Cineflix Productions has tapped former Wilderness Productions executive producer David Casey as head of current.

In the newly created role, Casey will oversee creative for Cineflix Productions’ factual slate of new and returning series, leading the division’s team of executive producers.

Casey will interface directly with network executives as well as internal production administration, post-production and business and legal affairs. He reports directly to J.C. Mills, president and commercial director.

An award-winning film and TV executive, Casey comes to Cineflix with more than 15 years’ experience across various roles including executive producer, director and showrunner.

Previously, he served as EP of television and digital media at Coyote Peterson’s Wilderness Productions, where he was responsible for the company’s content development initiatives and digital growth.

Prior to that, Casey was VP of production at ITVS, where he oversaw production for all broadcast and digital projects.

His EP and showrunner credits include the globally produced Coyote Peterson: Brave the Wild; Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival award-winning Ocean Warriors from EPs Robert Redford and the late Paul Allen; and long-running Ice Cold Gold for Animal Planet. He was also showrunner and director on Travel Channel’s Legend Hunter.

Casey has produced on several documentaries including Participant Media VR endeavors Melting Ice and This is Climate Change, as well as serving as the Greenland segment producer of former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, helmed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk.

He was also creative director on History Channel’s Pawn Stars, its spin-off Cajun Pawn Stars, and Jane Root and Nutopia’s ground-breaking America: The Story of Us. At History, he won numerous ProMax Awards for his brand and series creative direction.

“As we continue to evolve the Cineflix brand, we see David as a major part of that,” said Mills, who first met Casey when Mills was working at Nat Geo. Mills would later go on to represent Casey when he worked at talent agency ICM.

This story originally appeared in Realscreen