Steve Mangel

Steve Mangel is President of UniFi Completion Guarantors (UniFi), a boutique completion bond company offering high value producers a new, favorable alternative choice to the larger, conventional completion bond companies. Prior to launching UniFi, Steve served as President and CEO of International Film Guarantors (IFG) for 15 years, where he was responsible for managing all company operations. Steve has supervised bonding of more than 400 movies with aggregate production budgets exceeding $10 Billion. Before IFG, he served 12 years as a senior executive at LIVE Entertainment (LIVE) in charge of business and legal affairs where he also founded and headed its international sales division. As LIVE's chief deal maker, Steve structured the financing and production of many high-profile independent films. Prior to joining LIVE, he was a partner in an entertainment law firm specializing in the music recording and publishing industries. Steve received his Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University - Northridge and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California Law Center.