Courtney Colman
Courteny Colman is the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) of Happy Accidents. As the CFO, Courtney Colman is responsible for the financial and tax oversight of film and tv productions, corporate strategic planning, accounting, finance, budgeting and forecasting at Happy Accidents.
Courtney has 30+ years of strategic financial experience, 20 years at the CFO level, in media & entertainment (feature film, creative marketing/agency, television, music, home entertainment, and live theater), internationally and domestically.
Courtney has held the position of CFO at the following companies: Motion Picture Corporate Of America (“MPCA”), Mob Scene LLC., XPRIZE Foundation, Bellum Entertainment LLC., Gold Circle Entertainment, Porchlight Entertainment, First Look Studios and Lieberman Research Worldwide.
Other senior finance roles that Courtney has held were the SVP Finance & Business Development at CBS Films, VP Participations at Sony Pictures Entertainment, VP Finance at Universal Music’s Interscope, Geffen, and A&M record label, VP at PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (Courtney’s experience at PolyGram/Universal extended over nine years in Canada, the UK, and the United States) and SVP of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group in the UK.
Courtney graduated in the top 10% of her class at the University of Toronto earning a Bachelor of Commerce degree.
Courtney became a Chartered Accountant (C.A.) in 1992.
She is a citizen of the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, as are her two children, Patrick & Sophie.