Who We Are

The company was established in 2002 and has worked with over 150 clients to date.

Before establishing Cole Media, Lauren was Chief Operating Officer of PacketVideo Corporation, an early mobile video company, where she oversaw global business operations of the company.

Lauren spent many years at Sony Pictures Entertainment in the International Television division launching, making investments in, and supervising Sony’s cable channel investments in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Australia. During her tenure at Sony, she worked on over 30 networks including joint ventures with HBO and other studios and in-house brands such as Sony Entertainment Television and AXN. She also oversaw operations for the International Television division including rights and availabilities and the international offices.

She has worked in Warner Bros.’ Strategic Planning Department and at Bain and Company.

Lauren has an A.B. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Wendy helps maximize revenues across multiple windows and platforms, balancing traditional and digital media. She is also active on various festival/industry advisory boards and as a workshop leader and writer on the pragmatics of the digital entertainment sector.

Originally from Montreal, Canada, then in Europe since ’91, Wendy first devoted 15+ years as in-house movie and TV buyer and senior exec in traditional pay TV, VOD, & distribution (including as CEO Canal+ International Acquisitions, MD Alliance-Atlantis, and SVP Acquisitions Movie Network before founding her Rights Stuff consultancy in ’99. Earlier still she was an entertainment lawyer and Supreme Court law clerk.

Rights Stuff is an international consultancy providing content strategy and pragmatic licensing services, including content acquisition, distribution & development with specific emphasis on maximizing the potential of ‘Rights’ and ‘Windows’ across evolving VOD, digital and traditional media. Since 1999 Rights Stuff has been at the forefront of developments in entertainment content and the industry, including its changing players and the various methods of distribution.

Prior to providing consulting services, Beveridge served as Deputy Head of Programming for Sky Italia, a News Corp platform. In her role, Beveridge had a key focus on major studio negotiations as well as overall strategic and operational activities.

Beveridge also worked at E! Networks as SVP, Business Development and Online. Beveridge was responsible for worldwide initiatives to build and extend the E! and Style brands including its traditional linear television business as well as satellite radio, broadband and new media and marketing platforms. In addition, she managed the E! Online business.

Prior to E!, Beveridge spent many years at Paramount Pictures where she was promoted to SVP, Worldwide Pay Television. In the role, Beveridge was responsible for Worldwide Pay Television sales and business development, as well as International Pay-Per-View and Video on Demand. Beveridge was instrumental to building Paramount’s international channel portfolio and she oversaw the finance and sales administration areas of the division.

Beveridge also worked in the Motion Picture Group at Sony and at Salomon Brothers.

Beveridge earned her BBA from the University of Texas and her MBA from Stanford University.

Rob has consulted to most of Hollywood’s major studios and talent guilds and worked as a senior executive at talent-based companies such as Danny DeVito’s Jersey Films and Aaron Spelling’s Spelling Entertainment in formulating and executing business plans to expand their operations.

His corporate clients have included Universal Studios, MGM, Sony Pictures Entertainment, DirectTV, NBC, the BBC, the Screen Actors Guild, Kodak, New Line Cinema, Mattel and others. Rob’s film experience extends from finance and distribution management to creative duties on more than a dozen successful films, including such critical and commercial successes as The Usual Suspects, Breakdown, Bound, Blade 2 and Cabin Fever.

Rob has been doing business in China since 1987, where his experience includes production and entertainment management and consulting to major Hollywood studios, animation companies and talent agencies on China matters. Rob’s past Chinese consulting clients include Shanghai Media Group, CCTV, China Lion Films, and others.

Rob has successfully raised in excess of $200 million in funding for various companies with which he has been involved.

An award-winning screenwriter, Rob holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Harvard University and an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business.

Rosemary’s expertise extends to content licensing activities across all digital and linear in home media platforms. She has led the international sales team at Paramount Pictures focusing on SVOD, AVOD, Pay TV and linear television distribution across Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to this she managed digital distribution across all international territories at Twentieth Century Fox as well as worldwide residential and hotel PPV/ VOD distribution at NBC Universal.

At the beginning of her career, Rosemary focused on Pay TV and Free TV content acquisitions and strategies, managed channel expansion and provided consultancy services in the areas of content investments and technology development. She has worked with the M-Net channels throughout Africa, the FilmNet channels situated in Scandinavia, Benelux, Central Europe, Greece and Cyprus, Telepiu in Italy and the Canal+ group in Europe.

Previously, Ms. Eberts was Senior Vice President, International Networks & Development for Sony Pictures Television International. She was responsible for channel profitability, management and growth, with a primary focus on Asia.

Ms. Eberts oversaw all aspects of the Sony Entertainment Television joint venture one of the top three cable and satellite entities in India comprised of four channels (two Hindi general entertainment channels, one Hindi movie channel and one English language movie channel); production, distribution and syndication operations for Hindi content; TheOneAlliance Indian distribution venture with Discovery Communications India; and commercial advertising airtime sales. Further, Ms. Eberts managed the business operations across all functional lines for the AXN (action/adventure) and Animax (anime) channels throughout Asia, India, Japan and Korea; and SET in Singapore.

As an original member of the international networks team since 1995, Ms. Eberts played an integral role in the development of SET (English language general entertainment), AXN and Animax global brands from writing the original business plans and working with each of the first launch teams. She guided the subsequent rollout of AXN in Asia and Europe and of Animax in Asia.

In addition, Ms. Eberts has held positions in corporate development at Sony Pictures Entertainment and was a Financial Analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co.

