The business behind the business.
Every founder we've worked alongside is exceptional at the exciting half of their business. Almost none of them started out wanting to run the boring half too — and most of them were doing it anyway, badly, out of necessity.
Built from watching good businesses get held back by bad infrastructure.
The Boring Half exists because the operational, legal, and financial work behind a creative business is too important to bolt on late, and too specialized to hand to a generalist. It takes someone who's actually run this function before — not advised on it from the outside.
Eric Kessler
Eric Kessler is a media and entertainment executive with a decade of experience in business and legal affairs, dealmaking, and corporate strategy. Most recently SVP of Business & Legal Affairs at Lion Forge Entertainment, he spent nearly six years at Imagine Entertainment — Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's production company — rising from Manager to Vice President and Corporate Counsel, after beginning his career at WarnerMedia / Turner Broadcasting.
He's negotiated talent, production, rights, and financing deals across film, television, animation, and branded entertainment for networks and platforms including Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max, and Nickelodeon — alongside corporate matters spanning mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments. He holds a J.D. from Southwestern Law School, is a member of the California State Bar, and completed a certificate in Mergers & Acquisitions at Columbia Business School.
He founded The Boring Half after seeing the same pattern repeat across creative businesses: strong product, strong vision, and an operational and legal foundation that couldn't keep pace with either. The firm is built to close that gap directly, not just point it out.
Built to grow deliberately.
The Boring Half is designed to expand into a small collective of fractional leaders — finance, marketing, people — as client needs call for it. Every addition will be someone who's done the job before, not just advised on it.