Speaker Jon Rutherford

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Jon Rutherford

President, Global Rights, Franchise & Content Strategy, Boat Rocker Studios

Tricon Films & Television

on Rutherford oversees the operation of Tricon’s international distribution company, including all worldwide sales and acquisitions. In addition to growing its catalogue to over 2,000 hours of high quality content in genres such as scripted drama & comedy, factual & lifestyle, documentary, and kids & family, he leads strategic development for building ancillary brand revenues across multiple platforms. Over his 17-year career, Jon has built international alliances with leading broadcast and cable networks around the world. Jon also oversees Tricon’s business development, which includes growing the company’s kids & family division, establishing new broadcast partnerships in factual production, and expanding into broadcast channel distribution. This includes Tricon’s exclusive output agreement with AMC Networks to represent all of IFC’s original scripted series, as well as an exclusive arrangement with Participant Media's cable channel, PIVOT, to distribute all of their original scripted and non-scripted programming. Prior to joining Tricon, he was head of distribution at Portfolio Entertainment.

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