“THERE’S NO POINT IN LIFE WHERE YOU GRADUATE FROM LEARNING. IN FACT, IN AN INDUSTRY THAT’S SO OFTEN EVOLVING, I’D SAY I’M IN THE BUSINESS OF LEARNING.”
We sit down with Bob Bonniol, Chief Innovation Officer at ACT Entertainment, for an exclusive interview.
At the start of 2025, Bob Bonniol was in Los Angeles, supporting his daughter as she wrapped up an internship with ACT Entertainment while balancing his responsibilities as MODE Studios’ Chief Creative Officer.
During that time, he received a call from ACT Entertainment CEO Ben Saltzman. At MODE, the company he had founded and guided for decades alongside his partner, Bonniol was thriving as a director and designer of live entertainment.
Yet he had confessed to Saltzman that the role, despite his lifelong passion for the industry, had left him feeling “a little worn out.” Saltzman was calling with an offer. ACT’s video division, consisting of Green Hippo, tvONE, and Magenta, was poised for significant reinvention.
The engineering was strong and the teams capable, but the brands needed unified direction. They needed someone who understood technology from a creative operator’s perspective.
Read the full interview in edition 36.2 of MONDO-DR here:
