Who We Are

Inna Kopelevich
Founder, CEO

team@isss-la.org

Inna Kopelevich was born in Lithuania, a republic of the former Soviet Union. She came to the United States as a young girl and attended LAUSD public schools. She graduated from UCLA in 1998, where she studied math and history. She then worked in the music industry for six years before going back to school to obtain a Master’s degree and teaching credential. She has been an Algebra teacher at Johnnie Cochran Middle School since 2005.

Roman Kopelevich

Chief Marketing Officer

Board Member

Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Kopelevich oversees Bleiberg Entertainment's burgeoning international sales slate and handles sales operations for the company's film library in all territories worldwide. These include the international sensation, The Band’s Visit which has won major awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Munich Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Copenhagen and Jerusalem Film Festivals; as well as He Was a Quiet Man starring Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert and William Macy; Adam Resurrected directed by Paul Schrader and starring Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe; Lonesome Jim starring Casey Affleck and Liv Tyler; One Last Dance starring Harvey Keitel; Heckler, starring Jamie Kennedy and Stephanie Daley starring the Oscar winner Tilda Swinton. Most recently, he spearheaded the acquisition and foreign sales of Gene Generation, a science fiction action film starring Bai Ling.

Kopelevich has over 16 years of experience in the international sales arena. Prior to his current post, he served as Director of International Sales at Morgan Creek where he sold the foreign rights to The Good Shepherd starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro as well as Two For the Money starring Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey. Prior to Media 8, he served as Director of Distribution Services for Media 8 Entertainment, where he handled foreign rights sales and distribution focusing on international theatrical, video/DVD and television distributors in Europe, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East for films including the Oscar winner, Monster starring Charlize Theron; Upside of Anger starring Kevin Costner; Havoc starring Anne Hathaway; Man About Town starring Ben Affleck and Running Scared starring Paul Walker.

Prior to joining Media 8, Kopelevich held the position of Vice President Entertainment Sales & Marketing at Filmbazaar.com. As a founding partner, he conceptualized, developed and launched the web site and created and executed global marketing activity as well as sales campaigns to sell services to independent foreign sales companies and international distributors. Additionally, he spearheaded development of strategic outreach programs and oversaw campaigns to secure industry partnerships and led business trips to China, Hong Kong and Italy.

Prior to Filmbazaar.com, Kopelevich served as Director of Sales at Fox International Home Entertainment for two years overseeing sales of Fox theatrical and straight to video titles. He began his career at New World Entertainment in 1992; where he handled sales in both the video and television arena’s for one of the largest independent film libraries.

Elsa Ramo

Attorney

Board Member

Ms. Ramo is an entertainment attorney, representing many corporate clients as well as individual writers, directors, and producers in the entertainment industry. Elsa graduated from University of San Diego School of Law, and moved into entertainment law with Davis Dixon Kirby LLP. She now has established her presence in her law firm in Beverly Hills. She continues to remain Of Counsel at her previous law firm and with MindFusion.

Her specialties span the spectrum of entertainment legal needs: Corporate/Entity Representation, Contract Negotiation, Review and Drafting, Producer/Writer Representative Services, Trademark and Copyright filing and litigation, and Corporate Formations, Acquisition, and Mergers. The focus of her practice is to be a legal resource to film financiers, producers and other creative individuals in the industry.

Her law firm has two full time attorneys and a full staff who have provided production legal services to over 30 television, feature film, short film and documentary productions. Some of which include: LOADED starring Jesse Metcalfe; Jamie Kennedy's documentaries UNWASHED (featured on Comedy Central) and HECKLER (which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival); SUFFERING FOOLS starring Alan Cumming, Dave Boreanaz and Anne Heche; BORDER, a Feature Documentary theatrically released this year; Sony Picture’s CHASING GHOSTS, with Michael Madsen and Gary Busey; GENE GENERATION starring Bai Ling; CREEP SHOW 3; televisions series THE DL CHRONICLES; and THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE directed by Blair Underwood.

Additionally, Elsa Ramo has produced GHOST GAME and CULT and was an associate producer for THE LAST SENTINEL and co-produced the film A WOMAN CALLED JOB currently in post-production. Outside of membership in the four Bar Associations (California, American, Beverly Hills, & Los Angeles), Elsa is also a member of Film Independent, Women in Film, California Lawyers for the Arts and is the founder of PEFA (an organization for female attorneys in the entertainment industry. She has also been a panel speaker at Boston University School of Law, and the San Diego Film Festival, University of Southern California.

