MATT IPPOLITO is an actor, critically acclaimed producer and former startup COO based in Los Angeles. C’mon dude, just choose a career path.

He is a founding partner of LA-based content studio SecondNature and formerly the COO of RYOT, the Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated film studio. Matt is an inventive creator and skilled project manager who guides ideas from inception through production and distribution. With his childhood years immersed in the New York construction industry and his post college days building excel models in private equity, he diligently manages teams, budgets and schedules while getting into the intricacies of storytelling, shaping and refining with care and precision.

He has produced some 20+ films and series, including a Netflix #1 Movie, White Hot, Oscar-nominated shorts, Lifeboat and Hunger Ward as well as Sundance films Flee, On Her Shoulders, The Brink and The Disappearance of My Mother. He is currently in production with Condé Nast on a four-part series for HBO called Breath of Fire, and narrative feature, Best Man Dead Man, featuring Molly Bernard. 

In addition to Sundance, his work has premiered at Cannes, Tribeca, and SXSW and has been distributed in theaters nationwide along with partners from Netflix to Hulu to HBO. During his time with RYOT Films, he sold two VR series to Hulu and co-led a multimillion dollar equity fund between RYOT Films and VICE Studios through which they financed and produced a dozen thought-provoking documentaries.

Matt graduated from Yale University and has an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.