Porter Bibb
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Biography
Bibb began his career as an investment banker specializing in media, entertainment, and technology ventures. He founded the first investment banking boutique in London Script error: No such module "Unsubst". in 1962.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". He worked on the team that began Bankers Trust's investment banking unit in 1977,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". which completed over 300 media and entertainment transactions in five years.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". For over 15 years, he was a senior partner and director of investment banking at Ladenburg Thalmann.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Bibb attended Louisville Male High School and was a member of the Athenaeum Literary Association, a school-sponsored literary and social club. There he got to know another club member, Hunter S. Thompson, who would become an influential counterculture journalist.[3]
Bibb convinced Albert and David Maysles to film the 1969 Woodstock Festival despite the bad weather and the withdrawal of Warner Bros.' financial backing.[2][4] Bibb also convinced The Rolling Stones to perform at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, and he produced the 1970 documentary film of the event, Gimme Shelter.[2][5]
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He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History and earned graduate certificates from the Harvard Business School and London School of Economics.
Bibb is a direct descendant of the first two governors of Alabama: William Wyatt Bibb (1781–1820) and Thomas Bibb (1783–1839).[2]
Books authored
- CB Bible, Doubleday, 1976
- Disco Inferno: An Illustrated Novel, Dolphin, 1979
- It Ain't As Easy As It Looks: Ted Turner's Amazing Story, Crown, 1993
Filmography
- Gimme Shelter (1970) – associate producer
- Year of the Woman (1973) – producer
References
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- ↑ "Profile: Porter Bibb: Managing Director, Corporate Finance, MediaTech Capital Partners LLC" Template:Webarchive, Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit, May 17th, 2011
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- ↑ "Woodstock remembered" Template:Webarchive, Business News Network video, Friday, August 14, 2009, Interview with Porter Bibb.
- ↑ "Gimme Shelter" Template:Webarchive, Maysles Films website
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Further reading
- Eltman, Frank, "Fans seek to rescue Hamptons' NPR station", Associated Press, September 21, 2009
External links
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- 1930s births
- Living people
- Yale College alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- American magazine publishers (people)
- American biographers
- American male biographers
- American bankers
- Rolling Stone people
- Businesspeople from Louisville, Kentucky
- Writers from Louisville, Kentucky
- Louisville Male High School alumni