Tier 01
Executive
Day-to-day operations. The full-time team running the platform, the productions, the partnerships and the field programmes.
8full-time
The people behind every project.
Filmmakers, conservationists, attorneys, scientists. The Ecoflix Foundation Executive team, Board of Directors and Advisory Board — together running the platform and the foundation.
8Executive
5Directors & trustees
23Advisors
2Registered entities
How we're organised
One foundation, three layers.
A small executive runs day-to-day operations. A Board of Directors handles governance. An Advisory Board brings world-class expertise into every decision.
Tier 02
Board of Directors
Governance and fiduciary oversight. Approves spending, audits programmes, signs off every annual report. Meets quarterly.
5directors & trustees
Tier 03
Advisory Board
World experts in conservation, film, law and impact. Pro-bono reviewers of every project's evidence base, every campaign, every grant.
23advisors
Executive team
The people running it.
The full-time team. Between them they hold credentials across documentary filmmaking, conservation biology, environmental law, design, marketing and growth.
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
David B. Casselman
Philanthropist and retired trial lawyer who has dedicated much of his life to animal welfare.
LA, USA · 34.05°N 118.24°WRead full bio
David Casselman is a philanthropist and a retired trial lawyer who has dedicated much of his life to animal welfare, including a wide variety of pro bono legal work for animal causes. He is a co-founder of the Cambodia Wildlife Sanctuary, a member of the Board of the Wolf Sanctuary in Los Angeles, a member of the Advisory Board of the Whale Sanctuary Project and the CEO and founder of The Ecoflix Foundation, overseeing the financial operations, non-profit business, as well as the advocacy and ethical impactful deliverables of Ecoflix.
Head of Conservation
Ian Redmond, OBE
Field biologist who studied with Dian Fossey. 50 years documenting and protecting great apes worldwide.
Bristol, UK · 51.45°N 2.58°WRead full bio
Ian began his career as Dian Fossey's research assistant at Karisoke Research Centre in Rwanda. Half a century on, he is one of the world's longest-serving primatologists. He chairs the Ape Alliance, advises UNEP as a Convention on Migratory Species Ambassador, and remains a regular field presence in Central Africa and Indonesia.
At Ecoflix, Ian sets the scientific standard for every conservation programme we fund. No project enters the portfolio without his sign-off on its biological evidence base.
Primatologist
UNEP Ambassador
Chair · Ape Alliance
50 years field
Head of Brand Design
Giles Tobin
Brand designer with 15+ years across consumer, conservation and not-for-profit. Designed the platform, the foundation identity and ecoflix.com.
London, UK · 51.50°N 0.13°WRead full bio
Giles leads brand, design and digital experience across the Ecoflix Foundation. He designed the foundation identity, the channel platform, and the donor-facing site you're reading now.
Previously he led design at agencies and in-house teams across consumer, conservation and not-for-profit sectors, with a particular focus on the visual systems that make difficult causes feel approachable.
Brand designer
15+ years
Platform · Identity
EB Design Agency
Head of Technology
Iain S Bruce
Award-winning journalist and editor turned media technologist. From UK and international newsrooms to global production at Universal Music Group — now building the platform and data powering Ecoflix.
Scotland, UK · 56.2°N 4.3°WRead full bio
Iain leads technology across the Ecoflix Foundation — the streaming platform, the data architecture that links viewing to giving, and the AI-driven editorial pipeline behind the channel. He joined after a career spanning newsrooms, record labels and the technology that connects them.
Iain began as an award-winning journalist and editor, working across the UK and international press before moving into media production and technology. As VP, Head of Production for Universal Advanced Media he ran global audiovisual operations across Universal Music Group, producing more than 400 filmed projects and helping pioneer immersive audio from Abbey Road and Capitol Studios. He studied at the University of Edinburgh.
Journalist & editor
Ex-Universal Music
Immersive audio
20+ years
Content Manager
Dharam Barrett
Manages the content programme across the channel, keeping the foundation's storytelling consistent and moving.
