Ben Neumann
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Ben Neumann is an American investor and film producer, best known for his founding of early Internet hosting service firm Internet Communication Icom.com, and his subsequent investments into companies such as iBoost.com, Globat.com and his work in the motion picture industry.
Neumann, a former bodyguard, and avid martial artist, who grew up in Krefeld, Germany in a working class family, immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1994. He successfully sold his first U.S.-based technology company Icom.com at the pinnacle of the Dot-com bubble in 1998 and became one of the original Internet pioneers before he began investing into other technology and real estate companies and became involved with film making in Los Angeles. He was approached by an independent filmmaker in 2005. The result of this partnership was Dark World[1], the story of an edgy cop, played by Michael Pare, who is chasing a serial killer and trying to find his niece, while his ex-wife, played by Theresa Russell, is concerned about her well being. Since then Neumann has also produced other films and TV specials, such as Only in LA, Yumi in Love and Smile of April. He continues to invest in local niche companies, has become an engaged community activist and was elected to the Board of the Studio City Neighborhood Council in March of 2006.
As a successful immigrant entrepreneur, Neumann has been quoted off-line and online in numerous ezines,[2] magazines and books.[3] For his achievements in the technology sector he has been nominated for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2000 and 2003.
He has been married to celebrity photographer Andrea Neumann since 1988. The couple has two sons together and lives in Studio City.
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