Top Hit makers Speakers

Alanis Morissette
This Canadian songstress has sold tens of millions of albums and been nominated for and won scores of awards including Grammy's and Golden Globes during a decade-long career. But that's not enough for a woman who has spent years giving a voice to causes from global warming to disaster aid.
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen is Bravo's Executive Vice President of Original Programming and Development. He is responsible for overseeing the network's current development and production slate including hits such as the Emmy and James Beard award-winning "Top Chef," “Top Chef Masters,” "The Real Housewives” franchises, "The Millionaire Matchmaker," "Million Dollar Listing," “The Rachel Zoe Project,"...
Anthony E. Zuiker
Anthony E. Zuiker is one of the most creative and multifaceted individuals working in Hollywood today. He is the creator of television’s hugely successful CSI franchise, which includes CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. The original CSI has received widespread critical acclaim and was recently named the most watched series in the world for the fourth time in five...
Antoine Fuqua
Antoine Fuqua has established himself as one of the foremost industry talents of his generation. Through his diverse body of work, he has achieved his goal of making highly stylized films that resonate thematically and personally with audiences around the world. Mr. Fuqua explores the complexity of free will complexity – the decisions that ordinary people make and the un anticipated...Brian Graden
Brian Graden served as the President of Entertainment, MTV Networks Music Channels and President of Logo until December 2009. As President of Entertainment, Mr. Graden lead and provided programming oversight to all the MTVN music networks including MTV, VH1, MTV2 and CMT. At the helm of Logo, he was responsible for all aspects of the channel created specifically for the LGBT audience...Brian Grazer
Academy Award-winning producer BRIAN GRAZER has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years. Over the years, Grazer's films and TV shows have been nominated for a total of 43 Oscars and 138 Emmys. At the same time, his movies have generated more than $13.5 billion in worldwide theatrical, music and video grosses. As both a writer and producer, he has been personally...
Bruce Cohen
Academy Award-winning producer Bruce Cohen recently launched Bruce Cohen Productions, adding live events, theater, and new media to his existing film & television businesses...
David Simon
David Simon, 49, is a Baltimore-based journalist, author and television producer. Born in Washington, he came to Baltimore in 1983 to work as a crime reporter at The Baltimore Sun. While at the paper, he reported and wrote two works of narrative non-fiction, Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets and The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the former an account of a...
Davis Guggenheim
Davis Guggenheim is a critically acclaimed, Academy Award-winning director and producer, whose early work includes many television dramas such as Deadwood, NYPD Blue and 24. He transitioned into directing non-fiction films with The First Year, which aired on PBS in 2001 and won a Peabody Award. An Inconvenient Truth, featuring former Vice President Al Gore, was theatrically distributed by...
Diana Ross
In a remarkable career spanning over 30 years, Diana Ross has proven herself the consummate music artist as well as the most successful female singer of all time. In the 1960s as lead singer of the pop group The Supremes, she achieved the unprecedented feat of fourteen consecutive number one hit records, rivaling The Beatles for the position of most successful recording act of that generation.
Doug Ellin
Doug Ellin, Creator and Executive Producer of Entourage moved to Hollywood from his native New York in 1990 to become a stand-up comedian. While working the circuit at comedy club mainstays including The Improv and The Comedy Store, Ellin took a position in the mailroom of New Line Cinema. It was through this connection to New Line Production Head, Michael DeLuca, that Ellin's career was able...Garry Marshall
With the television hits The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, and Mork & Mindy, and movies like The Flamingo Kid, Beaches, Pretty Woman, and The Princess Diaries under his belt, Garry Marshall has been among the most successful writers, directors, and producers in America for more than five decades. Garry is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, the...
Greg Yaitanes
Television and film director GREG YAITANES has directed over 100 hours of television’s top shows including LOST, HEROES, and GREY’S ANATOMY. His Emmy Award came in 2008 as a result of his work on HOUSE, M.D., one of the most popular and beloved shows worldwide. Currently, Greg is the showrunner for Alan Ball’s upcoming show BANSHEE, slated to premiere on Cinemax in January 2013. In addition...
James Cameron
Born in Canada, James Cameron moved to California in 1971 at the age of 17. He studied physics at Fullerton Junior College while working as a machinist, and later a truck driver. Setting his sights on a career in film, Cameron quit his trucking job and went to work on low-budget science fiction films as a self-taught designer and visual effects artist. In 1984, his first directed film...
Jay Sean
Jay Sean is the international superstar behind songs such as "Down," featuring Lil Wayne, and "Do You Remember," chart-topping hits from his U.S. debut album All or Nothing, which helped catapult him into a league reserved for just a few. Now, he is gearing up for the release of his fourth album, the highly anticipated Cash Money/Universal Republic follow-up Freeze Time, with music, including...
