Biography
Sophia Pino is a movie studio executive, screenwriter, and producer. She is currently the Chief of Staff at STX Entertainment, with previous executive positions at The Walt Disney Company and 20th Century Studios. Pino has worked on acclaimed TV shows such as "Homeland," "Fosse/Verdon" and "Genius." Pino graduated from University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film and TV Production, a Minor in Finance, and an emphasis in Pre-Law. She earned a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Technology Leadership from University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management, where she earned a place on the Dean's List. Pino sits on the Board of Directors of USC's Women of Cinematic Arts group. After film school, she joined the motion picture talent department at ICM Partners (now part of CAA) under Joe Funicello and worked on "Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!" (2018) and on the Golden Globe and Emmy-winning TV Series "Chernobyl" (HBO, 2019). Pino joined 20th Century Fox during the Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, reporting to TV Studio President Bert Salke. She worked on projects such as "Homeland," (Channel 4/Showtime, 2011-2020), "Genius" (National Geographic, 2017-18, 2021, 2024), "Queen of the South" (USA Network, 2016-21), "Mayans" (FX, 2018-23), "The Hot Zone" (National Geographic, 2019, 2021), "The Ratched" (Netflix, 2020), Emmy-winning "Pose" (BBC Two/FX, 2018-21), and Golden Globe and Emmy-winning "Fosse/Verdon" (FX, 2019). Following The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Pino began managing operations for the office of Executive Chairman and CEO Bob Iger during a period in which COVID-19 impacted the enterprise's many lines of business. With Bob Chapek taking over as CEO, Iger left Disney at the end of 2021 and Pino assumed a new role driving strategic alignment for company-wide initiatives and campaigns across all brands and divisions such as Walt Disney Studios, the theme parks Disneyland and Disney World, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Hulu, Disney+, Pixar, National Geographic, FX Networks, ESPN, ABC, and ABC News. Such initiatives included producing the bi-annual D23 Expo event in 2022 which featured major announcements on upcoming content such as Hocus Pocus 2 (2022), "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" (2022), "Avatar: The Way of Water" (2022), "Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania" (2023), "Peter Pan & Wendy" (2023), "Inside Out 2" (2024), "Mufasa: The Lion King" (2024) as well as anticipated additional season of "Star Wars: Andor," "The Mandalorian" and "Loki." Also announced was "Captain America: Brave New World," "Daredevil: Born Again," "Snow White," and "Thunderbolts." Pino left Disney in November 2023 to join STX Entertainment as their Chief of Staff. She is also writing and developing a few of her own projects: TV series, as well as feature script.