More information about Elsa Ramo can be found on her company website: www.entertainmentattorney.biz.

Daniel Meyerov
Board Chairman

As founder and CEO of OnlyBusiness.com, Daniel Meyerov’s goal is give all businesses a place to network, transact and flourish online. Meyerov has been passionately involved in growing businesses online for over a decade. Since 1995, Meyerov has been committed to the planning and building of integrated strategic brands and implementing both marketing and IT systems that help businesses grow and attract customers. As an expert on strategy, branding, IT initiatives, and advanced solutions for Web-based businesses, Meyerov brings his full arsenal of experience to bear for the companies that have joined the OnlyBusiness.com network.

Meyerov has long been focused on the Web as a major strategic environment for clients. He has been offering web-based services, together with brand identity development, to increase market success for individual clients across a myriad of vertical markets. Meyerov provides sales, planning, functional specification, project management and account management to full-scale eCommerce web systems, Supply-Chain Management, eProcurement and Content Management systems, for SME businesses, large corporate as well as to government and utility entities. Working successfully in a number of international markets (US, Australia and South Africa) Meyerov has acquired significant exposure to the imperatives of brand strategy and Web/IT development around the world.

Daniel got his university degree in Psychology and received his post-graduate qualification in Marketing Management. He has also bolstered his professional education with additional training in areas such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and other web-related areas.

More recently, Meyerov and business partner Mark Friedman, created Polaris Blue – a full service, Web development and incubation company offering high-end, custom web/business solutions to US and international markets. Meyerov and Friedman now continue their collaboration on other projects and opportunities, most notably, the launch of OnlyBusiness.com.
Daniel is a noted resource and author on small business issues. He has provided business and brand strategy for such leading organizations as GlaxoSmithKline; Coca-Cola; Telstra and other top brands. He currently provides web business tools and resources for the approx. 3,000+ small business member community within the OnlyBusiness.com portal

Daniel is a featured voice and ongoing contributor for business within leading media: Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, NY1, eCommerce Times, Ecommerce & Marketing, Minority Business News, BNET and others.

Stephanie Carter
Consultant

Stephanie is a native of and started her career in education in the state of Virginia. She graduated from Old Dominion University in 1998. From there she began teaching in Virginia Beach City Public Schools working with at risk high school students. Stephanie moved to Los Angeles where she began working at JL Cochran Middle School during the 2002 school year. In seeing the desire and need of many of Los Angeles inner city students Stephanie is working to provide all students with the ability to be successful no matter what obstacles may be in the way.
Stephanie acts as student advisor and will be assisting this years students that are applying to elite high schools in the Los Angeles area.

Alex “Bugsy” Lyudmir
Event coordinator,

Board Member

Alex Lyudmir “Bugsy”, born in the Ukraine, moved to the US when he was seven years old. He discovered his love for promotions and marketing via nightlife. Since then he has planted his foot in the industry and flourished. He stood apart early on, honing his skills in nightlife.

For the last three years, Bugsy has owned and operated hip downtown lounge Soho: 323/Noca. There he used his unique creative style to produce high profile, one-of-a-kind events. His weekly parties and high profile destination events have attracted a faithful following of trend setters from fashion, film and nightlife at a myriad of popular venues like, Limelight, Tunnel, Palladium, USA, Studio 54, The Roxy, Chaos, Groove Jet, Amnesia, Crobar, Liquid and Twilo.

While at 323, Bugsy produced events for various philanthropic causes. For two consecutive years - 2005 and 2006, he organized events for the W.O.W.S.E Foundation. In 2005 Bugsy's efforts for the W.O.W.S.E foundation resulted in the highest donation of turkeys for the homeless in New York. Bugsy will now lend his expertise to ISSS.

Rachel Torrey

Consultant

Rachel Torrey is from outside Washington DC and is the product of Montgomery County Public schools. She attended Washington University in St Louis, where she majored in biology and minored in ballet. During her time at Wash U, Rachel was a member of the dance team and Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority. She discovered her interest in education by working as a camp counselor, hands-on science teacher, ‘Mad Scientist,’ and tutor in St Louis. Upon graduating in May 2005, Rachel joined the Los Angeles Teach for America corps. She taught 8th grade science at Johnnie Cochran Middle School for three years. In addition to teaching, Rachel was the Science Department chair, mentor teacher, technology coordinator, and cheerleading coach. She plans on staying in education for many years, and is currently teaching at View Park Prep Charter Middle School in South Los Angeles

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8424 Santa Monica Blvd. ste. A730

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