Hidden Pigeon Co. Welcomes Kristofer Updike as Senior Vice President, Creative

Hidden Pigeon Co. (HPC) has appointed Kristofer Updike as its Senior Vice President, Inventive. He’ll report on to CEO Karen Okay. Miller.

Updike will collaborate with HPC Founder Mo Willems and Govt Producer and Showrunner Tim McKeon to supervise all TV and theatrical endeavors. This contains creating the corporate’s character IPs, similar to Elephant & Piggie, Knuffle Bunny, and The Pigeon. 

With many years of expertise throughout all key features of the youngsters and household house, from tv and movie to theater manufacturing, Kristofer might be invaluable in serving to HPC obtain many essential wins forward within the areas most essential to the corporate’s development.

Karen Okay. Miller, CEO of Hidden Pigeon Co.

Updike boasts 20 years of expertise throughout numerous entertainment media. He beforehand served because the Vice President, Growth at Peacock, the place he spearheaded the implementation of the Peacock Youngsters streaming portfolio. Previous to Peacock, Updike labored as Senior Director, Unique Programming and Growth at Common Youngsters; Director and Senior Supervisor, Unique Manufacturing at Sprout; and Vice President of Manufacturing at Bix Pix Leisure. 

HPC, the multiplatform children’ leisure firm, was based final 12 months and goals to broaden the attain of characters and tales present in Willems’ kids’s books. Willems has printed greater than 71 kids’s books, together with Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, the Elephant & Piggie early reader sequence, and extra.

HPC hopes to see Willems’ portfolio of youngsters’s characters make its strategy to new leisure platforms, together with TV, movie, dwell occasions, licensing, and extra. Updike will immediately assist these targets in his new position on the firm. “Now we have a number of thrilling issues within the works as we glance to convey these standout character manufacturers into an entire new chapter of alternative and success,” he says.