About

Managing Member

John Alphonse Lage
Johnny Lage
John.lage@AposseDevco.com

Core Competencies:
Business Administration and Marketing Consultant
Conceptual, Organizational, Operational and Enhancement Modeling
Multimedia Production & Distribution Models
Film / Television Development & Production

Education:
Hofstra University, NY 1983 Bachelors Business Administration Marketing

Graduate Studies:
Loyola Marymount, Los Angeles 1988 Trends in Television Distribution
University City Los Angeles (UCLA) 1990 Economies of Scale in Film and Television

Major Company Interests
Aposse Project Management, LLC (AposseDevco) Media & Holding Company
Stormdancer The Movie, LLC – A Motion Picture SPV
Chelsea Multimedia Inc, (CMC) – Principal – TV & Film Production Company
PlaneGuy Prod., LLC (PGPLLC) – Managing Member – Production Company
Lage, LLC (LALLC) – President – General Operating Company
Advanced Development Projects, Inc, (ADP)-Partner – Project Dev & Engineering Corp.
ADP Zeros, Inc (ADPZ) – Principal – Project Dev & Engineering Corp.
ADP Technology, Inc. (ADPT) – Proposed – Principal – Patent Holding Company
Environmental Conservation Solutions, Inc. (ECS) – Partner – Engineering Company

Career Narrative:
John Lage began his career in 1984 in Entertainment with Edler-Brown Productions, and later NBC/Universal and New Line Cinema. Reading nearly 100 feature scripts per month, John soon developed an eye for commercial content.

A career opportunity presented itself when then NBC President, Brandon Tartikoff offered John the position of Director of Development at New World Pictures. There, John was responsible for greenlighting such hits as Tour of Duty, Designing Women, Baghdad Café, Second Noah, The New Adventures of Spiderman, the long running syndication hit Real Stories of the Highway Patrol and the Academy Award winning Trip to Bountiful with Just Betzer. Rising to Vice President, John is credited with over $100MM in output deals in his tenure.

As a Marcom consultant, John specializes in “particular economies of scale” and “vertical integration” strategies. John is adept at financial modeling, turnaround, profit enhancement and the creation and sustainability of revenue streams. John has worked on diverse consulting engagements including a $650mm clean energy start up; a yearlong best-use report concerning the viability to restart the dormant Hovensa crude oil refinery on the island of St Crioix to the turnaround plan for the illustrious Waggoner Ranch historic property in Texas. In 1997, John started CMC or Chelsea Multimedia Corporation. The purpose of the startup was twofold; to provide credit facilities and leverage to independents seeking capital and to produce multimedia products for worldwide distribution. Today CMC holds interests in over 26 film and television properties, 3 tech companies and a dozen direct response products. Sales exceed 4 million annually.

As a published writer, John has written numerous scripts, bibles and teleplays. Stormdancer, a feature-length family adventure written by Lage and Huston took 1^st place at the prestigious Monaco Film Festival in 2009; set for production in Summer 2017. As a SAG actor, Johnny Lage has appeared in numerous stage productions and Guest Starred on shows such as Quantum Leap, Matlock, Life Goes On, and Empty Nest, opposite Kristy MacNichol and Guest Star Garth Brooks in the two-part “Country Weston”. Born 1/24/1961 New York, NY, Married, Four Children. John currently resides in Dallas Texas. A Six Sigma disciple, John is quite capable of organizing cogent dreams into reality given adequate resources and time for planning and execution. The devil is in the details.