Gonzalo Cilley
Head of Formats and International Production
TELEFE - Argentina

"Talking to writers and producers of fiction programs in America, Europe and Asia, what still surprises me every day is that, regardless of the cultural idiosyncrasies and different resources of each TV market, in the end, it is all about telling stories that appeal to every one of us as human beings.

After more than 80 years since the first movie and 70 since the first TV show were created, the essence of show business is still the same."

- Gonzalo Cilley                                   

Gonzalo has been leading the Format and International Production division of TELEFE for the last five years. TELEFE is the leading broadcast network of Argentina and also its largest production company, as TELEFE produces the majority of its content in-house.

TELEFE is known for its strong scripted formats catalog which have been adapted and produced in, among others, the U.S., France, Italy, Spain, India, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Greece, Turkey and Brazil. Gonzalo was responsible for the first sale of an Argentine fiction format to a major Hollywood studio and for the only Latin American entertainment show ever to be produced and aired in an European country with The Legacy, a game show developed by TELEFE that airs daily in the main networks of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France.

Before TELEFE, Gonzalo worked at a US private equity fund where he managed the Argentine companies which the fund had invested in with a total worth of 50 million USD. Prior to that, he worked in Spain and opened the Argentine branch of the comparison shopping Internet company KELKOO which was sold in March 2004 to Yahoo Inc. for 475 millions Euros.