Big Fish Entertainment
Rob Forella has a strong background in finance, particularly in the entertainment industry. Rob has held various leadership positions throughout their career. From 2018 to the present, Forella serves as the SVP Finance at Big Fish Entertainment, overseeing the company's finance functions. Prior to that, from 2016 to 2018, they worked as the SVP, CFO at Stephen David Entertainment, where they were responsible for all finance functions and worked closely with the CEO on strategic matters. Earlier in their career, they held roles at Viacom, including Vice President of MTV Finance from 2009 to 2015 and Vice President Finance for Digital Media, Enterprises, and Games from 1995 to 2009. In these roles, Forella had financial and operational oversight for various divisions and brands, including managing budgets, integrating game developers, and working with marketing and production teams.
Rob Forella attended Hofstra University, where they studied accounting.
Big Fish Entertainment
THE FISH... Big Fish Entertainment is a full service production company that creates multi-platform, visually driven content that compels and entertains audiences with the “unexpected.” Founded in 2006 by President Dan Cesareo, Big Fish has since produced hundreds of hours of award-winning and top-rated programming in the unscripted reality, lifestyle and documentary space. Current Big Fish series include groundbreaking docu-series Live PD for A&E, offering viewers unfiltered live access inside policing in America; bold dating series Date Night Live for Lifetime; mega-hit franchise Black Ink Crew New York and Chicago for VH1;Tattoo Girls for TLC and culinary docu-series Hustle & Soul for WE tv. With other credits including Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan and the Gates Foundation Reality PD public schools project, Big Fish captures and relates extraordinary worlds, characters and stories for such networks as Lifetime, A&E, VH1, WE tv, Discovery, TLC, MTV, E!, National Geographic, Oxygen, Travel Channel and Spike. For more information, visit bigfishusa.com.