Christopher Petzel

Board Member at The Arena Group

Christopher Petzel joined the board on October 7, 2021

Christopher Petzel is a partner at Percival Ventures, an investment firm based in Puerto Rico, focused on early-stage blockchain investments and cryptocurrencies. Since August 2019, he has served as Chairman of Byte to Bite Industries, Inc., a delivery focused hospitality and technology venture, as Chairman of Broadside Enterprises, Inc. (OTC: BRSE), an entertainment and media company, and as Chairman of Chancellor Group, Inc. (OTC: CHAG), a small-cap vehicle. Mr. Petzel has broad experience with media, technology, hospitality, and corporate finance, including transactions with publicly-traded companies and has produced and/or financed several hundred million dollars of entertainment assets. Mr. Petzel worked for investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey in Los Angeles, where his clients included DreamWorks, Pacific Data Images (now DreamWorks Animation), Centropolis Effects, Sundance Productions, Constantin Film AG, and Castle Music. In 1999, he was one of the principal members of the team representing The Walt Disney Company in valuation matters pertaining to a much-publicized arbitration with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Mr. Petzel also previously worked for the media finance department of Berliner Bank AG (London Branch). Mr. Petzel is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish. He studied finance and economics at the Universities of Barcelona (Spain) and Fribourg (Switzerland), where he graduated summa cum laude.

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