Monty Sarhan

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Monty Sarhan is the CEO and Editor-in-Chief[1] of Cracked Entertainment, the parent company of Cracked Magazine[2].

Prior to acquiring Cracked, Sarhan practiced corporate law at top-tier firms in both Boston and New York City, including the international law firm White & Case and is a member of both the American and New York Bar Associations[3]. During his legal career, Sarhan represented clients in diverse transactions including private equity and venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, and numerous other transactions involving significant intellectual property assets[4], including the sale of a well-known US publishing business with considerable copyright assets to a major European publisher and the negotiation of a foreign joint venture for a popular online portal.

A graduate of Tufts University, Boston University and the Duke University Law School [5], Sarhan is also a successful entrepreneur who has raised over $70 million for various projects and companies throughout the world including telecommunications licenses, reconstruction projects in Iraq and the attempted buyout of a well-known Hollywood production company.

While still a student in law school, Sarhan supposedly met and became friends with Hollywood producer Thom Mount. Sarhan remains active in fundraising and other activities for his alma mater. In 1999, he received Duke University's Charles A. Dukes Award for Alumni Service[6], becoming the youngest person in the university's history to receive the award.

In 2005, after the Katrina disaster, Sarhan offered former FEMA director Michael Brown an internship job at CRACKED. According to a company press release[7], CRACKED made the decision based on an article that was written about Brown in a recent issue of Time Magazine, but Brown declined to join the Cracked team.