Portfolio Co-Founder Joy Rosen Passes Away

Joy Rosen, co-founding partner and CEO of Portfolio Entertainment, has passed away at the age of 65.

Rosen and her long-time colleague, business partner and dear friend Lisa Olfman founded Portfolio in 1991. The Portfolio roster grew to include the PBS KIDS Emmy Award-winning series The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!, Hero Elementary, Doki and Groundling Marsh. In 2015, the partners launched Portfolio Animation, a state-of-the-art animation studio.

Among her many industry distinctions, Rosen, together with Olfman, was awarded the 2015 WIFT-T Crystal Award for Outstanding Achievement in Business, the Rotman Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and was named in Profit Magazine’s Top 100 Female Business Owners and Animation Magazine’s Top 25 Rising Women in the Business.

“We at Portfolio are heartbroken,” said Olfman. “Joy was my partner, my best friend, my sister-in-arms. Words can’t describe what a huge loss this is to her family, her friends, and to those in the business community who knew her. We will miss her tremendous heart, her wicked sense of humor and her buoyant optimism. A piece of us died today, but we will forever honor her legacy.”