Modi Wiczyk is an entertainment industry veteran and co-founder and co-CEO of MRC, an independent media company that specializes in the creation of premium entertainment across film, television, and digital (web, mobile, broadband) channels.
Mr. Wiczyk formed MRC in 2003 with his business partner and co-CEO Asif Satchu, a highly successful entrepreneur who was also Mr. Wiczyk’s section-mate at Harvard Business School. In launching MRC, Mr. Wiczyk brought to the business a broad range of Hollywood experience – as a production head and talent agency partner, combined with a keen understanding of project valuation and the concerns and priorities of talent.
Prior to launching the firm, Mr. Wiczyk was a partner at the Endeavor agency, where he specialized in international finance and independent film. His work in the finance unit included Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko; 21 Grams and Babel. From 2000-2002, he headed production at Summit Films. During his tenure, the company released the films Memento, American Pie, The Mexican, Nurse Betty, Open Your Eyes and Requiem for A Dream.
As a student at the Harvard Business School, where he graduated in 1999, Mr. Wiczyk identified a void in the traditional Hollywood financing system, which became the basis for “Another New Ballgame,” a student memo he wrote at Harvard that would become the eventual framework for MRC’s business model.
Central to Mr. Wiczyk’s business philosophy, MRC specializes in the creation of premium content – film, television and digital – and custom builds distribution for each of its projects and partners directly with leading creative talent. Since it’s inception, the company has raised significant capital and forged strong relationships with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional production and distribution entities.
Mr. Wiczyk, 35, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1993.
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