Guy Orlebar 

Financing Strategist

Guy Orlebar is an award-winning producer/financier and licensed asset manager in Asia, focused on matching international investors with English-language theatrical movie projects. 

 

After receiving a master's degree in Engineering and Computing Science at Oxford University, Guy studied an MBA in Japan before joining American investment bank Lehman Brothers in Tokyo and Hong Kong in 2002 where he was a quantitative and derivative equity trader and structurer. He has also worked for Nomura and Mizuho Securities in similar roles, and for Thomson Reuters in a managerial role where he drove the firm's analytics business across the Asia region, before becoming an SFC licensed asset manger from 2017, working for boutique buy-side firms PINS Asset Management, New Asia Ferrell Asset Management, and Sprout Asset Management. Guy is a member of the Asia-based investor network World of Allocators, and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) holder where he is a frequently-invited guest speaker at CAIA Association events to address the benefits of investing in media as a viable asset class to its members.

 

Guy founded Agog Film Productions in 2007, producing veteran Chinese actor Gordon Liu's award-winning English-language-speaking debut "Lost in Love". At Phoenix Waters Asia, which he co-founded with international director Bizhan Tong, Guy produced the award-winning 2024 Cantonese remake of Richard Linklater's movie "Tape". Guy is also an uncredited producer on the award-winning Japanese-Indian-Taiwanese movie "Shambhala Story".

 

Guy has trusted financing and production partners across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and he has been collaborating with Hollywood producer Joseph Cohen since 2024, and with Michael Pollack and his team at Pollack Films since 2025.