Julian Chiabella

Specialties: Program Development, Financing

Since 1993, Julian Chiabella and his media consulting firm –Bellaventures LLC — have been serving both ends of the content creation and delivery pipeline, working with the program development, sponsorship and distribution needs of the producer and distributor communities. Julian attends major international media and entertainment content markets, including MIPTV and MIPCOM [Cannes France], NATPE [Las Vegas], Real Screen [Washington DC] and SilverDocs [Silver Spring] to view programs and dialogue with producers, distributors, ad agencies, and program funders.

Julian was Acquisitions Manager for Films Media Group/Films for the Humanities & Sciences [Princeton, NJ] for the past eight years. Previously, Julian had 18 years in key media positions with various top public stations, including WHYY/Philadelphia, WPBT/Miami [Nightly Business Report], Maryland Public Broadcasting [Wall $treet Week], WEDU/Tampa [Yanni in Concert] and the New Jersey Network [Groucho-A Life in Revue].

Among the sponsorship clients that he had identified, developed and retained are: Pacific Telesis Group, GE Financial Services, Franklin-Templeton Funds, AG Edwards, Sunoco, Massachusetts Financial Services, Carl Zeiss, Toyota, AMTRAK, M&M Mars, National Foods [Hebrew National] and Carillon Importers [Gran Marnier].

Among the staff consulting or content distribution clients Chiabella has worked with are Reuters, GE, Discovery/TLC, PBS, Ovation, TVE/Spain, Telefe/Argentina. He has acted as media consultant for the National Association of Home Builders [Washington DC].

Chiabella is a graduate of Temple University, and a former U.S. Air Force Captain [Vietnam-era veteran]. He lives in the Philadelphia suburb of Mount Laurel.