Michael Cerenzie is a versatile, multi award winning producer, financier and entrepreneur. He brings to the group more than 35 years of experience across entertainment, international investment, real estate development and finance.

He is co-founder and chief executive officer of LEAF Global Holdings Group, an integrated global platform engaged in providing studio infrastructure and operations, production services, content development, film financing and distribution, and workforce development. LEAF Entertainment, a division of LEAF Global, finances, develops, produces and distributes film and television content. Under Mr. Cerenzie’s leadership, LEAF Entertainment has secured more than $25 million of production funds, supporting an expanding slate of international projects.

In 2026, Mr. Cerenzie served as executive producer of LEAF Entertainment’s Cannes Film Festival slate, which included Minotaur, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev; Fjord, directed by Cristian Mungiu;  Paper Tiger, directed by James Gray; and Heil Jupiter!, directed by Carlos Reygadas. LEAF Entertainment became the first production company to have three films selected for the Festival’s Official Competition in the same year, alongside a fourth selection in the Directors’ Fortnight.

Mr. Cerenzie previously founded and served as chief executive officer of The Stratagem Group, where he led the strategy and execution of businesses encompassing studio development and operations, real estate, production services, content development, workforce development and financing. Under his leadership, Stratagem developed and operated a 250,000-square-foot production facility in Toronto during the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The facility attracted premium film and television productions, beginning with Taylor Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown for Paramount+, and Marvel Studios’ Hawkeye and Secret Invasion, becoming the first Canadian studio to host Marvel productions. 

In 2024, Mr. Cerenzie produced Dovecote, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, was shortlisted for the Academy Awards and received recognition at leading international festivals. His earlier producing credits include Sidney Lumet’s critically acclaimed Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney, which received an AFI Award in 2007.

Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Mr. Cerenzie started his career in the restaurant and hotel business. He then moved to the U.S., where he produced critically acclaimed films and theatre, as well as closing innovative real estate transactions in Asia.

Mr. Cerenzie has raised more than $400 million for ventures in media, technology, entertainment, real estate and development. The entertainment industry’s trade journal of record, Variety, named Mr. Cerenzie as one their “50 Creatives to Watch” and the California Film Festival created a special category and named him “Maverick Producer of the Year.”

Mr. Cerenzie is a Canadian citizen. He travels frequently, particularly to the United States and Asia.