From time to time Rights Stuff draws upon and/or works together with other experienced local and international teams and resources (such as USA-based content strategy consultants, programming buyers, media lawyers, technology experts, M&A media teams, research groups, sports and related channel carriage specialists, and finance experts, etc.), as needed on a per-project basis:
Gordon Synn
- American born media/entertainment and business affairs consultant, now based in London. With over 14 years of international entertainment, media and digital content and distribution experience, 12 years in-house (plus a prior 6 years in corporate transactional work). In-house roles included 9 years at 20th Century Fox in LA, ie as VP Business Affairs/General Counsel (Fox International Channels) and as VP Legal Affairs (Worldwide Television Distribution) at 20th Century Fox.
- Expertise covers many entertainment and media platforms and rights, such as EST/DTO, VOD, Pay TV, SVOD, PPV, cable and DTH channel services, Internet distribution, IPTV and others.
- Projects have included feature film production and distribution, business and legal affairs for major output licensing deals, pay television studio partnerships, business development, equity transactions, original digital content production, channel carriage deals, rights acquisitions, M&A, joint ventures and international antitrust investigations.
Lisa Roiter: Licensing/Media Research
- USA-born, now residing in the Netherlands since 2007 and freelancing at Rights Stuff since 2009
- Support research for in-house and external seminars, including re: programming, new media trends, and/or emerging digital platforms/technologies.
- Research filtering (industry trade magazines, conferences, new media trend summaries, etc)
- Support to Content Licensing team, including related programming and contract administration
- Conferences, markets, festivals, and trade shows
- Previous experience has included:
- Head of production/Line producer at IKA Collective, a NYC film production company
- 8 years as a TV commercial and Music Video Production Manager and Producer working freelance for A-list production companies in NY
- Staff coordinator and bidder at the Artists Company
- Has extensive experience in building digital entertainment businesses and is currently providing interim CEO assistance and advisory services to VC and private equity-backed emerging digital distribution companies
- Significant expertise in digital supply chain transformation for entertainment content. Technical advisor to Singapore Infocomm Development Authority for the development of a Digital Marketplace program in Singapore to service the distribution of file-based entertainment content distribution throughout Asia-Pacific.
- Member of Enterprise Ireland's Telecom, Internet, Media & Entertainment advisory board.
- Spent over eight years with Sony Pictures, where he worked on business development and business launches for digital satellite television channels, mobile entertainment services, and internet content streaming and download businesses. As Executive Vice President of Sony Picture Digital, he led the development, launch and ongoing operation of multiple digital media efforts within Sony, including satellite television channels in Japan, Sony Pictures online marketing efforts, interactive TV services in the US and UK, mobile development and publishing, and online content distribution efforts
- Cole Media, based in LA, helps companies launch and evaluate media-related businesses
- Provides a range of business strategy, operational, and planning assistance to companies in cable television, broadband, mobile, video-on-demand, and other media
- Clients include TV Guide, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Network Live (AOL/XM/AEG), National Lampoon, Technicolor, and Verizon
- Top provider of content strategy and management services involving digital entertainment
- Specializes in helping clients to develop, evaluate and implement their content strategy across multiple distribution platforms, including cable, DSL, IPTV, mobile, etc.
