Darren Throop

Darren Throop is a Canadian businessman who founded and for many years led Entertainment One, known as eOne. His entertainment career began in 1991 when he founded Urban Sound Exchange, an independent chain of music stores, and over the next decade he built several music distribution ventures. He became chief executive of ROW Entertainment in 2001, took it public in 2003, bought Koch Records and renamed the company Entertainment One, which listed in London in 2007 and moved to the main market in 2010. Under him the company bought producers and distributors around the world and became a partner in Amblin Partners with Steven Spielberg; Hasbro bought it in 2019 for nearly four billion dollars. He announced in 2022 that he would step down as chief executive at the end of the year and sits on the IMAX board.