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As Managing Director of Eviso Germany GmbH / M7 Germany (100% subsidiary of Canal+ Luxembourg S.à r.l. / Vivendi) responsible for the B2B business area of Canal+ Luxembourg in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Eviso Germany is the leading provider of B2B TV wholesale products for cable and IP networks in Europe. In the cable business, M7 operates an independent and fully integrated digital program and services platform for around 140 network operators and has established itself as the third strongest platform for cable television in the German core market. As the only provider, M7 Germany provides TV licenses via satellite, cable, OTT and IPTV and has the largest content portfolio in German-speaking countries.

• Shareholder and part of the management team that sold M7 Group SA to Canal+ International for 1.1 billion EUR in 2019.
• Responsibility for over 20M EUR turnover per year and 25 employees.
• Exceeding targets in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Winning numerous new customers such as Deutsche Telekom (2016) and Swiss mobile company Salt (2017) with significant revenue and profit contributions.
• Successful expansion in Austria and Switzerland and expansion to market leadership.
• New conclusion of Canal+ Luxembourg's highest-revenue contract with Tele Columbus AG for three years and a subsequent extension on the same terms. This resulted in significantly exceeding targets and budget goals.
• Multi-year extension of contracts with over 40 cooperation partners in a volume of three times the annual turnover each.
• Initiation and establishment of the M7 Partner Awards for TV companies as a customer loyalty measure with annual award ceremonies in three categories.
• Restructuring of the entire company with significant efficiency and effectiveness increases as well as cost savings, among other things through the introduction of key account management, standardization of all customer contracts, consistent automation, conclusion of new cooperations, renegotiation of contracts with all service providers, redesign of all processes, reduction of workforce and introduction of new IT systems.
• Successful change management through the introduction of a new organization and a new organizational culture, new methods and agile project management. Doubling of employee satisfaction within 12 months.
• Introduction of a new brand and a new corporate design as well as complete redesign of marketing support for B2B customers in 2017.
• Expansion of the product portfolio through introduction of numerous new content and technical products with excellent market response. Expansion to the largest license portfolio for IPTV platforms and cable networks in German-speaking countries
• Changes to business models through introduction of new products with minimum turnover commitments (2017) and reduction of dependence on variable revenues.
• Redefinition of the service portfolio and introduction of a new basic fee with increase in fixed monthly revenues well above budget.
• Sought-after expert with numerous publications in the trade press as well as at international congresses and trade fairs.

Eutelsat visAvision GmbH was a company of the Eutelsat Group Paris, one of the world's leading satellite operators. With visAvision, Eutelsat operated an independent and fully integrated digital program and services platform for network operators in Europe. The platform provided turnkey TV wholesale products, enabling simple and cost-efficient distribution of German and multinational TV programs. This also included the regulation of all legal and technical issues. Eutelsat visAvision GmbH was taken over by M7 Group SA in 2014, transferred to M7 Deutschland GmbH in 2015 and reorganized in Eviso Germany GmbH from April 2016.

• Positions held: Senior Product Manager, Director TV & Content and Director TV & Regulatory Affairs
• Management and responsibility of TV product management for Free TV, Pay TV, International TV, VOD & value-added services for all German-speaking countries. 186 TV programs and more than 12 million euros turnover per year.
• Management of license & content purchasing for around 150 Free TV, Pay TV and international TV channels as well as for VOD and collecting societies for German-speaking regions in Europe.
• Management of the Regulation & Media Policy Germany department for Eutelsat or M7 and responsibility for association work at ANGA, Deutsche TV-Plattform, VAUNET and Buglas among others. Coordination of Eutelsat or M7 activities and interests at media authorities, collecting societies and Federal Cartel Office proceedings.
• Revenue & cost responsibility for the entire satellite capacity of the cable platform on Eutelsat 9A. Conclusion of long-term satellite capacity agreements with Mediaset Italia, TVN SA, BBC, Discovery, VIACOM, Bloomberg, Russia Today, TV 5, Bibel TV among others.
• Responsibility for negotiations and contract conclusions with the collecting societies VG Media, GEMA, FFA, VFF, Münchner Runde
• Key Accounting for the three highest-turnover customers Tele Columbus, primacom and NetCologne
• Initiator and responsible for numerous innovations and projects:
• 2010: Introduction of the first private HDTV channels into the German cable network.
• 2011: Introduction of the first Pay TV channels in HDTV.
• 2011: Expansion of the foreign language portfolio to the largest offering in cable and IPTV in Germany and Austria
• 2012: Expansion of the IPTV portfolio to the largest in Germany.
• 2013: Expansion of the SAT platform to the largest German HD platform
• 2013: Market launch of the first encrypted HD Free TV product in Austrian cable.
• 2014: Conception and development of the television of the future based on a self-developed IPTV and OTT platform. Awarded the "Best TV Everywhere Award" at IBC 2014.
• 2014: Responsibility for linear and non-linear content procurement of 120 TV channels including public broadcasters ARD and ZDF for the market launch of the IPTV & OTT platform "meinFernsehen".

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• Senior Consultant in Corporate Strategy with industry specialization in Technology, Media & Telecommunication.
• Design of marketing strategies for mobile phone companies.
• Design of a micro-campaign strategy and implementation in the organization, among other things through the introduction of new processes and software at telecommunications providers.
• Carrying out process redesign for German Internet Service Provider.
• Development of controlling and reporting structures for leading German telecommunications company.
• Management of project office for long-term projects with over 40 consultants.
• Authoring of numerous internal and external publications on market trends and analyses.
• Subject matter expert for machine-to-machine communication.

Training as a reserve officer with the mountain infantry in Mittenwald and Bad Reichenhall. Awarded the Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces in Bronze for loyal performance of duty and above-average performance as well as the Oder Flood Medal of the State of Brandenburg.