Starlings Entertainment is managed by successful executives who can create and access a pipeline of quality commercial projects.
Executive Members
Karine Martin
CEO
Starlings Entertainment
Co-founder of Mediabiz International, Karine is an award winning producer and an entertainment lawyer with 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry.
Karine has been involved in equity raising, fund managing and financial engineering for Mediabiz’ financing division as well as third party media groups, international banks and funds (sovereign, private and pension) throughout Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe.
Karine has executive produced, produced and/or financed more than 40 TV or film projects.
Karine also worked for Lagardere Group as COO of one of its financing entities.
Karine began her career as an attorney for two large law firms were she practiced litigation, commercial and corporate law in addition to entertainment law.
She is the recipient of the 2017 Business Women Award and member of various boards and organizations, including the International Women Forum.
Jeffrey W. Stentz
President
Starlings Entertainment
President, Private equity executive, Board member with an integral role in aggressive growth via acquisitions.
Jeffrey has earned a solid reputation for sourcing, managing, and closing a large volume of transactions, all steps instrumental in positioning companies for market leadership and profitability.
Former President of Hendricks Holding Company and the former Director of Acquisitions for ABC Supply Company (affiliated through common ownership under Chairman and CEO Diane Hendricks).
Jeffrey managed personal banking relationships and private equity investments for Diane Hendricks, and spearheaded the acquisition of 23 companies wihin Hendricks Holdings.
He closed more than 100 acquisitions for ABC Supply, a pivotal step in the companies’ growth from just $400M at the start of his tenure to a $9B operation in over 750 locations across the nation.
David Lipman
President of Production
Starlings Entertainment
David started his feature animation career as Head of Production for DreamWorks overseeing all of the studio’s output including Prince of Egypt, Antz, Road to Eldorado, Spirit and Chicken Run.
David left the executive ranks to co-executive produce the Academy Award winning hit Shrek. He went on to write and produce the multi-sensory stereoscopic attraction Shrek 4D for Universal Theme Parks, and then went on to produce the Academy Award nominated blockbuster Shrek 2.
David joined Framestore, Europe’s largest visual effects house in February 2006 as Managing Partner, opening up their Feature Animation Division. He hired a crew of three hundred and built Framestore’s feature animation pipeline and executive produced their inaugural project, The Tale of Despereaux, for Universal. David served as Vice President of Feature Production for Digital Domain, an Academy Award winning visual effects company, overseeing such projects as Oblivion, Jack The Giant Slayer, Enders Game, and Iron Man 3.
David recently oversaw the production of the animated feature film The Prophet, directed by Roger Allers (Lion King) and produced by Salma Hayek. David graduated from the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Film. He is a member of both the Writers Guild and Directors Guild of America.
Chris Philip
President
Starlings Television
Chris Philip is an Executive Producer and veteran international television executive.
Chris started his career as a Vice President at PolyGram Television which was later acquired by Universal and he stayed with the major Hollywood studio for 13 years. He later ran Power Television in the UK and was most recently Head of Production at Televisa USA.
Chris sold a number of scripted series to NBC, Hulu, Netflix, TNT, Starz, WGN, ABC and Lifetime and partnered with various studios such as Lionsgate, Gaumont, Universal Cable Productions, Bellum, Propagate and A&E.
Chris executive-produced two NBC primetime scripted drama series, Siberia and Crusoe, and secured distribution rights to John Malkovich’s NBC pirate drama series entitled Crossbones. He also executive-produced syndicated series, SAF3 starring Dolph Lundgren and co-created Deep Undercover, which currently airs on Netflix. He also co-produced a series of digital properties called Colibritany, that achieved nearly 100 million views on YouTube.
Chris just finished co-writing 10 episodes of spy thriller Duality and developed drama series Aztec with Oscar-winning writer, David Franzoni and attached Ben Silverman to executive produce with Robert Rodriguez as Director.
