JUNE’S SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS:

MARK SOURIAN and HOLLY BARIO
Co-Presidents of Production at DreamWorks Studios

MARK SOURIAN is Co-President of Production at DreamWorks Studios where he oversees the company’s slate of films. He began his career as the assistant to Scott Rudin. He joined DreamWorks in 1997 as a development assistant and has worked his way up as a senior executive in the company. He has shepherded projects such as the box office smash “The Ring” and its sequel “The Ring 2,” the Academy Award nominated film “House of Sand and Fog,” “Red Eye,” “The Kite Runner,” and “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

HOLLY BARIO is Co-President of Production at DreamWorks Studios where she oversees the company’s slate of films. She joined the company in 2008 as an Executive Vice President of Production.

Prior to DreamWorks, Bario was Executive Vice President, Production at Universal Pictures. She had been at the studio for over a decade as a production executive at Universal Pictures rising through the ranks as Director of Development, Vice President and Senior Vice President of Production.

While at Universal, Bario was responsible for shepherding some of their most successful comedies, including “Bruce Almighty,” “Meet the Parents,” “Meet the Fockers,” “40 Year-Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up,” and “Mamma Mia!” She also oversaw both the first and second installments of the hit action series “The Fast and the Furious.”

Bario began her career with Universal Pictures in 1996 as Marc Platt’s assistant. She is a graduate of Emerson College.