Olivier Courson was appointed Chairman of STUDIOCANAL in March 2007.
His mission consisted in accelerating STUDIOCANAL’s development in France and abroad. STUDIOCANAL is now a European studio, leader of feature films’ production, acquisition and distribution. It is the only studio in Europe to distribute directly on all media, across three main countries: France, United Kingdom and Germany.

Olivier Courson joined the CANAL+ GROUP in April 2003 as General Council. In September 2005, he was appointed chairman of the board of STUDIOCANAL.

He graduated from the prestigious French schools Sciences-Po and National School of Administration (E.N.A.), and holds a Master’s degree in private law (Paris I). Olivier Courson started his career as a member of the French Council of State. He advised the Ministry of Industry on the opening of the telecom sector to competition (1995-1996) as well as the French Centre National du Cinéma (CNC: National Cinema Centre) in 1997-1998. He is the co-author of the Council of State’s report: “Internet et les réseaux numériques” (Internet and the digital networks, 1998).
In 1999 he was appointed technical advisor in charge of the cinema and European and international matters at the cabinet of the French Ministry for Culture and Communication.
From 2001 to 2002 he was advisor for culture and communication at the French Prime Minister’s cabinet.

Romain Bessi is graduated from Sup de Co Reims.
He worked two years for the auditing firm Ernst & Young and joined the CANAL+ GROUP in 1997 as a management controller for the premium channel.
He was appointed Financial Director of SPORT+ (in charge of international negotiations for sports rights) in 1998. In 2000 he became the Financial Director of CANAL+ Nordic (Sweden, Finland, and Denmark) and then CEO.
Two years later, in 2002, he was appointed Financial Director of CANAL+ SA, and in 2005 Financial Director of the CANAL+ GROUP edition.
He joined STUDIOCANAL in March 2007 and was appointed EVP of Financial and Technical Services and managed the integration of the foreign subsidiaries. In 2010 he also became responsible for the strategy.

Graduated from the prestigious French HEC and Sciences Po schools, Matthieu Zeller joined STUDIOCANAL in January 2012 as Executive Vice-President in charge of Strategic Marketing as well as French and International Distribution of STUDIOCANAL.
Before that Matthieu Zeller made his entire career at L’Oréal. He successively occupied key positions within the Marketing for the Club des créateurs de beauté, then in the luxury goods division. In 2006 he was appointed CEO of l’Affaire Beauté (Biotherm, Helena Rubinstein, Shu Uemura, Kiehl’s) and in 2008 he was appointed Executive Vice-President of Lancôme International.

Rodolphe Buet was appointed CEO of STUDIOCANAL Germany on January 1st, 2012.
Before that, from January 1st ,2009, until January 12th, 2012, he was Executive Vice-President in charge of the International Distribution and Business Development. Before joining STUDIOCANAL in January 2005 as Sales and Marketing Director, Rodolphe Buet devoted an important part of his career to the music industry (WARNER, EMI, BMG and FNAC).

Danny Perkins started his career in the industry as a Marketing Executive at the Feature Film Company in 1996. There he was responsible for the marketing and publicity for a number of theatrical and video releases including the Academy Award nominated ULEE’S GOLD and the reissue of IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
Danny joined Optimum Releasing (now STUDIOCANAL) at the inception of the company in May 1999, taking on responsibility for the positioning and promotion of all titles. As the new company developed and grew, his role was extended to include management and development of the company, and he was named CEO on September 1st 2010. He has overseen the release of over 250 titles theatrically and 1000 titles in Home Entertainment, including critically acclaimed and commercially successful titles, such as FAHRENHEIT 9/11, PAN’S LABYRINTH, THE HURT LOCKER, THIS IS ENGLAND and FOUR LIONS, as well as an impressive slate of productions including Rowan Joffe’s BRIGHTON ROCK, Joe Cornish’s ATTACK THE BLOCK and Nick Murphy’s THE AWAKENING.
Danny is a regular lecturer at both the National Film and Television School and the UK Film Council, and has represented the company at events at the London School of Economics, London Film Festival and the BritDoc festival among others.

