John Caldon is the Chairman and CEO of Flame Media, an integrated, global TV group with production, distribution and advisory arms. John had an extensive business career before founding Flame in 2010. Flame has expanded rapidly with offices in the UK, Sydney, Singapore, Eastern Europe and representation in NYC. John is located in the London and Sydney offices.Flame Media comprises: Flame Distribution which acquires and sells TV content around the world; TV production with Flame Productions in Australia; with Wildflame Productions in the UK; with Flame Media Gmbh in GermanyFlame Studio Kitchen in Sydney and Flame Corporate which advises the media industry on funding, government assistance, mergers and acquisitions. Flame Corporate is authorised by the FCA in the UK.With around 40 staff, Flame continues to innovatively look for new opportunities in production and distribution.John’s focus on customer service and audience sees the Flame Distribution team deal with producers from all over the world especially North America, the UK, Europe and Australasia. The catalogue is 3500 hours and growing. Flame attends around 30 TV markets and the sales team visit their client broadcasters in over 100 cities in the world each year. John has a Master of Arts in Classics from Cambridge University and, after migrating to Australia in 1973 became a tax partner with Price Waterhouse. One of the founders of Macquarie Bank from 1984, when he left in 1998 he was Deputy Managing Director; head of relationship management for key clients and government; head of project and structured finance; head of infrastructure funds management and joint head of underwriting.