Kate was appointed CEO of Beyond Rights in July 2020. She started her career in distribution at Capricorn Programmes before joining Cineflix Rights as sales manager in 2003. Here, over a 12-year period, she rose through the ranks, undertaking the head of sales role, before being promoted to SVP of sales and acquisitions management, responsible for all sales and acquisitions strategy across the growing business. From 2015-18 she was managing director of TCB Media Rights, leading all aspects of the day-to-day business activity and helping to double the size of team over an 18-month period. She then spent 18 months as commercial consultant, working closely with a number of businesses in the television industry, before a call from Mikael Borglund, Beyond International’s CEO and MD, brought her back into distribution with the newly created position at Beyond Rights. Favourite TV show: Million Dollar Listing The TV show I wish I had created: The Repair Shop

Connie joined the newly merged Beyond Rights in October 2020. She was previously VP of global content for Fox Networks Group Content Distribution (FNGCD), managing incoming scripted and unscripted content from global commissioning teams and producers within the National Geographic and Fox channels’ international networks, ahead of devising and implementing programme strategies to maximise revenues for FNGCD. Prior to her five years with Fox, she was commercial director at Sky Vision and, before that, she spent ten years as chief commercial officer at Parthenon, growing the company’s library, managing department heads and developing commercial opportunities. Connie started her international TV career at HIT Entertainment, where she rose to become head of legal and business affairs of HIT Wildlife. Favourite TV show: The Queen’s Gambit The TV show I wish I had created: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

After a spell in publishing in her native Italy, Simona moved to London in 2011 and joined the global operations team at Dorling Kindersley (now DK, Penguin Random House). Here she worked across the main book fairs on the launches of major international franchises such as Star Wars and Lego Illustrated books. In 2013 she moved into television sales, joining the Italy and Iberia team at BBC Worldwide (now BBC Studios), focusing on scripted, children’s and digital sales. While there, she was responsible for the first BBC cinema release in the Italian market, Sherlock: The Abominable Bride. In 2017, Simona moved to TCB Rights as sales manager, with responsibility for North America, Latin America, France and Iberia. With an excellent track record in securing high-profile international pre-sales, such as Shipwreck Secrets and Extreme Ice Machines, Simona was appointed head of sales in 2019 and retains that position in the newly merged Beyond Rights. Today, as well as heading up the sales team, she is responsible for all commercial activities in the UK & Italy. Favourite TV show: The Last Dance The TV show I wish I had created: Three Identical Strangers

Sean has more than 20 years’ experience in the TV distribution industry, working both in agency and in-house across various marketing and PR disciplines. He started his career at London PR agency Paragon Communications, then moved to Jackie Cooper PR before working at specialist TV consultancy Franklin Rae. He then moved in-house and joined Parthenon Entertainment as director of PR and marketing, before leading the marketing and PR efforts at Sky Vision - then the distribution arm of the UK broadcaster, now merged into NBC Universal. Sean has worked on a wide range of major programme launches at international trade markets, including Sky drama series The Last Panthers and documentary series Escobar Exposed, distributed by Beyond Rights. Favourite TV show: The Prisoner The TV show I wish I had created: X Factor

Claire started her career in TV by acquiring children’s content for TCC. In 1997 she moved to Discovery, joining the acquisitions and business affairs team to work on the launch of Animal Planet. Here she was responsible for sourcing content and negotiating deals for completed programmes and local commissions. In 2007 she made the jump to distribution, heading up business affairs at National Geographic Television International, and from there moved to the business affairs team at Cineflix Rights. In 2013 she joined the fledgling TCB Media Rights to set up the business affairs team and remained until the merger with Beyond. Favourite TV show: The Queen’s Gambit The TV show I wish I had created: Absolutely Fabulous

James is a multi-jurisdictional lawyer with extensive and broad commercial contracting experience. He started his career in one of Ireland’s leading commercial law firms, Arthur Cox, where he advised clients across various industries including media, technology, infrastructure, energy and corporate structuring. During his time here, James was seconded to Screen Ireland and got a taste for film and documentary financing and production. He subsequently moved to Australia, where he worked at one of the country’s leading law firms, Minter Ellison. Upon returning to Dublin in 2016, he joined Maples and Calder, with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and advising technology companies, but he left the world of law firms in 2018 to join Beyond’s legal and business affairs team. Favourite TV show: The Wire The TV show I wish I had created: The Simpsons

Sherry started her career at CBC International sales in London and subsequently held positions at Alliance Atlantis, Gullane, and Cinar. In 2003 she was hired at Beyond’s New York office, spearheading the company’s US operations. This role has since been relocated to Australia and now, from her Sydney base, Sherry is responsible for financing, pre-sales and placing Beyond’s shows on streamers and networks across North America. She is a big fan of true crime and in 2020, executive produced Drug Lords: The Next Generation which aired on National Geographic US. The exposé in episode six, ‘Hunting the Ghost”, won the best investigative journalism award in Colombia for 2020. Favourite TV Show: Don’t Fu&% with Cats The TV show I wish I had created: Dirty Money - and anything from Alex Gibney

