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 with, Zeus Entertainment Productions 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 companies and became involved with filmmaking in Los Angeles. He was approached by an independent filmmaker in 2005 and the result of this partnerhsip was Dark World[1], the story of a a cop, played by Michael Pare, who is chasing a serial killer, while trying to find his niece because his ex-wife, played by Theresa Russell, is concerned. Near the end of the film, the story has a very unexpected twist. Since then Neumann has also produced other films and TV specials, such as Only in LA, Yumi in Love and Smile of April.
As a successful immigrant entrepreneur, Neumann has been quoted offline and online in numerous ezines, magazines and books.[2]
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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