Biography

David Michael Guillod is a 25+-year veteran of the entertainment industry leading the Motion Picture Talent Departments as a senior partner at United Talent Agency (UTA), Handprint Entertainment. Guillod was CEO of Intellectual Artists Management and Primary Wave Entertainment. During his tenure at Handprint, Guillod helped manage and build companies for Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Lopez Enterprises, Sean Diddy Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment & Sean John, as well as, guided the careers of Jennifer Lopez, Katie Holmes, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Julia Stiles, Justin Long, Monica Potter, and Terrence Howard.

At UTA, Guillod was the co-head of the motion picture talent department for nine years and guided the careers and built companies for Don Cheadle, Rachel McAdams, Liv Tyler, Julie Bowen, and Oscar-winning writer Bobby Moresco (Crash and Million Dollar Baby). Additionally, Guillod packaged such films as Crash, Hotel Rwanda and Hustle & Flow while at UTA.

Guillod then set his sights on building an entertainment/media company with an emphasis on creating ownership of assets. He created Intellectual Artist Management which quickly merged with Primary Wave Entertainment with Guillod becoming the Co-CEO overseeing all talent & literary management, as well as, film and tv production divisions while also establishing Primary Wave Entertainment as one of the largest publishing and media companies in the United States.

Guillod is best known for producing the movies Extraction at Netflix starring Chris Hemsworth, Atomic Blonde at Universal, starring Charlize Theron, The Intruder at Sony and TV Show Loudermilk with Pete Farrelly.