Keshet International Bolsters Acquisitions & Sales Teams

TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) has appointed Anke Stoll as its director of acquisitions and co-productions, and Rose Hughes as the senior sales manager.

In her new role, Stoll will handle the acquisition of formats and finished programming across all genres and all territories. She will work alongside Atar Dekel, the head of co-productions, on KI’s cross-border co-production projects and report to Sebastian Burkhardt, the senior VP of digital and acquisitions. Stoll previously served as the VP of acquisitions at DRG, where she oversaw international acquisitions and co-productions for more than eight years. Before that, she worked at BBC Worldwide.

Hughes is responsible for format sales across Scandinavia, Benelux and Canada, and finished-programming sales to the U.S., U.K. and Ireland, and pan-regional. She formerly served as senior sales executive at BBC Worldwide. Prior to that, she held positions at DRG and Journeyman Pictures.

Both Stoll and Hughes will be based out of the Keshet UK London office.