Michael Ovitz is the Chairman of Treville Capital Group. Michael co-founded Creative Artists Agency (“CAA”) in 1974 and served as Chairman until 1995. Over that 20-year period, he grew the agency from a start-up organization to the world's leading talent agency, representing more than 1,000 of the most notable actors, directors, musicians, screenwriters, and other personalities in the entertainment industry.

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While Chairman of CAA, he also led the sale of three major Hollywood studios, executed all marketing and advertising for The Coca-Cola Company, and was at the forefront of the digital entertainment and marketing revolution, making alliances with Intel Corporation and other early Silicon Valley companies. Mr. Ovitz also served as President of the Walt Disney Company, from October 1995 to January 1997.

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Mr. Ovitz has served as a senior advisor to Palantir Technologies for over 10 years and has invested in and advised companies from startups to black swans. He has invested in over two hundred companies across two decades of venture capital investing. In the late 2000s, he was instrumental in developing the corporate architecture and eventual creation of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and has been a key consultant, mentor, and advisor to other major venture capital firms for more than thirty years.

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In 2018, he wrote and published his memoir Who Is Michael Ovitz?, which was on the long list for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Mr. Ovitz is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and helped rebuild the UCLA Medical Center in 1997, where he served as its Chairman for over a decade. Mr. Ovitz is also a notable art collector and serves on The Board of Trustees at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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