Fugitive gears up for growth by establishing an international network of senior sales consultants

Fugitive, the content development, financing, and executive producing company managed by Anthony Kimble and Merrily Ross, has recruited four experienced sales consultants to support the business as it grows.

Acting as agents and operating at SVP level, Joanna Rowley, based in London, Tania Jacobson in Los Angeles, Charo Penedo in Madrid, and Anne Roder- Botbol in Paris will be focused on presales for Fugitive’s expanding slate of scripted and unscripted projects, as well as sales for the company’s rapidly growing catalogue of completed programming and formats.

Covering Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Nordic region, Joanna Rowley is a freelance sales consultant who worked as an executive director at Fox Networks Group Content Distribution, prior to its acquisition by Disney.

Before that, she spent many years as a regional sales director for National Geographic Television International, as well as for its previous incarnation, Explore International.

Tania Jacobson, who will look after Fugitive in the US and Canada, was, until recently, SVP at Endemol Shine, handling the company’s sales and formats business in Canada. Prior to that, also from her base in LA, she was VP of North American sales for ITV Studios Global Entertainment. Tania started her career in TV with Granada Television in the UK before moving to America to oversee Canadian sales for the company, ahead of it becoming ITV.

Charo Penedo will be responsible for Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. She started her career with Hit Entertainment in London, before joining Sunset & Vine International, now part of Tinopolis. Charo then went to work at Optomen (All3Media), where she was responsible for driving sales of the Kitchen Nightmares format and finished show, before moving to Madrid to look after Southern Europe for Discovery.

Her two-decade career has also seen roles at Cineflix Rights and Belgian format business Primitives. Anne Roder-Botbol started her career at TVF International before moving onto Channel 4 International where she was responsible for the first format sales of Supernanny and That’ll Teach ‘Em in France and Germany. She then joined DRG as VP sales, where she worked across finished tape sales, formats, and drama remakes – most notably securing local versions of Doc Martin in a number of territories, including France. For Fugitive, Anne will represent French and German-speaking territories, as well as Italy and Benelux.