John Salter

John Salter is a co-founder and partner of The Raine Group. He is responsible for The Raine Group’s digital media and gaming practice. Prior to The Raine Group, he was Global Head of Digital Media at UBS Investment Bank where he worked for over eight years in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group in San Francisco. Prior to UBS, he worked in the Internet and New Media group at Volpe, Brown, Whelan & Co. in San Francisco. While at The Raine Group, he has worked on a variety of advisory assignments, including raising USD 3.0 billion for Epic Games’ in two transactions, the sale of Playtika (a unit of Caesars Interactive) to a consortium led by Shanghai Giant Network Technology, SoftBank’s sale of its majority stake in Supercell to Tencent, the sale of Double Down Interactive (a unit of International Game Technology) to an affiliate of DoubleU Games, Legendary Entertainment’s sale to Wanda and SoftBank’s investments in Legendary Entertainment and Supercell, among other transactions. He is on the board of directors of DraftKings, Zumba Fitness, Huuuge, and Beachbody, all Raine portfolio companies. He has a B.A. in economics from Stanford University.