Board Members
Diane Hendricks
Chairman
Starlings Entertainment
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
Diane Hendricks owns Hendricks Holding Company, which includes an extensive and diverse portfolio of domestic and international companies.
Diane is also chairman of ABC Supply Co., Inc., the company she co-founded with her late husband, Ken Hendricks. Beloit, Wisconsin-based ABC Supply is the largest wholesale distributor of roofing in the United States and one of the nation’s largest distributors of siding, windows, and other select exterior building products. The company was founded in 1982 and has been the recipient of the Gallup Great Workplace Award for the 12th year a row, which honors the most engaged and productive workforces in the world.
With a strong personal commitment to civic and philanthropic projects, Diane is also actively involved in a wide range of community organizations in her native Wisconsin. She is one of the major underwriters of Wisconsin Eye Public Affairs Network, the first privately funded state public affairs network. She is co-chair of Rock County 5.0, a public/private economic development organization that is focused on retaining and creating jobs in her native Rock County. She has served on the boards of the Stateline Boys & Girls Club and Beloit Memorial Hospital, and is currently serving on the boards of the Beloit Foundation, Forward Janesville, Kandu Industries, Blackhawk Bank, and the Hendricks Family Foundation. In addition, Diane was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of Beloit College.
All of Diane’s pursuits are guided by her strong patriotic and conservative values. The Hendricks family includes seven children – Kendra, Kim, Kathy, Kevin, Brent, Kara and Konya, and 17 grandchildren.
Karine Martin
CEO
Starlings Entertainment
Co-founder of Mediabiz International, Karine is an award winning producer and an entertainment lawyer with 20 years’ experience in the entertainment industry.
Karine has been involved in equity raising, fund managing and financial engineering for Mediabiz’ financing division as well as third party media groups, international banks and funds (sovereign, private and pension) throughout Asia, the Middle East, North America and Europe.
Karine has executive produced, produced and/or financed more than 40 TV or film projects.
Karine also worked for Lagardere Group as COO of one of its financing entities.
Karine began her career as an attorney for two large law firms were she practiced litigation, commercial and corporate law in addition to entertainment law.
She is the recipient of the 2017 Business Women Award and member of various boards and organizations, including the International Women Forum.
Jeffrey W. Stentz
President
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
President, Private equity executive, Board member with an integral role in aggressive growth via acquisitions.
Jeffrey has earned a solid reputation for sourcing, managing, and closing a large volume of transactions, all steps instrumental in positioning companies for market leadership and profitability.
Former President of Hendricks Holding Company and the former Director of Acquisitions for ABC Supply Company (affiliated through common ownership under Chairman and CEO Diane Hendricks).
Jeffrey managed personal banking relationships and private equity investments for Diane Hendricks, and spearheaded the acquisition of 23 companies wihin Hendricks Holdings.
He closed more than 100 acquisitions for ABC Supply, a pivotal step in the companies’ growth from just $400M at the start of his tenure to a $9B operation in over 750 locations across the nation.
Patricia Brown
Board Manager
Starlings Entertainment
Investment Committee Member,
Starlings Capital
Patricia is established in London and has 20 years of experience in the finance sector and the entertainment industry.
As president of Mediabiz Europe, she is in charge of all European relationships and has the mandate to develop Mediabiz’ financial activities in Europe, including raising equity, setting up funds and co-managing Mediabiz Capital’s investment transactions in collaboration with the North American financial division.
Prior to joining Mediabiz, Patricia worked for Future Films from 2008 to 2011, as the company’s managing director and also as a member of the board.
In 2000, she joined the Media & Entertainment team of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as one of the initial team members and rose to be head of the structured tax team in 2005, before assuming the position of head of the media and entertainment team in 2007. The media portfolio consisted of £8bn of assets with clients from major and independent US and European studios, including Time Warner, 20th Century Fox and Walt Disney Pictures.
Prior to RBS, she worked for Greenwich NatWest where she was associate manager for leasing, asset and structured Finance (1989–2000).






