Chris Grant joins Electus as Boss

Reality skein "Mob Partners," which opened up last spring on VH1, is probably the shows concerning the front writers at Ben Silverman shingle Electus. SilvermanGrantBen Silverman has attracted on longtime lieutenant Chris Grant for everybody as Boss of his fast-growing Electus production and distribution company since it prepares for just about any growth spurt within the content methods.Grant, who left as prexy of Shine Intl. in May, will formally begin his new gig on November. 1 and you'll be situated in La. His mandate is always to assist the organization scout for producer partners and potential company purchases, mainly within the U.S. as well as the U.K., and oversee the introduction of their TV, digital and high quality entertainment methods.Grant works carefully with Electus chief operating officer Came Buckley, who is constantly account to Silverman and keeps oversight of digital, advertising, finance and M&A activities additionally to manage within the business's business associations with Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.Grant mentioned he was attempting to reunite with Silverman in just a minute when Electus is poised to create quickly concerning the foundation built through the 24 months since Silverman launched the business as well as Craig Diller's IAC."The power of having rights and formats has not been more apparent to us," Grant told Variety. "To create the organization for the scale you need to construct it to, it starts with rights and possession."About 10 years ago Grant was among the founding professionals of Silverman's Reveille banner, which was eventually bought out by Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine Group in 2008 after Silverman decamped for his turbulent two-year run as NBC Entertainment topper. Before Reveille, Grant was been trained in the ability of worldwide-rights wheeling and dealing by Silverman when both labored for your William Morris Agency inside the the 19 nineties.At Reveille and Shine, Grant's focus was on worldwide sales and distribution. At Electus, his attention will probably be much more concerning the domestic front, where he and Silverman see ample options for production company purchases and producer partners.InchIt's a perfect time for Chris to participate the business,Inch Silverman mentioned. "He'll be accelerate and let us manage our growth after we build off our existing base."Although there's a good amount of competition at this time around among mid-sized distribution organizations competing for unscripted format rights, Grant asserted that Electus features a strong feature to prospective partners.To start with, Reveille stood a strong history just like a pioneer and innovator with worldwide format certification, high quality entertainment deals and original digital content, different within the U.S. adaptations of "Work,Inch "Ugly Betty" and "The Tudors" for the selling juggernaut of NBC's "Finest Loser Franchise" to Reveille's early Content partnership with MSN and blue-nick entrepreneurs. With IAC's backing, Electus gets the deep pockets as well as the partners to develop original content in creative ways -- like beginning a show on the internet or possibly inside a foreign market before shopping it inside the U.S. market, where nets typically drive a difficult bargain of demanding possession."While using combination of Ben, Came and myself, we could show a producer that we believe the best way to drive value through multiple distribution channels, which we are able to introduce their tips to the finest entrepreneurs in the world,In . Grant mentioned.Electus' existing content partners are the CollegeHumor comedy website Will Arnett and Jason Bateman's DumbDumb shingle and production companies 5x5 Media, Notional and DiGa, the 2nd run by MTV alums Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley.Among Electus' active roster of unscripted skeins are VH1's "Mob Partners," NBC's approaching "Fashion Star," situated by Elle MacPherson BET's "Masters of Mix" and Spike TV's "Vehicle Boss." Contact Cynthia Littleton at cynthia.littleton@variety.com