Peter Emerson, President – Entertainment One Television International

A long-term veteran of the TV industry, Peter founded Oasis International in 1991. While building Oasis into a highly profitable, highly recognizable name in international distribution, Peter executive produced and deficit financed an impressive array of projects including many TV movies and long-running series. In 2008, Emerson sold Oasis to Entertainment One to become the international sales and distribution arm of one of the world’s largest entertainment and distribution companies. Oasis is now known as Entertainment One Television International and, with the backing of its parent company, has the significant capital resources to grow and strengthen its library of over 3000 hours of content. Most recently, Entertainment One Television International realized record sales with the launch of THE WALKING DEAD at MIPCOM 2010 and the second seasons of ROOKIE BLUE, CALL ME FITZ and HAVEN at MIPTV 2011.

Prentiss Fraser, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Acquisitions – Entertainment One Television International

Prentiss Fraser joined Entertainment One Television International in 2000 and has since risen to the position of Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Acquisitions. She runs the international TV sales and acquisitions division, overseeing exploitation of the Television International catalogue from 5 offices worldwide. In addition, Fraser oversees new content to the group including all third party acquisitions. Prentiss regularly works with the legal, finance, and operations departments to implement corporate goals and objectives for the division.

Prentiss is currently serving as Chair of WIFT-T (Women In Film and Television – Toronto), and has served on the Board of Directors since 2009.

Valerie Cabrera, Executive Vice President – Entertainment One Television International

Valerie Cabrera is a business and management executive with 17 years in the television and distribution industry, and an extensive background in international programme sales, acquisitions, production financing, creative development and marketing. She presently handles sales to France, Benelux, Latin America and Hispanic US.

Jon Ferro, SVP Program Sales – Entertainment One Television International

Jon Ferro manages eOne’s strategic partnerships and relationships with TV, digital and on-demand services in the U.S. He is further tasked with monitoring evolving patterns within digital platforms in search of new revenue opportunities based on developing trends. Previously, Ferro was EVP Digital and On-Demand at Lionsgate where he was responsible for the company's tremendous revenue growth throughout both platforms. Ferro has extensive experience licensing and marketing film and TV series and has negotiated rights deals with Apple iTunes, Microsoft Zune, Sony, Amazon, Hulu, Google/YouTube, Comcast and Time Warner. In addition, Ferro was instrumental in the creation of TV/Digital Networks EPIX, the first new Pay TV service in the past decade and FEARNet, the Horror JV service with Sony and Comcast.

Ben Bishop, Director of Sales (AustralAsia & Canada), Acquisitions Manager – Entertainment One Television International

Ben Bishop is responsible for all sales within Canada as well as Asia.  Ben also plays a key role in program acquisition by developing and maintaining strategic partnerships with third party producers as we expand our growing catalogue of programming. He joined Entertainment One Television International in 2005 with a four year background in television distribution with Alliance Atlantis.

Helen Curtis, Head of Sales, Scandinavia, UK, Central Eastern Europe and In-flight - Entertainment One Television International

Helen Curtis is based out of eOne's London UK office and manages sales to Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, in-flight entertainment, and assists Prentiss Fraser with the UK.  Prior to eOne, Helen was employed as Sales Director for MTV Networks International as well as Sales Executive for Buena Vista International TV. 

Cristina Sala, Sales Manager, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal - Entertainment One Television International

Fluent in Italian, German, Spanish and English, Cristina Sala is based out of eOne's London UK office and is responsible for program sales in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Germany. Before joining eOne, she worked at Endemol Worldwide Distribution as Sales Director for Latin America and as Sales Director for Africa, Middle East and Israel. Previously, she was Sales Executive at Endemol Worldwide Distribution for Italy, Spain, Portugal, Benelux, Germany, Finland, Iceland and India. She also worked for Mentorn International, Zeal Entertainment (now part of DRG Digital Rights Group) and Mondo TV as a Sales Executive.

Tess Charman, Sales Director, Central Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa - Entertainment One Television International

Tess Charman is based out of eOne's London UK office and is responsible for sales in Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa. Charman comes to eOne with a broad background in international television and format sales having worked at Warner Bros International Production, Outright Distribution, Wall to Wall, Warner Bros International Distribution and Fremantle Media during her career to date.

Lisa Wookey, Vice President, Marketing & Communications – Entertainment One Television 

Lisa Wookey oversees Marketing and Publicity for both the TV Sales and TV Production teams. Over the course of her career Lisa has held senior marketing positions at some of Canada’s premier media companies, and has been involved in all aspects of the television marketing experience including public relations/publicity, advertising, client servicing, sales, new media and events/sponsorship.