John Stuart Farrand (born 1935) is a British-American business executive. Farrand worked at Music Hire Group Limited for 14 years, and served as managing director beginning in 1973. From 1980 until 1985, he was a senior executive at

Warner Communications Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City. It was established as Time Warner ...

, which included heading up its

Atari Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French holding company Atari SA (formerly Infogrames) and its focus is on "video games, consumer hardware, licensing and bl ...

Coin-Operated Games Division. Farrand served as president and chief operating officer of

Panavision Panavision Inc. is an American motion picture equipment company (law), company founded in 1954 specializing in cameras and photographic lens, lenses, based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk a ...

from 1985 to 1998, and president and chief executive officer of Panavision from 1998 until his resignation in 2003. In the 1980s, Warner Communications sold

to an investment consortium led by Farrand,

Ted Field Frederick Woodruff "Ted" Field (born June 1, 1953) is an American media mogul, record executive, entrepreneur and film producer. He founded Interscope Communications to develop and produce films in 1982, and produced his first hit, '' Revenge ...

, and

Alan Hirschfield Alan James Hirschfield (October 10, 1935 – January 15, 2015) was an American film studio executive and philanthropist. Hirschfield served as the CEO of Columbia Pictures from 1973 to 1978 and the chairman of 20th Century Fox from 1982 until 1986 ...

. Five months later, Farrand and Field bought out the other investors. They sold the company in 1987. In 2002, Farrand married journalist Giselle Fernández with whom he had one daughter. The couple divorced in 2014. In 2003, Farrand resigned from Panavision when his contract wasn't renewed amid efforts by Panavision to overcome financial difficulties.

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