Sidonie Dumas is the CEO of Gaumont which celebrated its 120th Anniversary in 2015. Gaumont, which owns one of the richest repertoire of film in Europe, has always had an important cultural heritage policy prompting the company to restore films from its catalogue, including masterpieces which have captivated millions of viewers all around the world. Since Sidonie Dumas entered the Cinema Business and was appointed CEO of Gaumont in 2010, she created a strategy of producing movies from all walks of life and developed Gaumont’s Television branch in the US in order to be more forward-looking. Thanks to this policy, Gaumont started producing international content like TV-shows such as Narcos, which was nominated BEST TELEVISION SERIES DRAMA and BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES, allowing the Company to gain international stature. As she pursues the eclectic artistic investment that shapes Gaumont’s notoriety, Sidonie Dumas has produced many films that have exceeded millions of views,  including The Intouchables, which alone attracted nearly 50 million viewers worldwide, becoming not only the biggest hit of Gaumont, but also the 2nd biggest French hit of all time.

Christophe Riandee is Vice Chief Executive Officer at Gaumont. He has positioned the company as a next-generation global content leader across the television landscape (drama, comedy, and animation alike), through its groundbreaking series such as the multiple award-winning Narcos (Netflix), Stillwater (Apple TV+), El Presidente (Amazon Prime Video), Barbarians (Netflix), and Lupin (Netflix).

Specializing in producing local stories with global appeal, Gaumont maintains strategic hubs in Los Angeles, London, Berlin/Köln, Rome, and Paris.  It’s through this global presence that Riandee fosters an environment where not only today’s top talent, but tomorrows hopefuls, both in front of and behind the camera, can exercise their creative muscle.  It’s this keen eye on the global audience and ever-changing landscape that continues to propel the Gaumont Television division forward.

Antonin Dubouis is the CFO of Finance and Operations at Gaumont. He joined Gaumont’s Finance Department in the Paris headquarters in 2014, where he worked on distribution of Feature Films and TV Series, prior to moving to the Los Angeles office in 2017. Before joining Gaumont, Antonin worked in the Finance Department of the Paris Ile-de-France Chamber of Commerce on analysis, valuation, and fiscal optimization regarding the group’s subsidiaries and real estate projects. Antonin began his career at Lazard Frères within the Mergers and Acquisitions department where he worked on the merger between Veolia and Transdev, on transactions for Groupe Casino, and on advice to fossil and green energy companies. Antonin holds a Masters Degree in Corporate Finance and Financial Engineering from Université Paris-Dauphine, France.

Tim Stephen joined the Gaumont team in October 2014 and became Head of Business Affairs in December of 2016 where he currently overseas the development and negotiations for all US Television, Features, Acquisitions and Merchandising. Prior to Gaumont, Tim helped build the multi-platform and production firm Generate from a startup to a nationally recognized digital and television studio responsible for more than 100 projects and served as the President of Adam Productions. In addition, he executive-produced the family-oriented television movies “Holy Joe” (CBS), starring John Ritter, and “‘Twas the Night” (Disney Channel), starring Bryan Cranston for G16 Productions. With more than 20 years of executive experience across a broad range of entertainment-industry disciplines, Tim found a deep, abiding interest in law after graduating from Loyola Marymount Law School. In his personal time, Tim is a first-degree black belt in aikido and enjoys golf, mountain climbing and fly fishing.

Terry Kalagian was promoted to EVP, Creative Content U.S. in July of 2020.

Terry is a multifaceted entertainment executive with almost twenty years experience across various disciplines of the entertainment industry including IP development strategy, creative and business development, content sourcing, acquisitions and co-productions. She has assisted both U.S. and international entertainment organizations drive new business and develop, acquire, and produce new properties for both children and family audiences. She is proud to have worked with such respected companies as Mattel, Marvel, Cartoon Network, Polygon Pictures, ADK (Asatsu-DK), Rainmaker Entertainment, and Blink Studios to name a few.

Jake Rose joined Gaumont in 2019 as Head of Production U.S.

