폰허브, 캐나다 몬트리올 쿼벡, Ethical Capital Partners, 대마초, 캐나다 경찰 커넥션 (폰허브 창립자는 몬트리올 마피아와 관련이 있을까? 폰허브를 매매한 Ethical Capital Partners의 창립자는 이탈리아계 캐나다인인데, 혹시 이탈리아 마피아도 관련이 있을까?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_Capital_Partners
Ethical Capital Partners is a Canadian private equity firm best known for its acquisition of Mindgeek, the owner of Pornhub.[1]
The company is chaired by Canadian businessman Rocco Meliambro.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ Mann, Jyoti. "The fund that just bought Pornhub owner MindGeek won't say who's running the company due to 'unfortunate stigma,' report says". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ Milmo, Dan (2023-03-17). "Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to private equity firm". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
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The fund that just bought Pornhub owner MindGeek won't say who's running the company due to 'unfortunate stigma,' report says
The private equity firm that acquired Pornhub's parent company won't reveal who's running MindGeek.
Ethical Capital Partners told the Financial Times it won't yet identify MindGeek's executives.
The new owner says it's keeping their names under wraps because of "stigma" about the porn industry.
The new owner of Pornhub's parent company says it won't yet reveal the names of the executives running Mindgeek because there's "unfortunate stigma" associated with the porn industry.
Ethical Capital Partners, a Canadian private equity firm set up last year, announced its acquisition of MindGeek Thursday for an undisclosed sum. It also owns sites including YouPorn, Redtube and Brazzers as well as Pornhub, one of the world's most-visited websites.
ECP told the Financial Times it wanted to be transparent as the company's new owners.
Solomon Friedman, an ECP partner, said: "I want to engage regularly with stakeholders, including the media."
However, he added that "at this point we are not identifying the current executives, as there is an unfortunate stigma" associated with the porn industry.
Friedman is a criminal defense lawyer and law professor at ECP, which was founded by Rocco Meliambro, the creator of one of Canada's biggest cannabis retailers.
The fund laid out its plans for MindGeek in a statement. It said it will adopt new online safety measures to increase trust and safety and invest to "help fight illegal online content."
MindGeek was previously controlled by a former banker named Bernd Bergmair, while David Tassillo and Syrian-Canadian programmer Feras Antoon also held stakes.
Antoon and Tassillo joined Pornhub in 2008 and spent more than a decade running the company before they resigned as CEO and COO of MindGeek in June 2022, but remained shareholders.
The acquisition was announced the day after Netflix released a documentary titled "Money Shot: The Pornhub Story". It examines the dark side of the platform as well as the censorship of sex workers.
It details how a New York Times op-ed in December 2020 that accused Pornhub of hosting child porn sparked public outrage. About six months later 34 women sued the company and accused it of profiting from trafficked videos of them.
The allegations spurred an investigation by Visa and Mastercard, which temporarily cut off Pornhub from its payment services in the same month.
Antoon and Tassillo were summoned to give evidence to a Canadian parliamentary committee in February 2021 as MindGeek is largely run from Montreal.
CTV News reported that Tassillo told the hearing: "I truly believe, in my heart of hearts, that we are the safest adult platform in the world right now."
ECP didn't immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
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https://www.breakinglatest.news/business/pornhub-changes-ownership-italian-canadian-rocco-meliambro-arrives/
Pornhub changes ownership, Italian-Canadian Rocco Meliambro arrives
Pornhub, an Italian-Canadian is the new owner
Mindgeekthe online porn giant that controls the brands, among others Pornhub e Youpornwas acquired by the fund Ethical Capital Partners. The fund is based in OttawaCanada, and is managed by the Italian-Canadian entrepreneur Rocco Meliambro. Meliambro, known for investing in the cannabis sector, is joined by the criminal lawyer Fady Mansour it’s yes Derek Ogden, former Chief Superintendent of Royal Canadian Mountend Police. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
The twelfth most visited website in the world
Mindgeek is the world‘s leading operator of online porn and according to data from the analytics firm Similarweb the only Pornhub was last year the twelfth website most visited in the world. The company is based in Luxembourg but the headquarters is in Canada. According to what has been possible to reconstruct, Mindgeek was worth two years ago over 20 billion of Euro.
