Rose d’Or International Advisory Board

John is President of the Rose d’Or Advisory Board and was Director of PR, Business and Creative Development for Distraction Formats until 2009. He has been involved in the international juries of such major television awards as the International Emmy Awards, the Rose d’Or and the Golden Nymph Awards. It was the devising of the hit game show In The Dark that originally propelled John into entertainment television and the formats business when it launched in 1996 on ITV. John speaks at conferences and seminars around the world and has worked closely with FRAPA (the Format Recognition and Protection Association) and during 2005 he was instrumental in moving the Format Awards to the Golden Rose Festival in Switzerland. John is Head of Programmes at the Entertainment Master Class.

David is a former Director of Programming at ITV (1997–2002), and his extensive broadcasting career has included a number of roles ranging from Executive Producer of Coronation Street, to Director of Programming at Granada TV in 1992, when he
commissioned top ITV dramas Cracker and Band of Gold. David was also previously Head of Entertainment Group for BBC Television, and Deputy Managing Director and Director of Programming at LWT. David is currently the Creative Director of independent television production company, All3 Media. In January 2007 he was appointed to the new BBC Board of Trustees.

In 1999 Larry established ShinAwiL Productions Ltd with director Simon Gibney,
where he acted as Managing Director for 3 years, before merging with Screentime Australia in 2003, and forming Screentime ShinAwiL, now one of the largest independent production companies in Ireland. Most recently he has executive produced 5 series of the top rated music talent search show You’re A Star for RTE ONE. Previous credits include Charity You’re A Star, Popstars and The Irish Film & Television Awards. Larry was the Irish member of CEPI from 2003 to 2006, and is currently a member of the Broadcasting Sub-committee of SPI. He is also a jury member of the Rose d’Or Festival. Larry Bass is an Advisory Board Member of the Entertainment Master Class.

Alan has recently created Alan Boyd Productions as a company to independently advise producers and broadcasters on entertainment production.  He was formally President of Worldwide Entertainment at FremantleMedia.  Previously, he was CEO of Thames TV where he played an integral role in the initial development of Pop Idol and oversaw its first production in the UK, and later supervised its international role out.  As Controller of Entertainment at LWT, he devised and or produced over 15 different formats that became some of Britain’s best known entertainment shows, including Game for a Laugh, Surprise Surprise and Blind Date.  During his extensive career, as Director of Programmes, he headed up a major ITV channel, TVS Television.  He began his television career at the BBC in 1962.

Julie is the Executive Director of Factual Entertainment for CBC Television, a brand new division that she launched in May 2006. She created and designed the division with a mandate to grow CBC audiences, generate revenue and acquire and create successful international formats. Immediately prior to this new role, Julie was Director of Current Affairs and Weekly Programming at CBC TV and CBC Newsworld, Canada’s 24/7 news network. Julie is a frequent speaker and consultant to international broadcast conferences and an Advisory Board Member of the Entertainment Master Class.

After working as a creative executive in the advertising and gaming industries, Dick partnered in 1999 with Joop van den Ende, creating some instant TV-successes in Holland. A year later he formed a creative team with John de Mol specializing in “global TV-formats”. In 2004, de Rijk signed - as a one man format factory - an exclusive partnership with Endemol International which resulted in numerous worldwide format successes. In 2007, three of Endemol’s top-5 format properties were created by de Rijk, including their number one blockbuster Deal or no Deal - on air in some 150 countries. Under his new alliance with ProSiebenSat.1, Dick will be based out his offices in Hilversum and focus again on strategic formats.

Christoph is an attorney with the media law firm UNVERZAGT - VON HAVE in Berlin, advising in the fields of intellectual property and entertainment law. Christoph represents a number of film and television writers, directors, producers, broadcasters and distributors. From 2002 to 2005 Christoph acted as Managing Director of FRAPA- the Format Recognition and Protection Association. He has been invited to sit on juries at the Golden Nymph Awards, the Rose d’Or Awards and the International Emmy Awards. He is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Head of Studies at the Media Plus Programme Essential Legal Framework and Director of Studies at the Entertainment Master Class.

Lutz is a German media historian, award-winning filmmaker and communication scientist. After his Ph.D.-graduation from the University of Münster, he  worked as a journalist for several leading German newspapers. He was elected Director of the prestigious Grimme-Institute in 1989. In 1991, he founded the Cologne Conference, a “media Bauhaus” and festival for aesthetic and strategic trends in the audiovisual industry. At the same time, he has been a partner at the media consulting group HMR International which he is now heading and has taught as an associate professor for journalism at the University of Dortmund since 1999. In 2006, he established the Institute for Media and Communications Policy (IfM) in Berlin and Cologne, which conducts research on German and European media policy. Moreover, Lutz has worked as the executive director of his own production company HMR Produktion GmbH since 2001 and has thus realized several documentaries. He gained particular international attention for directing the 2005 BBC and ZDF coproduction “The Goebbels Experiment”.

Jacob has brought home several attractive foreign TV formats to Nordic TV viewers via companies behind “Sixth Sense”, “Friends Forever” and “Paradise Hotel”. Jacob became Managing Director of Zodiak Television World in 2003, and was appointed as General Manager, Nordic Region at Nordisk Film in late 2005. He is a member of the board of Danish Television International, where several production companies together with DR and TV 2 co-operate on exporting TV ideas. In addition, Jacob is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in New York and sits in the International Steering Committee of NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives).

Colman began his TV career in 1978 with the Irish national broadcaster RTE. In 1998 he arrived as Head of Entertainment at Celador Productions, producing five series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, and one series of Winning Lines. As well as executive producing future series of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Winning Lines, Colman continued to work on developing a range of entertainment shows for Celador Productions. From 2007 on, he has been Executive Producer at 2waytraffic international. Colman Hutchinson is an Advisory Board Member of the Entertainment Master Class.

Daniela is very experienced as an executive in many areas of the media industry including advertising, television production and broadcast. She started in 1992 at the advertising agency Graffiti/BBDO until 1996 when she became VP for operations and development at the media services agency Creative Media. Between 2000 and 2001, she served as the President and CEO of Creative Vision International (CVI), where she also collaborated with SBS Broadcasting as a TV consultant. From 2001 to 2007, Daniela served as Vice President in production at SBS. After ProSiebenSat.1 took over SBS in 2007, she became its Vice President, Group Production and Development at the network’s headquarters in Munich until 2009. During her tenure at ProSiebenSat1 she supervised new programmes for the network and shared responsibility for international productions.

In 1997 Michel founded Distraction Formats, the first independent company to specialise in format distribution, where he remained President and CEO until 2009. Widely viewed as the driving force behind the establishment of the recognised format industry, he continues to play a key role in its development. Thanks to his in-depth knowledge of the format business, he is considered as “The Father of Formats”. Michel is a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is a regular attendee at the major international television markets, as well as being a regular conference speaker and founder member of FRAPA. Michel is an Advisory Board Member of the Entertainment Master Class.

Stefano began his career as a freelance producer and director for various television programmes. In 1991 he went on to found Ette Produzione, a company specialising in external consulting and the creation and adaptation of TV formats, and produced over 1000 programmes from 1993 to ’97. In 1998 Stefano was appointed Programmes and International Area Director at Europroducciones TV. During his time at Europroducciones TV Stefano has supervised the start up and expansion of three affiliates in Poland, Italy and Portugal, created several new formats in the Spanish TV Markets and contributed significantly to the development of the company’s programmes field. Stefano became Senior General Manager in 2007.