Two EPs and Their Ride or Die Relationship
This article originally appeared in LBB, May 27, 2025.
Preymaker founders and executive producers, Melanie Wickham and Verity Grantham, discuss deconstructing hierarchies and putting “creativity, people and technology” first at the creative technology company, writes LBB’s Abi Lightfoot
“We are each other’s ride or die.”
There’s not much more that you could ask for when discussing your closest work colleague and fellow co-founder. They’re the words of Preymaker’s executive producer, Melanie Wickham, as she reflects on her closer-than-close relationship with EP Verity Grantham.
The pair prefer to be recognised as executive producers as opposed to ‘co-founders’ at Preymaker, the creative technology company they founded alongside chief creative Angus Kneale in 2020. This aligns with the company’s wider belief in removing hierarchies and allowing staff at any level to get involved in all aspects of the work at hand.
This attitude comes from the pair’s time spent working together at The Mill in New York, where they found that, as they progressed through the company and took on more responsibilities, their time spent actually doing the work diminished.
“I think our success is due to the fact that we’re all 100% involved,” Melanie says.