Russell Rieger — Vice President of Strategy at M/I Homes

Mr. Russell Rieger has been Vice President of Strategy at M I Acquisitions, Inc. since July 25, 2016. Mr. Rieger has been Vice President of Magna Entertainment, LLC since April 2014. Mr. Rieger serves as Vice President of Magna Management LLC. Mr. Rieger joined the Magna Management in 2014. In 2003, he became principal founder and partner at Pipeline LLC, an entertainment branding and marketing company based in Los Angeles where he worked until 2009. Mr. Rieger moved to NYC in 2010 and founded his own consulting firm, working with startup companies, private equity and hedge funds focusing on the entertainment and media industries, where he worked until April 2014. From 1997 to 2002, he served as General Manager and Executive Vice President of Creative for Maverick Records (of which Madonna was one of the founders), where he built it into a freestanding label with over a hundred employees and strong revenues. He is a Grammy-nominated senior record executive and experienced leader in the entertainment industry. Prior to his work with Maverick, Mr. Rieger served as the General Manager of London Records from 1992 to 1997 and oversaw the electronic music record label FFRR. He began his career, in 1982 as a co-manager for Modern English and shortly after, co-founded a management company that represented the Replacements, the Del Fuegos and Cyndi Lauper among others. As an entrepreneur, he started his own music management company, founded an entertainment-marketing firm and prior to joining Magna, lead his own consulting company working with technology start-ups in the entertainment sector. Mr. Rieger is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany where he received a BA in both Political Science and Philosophy.