Matt Panousis is a co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ). MARZ is a hybrid visual effects (VFX) studio that delivers feature-film quality VFX on television timelines and a technology startup that is using AI, computer graphics, and computer vision to build products that solve the significant and growing VFX capacity issues, budget constraints, and time shortages that are plaguing the industry. The MARZ product portfolio includes two next-generation AI for VFX products
MARZ, founded in 2018, has a globally distributed team of over 260 people, and has built an impressive project portfolio for which it has received two 2021 Emmy award nominations. Notable projects include Netflix’s Wednesday and The Umbrella Academy, Marvel’s WandaVision, HBO’s Watchmen, and Apple TV’s Invasion.
Matt is a lawyer by training and an entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of success co-founding and scaling B2B technology start-ups. In his role at MARZ, Matt leads corporate strategy, product, operations, and growth. Prior to MARZ, he founded VC-backed ACTO to disrupt how drugs and devices are promoted and brought to market through AI.