Format rights protection agency FRAPA has appointed Adam Steinman, Pascal Dalton and Maria Chiara Duranti to its advisory board, as Jan Salling and Mike Beale step down.
Salling, who is head of BBC Studios Nordics, formats and production, has been co-chair of FRAPA for 10 years, while Beale, MD of ITV Studios, creative network, has sat on FRAPA’s management board for five years.
The pair have been named Lifetime FRAPA Ambassadors in recognition of their service to both the organisation and the global formats industry. Salling’s co-chair, The Gurin Company’s president and CEO Phil Gurin, will now serve as the association’s sole chairman.
Of the three new execs joining the board, LA-based Steinman is exec VP of formats and acquisitions at Canada’s Blink49, before which he was a senior formats exec at Warner Bros International Television Production for 12 years. With over two decades of experience in the industry, he previously had a multi-year deal with Walt Disney Television and has a string of format credits including Impractical Jokers, The Bachelor franchise, Who Do You Think You Are?, Cash Cab and Little Big Shots.
UK-based Dalton, meanwhile, has worked for companies including Endemol Shine and, most recently, ITV Studios, where he was head of brand partnerships for north EMEA, formats licensing and sales. His credits there include Love Island, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!, The Chase and Come Dine with Me.
Late last year, Dalton launched consultancy and distribution business Shimmer Media, and recently became chief business development officer on a fractional basis for gaming specialist Inviox Studios. https://www.c21media.net/news/former-itvs-exec-pascal-dalton-takes-up-part-time-role-at-games-developer-inviox-studios/
Finally, Italy-based Duranti is founder and chief editor of press and media agency Formatbiz, which she launched in 2009. Before that, she spent 15 years at Mediaset Italy and also previously worked at Telecinco Spain and Bloomberg Television as an anchor, writer and producer.
Duranti’s expertise spans strategic planning, media research, international relationship management, marketing, business development and event planning.
Gurin said: “As we enter our 25th year, FRAPA is working hard to stay relevant and reinvent itself for the future. Central to this ambition is to assemble a multinational, multi-hyphenate board capable of guiding both FRAPA and the formats community it serves through a media market battling fragmentation, economic instability and the existential threat of AI.
“Adam, Pascal and Maria bring enormous skill, insight and global expertise to our mission to serve as the conscience of the format community. And, as part of our ongoing commitment to offer tangible value to our membership, we will also be announcing a raft of new initiatives and services in the coming months.”
