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Avi Arad, the chairman and chief executive of Marvel Studios, is the man responsible for bringing comic book figures such as Spiderman and the X-men to the big screen. Born in Israel in 1948, Arad studied industrial management in New York after serving in the Israeli Army during the 1967 Six Day War. A part-time job in plastics led to work in toy design, and in the 1970's Arad was part of the team that developed air hockey. Disillusioned to discover that he would not share in the profits from the game that he had helped invent as an employee, Arad founded his own toy design company. Marvel hired him to design merchandise and produce animated programs for the Fox Kids Network.
Last updated: December 14, 2008.
