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Ken Scherer

Ken Scherer is Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation, a non-profit organization offering health and charitable services to Southern California’s entertainment community. During his thirteen years in this leadership position, Mr. Scherer has worked closely with Foundation Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg in successfully raising over $125,000,000 for the programs and services of the entertainment industry’s leading charity. Most notably Mr. Scherer has successfully directed a $50,000,000 building campaign on the Wasserman Campus of MPTF in Woodland Hills, California. He was the driving force behind the creation of the highly successful pre-Oscar event -- Night Before in 2002 -- that has become the social fundraising event during the Oscar season. Scherer is also the Executive Producer of the annual NBC telecast of Michael Douglas & Friends Celebrity Golf benefitting MPTF.