For Studios & Platforms
This side of the practice is bespoke. I spent my career 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. I tailor each engagement to your finance need. And when a company needs its first finance function, I build it.
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What I Take On
Finance Function From Scratch
I build your first finance function in the right order: the model, the planning rhythm, the monthly close, the controls, the board deck, and then the team. I have done this at Amazon, at Lucasfilm Animation, and as a founder's first finance hire. I stay hands-on until it runs without me.
Greenlight & Investment Analysis
Investment memos and scenario models for a project, a slate, or an acquisition, in the format a greenlight committee reads.
Creator & Platform Economics
Creator monetization, payout structure, and ecosystem investment, modeled from the platform side. What a program earns, what it costs, and where to put the next dollar.
Production Finance
Production budgets, cost tracking, and variance analysis, so you know where a show or a slate stands and what it will cost to finish.
Games & Live Service
Game production budgets and planning, live-service and content investment, and creator and UGC economics. I also build the publisher and investor materials when you are raising money or changing direction.
Deal Structure & Waterfalls
Participation, licensing, and co-production economics. How the money flows, who gets paid when, and what the structure is worth to you.
Distribution & Windowing Economics
What a title earns across platforms, windows, and territories, and how a different release plan changes that.
Restructuring & Transitions
Carve-outs, wind-downs, and ownership changes. I build the transition model and run the finance workstream.
Financing Structure
How the production or the company gets funded: debt, equity, co-financing, and presales, with the cost of each.
Fractional FP&A
An operating finance function part-time: planning cycles, forecasting, and board-ready reporting.
For Investors & Acquirers
I work for buyers too. Funds, lenders, and acquirers bring me in for diligence on media and gaming assets: what a catalog, a slate, or a studio is worth, and where the projections drift from how the business behaves.