David Conley

reference David’s the guy steering the ship at Weta, making sure the company doesn’t just float along but actually crushes it in the long run. He’s all about building those solid business foundations and, you know, actually keeping the company’s vision from collecting dust on a shelf. Day-to-day? He’s juggling client relationships, locking in strategic partnerships, and has his hands all over the film production process. There’s a reason Weta managed to level up its film operations and grab some of the biggest projects in the game—think The Jungle Book (yep, the Favreau one), Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame (no big deal, just half of Hollywood’s CG budget), and Alita: Battle Angel. Before David started making magic at Weta, he was already knee-deep in the VFX world. He produced effects for films that had people talking—Cloverfield, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Life of Pi, all that. On top of that, he put in time at Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox, working as part of the executive production squads on some wild rides like War of the Worlds, Beowulf, and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Basically, he’s got the receipts to prove he’s been around the block when it comes to big-budget, wild-imagination filmmaking. If you’ve seen a blockbuster with jaw-dropping effects in the last decade or so, there’s a good chance David’s fingerprints are somewhere on it.