Avi Arad (; he, אבי ארד; born 1948)
is an Israeli-American film producer who became the
CEO
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of the company
Toy Biz in the 1990s and soon afterward became the chief creative officer of
Marvel Entertainment
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, and the chairman, CEO, and founder of
Marvel Studios
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.
["Marvel Announces New Independent Producer Deal with Avi Arad"](_blank)
, May 31, 2006 press release
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, via Ain't It Cool News
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Since then, he has produced a wide array of live-action, animated, and television comic book adaptations including ''
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'', the 2018
Academy Award winner for Best Animated Feature.
Early life
Arad was born in 1948 in
Ramat Gan
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, Israel, to a Jewish family. The son of