An American producer, born in Brooklyn, New York, in the United States. He obtained an MBA from Columbia University. He began his life as an assistant producer in the television advertising sector in the early seventies of the twentieth century. He started a production company that he founded with the director George A. Romero and presented a series of artistic works, including Pet Sematary (1989), Thinner (1996), and The Night Flier (1997).