The Partners Behind
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Starlings Entertainment is managed by successful executives who can create and access a pipeline of quality commercial projects.
Executive Members
Karine Martin
CEO
Starlings Entertainment
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
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
President
Starlings Television
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.
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, now in their fourth and third seasons respectively.
The slate for 2024 will also include Philip executive producing murder mystery Sherlock & Daughter, with showrunner James Duff (The Closer, Major Crimes), writer Brendan Foley (Cold Courage, The Man Who Died) and UK partner StoryFirst, and female-driven anti-poaching series Shadowland, directed by Darnell Martin (The Good Lord Bird, The Walking Dead). He has high-profile projects in development with talent such as Usher, Wes Studi, Eric Clapton, Dolly Parton, and Stan Lee.
Previous credits include executive producing two NBC primetime scripted drama series, the critically-acclaimed Siberia and Crusoe, starring Philip Winchester; EP’ing 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.
Hannah Nailor
Director of Development
Starlings Entertainment
Hannah Nailor is a creative executive with experience in development, sales, legal, marketing, acquisitions, and production. As Director of Development for Starlings, she is responsible for collaborating with writers on the creative development of their materials, overseeing active productions, and targeting potential partners for packaging and distribution.
Hannah’s career began with internships at Stuart Ford’s IM Global and Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp, in both scripted acquisitions and production, while she was completing her Bachelors in Screenwriting at Chapman University.
Shortly after graduating, she joined Content Media Corporation (later known as Kew Media Distribution) as their Office Coordinator and Receptionist. She quickly took on the additional role of Sales Coordinator, where she facilitated film and television sales in North and South America.
After three years in these dual roles, Hannah moved over to the role of Creative Coordinator, working with Carrie Stein, EVP of Global Scripted Series, where she helped build a slate of content within Kew and the production companies under its banner, including Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Studios, Victoria Fea and Julie Anne Robinson’s Longboat Pictures, Greg Quail’s Essential Media, Jamie Brown’s Frantic Films, Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny’s Sienna Film, and Jeff Norton’s Awesome Media.
Board Members
Diane M. Hendricks
Chairman
Starlings Entertainment
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
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
Karine Martin
CEO
Starlings Entertainment
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
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.
Patricia Brown
Executive Vice President
Starlings Entertainment
Patricia is established in London and has 20 years of experience in the finance sector and the entertainment industry.
As president of Mediabiz Europe, she is in charge of all European relationships and has the mandate to develop Mediabiz’ financial activities in Europe, including raising equity, setting up funds and co-managing Mediabiz Capital’s investment transactions in collaboration with the North American financial division.
Prior to joining Mediabiz, Patricia worked for Future Films from 2008 to 2011, as the company’s managing director and also as a member of the board.
In 2000, she joined the Media & Entertainment team of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as one of the initial team members and rose to be head of the structured tax team in 2005, before assuming the position of head of the media and entertainment team in 2007. The media portfolio consisted of £8bn of assets with clients from major and independent US and European studios, including Time Warner, 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Pictures.
Prior to RBS, she worked for Greenwich NatWest where she was associate manager for leasing, asset and structured Finance (1989–2000).
Danny Zamost
Board Member
Starlings Entertainment
Partner, Starling Studios
Danny Zamost, a film producer and corporate entrepreneur whose extensive resume includes building three successful logistics companies, is among the original Board members of the global Los Angeles-based film and television producer-financier Starlings Entertainment. Since its formation in 2017, Zamost has raised his investment in the company and become a partner in its production unit, Starlings Studios.
Zamost has served as a key strategic player in the rapid growth of Starlings Entertainment, a collection of interconnected companies that focus on developing, financing and producing smartly budgeted, highly commercial live-action and animated films, a prolific roster of global television series (developed in-house and sourced from an expansive network of affiliates and longstanding producer relationships), as well as other media.
Starting his career in 1992 after earning a BA in Communications from the University of Arizona, Zamost entered the logistics field with the global, Chicago-based transportation and logistics services company, American Backhaulers. After working his way through the ranks, Zamost left to open his first of three logistics companies, DND Express, which he sold in 2005 before teaming with American Backhaulers Co-Founder Paul Loeb to form Command Transportation. A decade later, in 2015, the company was sold and Zamost now runs his third venture in the field, Avenue Logistics, headquartered in Chicago with 200 employees and six offices, as well as other entities.
A passionate lifelong movie and TV buff, Zamost entered film producing in recent years, with credits including 2016’s Shimmer Lake, 2017’s Jeepers Creepers 3, 2018’s When We First Met and an upcoming documentary. In 2019, he served as a producer alongside Starlings Entertainment CEO Karine Martin, who was an executive producer of the critically acclaimed feature film Rocketman, based on Elton John’s life story. Rocketman won the Best Original Song Academy Award® and two Golden Globes (Best Performance by an Actor and Best Original Song). The feature was also nominated for a SAG Award (Lead Actor) and four EE British Academy Film awards.