Bruce Lipnick

Executive Producer, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Stage Access

Bruce is the founder and CEO of Stage Access, a streaming platform and production company for the performing arts featuring dance, opera, concerts, theater and documentary films. His extensive background as a film producer has included The 3 Tenors: From Caracalla to the World 30th Anniversary DocumentaryYo-Yo Ma Performs Bach From the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, AthensThe Extraordinary Journey of Fernando BujonesLa Frontera; The Heartbreaker; and Death of a Dynasty, starring Kevin Hart. Bruce also appeared in the award-winning films Three Days of the Condor and All The President's Men. He held an ownership stake in Monarch Business & Wealth Management, a firm representing internationally acclaimed entertainers and athletes including Justin Timberlake, Charlie Sheen, Anna Kournikova and Rob Gronkowski. 

Bruce previously enjoyed a long and distinguished financial services career as the founder, CEO and Chairman of Asset Alliance Corporation, an alternative investment management company with more than $7 billion under management. He is a pioneer in hedge fund portfolio management and launched the first 40 Act mutual fund. He received numerous industry awards including Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Giving from Hedge Funds Care. Bruce helped launch and served on the board of SMArtX Advisory Solutions, a leading asset management technology platform with $50 billion under management.

A devoted patron of the arts, Bruce has proudly supported major performing arts institutions including New York City Ballet’s New Combinations Fund for the development of world premiere dance and music commissions, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Washington Ballet, Boston Ballet, and The School of American Ballet in New York.