Joe Simpson
Founder & Managing Partner, Ashland Hill Media Finance
About Speaker
Joe Simpson is Founder and Managing Partner at Ashland Hill Media Finance, the UK and US-based entertainment financing company he runs alongside fellow film financiers and producers, Simon Williams and Jonathan Bross. Since its 2022 launch, Ashland Hill Media Finance has invested more than $140M across 22 deals, including Rupert Sanders’ The Crow, starring Bill Skarskård and FKA twigs, Philip Noyce’s action-thriller Fast Charlie, starring Pierce Brosnan and James Caan, and Jesse V. Johnson’s action pic Chief of Station starring Aaron Eckhart. Simpson is also Co-Founder and Partner of Palisades Park Pictures, a global entertainment company led by CEO Tamara Birkemoe. Prior to Ashland Hill Media Finance, he founded and managed the U.K. based film investment firm, J Cubed Film Finance, which executed 30+ film deals with total production budgets exceeding $300M. As COO of production and finance company Miscellaneous Entertainment, he executive produced the action-thrillers, Terminal starring Margot Robbie, and Killing Gunther featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger, among others. Previously, he worked at Columbia Tri-Star (now Sony Pictures) and MGM Home Entertainment Europe. Simpson also previously served as Vice Chairman of film industry-sponsored UK charity “Film Education” which involved the promotion of film as a support tool for learning across the national educational community and within the UK government.