ADAM RICHMAN is a co-founder of Double Nickel Entertainment with his partner, Jenette Kahn. Richman is a Producer or Executive Producer on all Double Nickel properties, including Clint Eastwood’s GRAN TORINO. The film is Eastwood’s most successful movie of his career in which he both directed and starred. GRAN TORINO has grossed over $270,000,000 worldwide in its theatrical window. The project was optioned, developed, creatively and financially packaged all within Double Nickel.

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Richman’s expansive producing career includes over eighteen credits on films shot all over the world with Oscar and Emmy winning actors like Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost, Jurnee Smollett, Naomi Watts, Jim Parsons, Claire Danes, Salma Hayek, Richard Gere, Jane Horrocks, Cuba Gooding Jr., and so many others. His collaborations include projects with Amazon, Warner Bros, Apple, Paramount, HBO, Sony, Fox, NBC Universal, Quibi, Miramax, Sky Studios and many other conglomerates.

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Adam previously served as Senior Vice President of Production and Development for Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA), where he directly supervised more than thirty projects in development. He was also in charge of all acquisitions for the Company and was integrally involved in the marketing and distribution of every film. Richman represented MPCA at various film festivals, including Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, and the Aspen Comedy Festival, and was actively involved in international co-productions and financing, including private equity and film funds. In addition, he was instrumental in building the Company’s television roster: during Richman’s tenure, MPCA produced many films at various networks, including HBO, Starz, Sci-Fi Channel and Fox. After almost four years, Richman left MPCA with producing credits on ten films, including the critically acclaimed JOE AND MAX. He was responsible for overseeing the marketing, distribution and production/development on all ten of these projects for the Company.

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Prior to MPCA, Richman was at United Talent Agency, where he was a part of the film finance group and assisted in the domestic and international distribution of three independently produced features, including the Sundance Film Festival’s centerpiece premiere of Allison Anders’ SUGAR TOWN, sold to October Films, and the world premiere of Jim Fall’s TRICK, purchased by New Line. He brought in a roster of entrepreneurial financing/production entities for the Agency to use as alternative financial sources for projects.

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He has also served as a consultant for various game and publishing entities, including The Onion, and Strat-O-Matic Media, LLC, where he executed the Company’s hugely successful anniversary campaigns and closed large-scale digital content deals with organizations such as The Sporting News and Sports Illustrated Kids. Richman raised private venture funding for the beloved sports brand and completely overhauled its digital presence—relaunching Strat-O-Matic’s website; changing all of its software distribution over to a modern, digital downloadable system; launching the Company’s first apps, casual games and licensed digital product. He is credited with transitioning Strat-O-Matic from a sixty-five-year-old mail-order company to a thriving internet organization showing 30% revenue growth while having cut expenses at the Company by 25%. Adam sits on the Board of Directors at Strat-O-Matic Media.

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In the late 1990s, he created and produced BUILDING CAREER FOUNDATIONS, a longitudinal multi-media study tracking the careers of ten Harvard Business School graduates over thirty years, with updates filmed every five years. Published through Harvard Business School Press, multi-media and other digital products from BUILDING CAREER FOUNDATIONS have been taught at and sold to universities around the world. A long-form documentary is currently in the works.

Richman graduated with honors from Tufts University with a double major in English and Drama and later received his MBA from the Harvard Business School. During this time, he also began his producing career when he founded the professional equity theater company Next Stage Productions, Inc., at age nineteen. Richman produced thirty-eight productions and developed twelve new projects under the Company’s banner at resident theaters in New York City and in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. He was managing between fifty and sixty people annually through Next Stage. After college, he also worked at HBO as a line producer in the Visitor Information Network Group.

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He is married to Yadey Yawand-Wossen. The couple live in New York City with their daughter, Tsega, and son, Eyasu. Adam grew up in Port Washington, New York.