marblemedia focuses on growth strategy with appointment of Donna Luke as Senior Vice President, Business Operations
[Los Angeles, London and Toronto] November 10, 2021 - marblemedia is pleased to announce the promotion of Donna Luke to the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Business Operations. Additionally, marblemedia has hired Stefanie Haist as Head of Production Unscripted, and expanded the responsibilities of Diane Rankin, Senior Vice President, Rights and Executive Producer, all toward fuelling the company’s ability to scale its business globally. Over the past 3 years marblemedia has seen its highest production volume in its 20-year history and these appointments are critical to supporting the company's continued growth.
In Luke’s new role as Senior Vice President, Business Operations, she will lead the strategic and business planning of the company by shaping and organizing production activity. Her focus will be to scale the company as marblemedia grows, ensuring a robust corporate governance structure. The role oversees Business Affairs, HR, IT, Operations, Production and Post Production. Since starting with the company in 2018, Luke has overseen the company’s growing pipeline of 119 hours of primetime content.
“Premium shows require premium talent, and there is no better person to help us scale our business than Donna Luke”, said Matt Hornburg, co-CEO marblemedia. “As a company we’re always evolving and continue to work on what’s next for entertainment, this new role and additional executive appointments solidifies our growth strategy in the global market”.
“marblemedia are proving themselves to be a force to be reckoned with and I have been fortunate to participate in their success. I am extremely excited to take on this role and for the next steps in preparing marble as we become a future ready company”, said Donna Luke, Senior Vice President Business Operations marblemedia.
marblemedia has been expanding its unscripted slate over recent years and hired Stefanie Haist as Head of Unscripted Production to take over managing productions day to day responsibilities. Stefanie joins marblemedia after serving as Supervising Producer at THA, she has worked on a variety of series including; Undercover Boss Canada (W Network) and Hip-Hop Evolution (Netflix).
marblemedia has also expanded Diane Rankin’s (Senior Vice President, Rights / Executive Producer) role to include commercial development strategy across marblemedia originals, shaping projects for international financing through pre-sales and co-productions and establishing a strong formats distribution business around the world.
Diane joined the company in 2015, growing the distribution catalogue at rights arm Distribution360, to close to 2000 hours of content. Her exec producer credits include marble’s recent series Overlord & The Underwoods and the upcoming Best in Miniature.
Over the past twenty years, under Hornburg and Bishop’s leadership marblemedia has developed into a leading independent producer in Canada, through strong relationships and the ability to continually pivot and expand its slate by working with great partners, broadcasters and talent; including most recently major partnerships with Netflix on Blown Away, Restaurants on the Edge, two original formats with CBC, Race Against the Tide and Best in Miniature, and the hilarious family comedy Overlord and the Underwoods. With a lens on original storytelling and innovation, marblemedia continues to rise to new heights and is currently in production on another new unscripted series for a US streamer, to be announced in the new year.
About marblemedia
A global award-winning media company, marblemedia is anchored in original storytelling, innovation, and content that celebrates unique characters and perspectives through an inspiring lens. In addition to their critically acclaimed competition series and renowned award-winning family content, the leading production company is forging their way into the scripted television space by expanding their repertoire of scripted series with a number of new acquisitions.
Founded in 2001 by co-CEOs Mark Bishop and Matt Hornburg with a vision of creativity, partnership and innovation, the company has offices in Toronto, London and L.A., with a 50-acre production facility located 90 minutes north of Toronto. Learn more at marblemedia.com
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