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    JOHN HEYMAN - Chairman, World Group of Companies

John Heyman began his career with Associated Television, one of the founder companies of ITV, before it went on the air where he became head of public relations, simultaneously writing the questions for DOUBLE YOUR MONEY and managing Hughie Green

In 1959 he formed what was to become the largest independent talent agency outside the United States, representing such stars as Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Laurence Harvey, Richard Harris, Trevor Howard, Wolf Mankowitz ,Shirley Bassey, Andre Previn and Burt Baccarach.

Widely credited with creating the first global film sales company, selling British product on a territory by territory basis "in order to keep the agencies less well known clients busy" , he says he also was the first to apply structured financial engineering to the film business, for which he has raised over $3,000,000,000 and co financed over 200 films.

An award winning film producer, he founded World Productions with Chris Blackwell and Tony Garnett in 1989.
 
   
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