Warp Films CEO Mark Herbert and Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter are among six governors to join the BFI board.
Herbert’s credits at Warp include Adolescence, as well as This Is England and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie.
Cardiff-based Tranter is the board’s Wales governor. Her credits include series The Night Of, His Dark Materials and Industry. In 2016, Bad Wolf founded studio space Wolf Studios Wales. Tranter is also a former BBC controller of drama and fiction.
Joining them as new board appointees are Hakan Kousetta, executive producer of Slow Horses, Down Cemetery Road and The Essex Serpent and co-founder of 60Forty Films; Tanya Cordrey, a former senior executive at Instagram and The Guardian, who is currently chief product officer at UK online used-car marketplace and AI pioneer Motorway; hospitality entrepreneur Ganan Kanagathurai, owner and chairman of the Roti King restaurant group and a former Itsu CEO; and Ryan Prince, vice chairman of real estate and investment management company Realstar Group.
Each board member serves a term of four years and starts this month, except for Prince who starts in July. Recruitment for a new BFI governor to represent Scotland is ongoing.
BFI governors Monica Chadha, Elizabeth Karlsen, Laura Miele and Edgar Wright have been re-appointed for a further four years. They rejoin a board of 14 that also includes chair Jay Hunt, deputy chair Michael Birshan, Northern Ireland governor Declan Keeney and Nell Whitley.
Netflix’s Scott Stuber is leaving the board but joining the board of directors at BFI America. Robin Saunders, Anwen Griffiths, Romana Ramzan, Andrew Smith and Phil Stokes are also leaving the board.
Hunt worked closely with the UK government’s Department of Culture, Media and Sport on the recruitment process.
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