page_title: Kevin Wall
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caption_attribution_description: English: Kevin Wall at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg on 2 June 2010
context_page_description: Kevin Wall, is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
  Wall's ventures often integrate environmental and social activism. With Radio Vision International, his first media company, he distributed and produced live benefit concerts including Human Rights Now!, USA for Africa, Live Aid, and the anti-apartheid Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute. As the founder and CEO of Control Room, he executive produced Live 8, which drew a worldwide audience of a billion people, and created and executive produced Live Earth, viewed globally by an estimated two billion people.
context_section_description: Kevin Wall (born March 15, 1952), is an American media entrepreneur, global event producer, investor and activist. He is the CEO and founder of the investment fund PTK Capital, the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive, a location-based virtual reality start up, and the founder and CEO of Control Room, a Los Angeles-based production company. The first person to receive an Emmy Award for interactive content, Wall is noted for his role in the development and adoption of media technologies including online and multi-platform distribution and media practices such as international rights acquisition and licensing.
  Wall's ventures often integrate environmental and social activism. With Radio Vision International, his first media company, he distributed and produced live benefit concerts including Human Rights Now!, USA for Africa, Live Aid, and the anti-apartheid Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute. As the founder and CEO of Control Room, he executive produced Live 8, which drew a worldwide audience of a billion people, and created and executive produced Live Earth, viewed globally by an estimated two billion people. Wall co-founded Sustainable Holdings, a company which weights its holdings based on a company’s sustainability score, and is a general partner at Craton Equity Partners, a $242 million green-tech private equity fund. PTK Capital focuses on early investments in companies that offer social, environmental and educational benefits and address issues of gender equality.
caption: Wall at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa on 2 June 2010
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