Bryan Gabourie

Bio:

As, EVP Content Monetization and Head of Americas for Blue Ant Studios, Bryan Gabourie, leads a growing Americas sales team, with an aim to strategically maximize the company’s content distribution across platforms and partnerships. In this role he oversees all sales activities from originals, pre-sales, content licensing, co-productions and strategic partnerships in the U.S. and is focussed on growing the company’s business across all platforms in that market. 

Bryan has over 15 years experience in global distribution and development and was most recently Vice President, Global Content Sales & Digital Licensing at A+E where he represented A+E Networks brands and programming for content sales, co-production, channel partnership and format sales and managed multi-territory streaming opportunities. There he honed partnerships with linear broadcasters, digital and streaming platforms in the U.S. and English and French speaking Canada for all genres within the A+E portfolio. 

Prior to joining A+E, Gabourie was Vice President, International Distribution & Development,  Rive Gauche Television, where he was responsible for distribution of over 2,500 hours of television and film content to international broadcasters in Asia, Europe, The Middle East and major North American and worldwide/pan regional clients for both finished programming and formats. This role also included global acquisitions for new programming, co-production agreements and original development. Before becoming a distribution executive, Gabourie began his career in production and development holding several positions at Paramount Studios/20th Century Fox TV, Nickelodeon and Warner Bros.  

Blue Ant Studios, a division of Blue Ant Media, is an award-winning international production and rights management business, with a diverse slate that spans premium factual and high-impact documentaries, competition and entertainment formats, lifestyle, kids, youth and family, comedy, drama and animation, for broadcasters and streamers throughout the world. The Studio’s International distribution arm, Blue Ant Rights, represents over 8,000 hours of acclaimed content from Blue Ant Studios and third-party producers, maximizing rights opportunities and connecting buyers with programming that resonates with global audiences. With offices in Toronto, London, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Ottawa, Halifax, Singapore, and Sydney, the studio is well-positioned in key markets worldwide.