American producer and founder of Skydance, the company that co-financed Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond, on both of which he is credited as an executive producer.
David Ellison founded Skydance in 2010 and entered a co-financing arrangement with Paramount Pictures that covered several of the studio's large franchise films.
Under that arrangement Skydance was a production partner on Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016), and Ellison received an executive producer credit on each. The Skydance logo appears at the start of both films alongside those of Paramount and Bad Robot.
He was not involved in the 2009 film, which predates the company.