Administrative Manager
Jamie Kessinger
Keeps the foundation running day to day, coordinating operations and administration across the team.
Producer & director
Brady Valashinas
Los Angeles filmmaker drawn to stories that deepen our bond with the living planet.
Producer
Sue Houghton
Wildlife producer and director.
Board & trustees
Governance & oversight.
Fiduciary oversight across the foundation's US and UK entities — programme approval, audits and annual reporting. Meets quarterly.
Director
Lou Pitt
Veteran talent manager and producer, bringing decades of entertainment-industry leadership to the board.
Director
Teo Alfero
Founder of the Wolf Connection sanctuary, where rescued wolves and young people heal alongside one another.
Director · UK Trustee
Dr Niall McCann
Conservationist, explorer and broadcaster with frontline anti-poaching experience.
UK Trustee
Paul Milton
Conservation strategist focused on turning funding into measurable protection on the ground.
UK Trustee
Danny Cohen
Television executive and media founder; a senior broadcasting leader.
Advisory Board
The brains trust.
Twenty specialists who review the foundation's projects pro bono — conservationists, scientists, filmmakers, lawyers and campaigners.
Founder, Survival International
Robin Hanbury-Tenison, OBE
A pioneering explorer and a founding champion of Indigenous peoples' rights.
Neuroscientist
Dr Lori Marino
Studies the minds of whales and dolphins; a leading voice against cetacean captivity.
Media & content
Lance Gould
Decades of editorial and content leadership across major media.
Founder & CEO, HHERF
Dr Ossama Salamah
Leads a health education and research foundation linking human and planetary wellbeing.
UK Director, IFAW
James Sawyer
Heads the UK arm of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
Business advisor & speaker
Adam Shaw
Advises purpose-led organisations on growth and impact.
Actor & singer
Nina Kristofferson
Performer and creative advocate for the foundation's mission.
Music & business executive
Denis Ingoldsby
Brings music-industry and commercial leadership to the advisory board.
Entertainment executive
John Dellaverson
Senior entertainment lawyer and former studio executive.
Director & photographer
Taye Balogun
Filmmaker and photographer documenting people and wild places.
Writer, producer, director
Gobi Rahimi
Storyteller across film and music with a social-impact focus.
Music producer
Ronnie Wilson
Producer and creative collaborator extending the foundation's reach.
Actress & campaigner
Dame Virginia McKenna, OBE
Acclaimed actress and lifelong wildlife campaigner, co-founder of Born Free.
Television executive
Giovanni Pedde
Former senior television executive with global distribution expertise.
Journalist & screenwriter
Valentina Martelli
Television journalist and writer covering nature and human stories.
Ecosystem ecologist
Dr Thomas Crowther
Scientist mapping how restoring ecosystems can help stabilise the climate.
Ecosystem restoration
John D. Liu
Filmmaker and ecologist known for large-scale landscape restoration.
Founder, Elephant Nature Park
Lek Chailert
Founder of Elephant Nature Park and a global voice for elephant welfare.
Singer & philanthropist
Leona Lewis
Award-winning artist and committed animal-welfare philanthropist.
Founder/CEO, WCFF
Christopher J. Gervais, FRGS
Founder of the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival.
Advisor
Kerry David
Award-winning filmmaker; founder of Ecoflix partner NGO Over and Above Africa and director of Breaking Their Silence: Women on the Frontline of the Poaching War.
Advisor
Justin Albert OBE
Conservationist and filmmaker. Former Director of the National Trust in Wales and former head of production at Animal Planet.
Advisor
Elaine Francisco
Advisory Board, Ecoflix Foundation.
Join us
We're hiring.
Three executive seats and a growing pipeline of field, production and engineering roles. If your work has ever sat at the intersection of storytelling and conservation, we'd like to talk.
Roles are posted on the careers page when they open — speculative applications always read.