pizarro creative team
Gerard Pizarro, ESQ | Chief Executive Officer & Founder
After nearly twenty years in the practice of law and managing research and development for university labs and U.S. government agencies in a post 9/11 world, Gerard realized what he really wanted to do: make movies. After learning the mechanics of filmmaking at San Francisco Film School in 2010, Gerard's first short film, "Emancipatus Emma," was an official selection at the Manhattan Film Festival. He learned by doing - writing, producing, and directing the feature film, "Blood on Canvas," Winner, Best Feature, Michigan Film Awards 2012. He attended the Producers and Directors Program @ USC School of Cinematic Arts / Warner Bros. Studios. Gerard studied for four-years at Studio A.C.T. @ American Conservatory Theater, an actors intensive for directors, 2012-2015.
Wendy Pizarro-Campbell, ESQ | Co-Founder, Chief Legal & Chief Finance Officer
Recently honored at the California Legal Awards as a Woman Leader in Tech Law by American Law Media and Law.com, In-House Counsel Leader by the Los Angeles Times, Top 50 Women Leaders of San Diego by Women We Admire, and a Power Woman of San Diego by Discover Magazine, Wendy is a role model and leader as a seasoned corporate attorney and biopharma executive.
She is currently Chief Legal Officer, Chief Diversity Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Calidi Biotherapeutics, a fast growing innovator in stem cell delivery technologies to fight cancer. Her hybrid role on the senior executive leadership team is to lead global legal and compliance strategy across the entire corporation and its practice areas, manage key government and customer relations, such as CIRM, and to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the strategic plan, including clinical trials to include candidates from under-represented and under-served populations.
Wendy is also a co-designer of an app that connects fitness buddies for corporate wellness programs and on-demand fitness escapes (Never Train Alone).
Wendy has 20+ years experience in corporate and business law, and from 2010-2021, she lead California Law Partners, a boutique law firm primarily serving as outside general counsel to high net worth multi-family offices. She directed legal strategy to grow an aggregate asset portfolio of over $1.5 billion in multi-generational wealth.
Previously, she worked with leading Silicon Valley firms, including DLA Piper, on numerous corporate / IP matters and corporate securities transactions for tech companies in all phases of their life cycles from start-up to liquidity event (IPO and M&A).
To nurture her creative side, Wendy is an award winning filmmaker who co-wrote and produced Blood on Canvas, her first feature film and passion project available now on Amazon, iTunes and Google Play.
She actively supports under-represented communities and is committed to DEI policies in the workplace and at large, including women and AAPI communities.
A former teaching fellow at Harvard University, Wendy was awarded the Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching. She also regularly conducts legal seminars and is a key speaker at numerous conferences and events on DEI strategies and other topics.
Wendy holds a JD from the Harvard Law School, MST from the University of Oxford, and MA and BA from Yale University graduating magna cum laude with honors in distinction. She is proficient in Spanish, Italian and Tagalog.