JD Roth
JD Roth was born to be in the television business. A natural performer and producer, JD was fascinated with the medium from the time he could talk, especially by the variety hosts and game shows that would serve as the precursors to today's prolific "reality" genre. JD got his start in front of the camera as a child actor, between the ages of 11 and 18 landing more than 250 national...Jen Grisanti
International speaker Jen Grisanti is an acclaimed Story/Career Consultant at Jen Grisanti Consultancy, Inc. Grisanti is also a Writing Instructor for Writers on the Verge at NBC, a former studio executive, a blogger for The Huffington Post and author of Story Line: Finding Gold In Your Life Story, TV Writing Tool Kit: How To Write a Script That Sells, and her upcoming book, Change Your Story...
Jerry Weintraub
(Producer) is one of the most influential and successful people in the entertainment industry, with a career spanning more than 50 years and encompassing the genres of feature films, television, theatre and music. Weintraub had already enjoyed tremendous success in the management and music fields when he made an auspicious motion picture producing debut with Robert Altman’s seminal 1975...
J.J. Abrams
J.J. Abrams is the founder and president of Bad Robot Productions, which he runs with his producing partner Bryan Burk. Formed in 2001, Bad Robot is partnered with Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Studios and has produced films and television series such as "Cloverfield," "Star Trek," "Morning Glory," "Super 8," "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol," ABC’s "Alias" and "Lost," Fox’s "Fringe,"...Joss Whedon
Emmy winner and Oscar nominee JOSS WHEDON is one of Hollywood's top creators, scripting and directing several hit films including THE AVENGERS and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in New York, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as...
Lee Daniels
LEE DANIELS' background is filled with bold stories as real and gritty as the narratives from the films he creates. By the age of 21, Daniels founded and ran his own health care agency, providing nurses to private homes and hospitals; he was simultaneously trying to be a screenwriter. After selling his health care business, and giving up screenwriting, he began managing actors such as Loretta...
Mark Boal
By transitioning successfully from an investigative journalist to an elite Hollywood screenwriter, MARK BOAL possesses the unique combination of an unyielding ability to research, interview, and communicate compelling stories to a worldwide audience. That tenacity has rewarded Boal in the very first film he wrote and co-produced, THE HURT LOCKER, with Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay...
Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is the series creator and executive producer of Mad Men, an AMC original series. Since its debut, the series has garnered four consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series; three consecutive Golden Globe® Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; three Producers Guild Awards; four Writers Guild Awards; AFI Awards for one of the Top 10 Outstanding...Michael Bolton
Michael Bolton, the multiple Grammy Award-winning Singer, Songwriter and Social Activist, who has sold more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide, is currently on a 115 city world tour spanning several continents, all while working on a myriad of genre- and style-spanning projects including work in film, television and musicals. Bolton remains committed to humanitarian causes....jpg)
Michael Franti
THE SOUND OF SUNSHINE The Sound Of Sunshine -- the inspired and inspiring new album by Michael Franti & Spearhead -- is a kind of musical sun shower, a bright, beautiful and often buoyant song cycle created to bring all kinds of listeners a sense of hope during rough and rainy times for so many in our world. "Music is sunshine," says Michael Franti, one of the most positive and conscious...
Oliver Stone
OLIVER STONE has been credited with writing and or directing over 20 full-length feature films, earning him a well-respected place in cinematic history for some of the most influential and iconic films of the last two decades. Throughout his long career, which began at a young age writing short plays for his family, Oliver has served as director, writer and producer ...
Paul Shaffer
World-renowned bandleader Paul Shaffer has been David Letterman's musical director and sidekick on CBS-TV's "Late Show" for the past 27 years. A Grammy Award-winning master of musical and verbal improv, he has conducted a televised jam that included Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and Jeff Beck; been musical director at the White House...
Paula Abdul
Never before has there been an artist who has been equally recognized, awarded and celebrated both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, as has Paula Abdul. As a ground-breaking choreographer, dancer, song writer, performer, designer, actor and business women, this two-time Emmy Award winner and multi-platinum recording artist has continued to find new ways to entertain her loyal fans...
Phil Rosenthal
In conjunction with the release of his book You’re Lucky You’re Funny, Everybody Loves Raymond executive producer Phil Rosenthal and his writing team take audiences behind the scenes of one of the most beloved sitcoms in TV history. Along the way they describe in detail how the shows were written and characters developed, screen video clips of their home lives, and reveal how those real-life....jpg)
Robert Kirkman
Robert Kirkman is a New York Times bestselling author known for being the cultural zeitgeist of the comic book industry. Following the grassroots success of the self-published BATTLE POPE (2000), Kirkman caught the eye of Image Comics founding partner Erik Larsen. After several short-term projects (SUERPATRIOT and TECHJACKET), he achieved superstar status in 2003 with INVINCIBLE and THE WALKING...
Ryan Bingham
For some artists, winning an Oscar would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Ryan Bingham, who took home the Academy Award for "The Weary Kind," his hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take. "When there are a lot of people around saying 'look, you have to capitalize on this and do something ...
