Quintus Studios hires Woodcut, Discovery alum to lead creative 

Adam Jacobs

Global producer-distributor Quintus Studios has hired a former Woodcut Media and Discovery exec as its creative director.

Adam Jacobs will be responsible for setting up and overseeing Quintus Studios’ overall editorial strategy, including its original projects developed for the company’s owned and operated channels such as Free Documentary and FD Real.

He will also oversee co-productions and pre-sale funded projects with existing production partners, reporting into founder and MD Gerrit Kemming.

Before joining Quintus, Jacobs was development consultant for CIC Media and Back2Back Productions, having been a development exec at Zig Zag Productions and an exec producer at Woodcut.

Prior to that he worked at Discovery Networks International and held roles including director of factual programming at Discovery UK & Western Europe.