Priscilla Pesci

Biography

Priscilla has a long tradition of military service in her family and believes strongly in the mission of Warrior Rising. She is Global Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Quake Europe. With extensive cross-cultural and global experience in over 150 countries at major motion picture studios and broadcast networks in content creation, social, digital media, television, film, and music, Priscilla’s senior-level, executive posts include MGM Studios, Lionsgate Entertainment, CBS Broadcast International, and FOX Studios.

Most recently, Priscilla co-architected Quake’s 5G Global Immersive Media Accelerator with premiere, multinational partners and co-investors, Deutsche Telekom, Medien Gruppe RTL (4th largest media conglomerate in the world), NRW (State Government of Rhineland – Westphalia region), DWF Law, and SK Gaming.

While Chief Marketing Officer of MGM Worldwide Television Group, she contributed, developed, and launched billion-dollar franchises, such as Legally Blonde, James Bond, Pink Panther, and Stargate. As CEO of her own start-up company and Senior Franchise and Digital Media Specialist at MGM, Priscilla pioneered and packaged strategic, online ad-revenue partnerships amongst all major recording labels, film studios and blue-chip brands with multiple revenue streams worldwide. She has been credited with creating the first social networking community for a television series and franchise, while also initiating one of the first branded-achievement, integrated e-commerce systems.

A key stakeholder, advisor, and founder in several successful tech / entertainment start-ups, Priscilla also packages film financing – develops, produces, licenses and distributes original film and television content.
She attended Boston College and the University of San Francisco, where she designed her own major in foreign languages and comparative literature, with a minor in Philosophy.

Priscilla is a Board Member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a voting member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Committee Member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Television with a Conscience, Board Advisor to The Blank Theatre, and Advisor for Public Works, Inc., a non-profit committed to the betterment of education through research, tutoring and the education of high-risk young adults.