Lisette van Diepen

Lisette is known as one of the leading entertainment format experts in the international marketplace. She started her career with Dutch television icon Joop van den Ende, briefly before he and John de Mol merged their production companies in 1994 into what would become Endemol then Banijay. She spent over a decade there as Director of Acquisitions, heading up group format acquisitions. This was followed by a move to Sony Pictures Television, launching and leading the format acquisitions division there, acquiring third party IP for worldwide distribution. Lisette has been involved in acquiring some of the most exciting worldwide television brands such as Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Dragons Den, Survivor, Raid the Cage, Drag Race. Lisette, who is Netherlands based, launched her consultancy company Marphes Media in 2016 and has worked for large production/studio groups such as All3Media, Talpa Network and Fox Entertainment. For John de Mol’s Talpa Network and for TVI in Portugal she ha