For Studios & Platforms
This side of the practice is bespoke. I spent twenty-five years inside Disney, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks, Lucasfilm, and Amazon doing exactly this work: pricing films, planning slates, structuring deals, and building the finance functions behind them. At Audible and Twitch I did it from the platform side, planning original content and modeling creator monetization. Engagements are scoped to the decision in front of you, not pulled off a shelf.
What I Take On
Greenlight & Investment Analysis
Investment memos and scenario models for a project, a slate, or an acquisition, built the way a greenlight committee expects to read them.
Creator & Platform Economics
Creator monetization, payout structure, and ecosystem investment modeled from the platform side: what a creator program earns, what it costs, and where the next dollar goes.
Production Finance
Production budgets, cost tracking, and variance analysis that tell you where a show or a slate actually stands, and what it will cost to finish.
Games & Live Service
Game production budgets and planning, live-service and content investment framing, creator and UGC ecosystem economics, and the publisher or investor materials when you're raising or realigning.
Deal Structure & Waterfalls
Participation, licensing, and co-production economics: how the money flows, who gets paid when, and what the structure is really worth to you.
Distribution & Windowing Economics
What a title earns across platforms, windows, and territories, and how a different release strategy changes the answer.
Restructuring & Transitions
Carve-outs, wind-downs, and ownership changes. I build the transition model and run the finance workstream that keeps the deal moving.
Financing Structure
How the production or the company gets funded: debt, equity, co-financing, and presales weighed against what each one really costs you.
Fractional FP&A
An operating finance function on a fractional basis: planning cycles, forecasting, and board-ready reporting without a full-time hire.
For Investors & Acquirers
I also work the other side of the table. Funds, lenders, and acquirers bring me in for diligence on media and gaming assets: what the catalog, the slate, or the studio is actually worth, and where the projections stray from how the business really behaves.
Finance Partner Retainer
When the need is ongoing rather than a single decision, I take a small number of fractional engagements: FP&A leadership, planning cycles, and deal support inside your team. Three-month minimum.