Nick Ruczaj Email & Phone Number

Nick is a seasoned media executive, with over 20 years of experience in the streaming industry. As an independent consultant, he helps companies navigate the media and sports industry, advising and delivering on innovation, digital and content strategy. Recent clients include Wurl, Whip Media, Pixellot, GoSeeTV, Seachange, VIDAA, Evrideo and Amdocs Media.Nick has a proven track record of securing and managing strategic partnerships and distribution agreements with leading media and technology companies, such as DAZN, FIFA, Vodafone, Pluto, Google, Sky, Virgin Media, Amazon, Apple, and Samsung. He specialises in market expansion, having represented major Hollywood Studios in emerging markets, and with soccer, bringing EPL & La Liga club channels to South Africa.Nick founded a triple-play platform in the UK called Freewire, which provided broadband, phone and IPTV services to students living in university halls of residence. He grew this business to a footprint of over 160,000 rooms before selling the company to Inuk Networks (in turn acquired by Move Networks, and then EchoStar/DISH). This brought Nick into the telco and platform TV space, helping to develop video technology and content strategies for international operators including Virgin Media, Cable & Wireless, Al Jazeera, Digiturk, du, Ooredoo, MTN, Telefonica, Turkcell and Vodafone.Nick has served as a non-executive director at On Demand Deutschland Gmbh. and Discover Digital SA.

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  University Of York

  Political Philosophy