Archer Grey, a New York manufacturing and finance firm identified for backing initiatives just like the Oscar-nominated Can You Ever Forgive Me?, is branching out into different codecs and non-scripted programming.
Liza Keckler, who had most not too long ago been SVP of improvement for Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Concepts, is becoming a member of Archer Grey to steer the brand new space of enterprise. She will likely be based mostly in LA and can open the corporate’s first West Coast workplace.
Archer Grey founder and CEO Amy Nauiokas mentioned the enlargement will additional the corporate’s dedication to high quality storytelling and underrepresented voices with a various slate of initiatives.
At Unrealistic Concepts, Keckler helped lead the cost in creating codecs for the corporate, with an emphasis on way of life, enterprise, and bodily competitors. She nurtured initiatives for Disney+, HGTV, and Nat Geo.
Beforehand, she headed up improvement at Irwin Leisure, the place she developed a various slate of initiatives for Netflix, NBC, Fox, Tru TV, Roku, OWN, Oxygen, and TLC, with titles together with Pet Stars, Immoral Compass with Invoice Burr and Thoughts Your Enterprise.
Keckler has additionally held the posts of VP of improvement at Screaming Flea Productions and government producer on the Journey Channel.
“Liza’s expertise, community and perspective in considerate storytelling will assist us lengthen our model into the non-scripted world,” Nauiokas mentioned in a press launch. “We will’t wait to share our imaginative and prescient with {the marketplace}.”
Reporting to Archer Grey accomplice Jim Fielding, Keckler will work intently with Nauiokas.
Along with its roster of narrative and documentary movie and TV initiatives, Archer Grey additionally has a enterprise arm that invests in early-stage tech firms in media and leisure.