Paul Johnson Email & Phone Number

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Oceans Energy and its eStations in Tuvalu plan to build the largest hydrogen hub, carbon sequestration and biodiversity business in the world.We are meeting the global demand for Hydrogen and Ammonia by creating the world's largest sustainable energy hub for Hydrogen and Ammonia to fuel 1.7 billion combustible cars on the roads today, 77,000 container ships and other vessels along with the new generation of Hydrogen fuelled Boeing and Airbus airplanes in 2035 plus all Asian Hydrogen needs in the Tuvalu waters of the Pacific Ocean.

United Kingdom

Develop, produce quality big audience formats and dramas for television, film and digital media companies.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Tuvalu Entertainment Ltd. is collective partnership made up of some of the best creative and executive entertainment minds in the business. Working across all forms content creation, production and distribution including theatrical feature films, television, digital content and merchandising and licensing. Through Tuvalu Entertainment Charitable Foundation, 10% of all Tuvalu Entertainment Ltd. EBITDA net profits are invested directly into special projects on Tuvalu.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Created the new quiz show The Link for BBC 1 with over 6 million viewers per week in a 2PM - 3PM time slot. The Link was always number one in its BBC ONE time slot for every episode and a full 25% ahead of the ratings and share of our nearest competitor on ITV. The Link consistently reached an audience of six million UK viewers a week.Organised and secured our long term partnership with Warner Bros International Television Distribution to globally distribute the new quiz show and Sony ATV / EMI as exclusive Music Publisher for The Link.Executive Produced 65 episodes of the The Link for BBC ONE - a 50/50 joint venture with STV Productions and LTV (a subsidiary of Tuvalu Entertainment Ltd.).The Link was shot entirely in the studios at BBC Scotland, Glasgow.

London, United Kingdom

I mentor under privileged kids in London who are interested in learning more about the entertainment industry.I helped them produced (themselves) a five minute short film which will have a UK broadcast (nationwide) in February 2010.We worked with Fairbridge and their youth organisation. BAFTA is associated with Media Trust which is a charity funded by the National Lottery. Media Trust has a production arm called Talent Studio which offers all the production equipment necessary.

Doha, Qatar

Reporting to the Director General and Royal family member (Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim al Thani) that owned Al Jazeera I joined to transform the 30 + channels and their distribution and growth around the world. • Executive Director of Marketing/ Distribution and Board Member of Al Jazeera Media Network.• Executive Board Member who oversaw the restructuring of the organization under Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al-Thani.• Brief was to restructure and re-organize global Marketing, Sales/ Advertising and Distribution teams as well as create global strategy for whole network• Created, developed global strategic plan for five years with assistance from #BostonConsultingGroup • Implemented a five fold increase in revenue for US cable distribution for all channels• Launched new branding for all channels• Worked on partnerships in UK, Europe and across the world on strategic partnerships to enhance global reach of all channels• Developed a Middle East satellite and digital company co-owned by DISH NETWORK with Charlie Ergen (Chairman and CEO).• Increased UK viewership with new channel on FREEVIEW for Al Jazeera English right after SKY NEWS and BBC NEWS.• Worked alongside the Roosevelt Foundation and family for the Four Freedoms Award (Freedom of Speech) for Al Jazeera alongside the Prime Minister and Queen Beatrix of Holland

London, United Kingdom And Hilversum, The Netherlands.

Reported to CEO and worked strategically with all Endemol Board members and their 30 OPCO's around the world. Developed short & long-term growth strategy for the Endemol Group (the largest independent production company in the world) in coherence with global board strategy. Created a $25 million production fund with Irwin Gottlieb CEO of Group M (a division of ad agency WPP) through media-buying, advertising and product placement to help offset lower production budgets in ASEAN countries, India, Brazil, China and Australian productions.Managed the first global re-launch of the Endemol brand with all 30 international offices and 6500 employees. Included rebranding of 3D on-air graphics, movie/TV and on-air trailers, logo and sub-brand logos across all traditional and digital platforms and touch-points. Managed all marketing/ press tie-ins for all brand partnerships with agencies and brands directly. Managed connection between brand partners with all 30 local production offices. Provided Sales Management, created new CMS support for Endemol Group and all of its’ divisions. Oversaw all areas of Corporate Communications and PR, market research (including pricing), and customer service. Personally produced the promotional launch of the Jerry Seinfeld TV series “The Marriage Ref” with Jerry Seinfeld at MIPCOM, recreating his Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas shows in Cannes, France. Brand development, branded entertainment development, production financing and below and above the line production. Growth of programme and web based brands. Increase of advertising related revenue across all platforms. Developed brand strategy. Working with many top FMCG brands for film, tv and digital media projects.

London, United Kingdom And Hilversum, The Netherlands

Executive Board member of Endemol Group.

New York City, United States

Board Member, Executive Producer of IDEA (International Digital Emmys) at MIPTV and fund raiser.

Tutoring and mentoring entertainment professionals in production, distribution and entertainment creation across all TV genres. There was a heavy focus on original global formats.

Paris And Cannes France

Reporting to the CEO of Reed Midem re-established MIP Markets as the two largest and most relevant entertainment content markets in the world. Sub brands MIPDOC, MIPFORMATS Content 360 and MIPJUNIOR became the world’s largest genre specific digital development, production and screening events. Driving sales 100% higher in six years (from €27 million to over €55 million PA). Created strategic partnerships with all the top global television broadcasters and ad agencies in the world including BBC, Ogilvy One (WPP) for the Content 360 launch at MIPTV. Participation grew 50% during tenure from 8,000 to over 14,000. Repositioned all the MIP branded content shows to reflect the new direction of the entertainment industry. Change management: recreated a new direction/ strategy alongside the 300 strong global TV division and team. The MIP clients and their transactional business grew from $1 billion in 2003 to $10 billion by 2008. (Source: BBC). My division became the number one Reed Elsevier show division in 2008 per annual sales of all 500 Reed Elsevier divisions up from number eight in 2003.Became the first person George Lucas of Lucas Film Ltd. ever entrusted or allowed to screen a Star Wars movie six months in advance of the official premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2005 to all the global Star Wars distribution partners.Successfully merged the digital market and division (MILIA) into MIPTV and the TV division over the course of two years.

METal (Media Entertainment Technology Alpha Leaders) is blog and a community (by invitation only) founded and run by Ken Rutkowski that focusses on Media, Entertainment and Technology. It focused on the most pressing daily questions in these three fields of business with a group of men that opening and honestly advising and supporting each other.There are also weekly breakfasts in Los Angeles California that facilitate face to face discussions. The Alpha Leaders engage each other directly daily on key issues that matter in these fields of expertise.

Board Member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Los Angeles & New York Usa And London United Kingdom

Managed all European and International business for Nielsen Media Entertainment.Founder of Cliveden 2000 and 2001 the first Sun Valley style CEO Summit for European entertainment companies. co-founded the event with Teresa Miles, Chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe.

Los Angeles, California

Palo Alto, California

Mass Communications, Marketing And Film, Social Science, Thesis: A

A And O Levels, Maths, English, Geography, Chemistry, Physics And French

Activities and Societies: President of Film SocietyCaptain of Rugby team Team member of Leinster Cup winning cricket team