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Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Working with leading Stockholm-based content group to identify and facilitate investment opportunities in independent audio-content creators. Specific responsibility for Spanish language productions inside a global network of podcast companies which can reach new markets by blending their own talent with the strength of the group.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Focussed on connecting online content creators to compatible global and local brands. Kantera builds technology, aggregates social media data and delivers audiovisual services. In this way, creatives can monetise their content and brands can track and optimise the effectiveness of their online ad investment.

Barcelona, Spain And Zug, Switzerland

Responsible for all operations at Utopia Music including artist management and live streaming. The company was founded in 2016 to bring the creativity of artists, the commerce of the music industry and the science of data together through an Open Platform. The two businesses exist as both revenue generators and data collection channels. The Open Platform that supports them aspires to simplify the industry and benefit everyone who is interested in music

London, Stockholm, Berlin And Barcelona

Designed and negotiated integrated content offering for pioneer OTT platform in Sweden, Germany, UK and SE Asia. Headed expansion into other territories worldwide. Lead a team to re-draw content rights map for OTT, make break-through partnerships with FTA broadcasters and close distribution agreements with all global pay TV channel providers. Landmark deals included TV4 Sweden, SVT, ProSiebenSat1, RTL MedienGruppe, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Fox, Disney, Turner, NBCUni, Discovery, BBC Worldwide, Viacom, Eurosport…etc. Oversee content offering, broadcaster relationships, rights clearance and international platform roll-out.

Sweden, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania, Brazil, Chile And China

Set up and oversee content offering across Digital Terrestrial TV networks in Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) and South America (Brazil and Chile). Report to Board on content related issues and design and implement strategy for platform growth in all territories. Negotiate premium sports content deals – Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, the NBA. Establish partnerships with media groups – Fox, BBC, MTV, Disney, etc for creative content exploitation. Represent NGB AB in new territories at governmental level, institutional level and with national broadcasters in Africa and L.Am.

Spain And Italy

Head content side of DTT pay TV platforms. Reporting to CEO of Swedish-owned TV Group with specific and overall responsibility for content offer of national digital terrestrial networks in Spain and Italy.

Spain

Reporting to Managing Director of Barcelona-based media group with 350 employees and activity in broadcast TV, production facilities and services, internet journalism, film and documentary production. In charge of programme rights management and TV strategy, plus development of Lavinia Group internationally. (Project and consultancy basis from March 2006 to April 2007).

Spain

Reporting to the Managing Director of Stockholm-based investment company, SMI, a wholly owned subsidiary of Skandia – Europe’s third largest pension fund. Specific overseeing of media investments of SMI (EUROS 45 Million) in Spain, Italy and UK plus development of new business including contacts with major film studios and broadcast networks in USA. SMI achieved almost 300 % return on investment in 5 years when sold at the end of this period. (Euro 42M investment. Euro 109M return).

Spain

Media Park S.A - digital production centre owned by public broadcaster TV3 and and leading private network, Antena3, as well as Telefonica SA and Philips, providing digital thematic channels to the Spanish and Portuguese pay TV industry. Part of the founder/promotor group, Equip S.L.Included chairing Board of Media Showtime SL - joint venture between Showtime Networks USA and Media Park.Responsible for all aspects of Content including channel positioning, programming, branding and sales. Definition and implementation of strategy internationally and nationally. Management of 220 employees. EURO 30 Million deal negotiations with major studios 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Sony Columbia, Time Warner, MGM, Disney, BBC, as well as relationship with domestic operators (Telefonica, Sogecable, Auna, etc ) and international partners. Responsible for international and national co-production and sales. During this period, pay TV distribution of Media Park’s channels rose to 1.6 million subscribers and revenues to 63 M Euros by 2002.

Spain

Reporting to MD, production, packaging and distribution of eight thematic TV channels comprising four film channels, two documentary and two children’s services played out through cable, satellite and DTT to 600,000 subscribers by end of 1999. Sales, marketing, acquisitions, in-house production. Executive produced more than 500 hours of television including the award-winning series “Europe’s Cinema” presented by actor Christopher Lee.Also Member of Supervisory Board overseeing MEDIA MBA, course promoted and organised by Media Park and leading Spanish University, the Universidad Ramon Llull.

Bachelor’S Degree, B.Sc (Hons) Metallurgy And Material Science

Bsc (Hons), Metallurgy & Materials Science