MANSIONMEDIA : Simon Knight
provides : Research : Strategy : Development
offering creative, strategic and business services to media,
communication and finance companies.
Case study Film Financing : Pre - production lending.
Clients have included : Inspired Gaming Group : Rights Stuff : RedVision : Televisual
NHK/MICO : Off The Fence : ZDF/TF1 : New Bond Street Asset Management :
Xin de Telecom (Siemens,Deutsche-Telecom and Citic) : European Film Academy : Patridge Films :
Jadran Films : Setanta :
Contact : simon.knight at www.mansionmedia.eu.com
Client & Partner Comments :
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“Simon introduced me to an opportunity for a deal, which I passed on to my client, who completed the equity investment. We catch up regularly at MipTv and MIPCOM, and he provides me with his insight on what's going on in the UK media business.” November 2, 2008
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Red Vision / INGG
“Simon has excellent personal qualities and business skills as well as a top drawer portfolio of clients and connections that have helped us move our business forward significantly. I have no hesitation whatsoever in highly recommending Simon”
Dave Mousley, CEO RedVision (Virtual Gaming)
Top qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative
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New Bond Street Asset Management
“At New Bond Street Asset Management we used Simon's MansionElect research service during 2007. Being both comprehensive and providing the unexpected and alternative, Mansionmedia's service made a great combination with the International FT editions. I have also found Simon Knight to have wide and surprising relevant connections in capital introduction and specialist advisors. In 2006 he facilitated for us negotiations on a foreign reserve management contract.”
Klaus Peter Rosemann, COO, Founding Partner, NBSAM
Top qualities: Expert, Good Value, High Integrity
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Wendy Bernfeld - Rights Stuff
“Simon has been a longstanding business associate throughout my days in Europe since 1991, first indirectly in production, distribution, pay tv/vod and more directly since '99, when I founded Rights Stuff BV (content strategy/acquisition/distribution for new media across various platforms and business models). His expertise includes a wide knowledge in fields complementary to Rights Stuff, ie from the angles/ fields of M&A finance (media) and research (new media/trends/programming/new companies/tracking).
I
highly recommend him including for his selective (less is more, don't
inundate)approach to research and his ability to tap into related
digital and human networks/wendy bernfeld, md rights stuff bv”
Wendy Bernfeld Owner/Managing Director/Consultant, Rights Stuff BV
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Televisual Media UK limited
“When launching Televisual Media UK limited I had little time to build the financial foundations of the business or indeed to think through many of the financial implications.
Simon was a trusted advisor and came up with a good number of creative solutions while also putting me in touch with a good number of (diverse) financial investors.
I'm not sure how I could have done it in such a short space of time and so thoroughly without Simon. Highly recommended.” October 7, 2008
Top qualities: Expert, High Integrity, Creative
James Bennett, Televisual Media UK
hired Simon as a Money broker in 2006
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“Simon Knight has been assisting the Hexayurt Project off-and-on since late 2007, and largely acts as our strategic advisor on business development and financing issues.
He has developed an extremely comprehensive global map of how the world works and how things get done which has enabled him to provide pertinent information that we did not know we needed on several occasions. I think it is this global strategic map which makes Simon so valuable as an advisor. It doesn't hurt that he knows people from every walk of life and has a very broad international footprint either.
In terms of working with Simon, he's useful in two modes. When you need to know something, you can ask him to have think about the question at hand, and he'll come back with an opinion, and usually two or three points of contact for further action.
Even more useful is the informal "Simon Knight News Flash" where you occasionally get a vital piece of information about something you would never otherwise have discovered, usually that directly impacts your operations or represents a new opportunity in a direction you are not currently moving forwards in.
In today's complex and accelerating global environment, nobody is able to keep up with all of the fields which affect their operations. It's very useful to have Simon around keeping an eye out in his corner of the world for what affects yours.
Highly recommended.” September 23, 2008
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative
Vinay Gupta, Hexayurt
hired Simon as a Business Consultant in 2008, and hired Simon more than once
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Cristoph Kruecken Senior Trader / Associate Director, Bank of Scotland
“Simon Knight and MansionMedia are exceptionally good when it comes to business related information.
I have received some research related to the financial market which I could not have found somewhere else and gave me very specific and precise information. Furthermore was I impressed by his knowledge and connections within the market. I only can recommend to him and hope that I can work with him in the future.” September 23, 2008
Christopher Kruecken, Senior Trader / Associate Director, Bank of Scotland
was with another company when working with Simon at mansionmedia - Simon Knight
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Experience
Simon Knight is an international media consultant involved in creative, strategic and business activities.
After studying art at Middlesex and then film at the Polytechnic of
Central London (PCL), Simon worked on productions for such as C4, BBC,
Partridge Films and Jadran Studios as a film technician (particularly
editing) producer, assistant director and writer on productions in film
and television. Numbers of these have been shown around the world and
won international awards. These include Hamburg Altona www.imdb.com/title/tt0160344/ The Sin Eater www.filmcentre.co.uk/search.asp?str=Sin_Eater,_the
Cordoba with Annette Crosbie , The Moment with Lynsey Baxter, directed
by Terence Gross and director of photography, David Higgs, The Child
Eater movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809385069/cast The Bamboo Bears www.telescreen.nl/default.asp?t=&id=57&char=35 The Path of The Rain God ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/11993
Lecturing then followed in Further Education and then occasionally in
art and media at such as Kingston University, The London School of
Economics, the London Institute (Central St.Martins) Academy of
Dramatic Art (ADA) Zagreb, and project researching for the European
Film Academy and numerous clients.
Simon has since acted as project consultant in creative, practical and
advisory roles to numerous international media clients including,
Japanese State Broadcaster NHK/MICO as European TV buyer, a telecom
alliance in (Xin de www.xinde.com/menu_21/
China comprising of Siemans Deutsche-Telecom and Citic in branding,
global satellite and digital TV group Setanta/Servecast in strategy,
European TV co-producers ZDF/Telescreen/TFI as writer, Kamera
Interactive in business development and research for Rights-Stuff BV www.rights-stuff.com/
also see Additional Services
As MansionMedia, he has provided on-going research services and
analysis to such as Endemol International. With Rights Stuff,
MansionMedia is involved in strategic research with many other clients
in key global media developments particularly in cross platform content
acquisition and distribution.
www.mansionmedia.eu.com/
simon.knight@
Strategic and business projects led to capital introduction, deal
initiation and research with finance groups such as Grant Thornton, New
Bond Street Asset Management (NBSAM) and Pall Mall Capital.
Recent achievements include the re-financing of a film pre-production lending
facility by Fortress Investment Group, bringing them I believe their
first ever media deal. This operation was managed by Sara Giles / Freewheel (and
Galileo Media and Finance) and backed numbers of feature films such as
Paul Verhoeven's Black Book ( Zwartboek )
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0389557/ ) Closing The Ring directed by Richard
Attenborough and The Proposition written by Nick Cave.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421238/)
Others projects are such as an MBO and new joint venture in the Film
and Television sector and the raising of a new UK/LA film lending and
investment group by a well known team, as well as advising production
companies such as Off The Fence.
Simon is lucky enough to have participated in numerous film, television
and new media conferences and festivals beginning as a jury member of
the European
Student Film Festival in Munich with film director, Reinhard Hauff in
1984, and more recently a panelist on pitching for beginners at the
Broadcast Production Show in London.
A panelist at the World Broadband Forum Asia 2007 in Beijing in June. See : www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf_asia/
www.iec.org/events/2007/bbwf_asia/conference/e3.html
You can also contact me at :
simon.a.knight
@googlemail.com