Alyssa Zárate is a Creative Operations and Strategy leader with over 20 years of experience across film, animation, and visual effects.
Her work sits behind some of the industry’s most ambitious productions — including Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Last of Us, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, and The Mitchells vs. The Machines.
Having worked with studios such as Sony Pictures Imageworks, WetaFX, and Rising Sun Pictures, Alyssa focuses on building the systems, workflows, and teams that help large-scale creative projects come to life.
She is also the Co-Founder of The VFX Mentor and an Executive MBA candidate at MIT, exploring the future of creative production, technology, and leadership in entertainment.