Miguel Silva Email & Phone Number

Bergen, Hordaland, NO

Oslo, Oslo, NO

Familiar Code is my consultancy and investment vehicle founded to provide backing and support for startups and entrepreneurs with innovative video technologies for use in media and entertainment. I’m always on the lookout for new opportunities with a great team, market size, timing, and technology mix.As a consultant, I have helped companies such as.

Oslo, NO

Developer of data-driven compliance analysis software for the film and TV industry. We helped broadcasters, video distributors, and streaming services rapidly navigate the process of regulatory, legal and audience compliance through a comprehensive data-driven AI workflow. As CEO, I was responsible for product vision, developing a team that fulfilled our.

Bergen, Hordaland, NO

Took a sabbatical year off from work to learn, teach, travel, write, overall just do me for a while and help others. Mentored several startups in Bergen and Oslo during this “professional downtime,” but mostly relaxed and reconnected with the "why" of things.

Bergen, Hordaland, NO

Developed commercial operations globally for Vimond, a media-tech daughter company of the largest commercial broadcaster in Norway TV 2. Hired and mentored a sales team to promote their OTT-TV platform and post-production tools to broadcasters, content rights owners and operators worldwide. Under my tenure, we secured multimillion-dollar agreements with.

Oslo, *, NO

I joined this Schibsted-owned startup early and built its sales, business development, marketing and content management organization. We developed a suite of Mobile TV Products and Managed Services and gained significant traction with mobile network operators in Europe and the Americas. The company later rebranded to Aspiro TV and is now Norigin Media.

Oslo, NO

Set commercial strategies for Opera's mobile web browser solutions, particularly Opera Mini. Sought distribution partnerships across the region with mobile handset manufacturers, mobile network operators and media/web companies. Very successful launch of a mobile java application, reaching over 10 million active users and 2 billion page views in its first.

In its former incarnation, Nimanic was a developer of web-mobile interactive applications and infotainment content for mobile phones, offering hosted services for internet portals and mobile service providers mainly in Mexico. I have since exited and the company has now pivoted to IOT. I am still in touch with my former partners and am happy to make intros.

streaMX was a wholly owned subsidiary of CIST (My holidng company specializing in telecom projects) which distributed video streaming and new media products and applications in Mexico. Most of these were the result of international partnership or distribution agreement which I negotiated and succefully sold to companies like FIRA (Bank of Mexico).

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Helped build Marconi's presence in Mexico from 1 to 7 employees, promoted their range of wireless products and services to Mexican cellular network operators.

Served in the board of advisors, providing feedback on strategy, technology and business development.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, I managed business development opportunities across The Caribbean region for Ericsson's GSM product line, proposing turn key network deployment contracts to groups bidding for licenses and tracking the opportunity until close of deal.

Kista, Stockholm, SE

Served first as price manager for UMTS contract negotiations with Telenor Mobil in Norway and Switzerland, and then as Ericsson's lead for sales of Mobile Internet enablers and applications into the same customer

Paris, FR

Called Global One Communications at the time

Mclean, VA, US

Started my career as part of a founding sales team for a fast growing engineering company European Technology Partner. They developed a market leading system for measuring quality in GSM (2G) mobile networks. I Secured multimillion Kroner deals in South Africa, Australia, Portugal and UK for their product range. The company was bought by LCC and I moved on.

Master Of Arts, International Relations

B.A., International Business Management

International Baccalaureate