Since co-founding Starlight Runner in 2000, Mark Pensavalle works closely with business partner Jeff Gomez on the development and expansion of the company. As a member of the core creative team, he has worked on the world’s largest and most lucrative entertainment franchises and consumer brands from Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean to Coca-Cola’s Happiness Factory to Microsoft’s Halo. As a producer accredited by the Producers Guild of America and production manager, he contributes to literary, live-action, animated and gaming content, grooming intellectual properties to reach the largest possible international audience.

Mark entered the book trade in 1987. He has since served as Production Manager for such major publishers as HarperCollins, where he worked on high-profile secret projects such as Under Fire by Oliver North. Later at Random House, he became renowned in the industry for taking Thomas Harris’ Hannibal from manuscript to print in less than five weeks. He oversees production on Starlight Runner’s printed and digital text materials, including lavish franchise mythology documents, audiovisual presentations, books, and comic books.