Board

Damian Keogh
Director

Damian is the CEO of The HOYTS Group, a position he has held since 2014. HOYTS operates 60 cinemas in Australia and New Zealand. The Group also includes Val Morgan media which sells cinema, outdoor and digital advertising in Australia, New Zealand and nine territories in the Middle East.

Damian has overseen a dramatic re-investment program in the HOYTS cinema circuit. More than 80% of the circuit has been upgraded to powered recliner seats in every cinema. He has also overseen the rebranding and redesign of their premium cinema offering to LUX and the introduction of the Treat City front of house concept.

Damian currently serves on the Cinema Association of Australia Board.

A former professional sportsman, he enjoyed a distinguished basketballer career in the NBL and represented Australia on over 200 occasions in basketball including three Olympic campaigns.

Peter Allen
Director

Peter is the former Executive Director and CEO of Scentre Group and prior to this held leadership positions at Westfield and Citibank in Australia, UK, Europe and the US. Peter is currently a director of Built Group Holdings Pty Ltd and the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. He is a former chair of the Shopping Centre Council of Australia and former board member of the Property Council of Australia and the Essendon Football Club.

Jude is a Director and Joint CEO of Wooden Horse, co-founding the company in 2019 after a successful seventeen-year career at global entertainment group Entertainment One (eOne) and iconic Australian film company Hopscotch Films, where she was a partner. Working in acquisitions across film and television while at Hopscotch/eOne, she built a catalogue of titles that included the Oscar-winning documentary Amy, and TV series’ Peaky Blinders, Catastrophe, The Inbetweeners and The Slap. 

Jude produced award-winning drama series The Clearing for Disney+ globally, starring Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce, the reimagining of classic Australian comedy Mother and Son for the ABC starring comedians Matt Okine and Denise Scott, and co-produced two seasons of The Other Guy, a comedy for Stan and Hulu, in partnership with Aquarius Films. 

As Executive Producer, Jude has served on two seasons of the ABC/CBC factual series Stuff the British Stole and feature documentaries The Cape for Stan and Rose Gold for the ABC and Madman Entertainment. Prior to founding Wooden Horse, Jude executive produced the AACTA Award-winning feature documentary All This Mayhem.

Wooden Horse Director and Joint CEO Richard Finlayson has worked in television production and executive roles for over 20 years. Prior to starting Wooden Horse with Jude Troy in 2019, he was the Director of Television at the ABC, commissioning award-winning programming including Glitch, Nowhere Boys, Cleverman, Utopia and Hard Quz. Earlier, Richard was COO at SBS and Director of Programme Acquisitions at XYZ Entertainment (joint venture of Foxtel and Austar). 

At Wooden Horse, Richard has produced the feature documentary The Cape, which premiered in competition at the 70th Annual Sydney Film Festival before its national release on Stan. He produced Rose Gold for the ABC, a feature documentary charting the Australian Boomers first ever medal at the 2020 Olympics, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival before a successful theatrical run.

Richard was an executive producer on award winning drama series The Clearing for Disney+ globally, starring Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto and Guy Pearce, and the reimagining of Mother and Son for the ABC starring comedians Matt Okine and Denise Scott. Richard also worked with Marc Fennell to develop factual series Stuff the British Stole for ABC and CBC (Canada), partnering with WildBear Entertainment as Executive Producer.