Jo began her career at Southern Star in the features’ division, launching Australian independent films such as The Well and Head On to the international market and supporting them in competition at leading festivals. She then moved over to Southern Star’s TV division, where she sold iconic Australian series such as Home & Away, The Secret Life of Us, Packed to Rafters and The Block to broadcasters around the globe. Jo loves the energy of working in independent distribution and has been with Beyond since 2009, representing such high profile shows such as Love It or List It, MythBusters, Deadly Women and Backyard Science to the entire Asia Pacific region. Favourite TV Show: Bridgerton The TV show I wish I had created: Game of Thrones

Holly started her TV sales career at Lionsgate, looking after film and TV content in the EMEA region. She then moved to NBC Universal International Television Distribution, working with broadcasters and SVOD platforms in Poland, Turkey and Israel. After a spell at eOne licensing film for the UK, she joined TCB Media Rights in 2017 and was quickly promoted to sales manager, covering Germany, CEEMEA, the Nordics and Asia. As VP at Beyond Rights, she retains the same territories but has swapped Germany for France. Favourite TV Show – The Wire for drama, Catastrophe for comedy and RuPaul’s Drag Race for Entertainment! The TV show I wish I had created – Masterchef

Lenneke has experience across TV production and distribution, having started her TV career as a runner on the production of “Factor X” in Spain. Within distribution, she has worked at Endemol Worldwide Distribution, DCD Rights and TCB Media Rights, looking after a vast range of genres - from music to factual entertainment - and territories spanning from Australia & New Zealand to Eastern Europe. Currently for Beyond Rights, she is VP of Sales for Germany, Benelux, Latin America & Iberia. Favourite TV show: Succession The TV show I wish I had created: Married at First Sight

Sarah’s first brush with TV came when she was living and working in Japan and was attacked by a woman dressed as a giant Christmas tree on a Japanese game show… and she never looked back. After working with Toyota, she returned to the UK and began her TV sales career, selling BBC blue-chip natural history shows and other specialist factual titles such as Coast and James May’s 20th Century for a BBC/Open University partnership. Rising to become head of digital media, Sarah was responsible for the commercial media division. In 2013 she joined Flame Distribution as SVP sales and acquisitions for North America, working with smaller production companies that required creative financing. Sarah joined Beyond in 2017 and, as well as continuing to acquire and co-produce factual content, she’s developed extensive expertise in the children’s television industry. Favourite TV show: First Dates The TV show I wish I had created: The Nazis: A Warning from History.

Nicola is responsible for identifying and securing great content for Beyond to distribute internationally. As such, she works closely with producers at every stage of the development process. She works across all of Beyond’s acquisition and pre-sale projects and strategies and is also charged with building the company’s network of independent production partners and its broadcast relationships. Before working at Beyond, Nicola was acquisitions and co-productions executive at TCB Media Rights and, prior to that, she worked at UK indie Zig Zag Productions. Initially working across the company’s diverse production slate, she soon stepped up to manage Zig Zag’s IP on a global scale, taking responsibility for all activity surrounding international opportunities and co-production relationships. Favourite TV Show: Schitt’s Creek The TV show I wish I had created: Married at First Sight

Shaun returned to Beyond Rights in the spring of 2021. This is his third period working within the acquisitions team, where his role is focused on building new relationships with UK-based producers and maintaining the current content pipeline. Shaun has lots of great experience to bring to the business, having worked in acquisitions at Sky, acquiring content for its entertainment channels and at Extreme, the international extreme sports content business. And, as he has also got production experience, he’s well placed to help Beyond’s producer partners. Favourite TV show: Vikings The TV show I wish I had created: The Expanse

Jane is a seasoned EA and joined Beyond at the end of 2009. Today she provides support to the sales team. She began her career as a PA at Bing Technology, where she oversaw all the administrative functions in the office and provided sales support to the business development team and national sales manager. Jane has completed a bachelor’s degree in commerce and is fluent in Cantonese with a good understanding of Mandarin Chinese. Favourite TV show: Mindhunter The TV show I wish I had created: Breaking Bad

Hannah graduated Bournemouth University in 2017 with a first class degree in scriptwriting for film & TV. Prior to joining Beyond in 2019, she worked as receptionist and office runner at talent management and television production company Avalon. Favourite TV show: The Office US (controversial, I know) The TV show I wish I had created: Friends

Izzy graduated from the University of Westminster with a commercial music degree in 2017 and went on to do an internship at Jazz FM in the spring of 2018, including working at the Love Supreme Jazz Festival that summer. She joined Beyond in mid-2018 and now co-manages digital sales while also having responsibility for the company’s Inflight sales business. Favourite TV Show: This is Us The TV Show I wish I had created: Love Island