Previous to being Executive Vice President of Production at Skydance Jake had 10 yrs at Sony overseeing a variety of TV pilots, movies and limited series. Working with HW’s top talent such as “The Company” – Ridley Scott, “The Wronged Man” – Gale Anne Hurd, “Georgia O’Keeffe” Directed by Bob Balaban, “A Raisin in the Sun” starring the Broadway cast and the award winning “Broken Trail” Directed by Walter Hill. A reboot of the feature Coma and a Steven King mini Bag of Bones starring Pierce Brosnan all went on to ratings success. The longest running series of TV Movies ever starring Tom Selleck playing the character of Jessie Stone is a consistent hit for CBS. The Client List yielded a successful series run on Lifetime and Hatfields and McCoys starring Kevin Costner & Bill Paxton was the top rated and awarded program in cable history. The reboot of Bonnie and Clyde Directed by Bruce Beresford was a certified hit and won Emmy gold. Pre Sony in 20 years of producing features and TV, Jake was consistently successful in ensuring his pictures got made on time and under budget leading a successful run. This knowledge of physical production married with the creative needs of each film is what landed him the production job at Sony. Jake produced films in all budget ranges such as “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls,” and “Street Fighter” as well as lower budget indies such as “Election,” “Steal This Movie”​ and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s early feature, “Orgazmo,” Event Television like the Joyce Carol Oates novel “Blonde,” “Superfire” and the CBS biopic on Lucille Ball lead Jake into long form. Jake was an executive at Disney and CBC a motion-picture finance company overseeing a 300mm slate ensuring banks and investors received a proper return and budget protection. As Disney studios post production services head he had oversight of all VFX on Warren Beatty’s “Dick Tracy.” VP of Operations, Sound Fx Inc & VP Sales, Operations and Marketing Glen Glenn Sound were early posts.

Kimberly Dennison was promoted to SVP Creative Executive, Animation and Family in July of 2020.

Kimberly joined the Gaumont team in April 2018 as VP, Creative Development, Animation & Family working on series and movie projects for a range of audiences. Prior to joining Gaumont, Kimberly served as Director, Development for Walt Disney TV Animation where she developed both original and Disney-branded properties. Over the course of her career, Kimberly has served as a network executive, and has developed, produced and voice directed a wide range of animated projects for studios and networks including Walt Disney, the Hub Network and Rainmaker Entertainment. She has been fortunate to work with content featuring beloved characters and brands such as Transformers, Littlest Pet Shop, Big Hero 6 and Strawberry Shortcake.

Christian Gabela currently serves as SVP, Creative Executive at Gaumont where he spearheads the sourcing of international partnerships and original IP, as well as the development and production of current projects produced abroad, which includes “El Presidente” for Amazon Prime.  

Prior to joining Gaumont, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Story House Entertainment, a premium content studio division within Univision. There, he oversaw the studio’s overarching strategy as well as the development, production, and distribution of its content, which includes the Netflix Originals “El Chapo” and “Tijuana” among others. Prior to this he held executive roles at Univision’s corporate headquarters in New York, including working in the Office of the CEO. Christian began his career at NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Network and Studios supporting their programming and original content production operations.  

As VP, Creative Executive at Gaumont, Alexandra Zimbler Smith oversees content development across all genres in Scripted Television; imagining, discovering and packaging premium series for streaming and premium cable networks.  Alexandra is responsible for identifying new projects and co-productions for the US and international markets.

Growing up in Russia and England, Alexandra developed a passion for storytelling and performance arts through her involvement in competitive figure skating.   By performing with the Russian Ballet on Ice and competing on the British Olympic Development Team, she learned to tell stories using music and movement.  Moving to the US, she studied Visual Arts at Harvard and the Prague Film School, before setting her sights on Hollywood.

Alexandra began her professional career at Creative Artists Agency and Jerry Bruckheimer TV.  Prior to Gaumont, she served as Head of Development at MAS Production, where she developed a number of film and television projects.

Holly Brown is a producer and executive specializing in working closely with writers, filmmakers, and talent to tell commercial, character-driven stories for television, film, and digital platforms. As the VP of Creative Affairs at Gaumont, US she is responsible for helping oversee live-action scripted series and films.

