Richard Perello

Richard Perello has been serving as an executive in the entertainment industry producing studio and independent feature films and projects for network and premium television for over 25 years. As Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Production for Alex Gibney’s acclaimed and award-winning Jigsaw Productions, Mr. Perello oversees the production for all of the company’s film and television projects and the company’s finance and business operations. He is an Executive Producer on numerous productions including: Dirty Money, How to Change Your Mind, The Family, and Salt Fat Acid Heat for Netflix; The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Murder on Middle Beach, Agents of Chaos, Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, and Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge for HBO; The New Yorker Presents and Octopus! for Amazon, Death Row Stories, Elian, and Steve Jobs: The Man In the Machine for CNN; Parched for National Geographic; The Clinton Affair and The Killing Season for A&E; In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, Laurel Canyon and San Francisco Sounds for MGM+/Epix; Enemies: The President, Justice & the FBI, and Emmy Award-winning Kingdom of Silence for Showtime; and The Line series and podcast for Apple+.

Mr. Perello recently produced Broken Lizard’s feature Quasi for Searchlight Pictures and has produced all of the Broken Lizard comedy group’s films (Super Troopers franchise [1,2 & 3], Club Dread, Puddle Cruiser, Beerfest, The Slammin Salmon, and Broken Lizard Stands Up). Other feature projects include Brooklyn Rules, Preaching to the Choir, Freeloaders, and the feature documentary Dramatic Escape (featuring the Theatre Arts program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.)

He has produced for Warner Bros, Searchlight, Paramount, Comedy Central, HBO, Netflix, Showtime, Apple +, Amazon, AMC, A&E, Hulu, Nickelodeon, MTV, NBC Television, CNN, National Geographic, Bravo, Discovery, Vice, Facebook Watch, the Coca Cola Company, Blue’s Clues, and Saturday Night Live. Mr. Perello is a multi-nominated producer, including Emmy wins and a du-Pont Columbia Award for excellence in journalism.

In addition to his entertainment related experience, Mr. Perello’s financial industry experience as an investment banker includes working with the New York firms Kidder, Peabody & Co and Benedetto, Gartland & Company in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance.  Mr. Perello is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and NYU Tisch School of the Arts.