Bob Israel is a producer of theater and film, an entertainment marketing leader, a social activist and a philanthropist. He has seen great success in his entertainment career and has served on several non-profit boards with a focus on social justice and the arts.

Proclaimed by the LA Times as the "Trailer Titan" and placed on Entertainment Weekly's Top Creative People in Hollywood "It" List, his achievements include producing blockbuster films that launched major careers, creating the largest entertainment advertising agency in Hollywood and overseeing prestigious star-studded award shows. In 2013, he returned to his first love - and is now developing and producing theater.

Bob is the Co-Founder and former CEO-Creative Director of Aspect Ratio, one of Hollywood's premier advertising agencies. Among the hundreds of campaigns created by the agency during Bob's time there are Forest Gump, Philadelphia, Ghost, Groundhog Day, Men In Black and Spiderman. When he sold the company, Aspect had grown into the largest entertainment advertising agency in Hollywood. Bob left the company in 2004 and helped launch another prestigious agency, Workshop Creative.

Bob's feature film producing credits include the box office smash Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which helped launch Jim Carrey's movie career. He produced the cult classic, Bachelor Party, based on his original story, which starred 27 year-old Tom Hanks.

Live shows include a run as Lead Producer of The Hollywood Reporter's Key Art Awards Show from 2000-2008, held at the Kodak Theater. Bob also produced a live musical in Las Vegas for Sony Pictures at Showest starring Robert Goulet and Leslie Nielsen.

In 2013, Bob created the Broadway & Vine Fund to develop properties for the stage. He is currently adapting The Flamingo Kid as a musical for Broadway with A Gentlemen's Guide Tony-winning book writer and lyricist, Robert Freedman, and War Paint's Scott Frankel. It had its regional premiere in 2019 at Hartford Stage, and was directed by Tony-winner, Darko Tresnjak. He is co-lead producing an adaption of the movie, Mad Hot Ballroom, as well as a musical based on the Henry Louis Gates book and series, Many Rivers To Cross.

Bob is a member of the Motion Picture Academy (AMPAS) and the Directors Guild of America. He serves on the board of three non-profits: A Place Called Home (since 2001), Skylight Theater Company and The Alliance for Entertainment Advertising Arts.

Bob was honored with the Sepharad Cinema Lifetime Achievement Award (2001) and the Gala For the Children Humanitarian Award (2012). In 2012 the L.A. City Council commended him for "for improving the lives of thousands of children and families living under great duress."

He is extremely grateful to have in his life two incredible children, Jesse and Rachel, and his supportive life-partner and wife, Gail. He resides in Los Angeles.