Spike Lee
Spike Lee, is a writer, director, actor, producer and author who revolutionized the role of Black talent in cinema. Widely regarded as a premiere African-American filmmaker, Lee is a forerunner in the ‘do it yourself’ school of independent film. An avid sports enthusiast, Lee recently completed a one day 18 camera documentary shoot focusing on NBA standout Kobe Bryant. Produced for ESPN, the...
Steven Tyler
Born Steven Victor Tallarico on March 26, 1948, in Yonkers, New York, Steven Tyler is the iconic songwriter, composer and voice of Aerosmith - America's Greatest Rock and Roll band - and is considered one of rock's most recognizable and dynamic frontmen. Rolling Stone Magazine has cited him one of the greatest singers of all time. After moving to Boston in the late 1960s, Tyler met the...
T Bone Burnett
In his conversations and speeches, T Bone Burnett focuses on his celebrated work as a composer, music supervisor and producer for films such as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Walk the Line, Across the Universe, Cold Mountain and The Big Lebowski. Burnett-who just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind," the theme from Crazy Heart, for which he also served as a producer.....
Terence Winter
Emmy Award Winner Terence Winter is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series Boardwalk Empire. On September 19, 2010, Boardwalk Empire 's premiere episode gained HBO's highest ratings for any premiere since 2004 and less than two days later the series was renewed for a second season. Before creating Boardwalk Empire, Terence was a writer and executive producer...
Todd Rundgren
A Wizard, A True Star. The title of Todd Rundgren's 1973 solo album aptly sums up the contributions of this multi-faceted artist to state-of-the-art music. As a songwriter, video pioneer, producer, recording artist, computer software developer, conceptualist, and, most recently, interactive artist (re-designated TR-i), Rundgren has made a lasting impact on both the form and content of popular ....Tommy Mottola
As one of the most highly regarded and influential executives in the worldwide media, entertainment and communications business, Thomas D. Mottola most recently served as Chairman and CEO Sony Music Entertainment. During his tenure, he transformed Sony and its 18,000 employees into the most successful global music company in history, expanding its businesses and all of its manufacturing....jpg)
Wyclef Jean
Haitian-born Wyclef Jean is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter/musician/producer, humanitarian, Goodwill Ambassador to Haiti, and founder of Yéle Haiti. A founding member of the pioneering hip-hop group Fugees and prolific solo artist, Wyclef has effortlessly crossed genres, generations and geographic boundaries with his music. Wyclef's musical journey began in Haiti where he sang in his...
D.B. Weiss
American author and TV writer / executive producer D.B. WEISS is best known for writing sci-fi and fantasy stories. Currently, alongside David Benioff, D.B. created and serves as co-executive producer for the hit HBO series GAME OF THRONES. A sweeping, medieval fantasy, this epic story interweaves several plotlines during the end of a decade long summer as an impending winter...
Nile Rodgers
There is nothing you can say about NILE RODGERS that hasn't already been heard by billions of people, via millions of radio airwaves, in thousands of cities, in hundreds of countries. His career is one of the most enduring and prolific in music with a signature sound scrawled across an amazing array of music - from Madonna to Diana Ross, from David Bowie to Eric Clapton. An American...
More Speakers
- Paula Abdul
- J.J. Abrams
- Ryan Bingham
- Mark Boal
- Michael Bolton
- T Bone Burnett
- James Cameron
- Andy Cohen
- Bruce Cohen
- Lee Daniels
- Doug Ellin
- Michael Franti
- Antoine Fuqua
- Brian Graden
- Brian Grazer
- Jen Grisanti
- Davis Guggenheim
- Wyclef Jean
- Robert Kirkman
- Spike Lee
- Garry Marshall
- Alanis Morissette
- Tommy Mottola
- Nile Rodgers
- Phil Rosenthal
- Diana Ross
- JD Roth
- Todd Rundgren
- Jay Sean
- Paul Shaffer
- David Simon
- Oliver Stone
- Steven Tyler
- Matthew Weiner
- Jerry Weintraub
- D.B. Weiss
- Joss Whedon
- Terence Winter
- Greg Yaitanes
- Anthony E. Zuiker
Hit makers
Hit makers
A Hit Maker is much more than just a "one hit wonder" appearing only briefly at the top of the entertainment charts. Hit Makers are multi-talented, multi-faceted musicians, writers and producers who possess the kind of timeless talent that defies the odds of the entertainment industry and continues to be highly relevant over the span of several decades.
CAA Speakers represents these select few individuals and is proud to offer them to you as the celebrity speaker centerpiece of your next corporate event or special engagement.
Whether they are speaking about their life in the entertainment business, or singing a selection of the songs that have made them famous, Hit Makers are celebrity speakers that make every event or conference a star-studded affair.
For more information, contact CAA Speakers today.