BBC Worldwide has appointed Caroline Torrance as director of investment, heading BBC Worldwide’s content acquisition team. Formerly at Endemol, Torrance takes over from Matt Forde who has been promoted to the newly created role of EVP sales & distribution and co-pros in BBC Worldwide’s New York office. As the new director of investment, Torrance will be responsible for managing BBC Worldwide’s relationship with BBC Vision, ensuring commercial viability of all BBC Worldwide programme investments and securing international co production partners for in-house BBC productions. Torrance will report into Wayne Garvie, managing director of content & production as part of Garvie’s senior management team. Torrance joins BBCWW from Endemol where she was director of scripted programming and distribution having successfully established a finished programme division and scripted format business. Before Endemol, Torrance worked for Granada International as SVP for the Americas and Eastern Hemisphere and head of drama co-productions. Torrance will take up her new post at the beginning of September.
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