David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American film producer, record executive, and entrepreneur. In music, he co-founded Asylum Records (with Elliot Roberts) in 1971, and later founded Geffen Records in 1980 and DGC Records in 1990. In film, he founded the Geffen Film Company in 1986 and co-founded DreamWorks SKG (with Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg) in 1994.
