Michael Jay Solomon

For forty years, Michael Jay Solomon has been the largest distributor of American television content worldwide, pioneering the international marketplace for the American television industry and running major media companies.

Aged eighteen, he began his career loading films onto trucks for United Artists while attending New York University at night. In 1960 UA sent him to Panama to open the territory for American films in Central America. He next moved to Colombia, thereafter to Peru, as Manager of Peru and Bolivia.

He was then hired by MCA/Universal, to open their Latin American television division, becoming a Vice President at age thirty.

In 1978 he founded Telepictures Corporation, and as Chairman and CEO took it public after just fourteen months, raising their shares from $3 to $32 within two years. Starting with the “People’s Court” TV series, they became the biggest U.S. syndicator and one of the largest international television distribution companies, owning six television stations and publishing six magazines.

Seven years later, when Telepictures merged with Lorimar, forming Lorimar Telepictures Corp., Solomon became President and Member of the Board of Directors. When Lorimar Telepictures was acquired by Warner Bros., he became President of Warner Bros. International Television, heading up the company’s sales and marketing to television, cable and satellite companies internationally, to become the largest distributor of TV programming worldwide.

Following five years at Warner Bros. when he increased international television revenues by more than 400 percent, he launched his own television communications company, Solomon Entertainment Enterprises, while simultaneously creating El Camino Entertainment Group, Inc. (now North American Midway), the largest Midway operating company in North America, and partnering with SMGBB (Shanghai Media Group Broadband).

He founded Truli Media Group in 2010, a digital platform and aggregator of content, focusing on family and faith, and sold it in 2018 to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment.

He is a Founder and Chairman of INVOLVY, a European-based advisory firm, contributing its professional skills to create international corporate growth and sustainability through innovation and technology.

Solomon is a Member of the Executive Committee of Working Nation, a U.S. nonprofit media content company, working to close the threat of the growing job skills gap.

He also serves on the Boards of the global social impact project GIVE NATION, and THE GENIUS INSTITUTE, a technology platform dedicated to personal and corporate development.

In 1991 he received an Honorary Doctor of Law degree from Emerson, and has since been appointed to their Board of Advisors.

He joined the Board of Advisors of a new venture, Back To Space, which aims to inspire and enhance an interest in science and engineering by constructing a high-tech lunar landscape experience facility in Texas. The facility will have the ability to stimulate riding in a rocket, landing on the moon and experiencing a walk on the moon’s surface.

Solomon is a member of the international honor society, Beta Gama Sigma, is a founder of The Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem, and was Founding Chairman of The Jerusalem Foundation (West Coast). He is also Honorary Chairman of Actors Equity of China.

He co-founded and is Chairman of the Careyes Clinic in Jalisco, Mexico, serving four thousand people annually, and has for thirty years served on the board of The Jeffrey Modell Foundation. He also followed in the footsteps of many famous Americans in being nominated to receive the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2013.