is the founder and chairman/CEO of Production Resource Group, the world’s leading supplier of entertainment technology. Jere has been active in the theatre industry since 1970 and has provided production management services for more than 500 productions, including Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express and Dancing at Lughnasa. As the founder of Scenic Technologies, Jere revolutionized scenic automation with its patented Stage Command® motion control system, used on hundreds of shows, including The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Most recently, Jere co-produced with Michael Cohl the successful turnaround of the recordbreaking production of Broadway’s Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, regarded as the most technically complex production ever mounted on a Broadway stage.