Lara Ilie

Bio:

Lara Ilie, Vice President, AVOD and FAST, is responsible for expanding WildBrain’s content distribution strategy across emerging platform opportunities, including transactional partnerships. Lara has built a world-leading presence for WildBrain’s kids’ and family content on FAST (free ad-supported television) and AVOD (ad-supported video on demand) services, with over 180 channels launched on such popular platforms as The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus and Amazon’s FreeVee in North America, Europe, Australia, Latin America and more. Formerly Vice President of Rights Strategy, she developed and spearheaded integrated strategies to monetize WildBrain’s portfolio of intellectual property rights across businesses and territories. Lara first joined WildBrain in 2007 as Senior Director of Sales, handling content distribution partnerships in Iberia, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.