EXCLUSIVE: Lengthy-serving BBC Studios codecs exec Andre Renaud is leaping over to Warner Bros Worldwide Tv Manufacturing (WBITVP).
We will reveal the trade veteran is becoming a member of Warner Bros Discovery’s London-based worldwide crew in November as International VP of Completed and Format Gross sales and Income Era.
Primarily based within the UK, he’ll report back to Andrew Zein, WBITVP’s Government VP, Artistic, Format Improvement and Gross sales. Duties will embrace overseeing the groups that promote codecs and unscripted completed tape applications reminiscent of The Bachelor, First Dates, The Restore Store and Glow Up, together with doc collection D Day: The Unheard Tapes, Paris Hilton actuality present Paris in Love and Nadita Hussain cooking reveals together with Nadiya’s Easy Spices.
His rent brings to an finish a seven-year run on the BBC’s business division, the place he was most lately SVP, International Format Gross sales and in addition held roles reminiscent of VP, Content material Gross sales for Italy and Iberia. Notable offers have included licensing Dancing with the Stars into its sixtieth territory, Mongolia; The Nice Bake Off into its fortieth, Algeria; Physician Foster as a scripted format within the Philippines, Slovakia and Japan; and The 1% Membership into twelve nations, together with Mexico, Greece and Ukraine.
He additionally spent two years on BBC Studios’ Range & Inclusion Council and is Chair of the Board of Trustees on the Boundless Theatre within the UK. Previous to the BBC, Renaud spent 13 years at ITV Studios overseeing content material and codecs gross sales in varied elements of EMEA and format manufacturing partnerships.
BBC Studios is already searching for his alternative, who will function throughout the International Leisure division’s groups within the UK, U.S., Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Nordics, South Africa and India, and with its codecs licensing crew.
“André is without doubt one of the most high-profile and well-respected senior executives within the trade, so we’re actually trying ahead to having him be a part of our crew,” stated Zein. “He has a terrific monitor file, has labored with a few of the greatest programme manufacturers within the enterprise and balances the business facets of a senior gross sales function with the creativity required to actually make codecs fly.
“As well as, his ardour for growing folks will show an actual asset as he works alongside me to guide and evolve our wider crew and guarantee it continues to adapt to challenges and thrive in our quickly altering world.”
“It’s a privilege to be becoming a member of WBITVP to assist carry its world-class catalogue of scripted and unscripted codecs to audiences all over the world, added Renaud. “The chance to collaborate with its manufacturing groups, in addition to third-party producers and broadcasters, is actually thrilling, and I’m desperate to not solely preserve the enchantment of iconic manufacturers like The Bachelor but additionally to increase their attain to attach with new world followers and audiences. I sit up for working with the gross sales and manufacturing groups to ship distinctive outcomes for our companions and prospects, persevering with to showcase the nice content material for which WBITVP is thought.”
Renaud’s transfer is the newest senior exec change within the worldwide gross sales biz as we zoom in direction of Mipcom Cannes in October. Deadline has in current weeks revealed the departures of Angela Neillis and Max Bolenius from Fremantle, whereas former Keshet Worldwide exec Limor Gott-Rogen joined 5XMedia in a producer/accomplice publish.
