Kraig Fox

Founder and CEO

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Kraig G. Fox is a seasoned advisor, investor and operator in the media industry. Over a  30 year + career, Mr. Fox has been a founding member of some of the worlds leading  media and entertainment companies and properties. 

Mr. Fox began his career working with Robert FX Sillerman in the consolidation of the  United States radio industry in the early 1990’s. After an aggressive acquisition strategy, via multiple controlled public companies, those stations were ultimately sold off to form  the foundation for what today is iHeart Media. 

Following the sale of the radio group, Mr. Fox was part of the founding team of publicly  traded SFX Entertainment (now Live Nation) where he was Chief Development Officer  from 1995 until 2000 overseeing the global consolidation of the live entertainment  industry into the world’s largest owner and operator of live entertainment promoters and  producers.  

Following the sale of Live Nation to Clear Channel Communications, Mr. Fox was a  founder and Chief Operating Officer of Core Media (previously CKX, Inc.) where he  ultimately oversaw all operations of this publicly traded company, including Core  Media’s interests in the estate of Elvis Presley and the intellectual property rights of  Muhammad Ali, as well as its wholly owned subsidiary, 19 Entertainment, which  included overseeing American Idol (including television, records, live tours, artist  management and sponsorships) and So You Think You Can Dance. Core Media was  ultimately sold to Apollo Global Management in a “go private” transaction. 

Following the sale, Mr. Fox became a Senior Managing Director of Eldridge Industries (a  successor entity to certain media assets controlled by Guggenheim Partners) where he  focused on Eldridge’s overall strategy in the media and entertainment spaces, as well as  the management of its media and entertainment investments, which included dick clark  productions, Billboard Magazine and the Hollywood Reporter. 

Mr. Fox has also been an investor, operator and advisor in the regulated cannabis industry going back to 2014. He a founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reklaim Credit  Solutions, Inc. a purposed built commercial credit rating and reporting agency for any  business extending trade credit in the state regulated cannabis industries. 

Mr. Fox is a graduate of Syracuse’s University’s SI Newhouse School of Public  Communications where he was named part of the 50 Forward, acknowledging the  accomplishments of 50 Newhouse Alumni in celebration of the schools 50th anniversary.  Mr. Fox also holds a JD from Hofstra University’s Maurice A. Dean School of Law and  is admitted to practice law in the NY’s Second District.