FremantleMedia promotes Ian Hogg to CEO Asia Pacific
FremantleMedia has announced that Ian Hogg has been promoted to the newly created position of CEO, Asia Pacific, with immediate effect.
In his expanded role, Hogg will be responsible for the overall management and business performance of all of FremantleMedia’s production operations in Australia and Asia, and will continue to be based in FremantleMedia’s Sydney office.
Ian Hogg, CEO, Asia Pacific, FremantleMedia commented: "I’m very much looking forward to working closely with our great teams in all of our Asia Pacific offices and helping to grow FremantleMedia’s market leading business. I have a deep affinity for the Asian region and the rich cultural diversity of its people and the territories within it. It is an incredibly dynamic part of the world with a very strong appetite for innovative television programming and I am very excited to be re-engaging with it."
Hogg has worked for 25 years in the television industry within TV networks and independent production companies in Australia and Asia, and has been CEO of FremantleMedia Australia since September 2009.
He began his career at Network TEN in Brisbane in 1984 in programming and after four years moved to TEN Sydney as assistant program manager. In 1990, he relocated to New Zealand to become director of Programming at TV3.
In 1993, Hogg returned to Sydney to join independent production company RA Becker as head of television and in 1996 was appointed to the Board as group general manager and executive director. Under Hogg’s leadership, Becker became Australia’s largest independent television production, distribution and theatrical distribution company.
In 2001, Hogg moved to Singapore to join sports marketing and rights management company World Sport Television as CEO. In 2003, he founded Theatre Red which became a leading television production, distribution and internet company in Asia. After selling the business, Hogg returned to Australia in 2008, where he consulted to the Prime Media Group across its television and online assets, as well as acting managing director, Asia Pacific, MGM Worldwide Television.
FremantleMedia’s Asian operations were formerly managed by Patrick Schult who gave notice of his intent to leave the company earlier this year to pursue new interests and a different direction in his career.
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