Leonard Washington is an entertainment executive with over 18 years of providing creative vision, strategic direction, technical insights, and marketing leadership to digital and entertainment enterprises. His expertise includes managing the creative process; strategic analysis, planning, and execution; and competitive, financial, and technical analysis. Washington is an accomplished creator, leader, and manager of business units who has successfully utilized his engineering background along with practiced business and strategic acumen to assess technology and capitalize on marketing opportunities.

Mr. Washington currently provides management and strategy consulting services for start-ups and small companies in the entertainment and new media sector. Projects encompass digital strategy development, business plan analysis, product development and technology assessment.

Washington is the former president of Paramount Digital Entertainment, the interactive division of Paramount Pictures he founded in 1995. Washington’s responsibilities included leading PDE’s creative and business efforts in digital distribution and marketing of Paramount movies and television shows and led to the creation of new forms of entertainment content for emerging consumer platforms and devices. He was involved in over 50 new media product launches. Washington was also instrumental in the creation of several corporate divisions, as well as an advanced technology research institute.

Prior to joining Paramount, Washington designed satellite systems for TRW’s Electronic Systems Group. He holds an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a BS in electrical engineering from Howard University.

Leonard Washington currently serves as Vice President of the Digital Coast Roundtable, is a member of the Producers Guild of America New Media Council, and is the founder of a digital filmmaking class for inner-city youth in partnership with Break Away Technologies and the Intel Computer Clubhouse of Los Angeles.