Promotions Announced Within FremantleMedia Enterprises

David Ellender, CEO FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), has announced a range of promotions across Germany within the company's immensely successful licensing division.
Mark Newton has been promoted to manage FME's German licensing business in addition to his existing role as Executive Vice President, Licensing, bringing the division's entire EMEA operations under one umbrella. In this position, Newton will oversee the development of product and promotional associations that enhance and extend consumers' experience of FME's many strong brands off-screen, including brand licensing, music publishing, participation TV, online and interactive, sponsorship, live events and telephony.
Newton will continue to be based in Hilversum and reports to Olivier Gers, General Manager, FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide. Newton takes over FME's licensing business in Germany from Birgit Hoensch, who leaves to join RTL Enterprises.
Also announced is the promotion of Diana Dieckmann to the newly created position of Vice President, Licensing, Germany, Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. In this role, Dieckmann will be responsible for overseeing the extension of the company's brands off-screen across the region and will manage an expanding team of licensing executives based at FME's Potsdam offices.
Fred Casimir will also be elevated to Vice President, Music, EMEA. In this newly created position, Casimir will oversee all music publishing, licensing and production for Europe based out of FME's Potsdam office. Both Dieckmann and Casimir will report to Mark Newton.
Newton commented: "These very well deserved promotions and reorganisation mean we now have a single business unit covering our entire ancillary rights business across EMEA. In turn, this has allowed us to re-draw the geographies of our European teams, ensuring better allocation of resource to our key markets and to gear the organisation for future growth. We plan to expand the teams under both Diana and Fred and I look forward to working closely with them moving forwards to further grow our already burgeoning business across the region."
(DS)