Marc Butan

Butan is a native of Dayton, Ohio, and an alumnus of Ohio State University, where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau.

During his career, he has served as co-president of Sierra/Affinity, president of Panorama Media, president of 2929 Productions, and executive vice president of production at Lionsgate, where he was responsible for overseeing film production at the studio. Butan previously worked as an investment banker at Kidder, Peabody & Co. and Prudential Financial.

In 2015, he founded MadRiver Pictures to produce star-driven commercial feature films. Since inception, the company has produced James Gray's The Lost City of Z starring Charlie Hunnam; Burr Steers' Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; Triple 9 starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, and Woody Harrelson; Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House starring Liam Neeson; and James Gray's Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt.

In 2016, MadRiver Pictures and Vincent Maraval's Insiders joined forces to form an international film sales joint venture, IMR International. In 2021, IMR rebranded to The Veterans.