Dan Lin (Chinese:pinyin: Lin Wei) is an American Hollywood film producer and CEO of Lin Pictures, a filmed entertainment production company that he formed in January 2008. In September 2008, Lin was honored as one of Variety’s "10 producers to watch." Lin currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and is a mentor for both the Producers Guild of America and the Center for Asian American Media. Lin is currently producing the Lego movie based in Sydney which will be released in 2014. Dan Lin was born in Taipei, Taiwan, the son of an executive in the international food industry. He spent much of his childhood in Hong Kong, where his father worked, before moving to the United States at the age of five. After moving to the U.S., Lin’s family settled in Los Angeles, California. Growing up in an immigrant family, their sole language of communication at home was Mandarin Chinese. Therefore, he started learning English through watching television and movies, and this would cultivate his interests in movies and films. As with many first generation immigrants, his parents had nurtured hopes that he would become a doctor. He was accepted into medical school at the University of Pennsylvania but decided to forgo a career in medicine and instead pursue his interests in movies and films. In 1994, Lin received his undergraduate education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and in 1999, earned a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Through his wife Sophia, Lin is cousins of Taiwanese American singers Stanley Huang and Jeffrey Huang of Taiwanese hip hop group Machi. Lin is married to Sophia Hirokawa, co-founder of Raven + Lily, and has two sons.