AGBO has hired executives from Snap, Apple and the studios behind “Call of Duty” and “Starfield” to lead marketing, technology and interactive production.
The company was founded by Anthony and Joe Russo, the filmmakers behind “Avengers: Endgame” and “Captain America: Civil War,” with partners Donald Mustard and Chris Brearton. Its productions range from the “Extraction” franchise to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “The Gray Man.”
As part of the wave of hires, Luke Kallis will join AGBO as president of marketing and growth, and is being tasked with building a direct relationship with audiences across every medium. He has spent two decades building audience platforms. He joined Facebook before it had 20 million users, Vevo as music shifted to digital, and Snap as it grew from $67 million to $2.7 billion in Americas revenue.
Alex Blickenstaff has joined as vice president of engineering. Blickenstaff spent nearly a decade at Apple building the data engineering behind one of the world’s largest platforms. He will build the technology layer that connects AGBO’s linear and interactive businesses.
Derek Racca joins AGBO as executive producer, interactive, focusing on building the company’s slate of games. He has shipped games that hundreds of millions of people have played including “Call of Duty,” “The Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout,” “Doom” and “Starfield.” He joins AGBO from Atomic Arcade, a Wizards of the Coast studio.
