Adrienne Becker

Adrienne Becker is CEO and co-Founder of Level Forward, a startup studio venture that aims to focus on backing projects driven by women and persons of color. Becker is also co-Founder of Killer Content, a media company that develops and produces Award-winning, multiplatform entertainment with a curated group of storytellers and brands. Combined, Killer's properties have earned over 80 Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe Nominations, most recently for Carol. Ms. Becker is formerly an entrepreneur-in-residence at Creative Artists Agency, partner at The Media Farm, and CEO of DailyCandy, Inc. Ms. Becker has also served as Senior Vice President at The Nielsen Company and InterActive Corp. Ms. Becker got her start on an airport tarmac in Philadelphia, where she held her first critically important position holding a rope line for then Governor Bill Clinton. She then went on to hold positions at the Department of Labor and as a Press Secretary on the '96 campaign. Ms. Becker holds an M.A. in Communications from the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. with Honors in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. She sits on the Boards of the Made In New York Media Center, Youth+Tech+Health, the Story Pirates, the B-Stem Project for Women In Technology.