Pierre Abouchahla has been with film and TV industry publishing company Écran Total for nearly 10 years, and his current role is CEO and Director Général.
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Konstantinos Bourounis is Deputy Chief Content Officer at ERT, and part of the core team behind the ERTFLIX streaming platform. His keen interest in media has seen him thrive for more than 20 years in top media management positions, with a focus on youth audiences. Prior to stepping into his...show more
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Georgi Chakarov is president and CEO of TVBIZZ Group, which includes the companies CEETV and TVBIZZ. CEETV operates the leading news and market intelligence platform for television in Central and Eastern Europe—ceetv.net. It was founded in 2009 and tracks the key trends and developments in all countries from...show more
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As Head of Brand Partnerships for Northern EMEA, Pascal Dalton is responsible for managing and overseeing sales for all of ITV Studios’ market-leading formats in the region—including The Voice, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, The Chase and Love Island—collaborating with ITV Studios’ production companies and working with third-party...show more
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Maria Chiara Duranti, founder of the media company Formatbiz, is an experienced TV journalist and producer who has worked at Mediaset Italy, Telecinco and Bloomberg Television over the course of her career. In her current position as Head of Formatbiz Communication, Duranti provides valuable information about TV trends...show more
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Caroline Hurmson has more than two decades of international experience in acquisitions, sales, production and development, across all genres from scripted to factual to formats. She has worked for companies including RTL Group Germany, Endemol, Fremantle, TwoFour Group, Cineflix Rights, BBC Studios and CBS Studios.
Coming from a publishing background, Hurmson worked in...show more
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Stanislav Kimchev is a strategic, operational and collaborative sales and marketing professional with conviction in customer power and great attention to detail. He is one of the creators and SVP of Global Sales at CEETV.net, a B2B platform providing information and market intelligence about the TV content business in Central...show more
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Riyaad Minty is the Director of Business and Audience for TRT’s new digital brand, tabii. Riyaad moved to Istanbul in 2016 to join TRT, Turkey’s public broadcaster, where he has been responsible for the digital launches of the network’s international news channels and led the overall digital transformation of the TRT network...show more
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Gub Neal is an Emmy Award-winning producer behind the internationally acclaimed and BAFTA-nominated series The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan, as well as the successful French adaptation Insoupconnable. His other credits include The Last Enemy, Prime Suspect, Cracker and the Prix Italia winner Sunday.
In 2020, Gub established Ringside...show more
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Nick Pawsey oversees Fremantle’s distribution business across Central and Eastern Europe, leading the strategy to place the company’s finished drama, comedy, premium-factual, entertainment and lifestyle programming, as well as scripted and non-scripted formats.
Nick has driven many high-profile sales in the region, including drama series The Responder, This England and Alarm FurCobra; docuseries Planet...show more
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Dora Petho earned her Master's degree in Media and Communication, and after several internships at global enterprises and local PR agencies, she has worked at weCAN for more than five years. As the agency network’s Communications Manager, she is responsible for content creation and editing, project management, event organization and...show more
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Katie Pike serves as Director of European Formats for Paramount Global Content Distribution. With more than a decade of experience in the television industry, she is responsible for licensing Paramount’s vast catalogue of formats to broadcasters and platforms around Europe, including iconic game shows such as JEOPARDY! and top-tier dramas.
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Bernhard Schwab
SVP, Regional TV Licensing, German-Speaking and Central & Eastern Europe
Paramount Global Content Distribution
Pavel Stantchev joined TV2 Media Group in Hungary as CEO in 2019. He also became CEO of Planet TV, the second-largest private broadcaster in Slovenia, when TV2 acquired it in 2020. Pavel heads up the team that has turned TV2 into a market-leading commercial television channel in Hungary, overseeing the...show more
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Veronique Verges was appointed SVP of German-Speaking Territories, Poland and Hungary at Banijay Rights in January 2021, relocating from Miami to London following Banijay’s acquisition of Endemol Shine Group. In Miami, Veronique had served as SVP of Latin America and US Hispanic for Endemol Shine International since 2011. She joined Endemol...show more
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