Ivan Williams

Personal Bio

Ivan Williams is an award-winning producer whose work spans films, web series, podcasts, and Broadway musicals. After a successful career as a senior leader at ARCO and BP, he transitioned into the entertainment industry in 2012. His producing credits include Knights of Badassdom, Big Stone Gap, M.F.A., This Changes Everything, Creating Woodstock, the Broadway musical First Date, and the hit podcast Hidden History Happy Hour.

Recent projects being released or screened this year include Black Diamond, Ramona at Midlife, Secret Mall Apartment (executive produced with Jesse Eisenberg), Köln 75 (German Film Academy Award nominee), How to Build a Truth Engine (executive produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov), and The Wonder and the Worry.

Ivan is CEO of the AI startup Nexus4AI and co-founder of Wildbrush Media and Outer Limits Productions. He also serves as a strategic advisor to Planet Home Media Group and sits on the boards of ScriptHop, reSpace, and Montana’s Project Winterland Impact Festival. A U.S. Navy Reserve intelligence veteran, he is a member of the Producers Guild of America, The Creative Coalition, and is an adjunct professor at UC Irvine.