30+ years in the industry, first as director, then Head of Drama for 10 years at several Belgian production companies. Now independent producer/owner at Dramadama tv and film.
• Founder / CEO at production company KiAi nv (1989-now)
• Free lance director from 1989 until 2007 (TV drama)
• Executive Producer telenovela "Lalola" local adaptation into 'Louislouise' (Studio-A tv-production company for VTM)
• Head of drama at VTM’s inhouse tv-production company Studio-A (september 2009 until january 2012 for commercial broadcaster VMMa)
• Head of drama at tv-production company Sultan Sushi (part of the international Red Arrow Entertainment Group) january 2012 - january 2014 (produced local adaptation of German “Danni Lowinski” and original Drama “Marsman” for Public broadcaster VRT – now on Netflix)
• Showrunner/ Producer 'Voor wat hoort wat', 8 part - dramedy (Fobic Films for public broadcaster VRT) march-april 2014
• Head of drama at tv and film production company Zodiak Belgium - part of the international Zodiak/Banijay Group (sept 2014-april 2020 )
(i.e. “GR5” 8-part drama series for public broadcaster VRT/Eén // Winner of the Albatrozz price Series Lab Hamburg - in co-production with ZDFneo and RedBalloon Germany – aired march-may 2020, “Tom&Harry” VRT 2014, “BUCK” VRT Ketnet 2016 etc.)
• Founder of DRAMADAMA international TV and film production company (2021)
Other experience and training :
• Yearly visitor of Mipcom and Miptv at Cannes since 2005
• Lecturer 'tv directing' at Lessius Hogeschool Mechelen, Belgium in 2008 en 2009
• Workshop The Script Factory London ('Police series development') (june 2009)
• MediaXchange: 'Showrunner's exchange Los Angeles' (september 2009)
• Management training about 'Leadership' VMMa (jan-dec 2010)
• Mentor at Workshop scriptwriting Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds / Ed Vanderweyden : coaching feature film and tv projects (jan-dec 2010)
• 'Story' scriptwriting seminar Robert McKee - London (2011)
• Script Factory workshop (about genres/drama production in the UK -BBC) London (2011)
• Guest-lecturer at University Antwerp (media) on commercial tv-production (2011)
• 'Comedy Intensive' scriptwriting seminar Steve Kaplan London (2011)
• ETB Scriptwriting/Laurie Hutzler (USA): online-seminars on character development (2012)
• European TV Drama series Lab Berlin (module 1 & 2) (march & oct 2013)
• Sources 2 Projects & Process – Training Mentors for European Screenwriters, November 2014 in Amsterdam/Netherlands with the support of the Netherlands Film Fund and in cooperation with Binger Filmlab.
• EAVE Producers workshop 2017 (co-production in the international Film and TV industry)
• Selected at Torino SeriesLab 2021 ('The Reset' project')