The scandals
In 2020 the company was overwhelmed by a series of scandals for lack of controls on the publication of videos. According to the reconstructions, it would have allowed the publication of videos of minors and revenge porn. Following the scandals, Visa e Mastercard they would have blocked payment agreements with the platform.
The founders leave
Ethical Capital also confirmed that the former owners of Mindgeek Bernd Bergmair, Feras Anthony and David Tassillo they will no longer be involved in the company.
«The adult entertainment industry will always be subject to a significant control legal and regulatory,” Ogden said in the release. “Our pre-shutdown analyzes revealed that MindGeek operates on a legal and responsible. We look forward to communicating the future path of MindGeek and its holdings».
https://www.ethicalcapitalpartners.com/team
https://www.ethicalcapitalpartners.com/derek-ogden
Derek Ogden
Partner, VP Law Enforcement Relations
Retired Chief Superintendent, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Formerly Director-General, Organized Crime and Drugs Program. Public company board member and experienced executive officer. Derek is an accomplished law enforcement, security and compliance expert.
Derek Ogden served the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the rank of Chief Superintendent, Director General of Drug Enforcement, Organized Crime Specialized Task Forces, Witness Protection, Source Development and Undercover Operations.
Key in this role was the responsibility for establishing and fostering strong working relationships with numerous government and law enforcement agencies both nationally and internationally and benchmark reporting to senior government officials. Derek also has years of experience operating in the international community, across jurisdictional lines and in situations where multiple agencies have an interest.
Derek has also provided his expertise and experience to both public and private companies, including start-up and established industries.
Upon his retirement from the RCMP, Derek founded Obsidian Consulting and Investigation, a firm specializing in high level, discreet investigations for government and corporate clients and other related consulting services.
Derek is often called upon to support Human Resource Departments with complex investigational tasks and to provide specialized assistance to law firms and high tech companies with digital security and the protection of intellectual property.
https://www.ethicalcapitalpartners.com/mike-cosic
Mike Cosic
Chief Financial Officer
Experienced public company CEO, CFO and Audit Committee Chair. Managed global M&A transactions for deal value in excess of $1 billion. A CFA charter holder and MBA, he has considerable experience managing due diligence teams and evaluating complex deal structures.
Mike Cosic has three decades of experience in financial and investment management in a variety of publicly traded and privately held companies. He has served as the CFO of two publicly traded companies (Meta Growth Corp and Lithium Americas Corp), and CEO of one publicly traded company (Craftport Cannabis Corp), overseeing numerous investment raises, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings.
In the mergers and acquisitions phase, Mike specializes in complex due diligence, unpacking deal structure, reviewing legal and financial analysis and assessing risk profiles in potential acquisition targets. In all, Mike has managed more than ten global M&A transactions with a deal value in excess of $1B.
Mike also has experience initiating and completing strategic and operational changes leading to the creation of significant shareholder value, including corporate name changes, altering corporate business models, significantly reducing SG&A expenses, renegotiating loan agreements and completing Private Placement equity financings.
For six years, Mike also served as Audit Committee Chair for a Canadian publicly listed company, in which he brought his skills and expertise to provide independent financial oversight and transparency.
https://www.ethicalcapitalpartners.com/rocco-meliambro
Rocco Meliambro
Chair
Investor, founder and start-up leader. Accomplished multi-industry executive with extensive capital markets experience. Rocco has sat on numerous publicly-traded companies' boards, providing his wisdom and guidance at all stages of development.
Rocco Meliambro brings extensive investment expertise, both in public markets and private enterprises, in Canada and internationally, to his role as chair of Ethical Capital Partners.
Rocco has led ventures in the technology, cannabis, real estate and mining spaces. Over the course of his 20 years in the investment industry as a Vice President, Director and manager for several firms including Moss Lawson and Research Capital, he helped finance several startup firms including Avcorp Industries and Kinross Gold.
In 2015, Rocco founded Meta Growth which would ultimately become Canada’s largest cannabis retailer and third largest cannabis entity in Canada by revenue. He was also a member of a group that helped found Canna Royalty Inc., ultimately acquired by Cresco Labs.
Rocco has also been involved in real estate development projects that required large-scale government and public consultations, including developments such as Deer Run in Stittsville and the Lebreton Area Project.
Rocco’s financial training includes successful completion of course studies with Securities Institute at Wharton School of Business.
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