Alex Berger

Alex Berger is a creator, producer, consultant and media entrepreneur. During his career, he participated in numerous TV programs in Europe and more specifically France (Rock Report, Rapido, Burger Quizz…) ; invented the multi access web portal Vizzavi (later sold to Vodafone and baptised Vodafone Live), founded & accelerated the growth of several media companies (NBdC, Chez Wam…) and occupied various executive positions, notably with Pierre Lescure at Canal+, and as Chairman & CEO of CanalNumédia & VivendiNet (group Vivendi Universal). He is currently a producer of TV scripted entertainment through The Oligarchs Productions based in Paris; a consultant through MM&I and owns the digital distribution company ENTJOY.

Alex Berger was born on March 22, 1962 in Philadelphia, USA of a French mother, Francine Dreyfus-Berger, a painter and an American father, Dr. Joseph Berger, PhD. At 10, he moved to France with his parents and sister Sylvie Berger. After a French education, he briefly studied at the University of Pennsylvania and then lived alternatively between France & the United States. He currently lives in Paris, with his wife Florence Servan-Schreiber and their three children (Pénélope, Arthur & Léon Berger).

His career begins in 1982 at Tele Monte Carlo TMC in the Principality of Monaco where Michel Lacroix, SVP of TMC recruits him as an intern script assistant over the summer. After multiple positions and notably the coordination of Princess Grace’s funeral ceremonies, at 21, Alex is promoted by Jean-Claude Heberlé, then CEO of RMC-TMC, as producer of the evening news. While at TMC he meets Alain Chabat ( a radio host on RMC at the time).

He quit Monte-Carlo in 1984 and creates his first production company : Real to Reel Filmworks, Inc. in Los Angeles with the Baron Edmond de Rothschild & his son Benjamin de Rothschild. This company produces short programs for the emerging industry of US cable TV networks. It develops for Revell (the US toy and model company and US subsidiary of Compagnie industrielle du jouet) one of the first animated series based on a toy line (Robotech), produced by Harmony Gold USA, Frank Agrama.

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