Jenna Seiden
Zambezi Partners Co-Founder
Los Angeles
Jenna Seiden is the Co-Founder of Zambezi Partners, an entertainment, emerging tech and social impact consultancy. She advises companies in the XR, video game, esports, telecom, digital OTT and film/TV ecosystems. Her focus is on location-based entertainment, content financing and co-productions, as well as content distribution. She works with teams such as Arvore, Baobab, Beat Games, Dark Slope Studios, and SpringboardVR, and serves on the advisory board for Felix & Paul and Y.U.R. Jenna is also an investor and manages an impact fund dedicated to eradicating poaching in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, Jenna was the Head of Content Acquisition & Partnerships for HTC Viveport, managing the home, mobile & LBE storefronts. Prior to HTC, Jenna was the VP of Distribution at Maker Studios overseeing 15M+ assets from 55K+ You Tubers; VP of Strategic Partnerships at Xbox where she executive produced Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn which triggered the first iteration of Microsoft Entertainment Studios; a video games agent at Creative Artists Agency representing such teams as Respawn, Doublefine, Gearbox, Jerry Bruckheimer Games, and Quantic Dream; co-ran David Schwimmer's NBC-based production company, Dark Harbor; and started it all at the at the NBA where she credits Commissioners David Stern and Adam Silver for teaching her the business fundamentals and etiquette she embraces to this day. Jenna attended the University of Pennsylvania and received her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.