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
20Advisors
9Countries
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.
20advisors
Executive team
The people running it.
Eight full-time. Between them they hold credentials across documentary filmmaking, conservation biology, environmental law, design, marketing and growth.
CEO & Founder
David B. Casselman
Filmmaker, attorney, conservationist. Founded Save Elephant Foundation USA. Author of Elephant Speak.
LA, USA · 34.05°N 118.24°WRead full bio
David has spent the last 20 years funding and filming wildlife sanctuaries on three continents. A trial lawyer by training, he built Ecoflix to fund the conservation NGOs he'd watched run out of money — and to put the cameras in their hands so the world could see the work being done.
He served on the boards of major conservation groups before establishing the foundation. His book Elephant Speak documents the rescue of working elephants from logging and tourism in Southeast Asia.
Attorney
Author
Filmmaker
20+ years field
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
Technology and media operator with two decades bridging innovation, production and strategy across Universal Music Group, Rigby Group and the public sector. Leads the platform and data behind 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 two decades operating at the intersection of media, technology and strategic communications.
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 has since advised technology-driven initiatives across the private and public sectors as Principal Consultant at Goaco, and has led strategic communications for Rigby Group plc since 2012. He studied at the University of Edinburgh.
Tech & innovation
Ex-Universal Music
Immersive audio
20+ years
Head of Content
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.
Recent field visits
Where the team has actually been.
A small selection of trips the executive and board have made to projects we fund. We visit. We meet the partners. We see the work happen on the ground.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
⊕ 18.93°N · 98.65°E
Three weeks alongside Save Elephant Foundation at the Elephant Nature Park. Reviewed sanctuary welfare standards and filmed the next Original.
With David, Peter, Ian
Kibale, Uganda
⊕ 0.49°N · 30.39°E
Field assessment with the Kibale chimpanzee research station. Met every ranger team on the project and reviewed the equipment grant.
With Ian, Grace
Cape Town, South Africa
⊕ 33.92°S · 18.42°E
Marine programme review and ranger-training site visit. Met three of our Southern African partners back-to-back.
With David, Naledi
Chiapas, Mexico
⊕ 16.75°N · 92.63°W
Spider monkey reintroduction site, an Indigenous-led forest defence programme and the next short-form Original — all in one trip.
With Peter, Joaquim
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.
Open Head of Distribution
Open Head of Engineering
Open Head of Marketing
Rolling Field producers
Rolling Pro-bono advisors