NEON
Ryan Friscia has a diverse background in finance and business development. Ryan is currently the EVP of Finance and Business Development at NEON, starting in June 2020. Prior to this, they held the role of Vice President of Finance at Endeavor Content from August 2018 to June 2020. Ryan also has experience at BLOOM Film, where they served as Vice President of Finance from September 2017 to August 2018, Director of Finance from January 2017 to September 2017, and Senior Manager of Finance from July 2016 to December 2016. Before that, they worked as a Manager of Sales Administration and Finance at Starz Entertainment from August 2015 to July 2016, and as a Manager of International Finance and Contract Administration at Relativity Media from October 2013 to August 2015.
Ryan Friscia completed their education with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in International Business / Finance from St. John's University, where they studied from 2012 to 2013. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science / Law from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where they attended from 2005 to 2010.
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NEON
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In just five years, NEON has garnered 25 Academy Award® nominations, 5 wins, including Best Picture, and has grossed over $200M at the box office. The company continues to push boundaries and take creative risks on bold cinema such as Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, which made history winning four Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to claim Best Picture, unanimously winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and grossing over $54M at the domestic box office. The NEON slate includes the Oscar-nominated documentaries All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Fire of Love; 2022’s highest grossing documentary, Moonage Daydream, Brett Morgan’s genre-defying film chronicling the career of David Bowie; Kore-eda’s Broker, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (Parasite); and three-time Academy Award® nominee Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness, NEON’s third consecutive Palme d’Or winner. NEON has amassed a library of over 80 films, with noteworthy releases including: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, starring Tilda Swinton, with a successful and unprecedented “in theatres only… forever” release; Flee, which made history becoming the first film to score an impressive trifecta of Oscar® nominations; The Worst Person in The World, which was nominated for Original Screenplay and International Feature Film; Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress; the record-breaking Honeyland, which is the first non-fiction feature to land Academy Award® nominations for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film in the same year; Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner, Titane; and Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, which garnered multiple Academy Award® nominations, one win for Allison Janney and amassed over $30M in domestic box office.