Prior to Gaumont, she was actor Johnny Galecki’s producing partner at Alcide Bava Productions, overseeing his deal at Warner Brothers Television. As an independent producer, Holly produced Rob Siegel’s film Cruise starring Spencer Boldman and Emily Ratajkowksi which was released on Hulu in September 2018. Holly also worked as VP of Development at Jeremy Renner’s production company The Combine, where she oversaw the development of their feature and television slate including Kill The Messenger directed by Michael Cuesta, and starring Jeremy Renner for Focus Features. Holly executive produced The Founder with John Lee Hancock directing and starring Michael Keaton for the Weinstein Company and she co-executive produced The Throwaways for Crackle starring James Caan and Kevin Dillon. Holly was also an executive at Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment working on films including I Am Legend, Hancock, Seven Pounds, This Means War, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Karate Kid.

Since July 1st, 2018 Sabine de Mardt is the President and Executive Producer of the newly founded Gaumont GmbH, a subsidiary of the French Gaumont S.A.

Prior to joining Gaumont Sabine has been responsible for plenty TV and cinema productions since starting her career back in 1993. Several of those productions have been awarded with highly decorated media prizes such as “Grimme-Preis”, “Romy-Award“ or “Deutscher Comedypreis” under her former lead as Director Fiction and Film at Warner Bros ITVP GmbH and Managing Director of Cologne Film GmbH. She co-developed and co-produced the first German streaming-series “You are wanted” (Amazon).

With the Netflix series “The Barbarians”, the TV series “Julia Durant” and the TV Movie “9 days awake” she got off to a successful start in her first year at Gaumont GmbH based in Germany.

Andreas Bareiss, JD, joined Gaumont in 2018. As EVP Business Affairs & Operations of Gaumont’s German branch he oversees all business and legal matters from development, through financing, production and distribution. Andreas is also heading Gaumont’s Berlin office. Before joining Gaumont’s German management team he was a partner of the German media law firm SKW Schwarz, leading the firm’s Berlin film department and advising national and international clients over 10 years on media and entertainment law, particularly in all matters relating to the film and television industry. A selection of the film productions in which he was involved can be found on the Internet movie data base IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7191362/.

Andreas is, amongst other things, vice-president of the French-German Film Academy (founded by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac) and regularly teaches on media and financing related topics, inter alia, at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg.

Andreas completed full curricula in both German and French law at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Paris II. He then studied film production and distribution at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg (Germany), La Fémis (Paris) and the National Film & Television School (London). He is a graduate of the German-French Atelier/Masterclass Ludwigsburg/Paris. He has done his juris doctor degree about data protection and US civil procedure law. Furthermore, Andreas is a certified business coach (E.C.A.).

Wiebke Dähnert is Head of Finance at Gaumont´s German Headquarter in Cologne, where she has set up the financial department of Gaumont Germany since her start in October 2018.

Before joining Gaumont, Wiebke worked as Head of Finance at Warner Bros. International Television Deutschland GmbH. She passed the tax consultant exam and has previously worked in various tax consulting and auditing firms such as KPMG Germany. Wiebke graduated in business administration at FHDW Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (University of Applied Sciences) in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany.

Rainer Marquass joined Gaumont in July 2018. As Head of Development he oversees all developments of Gaumont Germany. After finishing university in 2005, he started his career as a Junior Producer at Cologne Film, working shortly after as an Executive Producer at Eyeworks and Warner Bros., creating and producing in particular TV Series as “Frau Temme sucht das Glück” (ARD), “Lobbyistin” (ZDFneo) or “Beste Schwestern” (RTL). He has been nominated for the Grimme Award (“Diese Kaminskis”) and developed the first German streaming series for Amazon (“You are wanted”). Now at Gaumont, he developed and produced “The Barbarians” (Netflix) and the upcoming “Westwall” (ZDF).

Fabian Glubrecht joined Gaumont Germany in early March 2020 as Head of Production / Line Producer. In his position he oversees all production processes.

Prior to Gaumont Fabian was responsible for national and international feature and serial productions with a focus on the European market. He worked as a line producer or executive producer with several directors such as Werner Herzog, Michael Apted and Florian Gallenberger.

Ivo-Alexander Beck joined Gaumont in July 2019 as Executive Producer. In this capacity he is currently developing  series for ZDF, SAT.1 and  Amazon. His recent productions include the True Crime series “Zersetzt”, „Zerschunden” and “Zerbrochen”,  based on the bestselling  novels  by Prof. Michael Tsokos.

