Dodiodo
Media & Entertainment
People
Dodiodo is organized for nimbleness as technology, culture, and industries continue to converge and shift. A core group of trusted partners and advisors are our constants. We expand our capabilities when needed, drawing from four decades of relationships with experienced individuals and firms in IP development, branded entertainment and media, storytelling, production, distribution, licensing, research and data, publishing, and digital marketing. This structure allows flexibility in how we collaborate with brands, creative partners, and investors, while focusing resources where they matter most.
Dodie Jacobi
CEO | Executive Producer
Dodie Jacobi leads Dodiodo’s venture studio and IP development with 40 years building products, ventures, and resilient strategies in innovation sectors where planning for an uncertain future is routine. She brings experience that spans the converging industries shaping modern brand content and marketing — media, entertainment, IP, technology, and innovation — collaborating with Jim Henson’s Muppets, Harrison/Erickson (creators of the Phillie Phanatic), Children’s Television Workshop, PBS’s History Detectives, Hallmark, the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Sprint (now T-Mobile), Universal Press Syndicate, and The Kansas City Star. While advising hundreds of other business owners, she also founded 10 for- and not-for-profit ventures, including the first gift registry aggregate, the first for-profit business incubator, and novel delivery models for the entrepreneurship support, legal professional, and consulting industries. She launched Dodiodo in 2016 to develop her own intellectual properties and collaborate with market leaders in media and entertainment. Dodie lives in Hyde Park in Kansas City, Missouri, with her dog Simon and cat Fiona. She knits, tap dances, and rides her horse Taye in choreography to music and along happy trails.
Partners and Advisors
Jayne Brierley
Media Makeover
Series Development
Over 30 years of UK media experience in national print journalism, senior broadcast development, and series producing and directing, originating many of the UK’s best-loved popular factual series. Jayne brings creative and strategic intelligence to developing properties, intent on turning good ideas into commercially-viable content.
BBC, Netflix, Amazon, Discovery, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV, UKTV, Sky, and Marquee TV
Derek Drennan
NEST Productions
Founder, Managing Director
Derek set up Nest Productions, a RealScreen Top 10 Co-Pro delivering internationally high-quality production support. He has worked across all genres in TV and helped to run some of the UK’s biggest and smallest independent production companies. Derek prides himself on running a happy ship and installs his good-natured charm into everything that he does – often still laughing through the most stressful situations.
BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, MTV, Netflix
Meredith Levine
Fanthropoligist
Audience Development
Meredith Levine is a Fanthropologist who specializes in audience development research and strategy, especially as it pertains to the intersection of Hollywood and the Creator Economy. She studies culture and trends amongst fandoms and helps brands, creators, and media companies understand what it takes to develop fandom.
Disney Branded Television, The Walt Disney Corporation, Theorist Media, Jesser, Mekanism, and BuzzFeed.
Kate Norum
Branded Entertainment Consultant
Kate Norum is a senior branded entertainment consultant with over 12 years’ experience developing brand-funded content and strategic partnerships across factual, lifestyle, music and entertainment, including documentary, premium non-scripted and talent-led formats for top commissioners and global brands.
BBC, Sky, Google, Emirates Airlines, Kia, Audible and Adobe
Jon Willers
Development Consultant
Jon Willers is a development consultant specialising in unscripted factual, premium documentary, and brand-funded entertainment. He works with production companies, brands, and platforms to shape commercially robust IP, spanning broadcast, streaming, FAST, and digital ecosystems. His focus is on early-stage development, partnership strategy, and helping ideas travel across markets and revenue models. He's developed and delivered series for top UK & global platforms.
BBC, Channel 4, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon