In the past six years, Pierre has helped position for sale several digital media and gaming companies each valued at more than $1 billion—first with Playtika in 2016, then with Otter Media in 2018, and finally with Crunchyroll in 2021. Pierre is a strategist, deal maker, and operator with nearly two decades of investment banking, gaming, media, and film and television experience.
He was most recently Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of Crunchyroll, the world’s largest streaming video company for anime — previously owned by WarnerMedia and now by Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Prior to working at Crunchyroll, Pierre was Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at Caesars Interactive Entertainment, where he helped build one of the world’s largest social and mobile games companies, Playtika, through M&A and launched several real-money online gaming brands and services in the U.S.
Pierre specialized in M&A and leveraged finance having worked in New York and London for JPMorgan, Bank of America, and several European institutions earlier in his career.
