The previous 15-year UTA exec and companion Jim Meenaghan has been tapped as COO of Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures.
Meenaghan, who served as co-head of unbiased movie and head of MP enterprise affairs at UTA, will oversee day-to-day operations on the studio beneath founder and CEO Silverman. “Stampede Ventures is the right alternative for me, the timing couldn’t be higher. I’m very excited to hitch such an formidable firm dedicated to creating nice, industrial content material with a outstanding govt workforce and tradition already in place,” Meenaghan mentioned in a press release on Wednesday.
In 2018, UTA promoted Meenaghan to co-head the unbiased movie group with companion Rena Ronson after he had been with the company for 9 years and main the movement image enterprise affairs group. Having stepped down from UTA on the finish of 2023, Meenaghan joins Stampede after it unveiled a partnership with Movie AlUla studios, whereas additionally working intently with three way partnership companions Hidden Pigeon Firm and Completely satisfied Nest.
“As a well-respected trade veteran, Jim’s invaluable experience will assist the corporate navigate this subsequent section. We stay up for his management and insights to proceed to bolster Stampede Ventures,” Silverman mentioned in a press release. In 2021, UTA and Stampede Ventures launched Completely satisfied Nest as manufacturing firm targeted on youngsters and household animation.
And in Could 2023, Gerry Cardinale’s RedBird Capital Companions and Stampede teamed with youngsters creator Mo Willems to launch Hidden Pigeon Firm as a youngsters and household content material producer.
Earlier than becoming a member of UTA, Meenaghan labored on the Anschutz Movie Group/Walden Media, Icon Productions and Walt Disney Photos. Stampede Ventures has over 80 initiatives in growth or arrange with producing companions at Warner Bros., Netflix, Apple, Fox, Lionsgate, Peacock, MTV, Max, Disney+, and Paramount+.
Current releases embrace Lionsgate’s Strange Angels starring Hilary Swank and Alan Ritchson, the documentary The Saint of Second Probabilities and the younger grownup function Pink Skies Forward, starring Mary J. Blige and Jessica Barden and picked up by MTV Studios.