Ben Rosenblatt
CEO
Prior to founding Shawkemo Group, Ben served as an executive at Round2media. Round2media provided liquidity to musical artist through royalty acquisition. At Round2media, Ben spearheaded industry relationship building, deal development, and diligence oversight. His extensive background in strategic growth and venture capital also includes roles as Director of Corporate Development at SoundHouse (the first iteration of Round2media, acquired by the Apollo backed HarbourView Equity Partners) and as an Investor at Polaris Partners, a Boston-based, technology-focused venture capital firm.
Ben earned his degree in economics from Brown University, where he was recognized as an Academic All-American football player. Outside of work, Ben is an avid golfer, concert goer, and ocean enthusiast.
Ben can be reached at Ben@shawkemogroup.com
Michael Rosenblatt
Chairman
Michael Rosenblatt has been the Founder of six media companies, both public and private, all of which he has served as CEO or Executive Chairman, most recently as Founder, CEO and President of SoundHouse LLC (acquired by the Apollo backed HabourView Equity Partners) and subsequently Round2media. He has extensive experience working with Private Equity and Venture Capital partners and has over 30 years of cumulative directorship experience on multiple company boards, both public and private. Known for his ability to build media distribution and content creation organizations that can scale quickly, he has succeeded in leading companies from start-up, through rapid growth and ultimately through exits, both public and private. LifeF/X Software grew from start up to over $1Billion in public market cap while he was Founder, Executive Chairman and President.
Michael is the Executive Producer of over 20 feature films including Teen Wolf starring Michael J. Fox, Valley Girl, starring Nicholas Cage and Extremities, starring Farrah Fawcett.
Since 1986 Michael has been a lifetime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and in 1997 Wired Magazine featured him as one of 22 people reinventing Hollywood. From 1998-2002 Michael was a member of the Board of Overseers of Newton Wellesley Hospital (Partners HealthCare).