Berlin-born Ivo-Alexander studied German and  drama studies in Jena and Berlin. He went on to work as a First AD  and dramatic advisor for various production companies. In 1992 he joined  Sat.1 as in-house producer. In the following years, he commissioned numerous series and TV movies, among others the internationally successful show “Kommissar Rex”. In November 2009 he founded  Ninety-Minute Film GmbH. As CEO he produced over 50 TV movies, feature films and series. “Für meine Tochter” (ZDF) was shown at the Munich Film Festival and the comedy “Liebe auf Persisch” (ARD) was the the first foreign film to be shot in Iran since the revolution of 1978. His drama “Die Ungehorsame” (Sat.1) was awarded the 3sat Audience Prize at the Fernseh-Film-Festival Baden-Baden. His comedy “Barfuß bis zum Hals” was awarded the German Comedy Prize and nominated for the Grimme and German Television Awards.

Andreas Bareiss joined the Gaumont team as Executive Producer in July 2018. At Gaumont he produced the Netflix series “Barbarians”, as well as two films for the series “Julia Durant” for the German broadcaster Sat.1 and “9 Days awake”, a feature film adaptation of Eric Stehfest’s autobiographical bestseller, for the German broadcaster ProSieben.

Since 1994, Andreas has worked in various partnerships as producer and executive producer on more than 70 cinema and television films. Many of these productions have won awards, including “Nowhere in Africa”, which won the Oscar in 2002. With the creation and production of the “Wandering Whores Saga”, Andreas achieved one of the greatest audience successes in the history of Sat.1 and German television in 2010 and 2012.

As a producer Andreas was awarded the Bavarian and German Film Prize as well as the Bavarian and German Television Prize. In addition to his work as a producer, he is also a lecturer at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.

Alison Jackson began her career in film, working at Working Title for over seven years. Passionate about development, while there she worked with a broad range of new and experienced voices including Richard Curtis, Michael Hirst and Hanif Kureishi.  When she discovered the joys and challenges of long form story telling she moved into television drama. As a freelance Producer she was lucky enough to work on a broad range of shows in the UK and internationally, including BAFTA acclaimed Not Only But Always for Channel 4, Child of Mine for ITV, No Night is Too Long for BBC and Alliance Atlantic,  Sally Wainwright’s Amazing Mrs Pritchard for BBC. Alison was then asked to join the team at Kudos as an Executive Producer, where she worked on some of the UK’s most popular shows, including Ashes to Ashes, Moving Wallpaper, Nearly Famous, Law and Order UK, MI High and two series of Sky Atlantic’s Tin Star. There she had the pleasure of working with some of the UK’s most respected writers including Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah, Rowan Joffe and Holly Phillips.

Since joining Gaumont at the end of 2018, Alison has established the UK branch of the company, Gaumont Ltd, and served as President. She oversees all shows in development; whilst also Executive Producing the third series of Tin Star – a co-production between Gaumont Ltd and Kudos. Alison is passionate about developing and making unique, accessible and entertaining stories from the UK and internationally – stories that no matter the setting, genre or time period feel original, relevant and bold.

In 2018 Deba Mithal joined Gaumont Ltd as CFO and she has since been responsible for restructuring the finance function of the company. Prior to this she was acting Finance Director at Sister Pictures during the formation and set-up of the company. She was Finance Director at Kudos Film & TV Ltd for over a decade prior to that.

Jess Connell is the Development Producer at Gaumont Ltd, joining in Autumn 2018. Previous to this, she was Story Producer for Sky Atlantic’s Tin Star. She was heavily involved in the story lining and production of both Season Two and Three. She also trained and worked as a Script Editor and Producer for BBC Scotland. She is a fan of confident and ambitious shows, both comedy and drama – the kind that keep you entertained and amused, while also provoking emotion.

Jamie Jackson is a Development Executive at Gaumont Ltd. Most recently he has been working on the third series of Tin Star for Sky Atlantic. He began his career as a theatre director, working for Live Theatre Newcastle, Theatre 503 & the Old Vic among others. He also worked for director SJ Clarkson on both Love, Nina (2016) & Collateral (2018). He is most excited by stories that make audiences laugh and cry, sometimes simultaneously.