Diane Rankin

Executive Vice President, Content Development & Commercial Strategy
Distribution360

At Distribution360, Diane oversees commercial activity for global distribution, including sales, acquisitions, partnerships and operations to bring great content to buyers around the World. Alongside marblemedia's in-house development team and third-party content partners, Diane works on projects from development through to delivery, setting up strategic partnerships, raising finance and executive producing new programming in the unscripted and kids & family genres. Since joining the company, the distribution catalogue has quadrupled in volume and the business has seen consecutive years of growth under her leadership. Most recently, she executive produced Titanic: Stories from the Deep, a 4-hour history series uncovering untold stories about the personal objects recovered from the ocean floor.

Diane brings over 20 years in the media industry in sales, acquisitions and content development to her role. Prior to D360, she was SVP, Acquisitions at DRG and was Head of Acquisitions at Cineflix Rights; she also spent over 13 years at Brunico Communications, steering their market-leading events including Realscreen Summit and Kidscreen Summit and overseeing key B2B media and entertainment publications.