Kate Bennetts
Kate is an experienced TV financing executive, now CEO at Ringside Studios. Ringside was set up by independent TV veteran Gub Neal, with backing from Newen Studios in France. Ringside produced ‘Liaison’, a six-part international thriller starring Eva Green and Vincent Cassel, which launched on Apple TV+ in 2023. ‘My Name is Leon’ aired on the BBC in 2022 and won the best TV Movie at the C21 Drama Awards later that year.
As well as producing its own content Ringside is also working with established UK talent through its investment fund Ringside Media. Ringside Media has brought together a network of creative led scripted production companies working across television, film and theatre.
Prior to joining Gub at Ringside, Kate worked at Ingenious Media for 8 years, overseeing and running the TV strategy. Whilst there, Kate worked across both complex project financing and co-production deals, as well as assessing and structuring venture capital investment deals. Notable projects Kate has helped finance and offered advisory services on are ‘Marcella’, ‘White House Farm’, ‘Britannia’ and ‘Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell’. Before that in another life, Kate worked in investment management and is a qualified accountant.