Do the unexpected” is the guiding business philosophy of Arthur Wylie, investment mogul, Hollywood executive, serial entrepreneur, and author. This daring mindset prompted him to start his own financial firm out of his college dorm room and to later grow it to oversee hundreds of millions in assets and participate in more than $750 million worth of business deals. This boldness also led him to venture into disparate industries, including the notoriously tough entertainment world, where he has also realized extraordinary success.
Wylie operates outside the box—from scraping up $500 to start his investing company to seamlessly securing a $50 million film-distribution deal. He has become one of the most talked-about entrepreneur brands and youngest success stories in the film industry today. Defying borders and boundaries, Wylie effortlessly manages a diverse business empire that encompasses entertainment/media, financial, and entrepreneurial coaching enterprises.
He has been featured in and on leading national media outlets The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, FOX News, ABC News, Forbes Online, and Black Enterprise, among many others.
Among his current endeavors, Wylie is an executive at Global Entertainment Holdings Film Fund, a publicly traded film production firm currently building a $100 million film fund. His duties there range from capital raising, film production oversight, distribution, to marketing, and working with some of Hollywood’s top producers who have more than $9 billion in box-office sales.
Wylie holds a bachelor’s degree in financial management from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has been a licensed securities principal for some of the top investment companies in the world.
Brian Nicol’s writing, editing and publishing career spans more than 30 years, most of them in Hawaii, Oregon and Nebraska. He was editor of Honolulu, the city and regional magazine of Hawaii, from 1982 until 1990. For a little more than two years, he was editorial director of Aster Publishing Corp. in Eugene, Oregon. From 1992 until 2007, he was CEO of Home & Away Publishing, a AAA-owned media company that produces travel magazines with combined circulation of more than 5.5 million. Nicol is originally from Minnesota and currently resides in Omaha.