Ahmet Zappa

EVP, Global Business Development at Eyellusion

Ahmet Zappa is EVP of global business development, bringing extensive creative and business strategy capabilities to the Eyellusion team. In this role, he is instrumental in expanding Eyellusion’s artist roster and forging relationships with brands.

Zappa is an entrepreneur, NY Times Best Selling Author, film and television screenwriter and producer. He also runs the extensive Frank Zappa estate through the Zappa Family Trust as co-Trustee.

He helped form the company Blk-Ops in 2012. Blk-Ops has done all of Microsoft’s major commercials since 2014. As a creative, he stays involved from pre-production to post-production on all projects. To Ahmet, marketing is just another form of storytelling, which is what he loves.

As a co-Trustee he manages and administers all assets of the Frank Zappa business. This includes recordings, publishing, name image and likeness as well as furthering the Zappa business and trademarks in the marketplace.

Under his entertainment shingle, Monsterfoot Productions, he conceived the story, developed and produced “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” for Walt Disney Pictures. He also originated the ideas and wrote the screenplays for “Monster Witness Relocation Program” and “Tiki.” At Sony Pictures, he is producing the movies “Dodge & Twist” and “Savage Planet.”

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  • EVP, Global Business Development

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