Christopher Petzel is the CEO and founder of Fierce Entertainment, a film and television production company. Over the last ten years, Fierce has produced, executive produced or associate produced a number of features including "Faces in the Crowd" (Milla Jovovich), "Hungry Rabbit Jumps" (Nicolas Cage), "Rambo" (Sylvester Stallone) and "War" (Jet Li and Jason Statham), as well as made-for-TV movies including Marvel's "Man-Thing" (Sci-Fi Channel) and "Shadows in the Sun" (ABC).

Christopher is also the CEO of Broadside Capital, an investment banking, advisory and private equity firm with a focus on the entertainment and media industries. Broadside's corporate portfolio investments include the web portal Showbizdata.com, film and television asset manager Clandestine Service and the web-hosting and domain registration service StressFree Hosting.

Prior to starting Fierce Entertainment in 2001, Christopher worked for investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin in Los Angeles in their entertainment group where his clients included DreamWorks, Pacific Data Images, Sundance Productions, Constantin Film AG, VCL Film + Medien AG, Castle Music and Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment. In 1999, he was one of the principal members of the team advising The Walt Disney Company in valuation matters pertaining to an arbitration with Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Before to moving to Los Angeles, Christopher worked for the media finance department of Berliner Bank AG in London where he was involved in the financing of "End of Days" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roman Polanski's "The Ninth Gate", Ken Loach's "My Name is Joe," and "Waking Ned Devine."  He also spent time at Goldcrest Films International where he served as a sales executive and executive assistant to the CEO.

Christopher has lectured extensively on film production and financing at several institutions, including the American Film Institute, University of Southern California, the University of Berlin, the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, the University of North London, and the Swiss Forum of Communications Law.

Christopher studied business administration at the Universities of Barcelona (Spain) and Fribourg (Switzerland), where he graduated summa cum laude, ranking number one in a class of over 400. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.