Jessie Henderson

[1] After graduation, she moved to New York City and worked as the receptionist on the last season of Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn.

While there, she fell in love with the world of stand-up comedy, and went on to work as Neal Brennan’s assistant on the last season of Chappelle’s Show.

[2] She moved to Los Angeles in 2008 to be an assistant at Universal Pictures, and in 2009 became one of the early employees at Peter Chernin’s Chernin Entertainment, where she was promoted from Creative Executive to Director of Development and set up and co-produced The Heat, which became the top grossing domestic comedy of 2013.

[3] After Chernin Entertainment, she spent 6+ years running Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, where she produced films including the Golden Globe and Critics Choice nominated Spy, A Simple Favor, Someone Great, Last Christmas, and executive produced 2016’s Ghostbusters, Holler, and Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

She led the company through two feature term deals with Fox and later Universal Pictures and Lionsgate Television.