Co-founder of Mediabiz International, Karine is an award winning producer and an entertainment lawyer with 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry.

Karine has been involved in equity raising, fund managing and financial engineering for Mediabiz’ financing division as well as third party media groups, international banks and funds (sovereign, private and pension) throughout Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe.

Karine has executive produced, produced and/or financed more than 40 TV or film projects.

Karine also worked for Lagardere Group as COO of one of its financing entities.

Karine began her career as an attorney for two large law firms were she practiced litigation, commercial and corporate law in addition to entertainment law.

She is the recipient of the 2017 Business Women Award and member of various boards and organizations, including the International Women Forum.

Chris Philip, an executive producer, writer and international television executive with extensive experience in development, packaging, production, business affairs, global strategy and distribution, has served as President of Starlings TV since its formation in 2018.

Philip is currently executive-producing the Peacock original drama Departure, starring Christopher Plummer and Archie Panjabi, and The CW’s sci-fi action series Pandora. Both have been picked up for second seasons. They will be followed by female-driven grounded sci-fi series Veil, which is gearing up for production next.

Philip has brought Paris-based distributor Mediawan onto several Starlings projects, including murder mystery series Sherlock’s Daughter from showrunner James Duff (The Closer) and writer Brendan Foley (Cold Courage), and a slate of TV movies, starting with thriller The Admirer written by Philip and starring Roxanne McKee, Tina Casciani and Richard Fleeshman.

Philip is also working with ZDF Enterprises and G5 Fiction on developing high-profile projects Alexander the Great, a collaboration with Ben Silverman/Propagate, written by Michael Hirst (Vikings, The Tudors); and Romanovs spy thriller Red Winter, written by Stephen Kronish (24, The Kennedys).

Previous credits include executive producing two NBC primetime scripted drama series, the critically-acclaimed Siberia and Crusoe, starring Philip Winchester; executive producing syndicated series SAF3 starring Dolph Lundgren; co-creating Deep Undercover(with 52 episodes currently streaming on Netflix); and co-producing Colibritany, a series of digital properties that achieved nearly 100 million views on YouTube.

Having launched his career as a Vice President at ITC/PolyGram Television, which was later acquired by Universal, Philip remained with the major Hollywood studio for 13 years until leaving to lead the UK’s Power Television as President. He then co-founded Engine Entertainment – later sold to Philip’s longtime producing collaborator Ben Silverman – and most recently served as Head of Production at Televisa USA.

Diane Hendricks co-founded ABC Supply Co., Inc. (ABC) with her late husband Kenneth Hendricks in 1982. Since 2007, Diane has been the Chairman and sole owner. ABC is the largest wholesale distributor of roofing in the United States, and one of the largest distributors of exterior and interior building products, with almost 15,000 associates, in over 750 locations. Diane takes great pride in the fact that ABC has been the recipient of the Gallup Great Workplace Award the last 13 years, which honors the most engaged and productive workforces in the world.

Diane is Chairman of Hendricks Holding Co., Inc. (HHC) which presides over a diverse portfolio of businesses including manufacturing, distribution, real estate development, construction, recycling, and life sciences.

Diane is also the Chairman of NorthStar Medical Technologies LLC, a global innovator in the production and distribution of radioisotopes used for medical imaging in the United States.

Diane considers her patriotic and conservative values of high importance and is passionate about her civic responsibility, her primary efforts are focused in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Diane is the lead investor in Starlings Capital fund and Chairman of Starlings Entertainment

Co-founder of Mediabiz International, Karine is an award winning producer and an entertainment lawyer with 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry.

Karine has been involved in equity raising, fund managing and financial engineering for Mediabiz’ financing division as well as third party media groups, international banks and funds (sovereign, private and pension) throughout Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe.

Karine has executive produced, produced and/or financed more than 40 TV or film projects.

Karine also worked for Lagardere Group as COO of one of its financing entities.

Karine began her career as an attorney for two large law firms were she practiced litigation, commercial and corporate law in addition to entertainment law.

She is the recipient of the 2017 Business Women Award and member of various boards and organizations, including the International Women Forum.