Robert Slaviero (Slav as he is known in the industry) started in the film industry in 1978 as a despatch clerk at UIP. Since then he has worked as National Sales Manager for Hoyts/Fox/Columbia Tri-Star joint venture, assisted with the setup of PolyGram Films Australia, and was Managing Director of Twentieth Century Fox Films Australia where he oversaw the release of films such as MOULIN ROUGE, TITANIC and THE FULL MONTY. In October 2001 Slav joined Hoyts Distribution as the CEO of the company. Under Slav’s leadership Hoyts Distribution has become one of Australia & New Zealand’s leading independent film distribution companies, boasting a film library that contains over 140 titles including four films from the highly successful SAW series and all of the films from the enormously popular TWILIGHT franchise. Slav has also been President of the Australian Independents Distributor’s Association since 2009.

Sylvie Arnould holds a Ph.D. in Corporate Law from the University of Paris 2. After 3 years as a lawyer with the animation company Créativité & Développement followed by 5 years as an advisor at the French USPA (Union Syndicale de la Production Audiovisuelle =  Union for audio-visual production), she joined the CANAL+ GROUP in 1994.
Responsible for the business affairs of STUDIOCANAL Image, she took over the legal and business affairs of STUDICANAL in 2003; it groups together all the distribution and co-production business of new films and the catalogue.

Ron Halpern oversees the international productions and acquisitions for STUDIOCANAL. Current productions include  I GIVE IT A YEAR starring Rose Byrne and Simon Baker and written and directed by Dan Mazer; THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY written and directed by Hossein Amini and starring Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Dunst and Oscar Isaac; NON STOP directed by Jaume-Collet Serra and starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore and SERENA directed by Susanne Bier, Starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence.  Previous productions included Batfa winning and Academy Award nominated TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY, as well as THE TOURIST with Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie, THE LAST EXORCISM and CHLOE. STUDIOCANAL also co-produced Collet Serra's UNKNOWN starring Liam Neeson.

Ron also oversees the theatrical adaptations and productions of STUDIOCANAL, notably THE PRODUCERS by Mel Brooks, THE GRADUATE and THE LADYKILLERS.

Before joining STUDIOCANAL in 1996, Ron worked for CBS SPORTS.
He holds a BA and a MBA from Columbia University.

Graduated from the French management school ESSEC, Valérie Languille also holds a Ph.D. in Sociology. She started her career as a consultant with the consulting firms Sociovision and Gemini Consulting (Capgemini Group). There, she was in charge of human resources missions and change management within several large-scale companies.
Valerie joined the Caisse d’Epargne Group in 2002 and became responsible for the human resources of a subsidiary and supported the integration of new activities. In 2006 she joined the HR Corporate Division. There she held several key positions in the field of HR development, including Recruitment and Talent Management. When Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne merged, she became Deputy Director of Senior Executives’ Development and Management. In this position, she was responsible for designing the detection and training processes for the future Senior Executives, as well as for the BPCE Diversity Program.
Valérie Languille joined STUDIOCANAL in March 2011.

In 2005 Sophie Kopaczynski joined the CANAL+ GROUP, where she held the position of Chief of the President’s Cabinet. In parallel with this function, she managed public relations for the Group from 2006 to 2010.
Sophie holds a master’s degree in Culture’s Economy and Communication and is graduated from the EPSCI School (ESSEC business schools group). She was assigned several missions within the French Government, notably at the Ministry for Culture and Communication (1996-1998) where she worked on the national celebration of the 20th anniversary of André Malraux’s death, the 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
From 1999 to 2001 Sophie Kopaczynski was in charge of partnerships and public relations for the Francofolies de la Rochelle (a French music Festival).
In 2002 she was in charge of communications within the Lucien Barrière Group.
From 2003 until 2005 she was responsible for communications at the Centre National de la Chanson, des Variétés et du Jazz (= national centre for song, variety and jazz music).