We're thrilled to announce that our August Charter Member Event will take place IN-PERSON on Tuesday, August 3 at 6PM EST at Baar Barr. Our featured speaker will be Edwin Mejia Jr.

Edwin Mejia Jr. serves as co-founder at Generation Iron Brands and The Vladar Company. Two fully integrated global media company's producing content for Film, TV, Live Events, Digital platforms, Tech, publishing, news and entertainment. Mejia oversees in-house productions, co-productions, acquisitions and manages the company’s worldwide multimedia distribution and monetization needs.

In 2014, Mejia co-founded 'Generation Iron Brands,' a Manhattan based digital media publisher, broadcaster and content producer of Strength Sports, Wellness, Bodybuilding, Fitness, MMA, entertainment, news and original content reaching over 2 million readers monthly. The company has become a disruptive digital media company that leads a commerce driven business and network for direct to consumer brands in fitness, lifestyle and health/wellness. Generation Iron today owns many brands such as Strength Wars, the strength league content brand with millions of Youtube subs, GymFu*kery, a viral user generated content platform with millions of content submissions and publishing subsidiaries operating in Brazil, Russia, Japan and Latin America.

Mejia is responsible for producing the 2014 award winning film, “Generation Iron,” alongside Director, Vlad Yudin and Jerome Gary (Pumping Iron). Narrated by Academy Award Nominee, Mickey Rourke, the film became the top 5 highest grossing doc at the box office in 2013. He negotiates all domestic and foreign sales. He has Executive Produced the Mr. Olympia Show in Las Vegas and the Arnold Classic Broadcast.

Since 2015, Mejia has produced many titles such as "Jeremy Scott The People’s Designer” based on the iconic fashion designer, featuring Katy Perry; "The Hurt Business" (Netflix) with Jim Czarnecki (Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11), ft. Rhonda Rousey and Narrated by Kevin Costner. He has also produced 'Generation Iron film installments, 'Ronnie Coleman The King' (Netflix), 'Calum von Moger Unbroken' and the 'Dorian Yates Mass Monster' life story biopic. He has helped develop the careers of Kai Greene and manages talents Calum von Moger, Zac Aynsley and Zac Perna.

Prior to partnering with Vlad Yudin, Mejia spent over 6 years working on Wall Street in Finance with Lehman Brothers, Smith Barney and Fidelity Investments. During his 6 year tenure in Finance, he managed over $4 billion of Commercial Real Estate Holdings, the funding of warehouse lending lines of credit for Lehman Brothers and managed a portfolio of over 700 private and institutional accounts at Smith Barney. He currently serves as Treasurer and Board member at BronxNet TV.

We hope you can join for this exciting event!