Organization Structure
The FRAPA executive consists of a management board and a steering committee. The management board conducts FRAPA’s day-to-day business, sets and controls its budget, and manages its assets. The management board also reports to the steering committee on FRAPA’s financial performance. The steering committee, creates policy, while supervising, advising and supporting the activities of the management board. Ute Biernat, CEO of Grundy Light Entertainment, has served as the chair of FRAPA since 2006.
The FRAPA Steering Committee
| Quote: “Creating and selling formats is our daily business. To foster this thriving creativity and allow creators to reap the benefits of what they have sown, it is essential that format rights are respected within the Media industries”. |
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Michel Rodrigue (Deputy)
Formats Advisor & Broker
Board member since: 2000 |
| Quote: “Formats used to be perceived as generic ideas rather than creative works, which made them susceptible to unlimited duplication until FRAPA established clear guidelines and ultimately paved the way for a new breed of programming in the entertainment industry. Now our website offers new tools and services to help members navigate the formats world…”. |
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David Lyle
CEO National Geographic Channels US
Board member since: 2000 |
| Quote: “FRAPA can’t stop theft of intellectual property but it makes it harder and harder and helps creatives protect their formats. At the same time, FRAPA advises format creators to have a better position in the money chain so they stand to earn more from their efforts”. |
| Quote: “FRAPA is here to protect the creation of our original formats and we all need to support its work”. |
| Quote: “FRAPA exists to keep the format business from turning into the Wild West. Protecting the rights of both creators and their formats is absolutely important to the future health of our industry”. |
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Virginia Mouseler
CEO The WIT
Board member since: 2000 |
The FRAPA Management Board
| Quote: “I recommend everybody who is active in the TV format industry to become a FRAPA member because both formats and its creators deserve creative and formal respect in the industry. The more members, the more we Board members can achieve!”. |
| Quote: “Trade, marketing and international production of formats does not only enhance the current economic position of a company, it facilitates protection of formats through greater recognition of interlectual property. FRAPA promotes this idea by its various activities and publications”. |
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Mike Beale
Director of International Formats, ITV Studios
Board member since: 2007 |
| Quote: “There is a real business for format creators worldwide but whilst the legal profession plays catch up on intellilectual property rights we need to properly protect ourselves and FRAPA is the only organisation that currently does that.”. |
| Quote: “FRAPA means not only formats right protection, but also to develop the format industry and to be connected with key players of the production business. FRAPA can be a friendly bridge to be involved”. |
