Lonnie Ramati

Born in New York City, Lonnie Ramati’s life kind of reads like a mad dash between continents and careers. Israeli by birth, but his family packed up and landed in New York when he was just three. He crushed it at Princeton—top 1%, English major, juggling Economics and History on the side, Phi Beta Kappa, all the academic bells and whistles. Law school? Yeah, he nailed that too, graduating top 10% at Osgoode, which is no joke in Canada. Before the whole business affairs thing took over, he bounced around Toronto and Vancouver, untangling the wild world of music and film law. Flash forward—over two decades deep in the trenches of film, TV, and music business affairs. The guy’s been everywhere: more than 50 AFM/IFTA distribution companies, big-name distributors, handling everything from financing and production deals to music publishing and distribution agreements. He’s the behind-the-scenes fixer, the one you want when the paperwork stack is taller than you and the deadline’s yesterday. Ramati’s credits are straight-up impressive: Co-Executive Producer and business affairs brain behind films like Killing Season, The Iceman, Playing For Keeps, The Big Wedding, The Expendables 2, Stolen, Lovelace, Olympus Has Fallen, and honestly, way too many others to list without sounding like a broken record. He’s got a knack for navigating the messy, high-stakes world of production and distribution, making sure deals don’t just get done—they get done right. And yeah, he’s still at it, with new projects always in the works.