Feras Antoon

Feras Antoon was CEO of MindGeek (the parent of Pornhub) through the company’s peak years, from approximately 2013 to 2022. He is Lebanese-Canadian, based in Montreal, and was the company’s principal public face — to the extent the company had a public face — during the 2020-2022 New York Times / Financial Times / Brown Rudnick litigation cycle that ended his tenure.

According to Luxembourg’s beneficial-ownership registry (the Registre des bénéficiaires effectifs), Antoon and David Tassillo together held 99.7% of MindGeek S.à.r.l. The remaining 0.3% belonged to Acaju Investments S.A., a Luxembourg shell whose beneficial-ownership entry was blocked from public view and whose actual owner was Bergmair. The Fleites v. MindGeek complaint alleges that Bergmair gave Antoon and Tassillo a combined 31% stake (out of the registered 99.7%) and $57 million in dividends as compensation for running day-to-day operations — positioning Bergmair as the absentee controlling investor while Antoon and Tassillo carried the public-facing role.

A 2021 fire at Antoon’s Montreal mansion (under construction) attracted brief media attention; he subsequently maintained a low public profile. He stepped down as CEO in 2022 ahead of the New York Times “Children of Pornhub” reporting cycle’s most acute consequences. In 2023, Ethical Capital Partners acquired MindGeek; Antoon’s continuing equity interest in the post-ECP entity is unresolved in public record.

¶Where his role figures

• Brunien-ECP and MindGeek-Aylo — the ECP transition and Antoon’s role in it.
• Expanded profile on Bernd Bergmair — the Bergmair-Antoon ownership structure.
• Colbeck Capital and the Goldman alumni financing chain — Antoon’s emergence from the Thylmann-era management.