
Christopher Amell
Founder | Studiorunner
Everywhere -

Grace Mazzilli
Associate Producer
LOS ANGELES – Grace knows people and luxury experiences from her work at Prada, Moncler, Sergio & Gianvito Rossi (both acquired), She gets talent, and keeps the purpose, mission, and vision beating in everyone's hearts and minds.

Tristan Amell
Plots CEO
LOS ANGELES – Tristan, a UCLA student-athlete and sub-four-minute miler, is venture-backed by Marc Andreessen of a16z. He’s my son, on his own mission; we stay connected through this business and our shared passion for bringing people together.

Ryan Ogle
Plots CTO
LOS ANGELES – Ryan was Tinder's founding CTO. He can overcome any technical challenge people face hosting, attending, and ticketing home and theatrical experiences for INTERDEPENDENT everywhere in the world on Plots.

Jacob Henriksson
Associate Producer
MALMÖ – Jacob controls $40B+ in annual revenue across 100+ countries at Schneider Electric. He is heading up our treasury and Stripe banking-as-a-service offering for studios and productions.

John Clements
Associate Producer
LOS ANGELES – John is a venture capitalist and movie lover (as we all are), and a multi-generational owner of a global specialty insurance underwriting business. He brings a deep understanding of mitigating complex risk.

Octavio Marenzi "O"
Associate Producer
VIENNA – This is the guy the world's largest banks go to for advice on business, operations, and technology strategy. He is our resident expert, connection to global capital markets, and funnier than he looks.

Michael Fabian
Associate Producer
SYDNEY – Michael was Cisco’s Internet of Things global business development leader; he will be bringing INTERDEPENDENT Down Under.

Patrick Rignell
Associate Producer
LONDON – Patrick is a retired solicitor from the world's top international law firm in London. He always brings the counter argument to whatever position we take.

Robert Wagner
Associate Producer
NEW YORK – Rob has lead operations of 4B+ in assets under management. Running Ops for INTERDEPENDENT Ventures (our VC funding arm).

Peter Gumbel
Associate Producer
PARIS – Peter was the McKinsey Global Institute Director. He is an author and thought leader on technology disruption and innovation (among other things), and helps us connect the dots at the highest level.

Michael Lin
Associate Producer
NEW YORK – Michael is an Amazon software engineer and Stanford trained AI & film guy, rock band guitar player, and screenwriter. He currently oversees the training of Casey our in-house AI script evaluator.

Karan Khetan
Associate Producer
MALIBU - Mediator, Lawyer, BA LLB (Hons). JGLS, LL.M (Dispute Resolution) Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. Pepperdine Caruso Law School. Karan is calm, caring and collaborative.

Joe Moë
Associate Producer
LOS ANGELES - Joe ... He is the human champion of many of the screenplays recommended by Casey our AI evaluator.

Abhinav Vadhera
Studio Assistant
LOS ANGELES – Abhinav is a master’s student in Computer Science at USC. He has startup experience and a corporate engineering background from American Express in India. He is a dedicated, passionate, group leader.

Vikyath Naradasi
Studio Assistant
LOS ANGELES – Vikyath is a masters student in AI at the University of Southern California. He is a budding prompt artist and deep learner that wants to know what movies inspire you so we can make them.

Avo Karamusyan
Studio Assistant
LOS ANGELES - Avo is into CS with business applications at UC Riverside. At INTERDEPENDENT he brings a determination to beat his head against a wall ad infinitum until he either breaks through or discovers a way around.

Ethan Jeffries
Studio Assistant

James Simon
Studio Assistant
LOS ANGELES - Jame is a Computer Science and Game Design Student at USC. He

Aditya Mogare
Studio Assistant
Los Angeles - USC major in

Sam Caruthers
Studio Assistant
UCSB in Statistics and Data Science + Film and Media Studies. Previously built baseball AI predictive models on whiff rate and slugging percentage using SQL, Python, and R.

Gabriela Peguero
Studio Assistant
TORONTO Gabriela is []

Ibrahim Alnahhal
Studio Assistant
An undergraduate at USC, Ibrahim plays a part in strategy and studio operations at INTERDEPENDENT, where he oversees project development, partnerships, and the systems that connect creators across the globe. With a background in production, business, and law, he brings structure to vision and momentum to every slate.
Haven Lima
Studio Assistant
Los Angeles

Lyndsay Tibbetts
Studio Assistant
Houston - Lyndsay has a Masters in Screenwriting, and experience both assisting and teaching. She gets things done faster than anyone else on our team apart from Casey and our other AI operators.