Managing Partner – Rainmaker Group
Executive Producer – Rainmaker Films
The Rainmaker Group provides executive management and communications advisory consulting and investment banking services. Rainmaker Films is a feature film production company that develops, produces and distributes theatrical movies.
Grant Guthrie is the Managing Partner of the Rainmaker Group, providing executive management and communications advisory consulting and investment banking services including strategic planning, financial structuring and private equity financing.
He currently serves as Advisory Board member of CloudBurst Data Centers, an AI-centric data center in the Austin, Texas market, in partnership with Energy Transfer. He is also Senior Advisor and Chief Communications Officer of Twin Eagle Global, an Irish technology company with a current project in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
As Executive Producer of Rainmaker Films, Grant has produced twelve feature films distributed theatrically and internationally and presented at major film festivals. Most recently he executive produced the film Bill & Ted Face the Music starring Keanu Reeves and released by MGM/Orion Pictures.
Grant was formerly Managing Director of Amerifund Capital, an investment banking firm providing strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity sourcing in media, energy, and real estate.
Previously Grant was the Founder/President of Texas Video & Post (TVP), a media communications company, in association with Sony Corporation, which he successfully merged with a national entertainment company.
Grant has received over 100 music, television, and film awards including Cine Gold Eagle and platinum/gold record awards for musical artists the Eagles, Queen, Warren Zevon, and Joe Walsh.
Grant was one of the original Founders of Houston Children’s Charity and received the Chairman’s Award for his service. As a Board member of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, he was awarded Board Member of the Year for his work in developing the Woman of Distinction. He has received special recognition for his contributions to Children’s Assessment Center, Texas Children’s Hospital, and United Way.
Grant has three daughters - Kelly Thornton, Kirby Sykes, and Kary Ashby – and five grandchildren.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Texas with a BBA in Finance.