Inga Vainshtein Smith

Inga Vainshtein was a VP of Production at Paramount, Simpson & Bruckheimer, responsible for the development and production of films such as the original "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "The Specialist", "Sliver", "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "The Crow". She discovered director M. Night Shyamalan and Academy Award winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman. In 1993, Inga discovered singer/songwriter, Jewel, and guided her career from playing coffee shops to selling 15 million records world-wide and gracing the covers of Time, Rolling Stone, Spin, Details etc. Additionally, she managed Grammy nominated and winning artists Tricky and Meshell Ndegeocello.