Damien Marchi

Vice President, Production for FremantleMedia (London)

Damien Marchi is an Emmy Award winning multi-platform specialist with over ten years experience in digital media, broadcast media and branded entertainment.

As Vice-President, Production Damien oversees all FremantleMedia's FMX digital media productions in the UK and the US, turning ideas into tangible projects and managing teams of producers. In parallel, Damien is also in charge of running the digital media network within FremantleMedia at a European level.

Damien’s interest in cross-media began with the genre itself. At the time the world was discovering Reality TV, Damien was behind the scene in Great Britain, France and Sweden creating and managing the interactive adaptions of some of those most talked-about shows (Big Brother, Star Academy, Cruel Summer, The Bar...).

Keen to continue investigating viewers’ involvement through interactivity, Damien then moved on to consult and work with producers on other genres (talk shows, factual entertainment, game shows, drama...) to adapt those shows to the online world and even develop and produce new original concepts adapted to a three-screen consumption.

Before moving to London, Damien was Branded Entertainment Executive Producer for the Havas advertising group in Paris where he worked on the 360 degrees strategies of consumer brands such as Air France, L’Oreal and Orange.

Since January 2008, Damien moved to London to join FMX, FremantleMedia’s global digital media division where are developed and managed non-linear entertainment formats.

With headquarters in London, FremantleMedia is one of the largest international creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world, with leading prime time drama, serial drama, entertainment and factual entertainment programming in over 40 territories. The production operation comprises some of the most recognized and creative labels from around the world including UFA, Blu, talkbackTHAMES, Grundy. Their programmes include American Idol, Neighbours, The Apprentice, The X Factor, Britain’s Got Talent, The Price is Right, Farmer Wants a Wife, The IT Crowd...