Marvel Studios is one of the world's biggest and most successful brands and according to nj.com, its president, Kevin Feige, just made a half-million dollar donation to the New Jersey high school he graduated from in 1991.

NJ.com says that the $500,000 donation will be used for audio and video equipment for the school's television station.  Not surprisingly, Feige spend a lot of time in the studio when he was a student.

According to wikipedia, Feige was born in Boston in 1973 but raised in Westfield, NJ in Union County.

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Wikipedia goes on to say that Feige attended USC and in 2000, he was hired as a producer by Marvel.

In his time at Marvel, Feige has produced some of the most successful movies of all-time, like Iron Man, Thor, Captain America: and The First Avenger.  Earlier this year, the Feige-produced film, Avengers: Endgame, became the highest-grossing movie of all-time.  According to imdb, to date, the film has earned almost $3 billion worldwide.

 

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