Paul Marchegiani is a leading performance skills coach and Founder/CEO of Vox Vera, LLC, a consulting firm that helps brilliant leaders, advocates, and artists connect with others and speak with presence. Prior to launching Vox Vera, Paul worked for over 15 years in Hollywood as a studio dealmaker at Warner Bros., NBCUniversal, Miramax, and Amazon Studios, leading business & legal affairs teams, advising top producers, showrunners, and studio heads, and negotiating rights and talent deals for film and television stars, writers, directors, and producers. Paul began his career as a litigator at Orrick and Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco after receiving his JD from UC Berkeley and a BA (History) and BMus (Voice & Opera) from Northwestern University.

Paul is also an experienced stage performer with credits ranging from classical (LA Opera, SF Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Chorus), to jazz, theatre, and improvisation (15+ years of combined study with Groundlings, UCB, Impro Theatre, and Studio ACT). Paul has studied acting at Northwestern, Juilliard’s Summer Drama Intensive, and Studio ACT, and is the only U.S. lawyer and senior business executive to hold a teaching certification from world-renowned voice, presence, and Shakespeare coach Patsy Rodenburg.

In addition to his coaching business at Vox Vera and work at Stanford Law School, Paul develops and frequently teaches classes at Berkeley and U. Chicago on communication skills, presence, and public speaking for lawyers.