meet the Novo Team
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James
Henrie
PASSION DRIVES EXCELLENCE
Mr. Henrie brings over 25yrs+ of Structured Finance background in the Real Estate Development Industry. Mr. Henrie structured approximately $350m in Mixed-Use, Residential & Multi-Family developments in Arizona, Nevada, New York and Idaho.
Mr. Henrie created an Investment Structure in NOVO to secure highly sought after content rights, fund development, attach valuable talent to then present complete content packages to the marketplace that are production ready.
CONTENT IS KING. Novo’s ‘DiversifiedPortfolio’ approach across a wide array of commercially viable content has resulted in two Animation Series based on No 1 Best Selling Books; two FeatureFilm Productions with a pipeline in 2022 - 2024 of two more television shows being presented to market and three feature film projects in our slate.
Mr. Henrie has leveraged his background alongside Creative Partner David Henrie and Key Board Advisors to build an International Content Development and Production Company. Novo has positioned itself as a highly sought after, reliable source for excellence in production quality. NOVO has projects in production and, relationships with nearly all of the major studios such as Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Warner Bros, Fox Studios,Hulu, Amazon, Lionsgate etc.
˙˙“The parallel between Real Estate and Entertainment is quite interesting; a good corner is like a NY Times Best Seller”, a great architect is like a great writer; Credit tenants are like A-List Actors; the key is access to development capital and having the right vision that is in line what the market will bear, and then financing will fall into place and allow execution.”˙˙
david
henrie
David is a founding partner of Novo Media Group, (NMG). Currently, David is Executive Producing and writing on the Netflix series A TALE DARK & GRIMMM which NMG is producing. It’s now available to stream on Netflix as an original and was top 10 in the world for Netflix.
David is well known actor for most known for playing ‘Justin Russo” in Disney Channel’s WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE, which is the only show in Disney channel history to win multiple Emmys and gained him over 12million followers on social media. In addition to staring in Wizards, David also got his start writing on the show making him the youngest actor in Disney channel history to also be a writer.
David recently directed THIS IS THE YEAR, that he wrote and produced with Selena Gomez, which is now available on all VOD services and is now directing a NMG produced film starring Mel Gibson called Boys of Summer.
˙˙YOUNGEST CHILD WRITER ACTOR IN HISTORY.˙˙
LORENZO
HENRIE
20 PLUS YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY.
Lorenzo is a founding partner at Novo Media Group and has 20 years of experience as an actor most known for being in one of the biggest cable series for AMC Fear the Walking dead Lorenzo also starred in Novo's This IS THE YEAR which was produced with Selena Gomez. Through Lorenzo's 20 plus years in the industry he has built-up top-level industry relationships with networks, actors, and agencies which help Novo's goals of bringing the best content to the marketplace.
˙˙CHASING GOALS ˙˙
Amanda
Devine
SAY THE QUIET PART OUT LOUD
Amanda is the head of development for Novo Media Group. After graduating from Princeton University with a degree in Comparative Literature, she lived abroad for a few years: first as a Fulbright Scholar in Cologne, Germany; then as an MFA student in Milan, Italy. She went on to work as translator for various European production companies before transitioning to TV writing for Disney Italia. Now stateside, she has since worked in creative development for Novo Media and co-producer on NMG's Mel Gibson feature film BOYS OF SUMMER and Netflix original kids' animation series A TALE DARK AND GRIMM. She has a soft spot for making children’s stories bearable for parents, saying the quiet part out loud, and jokes in the rule of three.
˙˙JOKES IN THREES PLEASE˙˙
DENIS
Gallagher
OVER 46 YEARS EXPERIENCE
Denis J. Gallagher is the Founder/Chairman of BOLD Capital Group, LLC. BOLD Capital Group currently has investments and management participation in a diversified portfolio of companies.
With over 46 years of experience as a seasoned executive in start-up and established companies he has closed and merged over 250 acquisitions and arranged financing through banks and financial institutions around the world. Currently he serves as Advisor and works with several Boards of private companies in entertainment, technology, Web3 and clean energy along with Hop Skip Drive, a fast-growing, innovative youth transportation company.
In a new twist of businesses he is a current member of Israel-based bitoftrade’s Board of Directors, a new forward leading crypto technology exchange. He also makes time from his home in Charleston, SC to serve as a Director of the Belafonte Family and STI Cares Foundations.
Denis spent his first 20 years in the transportation business with family owned New Jersey based Coast Cities which he sold and worked with Laidlaw Inc. in Canada for nine years. In 1996 he left to become Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Student Transportation Inc. (STI), which in 2004 he listed on (TSX) Toronto and (NASDAQ) Stock Exchanges prior to a go-private sale in April 2018. He has worked closely with pension funds and family offices as well as Quebec and French Government funds as shareholders.