Jeff’s work is focused on digital and advanced TV media analytics, marketing technology platform evaluation and establishing and monitoring marketing processes and operational metrics that drive the ability to make decisions that increase product demand and audience growth.

Jeff works with companies who are interested to increase their revenue by optimizing how they engage with their customers; he advises clients on best practices for measurement marketing across TV and digital platforms; he’s involved with projects which evaluate the use of customer and sales data to develop customer segments; he creates and documents strategic plans and processes to reach these customers with automated, targeted content on the right media platform or network; and, he establish metrics for monitoring and measuring performance and success.

Activities and expertise:

• Marketing Optimization
• Data Analytics and Reporting
• Operations Analytics
• Audience Measurement
• Audience Development
• Digital/advanced TV advertising platforms
• Segmentation and Targeting
• Video Content Analysis and Strategy
• Data Partnerships
• Business Intelligence/Dashboards
• Post-merger integration (PMI)
• Social Strategy

Jeff is an alum of Nielsen, Kantar Media, Rentrak and Comscore. He has a B.A. from the University of Virginia and MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Brings a proven track record of planning and execution of successful initiatives across multiple channels including web, mobile, cable TV, and social media outlets.

Lead Digital initiatives and strategy for lifestyle and media brands including Scripps Networks Interactive (Travel Channel), NBCUniversal (Bravo Media, Trio Network and USA Network) and Harpo (Oprah.com, OWN Network) as well as various consulting clients including Chef David Bouley, Ovation TV, TV Guide Network and Carlos Watson (CEO & Co-Founder of Ozy) .

KEY STRENGTHS

• Executive Management
• Strategic Planning and Development
• Business Development
• Digital Marketing Strategy
• Consumer Experience & Engagement
• Content Development & Editorial Direction

Most recently he managed several projects for ORACLE on B2B demand generation. Previously, he was the Chief Revenue Officer of ScoreBig.com, the “Priceline” of event tickets. He also ran all business operations for Vantage Media, a digital agency that specialized in performance-based advertising SEM and other digital channels and was a founding executive of Carsdirect.com (Internet Brands) – an El Segundo based startup that did an IPO in 2007. Neil also has senior executive experience at Universal Studios Hollywood and the Los Angeles Times. He began his career at Bain and Company. Neil has an MBA from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University where he was an Austin Scholar and a BS in Economics with honors from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lisa is a mission-driven, passionate and creative business builder with an extensive track record of leading growth and innovation while delivering exceptional results. A strategic marketer with executional experience across the full suite of marketing disciplines, she has over 20 years of success in working in key roles at organizations ranging from early-stage start-ups to Fortune 100 blue-chip companies. She has significant performance history of creating new business models and scaling rapidly growing organizations. She has held leadership roles that led to two $1.5 billion+ company IPOs to date.

Currently, she serves as Founder and President of Gro. Business Ventures, a company that helps organizations build and scale their business. She loves her clients and job.

More info: grobusinessventures.com

Services include event strategy and management, budgeting, programming, venue selection, talent booking and negotiation, sponsorship and marketing, tradeshow management, and on site coordination.

Elana spent over thirteen years leading successful conferences for Yoga Journal Magazine, including annual gatherings of over 2,500 attendees in New York, Colorado, San Francisco, San Diego and Florida, in addition to numerous regional events. Prior to Yoga Journal, Elana worked as the Executive Director of the Learning Annex of San Francisco. While at the Learning Annex, she helped grow the business into a household name by upgrading the caliber of presenters and quality of seminars produced. Before relocating to the Bay Area, Elana was the Director of Marketing and Publicity for a 72,000 square foot entertainment complex, America Live! at Sacramento where she created, coordinated and executed promotions and marketing plans for eight separate venues including booking all talent. Earlier, Elana produced events in New York for media companies ABC Radio and HBO Video.
More info: www.eliteeventsgroup.com

He has a proven track record in building brands and launching new products and is skilled in marketing strategy and execution including consumer research, marketing communications, creative services, consumer advertising, public and media relations, online and social media, consumer and trade promotions and channel marketing.

Strat Americas has worked with clients in digital & social music, Web 3, ticketing, live streaming, AI and enterprise software.

Seth is a business development executive who spent eleven years with Sony Music, in Latin America and for Sony’s Jive Records label in New York, where he oversaw partnerships with the US’ first digital music services.  At Sony Latin, Seth created mobile partnerships in Latin America for the artists Shakira and Ricky Martin, resulting in multi-million selling artist handsets.

Previously,  Seth held business development roles with Microsoft, Liberty Media, Viacom, and Universal Music. Seth was AOL’s first music business executive, overseeing its first partnerships with the American music industry.

Seth is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Business School and is currently on the Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University and Pepperdine Business.

Recent media appearances include Fox News, CBS News, NBC, Sirius, and CGTN America on TikTok’s rise.

At Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, she was a member of the senior management team that launched PlayStation across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. As Senior Vice President at Infogrames/Atari, Alyssa played a significant role in the integration of both GT Interactive and Hasbro Interactive.

In addition to her work with multi-national corporations, Alyssa spent a number of years focused on her own start-up: Big Screen Gaming. Big Screen Gaming was a proprietary gaming platform that combined console-style gaming with the premium experience of movie theater sound and visual quality.
As a consultant on business strategy, development, sales and marketing, Alyssa has influenced brands such as Fisher-Price, Nimbus Games, Leapfrog and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. She was recently COO of Information Humanities, Inc. a digital media company that publishes Glo Bible.

A USC Cinema graduate, Alyssa is a founding member of Long Beach TEC (a digital media incubator), mentor on behalf of the USC Marshall School of Business, and serves on the Board of Directors of Atari, S.A.