A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has served as an arbitrator for the Independent Film and Television Alliance (formerly AFMA), the non profit membership organization of all the leading international motion picture distributors and is recognized as an expert on the motion picture industry by many of the courts in the U.S. and frequently testifies in arbitrations and court cases, federal, state and international, as an expert on the motion picture and television business.. In 2010 he received "The Louis B. Mayer Award" from the UCLA Anderson School of Management as "the Outstanding Motion Picture Business Executive of the Year".