud.
Ann spearheaded DreamWorks' transformation from a film-centric enterprise into a diverse entertainment company spanning feature film, television, location-based, retail and live entertainment, as well as new cloud technologies, licensing, consumer products. She also managed the formation of DreamWorks Television, growing revenue to more than $300 million in three years.
Ann came to DreamWorks after 14 years at The Walt Disney Studios' Buena Vista Home Video. During that time, she rose to become President of BVHV, as her pioneering work took that business from a nascent effort in the emerging home entertainment market to the undisputed global leader.
Among her many awards and honors, Ann is the recipient of the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, which is presented to women who have been breakthrough leaders in the entertainment industry. She received her B.A. in Economics from UCLA and serves on the board of The UCLA Foundation.
Anthony is an entrepreneur, music manager and investor in an array of category-leading startups. Along with ChenLi, Anthony co-leads WndrCo's seed funds and is a General Partner of WndrCo Growth. He led WndrCo's investments in Robinhood, Dapper Labs, Mixcloud, Community, Statespace Labs, 100 Thieves, and other great companies. Along with his role as a Partner at WndrCo, he is also the Founder and CEO of Emagen Entertainment Group, where he has managed the careers of rap artists Nas and Future, and singer Alina Baraz.
Prior to WndrCo, Anthony served as Founder and Partner of Queensbridge Venture Partners, where he established and managed a $20 million fund that invested in such leading startups as Coinbase, Robinhood, Pill Pack, Ring, Lyft, Dropbox, Casper, Stance and Reformation. Anthony also served as a music executive at C3 Presents and Atom Factory, where he oversaw day-to-day operations of the talent management and production company, which represented such artists as Nicki Minaj, Robin Thicke, Toni Braxton and Lady Gaga.
Anthony has been named to "The Levo 100 Entrepreneurs," Forbes' "30 Under 30 in Music," Billboard's "100 Most Powerful People in Music", and Billboard's "30 Under 30."
Job Titles:
- Head of Investor Relations
- Investor
Prior to WndrCo, Jeffrey co-founded DreamWorks SKG, serving as CEO of DreamWorks Animation, which he grew into the world's largest animation studio, known for such iconic franchises as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar and How to Train Your Dragon. In 2016, DreamWorks Animation was sold to Comcast for $3.8 billion.
Before founding DreamWorks, Jeffrey was Chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, where he took the studio from last place to first at the box office with such live-action hits as Good Morning, Vietnam, Three Men and a Baby, Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, Father of the Bride and Sister Act. He also oversaw the studio's renaissance of animation, with such now-classic films as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Lion King and Toy Story.
Jeffrey came to Disney from Paramount Studios, where he served as President of Production and was involved in such films as Star Trek, the Movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Best Picture Academy Award® winners Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment.
Jeff Nykun is a General Partner at WndrCo and has spent 18 years as a public and private markets investor.
Prior to WndrCo, Jeff worked at several leading alternative asset management firms investing in public securities. Most recently, Jeff was a Senior Analyst at Artisan Partners where he helped manage all aspects of the $4 billion Antero Peak Group long-only and long-short equity-focused strategies, including research, portfolio construction, risk management and firm building. Before Artisan, Jeff was a Managing Director at Shumway Capital, a long-short equity focused investment firm that grew to over $9 billion in assets under management, subsequent to which he reunited with the former Shumway Capital CIO and COO to launch Cider Mill Investments, where he worked as a Managing Director focused on the business services, financial technology and consumer sectors. Earlier in his career, Jeff also worked at Luxor Capital as a Senior Analyst, Texas Pacific Group as a private equity Associate, and Morgan Stanley as an investment banking analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group.
Jeff graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with an AB in Economics. He currently lives in NYC and enjoys an array of physical fitness activities, loves reading both fiction and non-fiction, and is an avid MMA fan.
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- General Partner
Jen is a General Partner and General Counsel at WndrCo.
Jen Crystal is WndrCo's General Counsel, bringing 13 years of experience in strategic advising, asset management, private equity and transactional matters.
Before joining WndrCo, Jen served as Managing Director and Deputy General Counsel at PineBridge Investments, a global asset manager, where she was responsible for legal matters for the firm's private equity, private credit and alternative investments businesses managed from the Americas. Jen started her career at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, focusing on private equity, M&A and general corporate law matters. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law from Duke University School of Law.
Sujay is one of Silicon Valley's leading business innovators, and oversees WndrCo's investment and operating activities. He makes Ventures and Growth investments, and creates companies through Venture Buyouts. He serves as Chairman of Aura, Twingate, and Super Unlimited, and led WndrCo's investments in Figma, 1Password, Databricks, Pango, Pilot, Rally, Zagat / The Infatuation, and other great companies.
At Dropbox, he created and led the company's global business and finance organizations, which included all customer-facing functions, finance, corporate and business development, and business operations. Sujay and his teams raised over $1 billion, launched and scaled Dropbox's products for businesses, created partnerships responsible for over 100 million users, executed some 20 acquisitions, and scaled the global business team from two to more than 500 employees in seven global offices. During this period, the company significantly scaled all business and financial metrics, including overall revenue from $12 million in 2010 to over $500 million run rate, Dropbox for Business revenue from $1 million to over $200mm run rate, and users from 15 million to 300 million. The company's 409a valuation grew from $18 million to nearly $10 billion.
Previously, Sujay was a principal at New Enterprise Associates, where he was closely involved in investments in Workday, Cloudflare and Playdom (acquired by Disney). Earlier, he worked at Cisco Systems and McKinsey & Company.
Sujay is a Lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, a Trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and a Trustee of Global Health Corps. He has a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.