Chris Grant (CEO) Drew Buckley (COO & Head of Digital) John Pollak (President of Electus International) Max Levenson (VP, Current & Creative Development) Stephanie Ward (Director, Business and Legal Affairs) Max Richards (Executive Producer)
Electus was a production company founded by Ben Silverman in 2009. It was financed by IAC. The company had development deals with NBC, ABC, MTV, VH1, Facebook, Yahoo!, and AOL. In 2018, IAC sold Electus to Propagate Content.
Electus was founded by Ben Silverman, former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and chief executive officer of Reveille, and financed by Barry Diller’s IAC in 2009.[1][2] As part of its inception, IAC partnered Electus with CollegeHumor, the comedy portal that had developed series both on the web and TV.[3]
In January 2010, Electus partnered with Jason Bateman and Will Arnett to launch a sponsor-driven advertising and digital production company, DumbDumb, which launched branded campaigns including one for Orbit Gum,[4] and an online talk show on behalf of Denny's called "Always Open".[5]
In January 2011, Electus acquired Engine Entertainment and formed a new in-house global distribution arm, Electus/Engine Distribution.[7] The new division handled in-house and third-party projects for distribution globally, including a partnership with Abbot Reif Hameiri Production Company, a leading production company in Israel.[8]
In January 2011, Electus partnered with former MTV President of programming Tony DiSanto and head of series development Liz Gateley, to form an independent, multi-media production company, DiGa. DiGa was to focus on producing reality and scripted series for primetime cable and network outlets.[9]
In June 2012, Electus partnered with YouTube to launch the YouTube food channel HUNGRY[10] with Celebrity chefs Duff Goldman and Laura Vitale.
