Nick Smith and André Renaud
FRAPA, the Format Recognition and Protection Association, announced the appointments of André Renaud and Nick Smith as new co-chairs of its Management Board. It has also named Richard Ager, Fremantle’s EVP, Legal and Business Affairs, Global Entertainment, as its new Treasurer.
As it continues its 25th anniversary year, FRAPA has strengthened and focused its core mission, and widened its call to action to the next generation of format creatives. The appointment of Smith and Renaud builds on this by bringing together two leaders in the industry to build on FRAPA’s legacy.
André Renaud is GVP of Finished and Format Sales at Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) joining in late 2024 to lead their commercial sales and strategic activities across brands including "The Bachelor", "First Dates", "Cash or Trash" and "Reality Queens of the Jungle", as well as scripted format IP such as "The Mentalist", "Footballers Wives", and "The Twelve". He said: “FRAPA’s mission remains as vital today as it was when it was founded 25 years ago: to support the creativity that powers our industry and ensure that it’s respected by all. We are grateful to FRAPA’s leadership and the Advisory Board for expanding FRAPA’s mission, ambition and purpose. As we look ahead, we want to focus on growing our global community of like-minded colleagues, and really bring this group closer together to share, advise, and celebrate our collective successes, whether it be from Sweden to South Korea, or Brazil to Botswana. I’m excited to start working with Nick and the Management and Advisory Boards to drive this collective vision forward, starting at our FRAPA summit at MIPCOM.”
Nick Smith, as All3Media International’s EVP of Formats and Licensing, brings more than 20 years of experience in the formats' industry. His work has spanned format development, production, distribution and offscreen exploitation. He said: “André and I are committed to taking FRAPA to the next level by making it even more relevant and responsive to the needs of our members. And those needs are evolving at warp speed thanks to the threat — or perhaps promise — of AI, the shift to streaming, digital and short-form, market oversaturation and rising production costs. We see our task as helping to provide clarity at an inflexion point for our industry, while offering our members the hands-on support they need to generate and leverage formattable ideas that will deliver for us all — creatively, commercially and culturally.”
The appointment of Renaud, Smith and Ager completes the restructuring of FRAPA’s Management Board, and they join Bianca Rootsaert who remains in role. Its Advisory Board is also made up of a wide range of industry professionals with recent announcements of new members Pascal Dalton (Shimmer Media) Maria Chiara Duranti, (Formatbiz), Helen Greatorex (Banijay Entertainment), Adam Steinman (Blink49), and Nathalie Wogue.
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