Supervisory Board
Extensive experience in the media and entertainment industries, including the successful growth and sale of several companies to in-market competitors.
Philipp Rotermund
Co-CEO & Founder
Philipp is a Digital Entertainment pioneer. He is the key driver of it’s rapid growth and his work around the unique tech innovations that drive the platform have been transformative while driving costs lower. Philipp is a successful television and media entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in the media and entertainment sector. Working extensively in the Pay TV marketplace, he has worked with the key platforms in Europe. He launched a number of broadcast channels and video-on-demand services. Further he successfully participate in two IPO´s.
Chris Sharp
Co-CEO & Founder
Chris is focused driving revenues from viewer experience and choice since joining Philipp in 2018. He has 35 years experience in the television industry. He is an award winner program marketeer and producer, and has created and ran many Free TV channels. He was a founder of Zone Media where Advent International were an investor. Liberty Global acquired Zone in 2005 and AMC bought in 2013.. He served on the board of the highly successful UK CBS channels from their launch in 2009 until September 2016.
Thomas Groppenberger
CTO
Tom is a world leading expert Digital TV infrastructure. As CTO and working very closely with Philipp, his work focuses around VOD development on Smart TV and Mobile Devices. Tom graduating from the Business School with focus on IT in Tulln in 2009. He worked for an international hosting service provider and online marketing company with offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Kuala Lumpur. His focus has been on web and application development.
Management Board
Adding industry connections and relationships, the team will be key in building the Video Solutions AG and establishing VSAG as an undisputed leader in the German-speaking, and European entertainment industries.
Sabrina Nickel
Head of Marketing
Sabrina studied economics at the „Technische Universität” Berlin, with the focus on Information and Communication Management, as well as marketing. Already during her studies she gained a lot of experiences in development and commercialization of digital media. After she finished university she consulted several firms within the digital field, with her broad knowledge.
Kathy Fairbain
Head of Acquisition
Kathy 35 years of experience in the television industry drives programming and marketing. Her leadership qualities and vision have a track record of achieving higher ratings and increased revenues. She has worked in UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Most recently, Kathy used her programme acquisitions, channel development organisational management in African Pay TV. She worked at Food Network, AMC Networks, Chello Zone, Zone Media, Viasat, BBC, ITV, Sky and MTV.
Sorin Stoian
Head of Operations
Using his wide expertise in the media, Sorin has build and now controls operations. He over 20 years experience in media assets management, live sports television production and digital media. He managed live broadcast teams at prestigious sporting events such as the Olympics and the Champions League Finals.as well as working with digital libraries. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Management-Marketing.
Anda Stoian
Head of Finance
Since 2020, Anda has headed Finance. She has reorganised the accounting function and implemented budgeting and cost controls. Anda has more than 11 years experience as internal auditor with ING (currently NN) and financial auditor, with Deloitte. She has a degree in Economics.
William Brown
Creative Director
Will has most recently driven the branding of wedo tv. He brings to VSAG a wealth of experience and creativity, technical know-how and production & marketing expertise. He is a multi-disciplined, award winning, media professional with a background in advertising, design, marketing and production for film and TV. He has produced and directed broadcast television for BBC, Nickelodeon, and Extreme Sports Channel among others. He has developed broadcast formats for ITV and written for Lifetime Movie Channel.
Biljana Dimovska
Online Marketing Specialist
Biljana is a Search Engine Optimisation Specialist with over 14 years of active experience in this field of SEO and digital marketing. She is also a Techstars Startup Mentor since 2020 as well as an SEO Instructor at digital marketing academy sharing her knowledge for over 4 years in a row. She is the founder of her own small digital marketing agency since September 2020 and she has been actively working with the Video Solutions team since 2018.
Galina Dormisheva
Programmatic Activation & Sales Lead
Galina is a multi-lingual programmatic expert, with 14+ years working history in IT and ad tech industry, with proven track record of driving business growth through unique application of data and programmatic technology on regional and global level. With extensive work experience across France, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland, prior to joining the team, Galina has been leading EMEA programmatic activation for Dailymotion (Vivendi Group) in Paris.
Iza Piotrowska
Distribution Director
Iza is focused on developing and implementing distribution strategies to maximise monetisation opportunities. She is an experienced linear channel and programming sales executive with a demonstrated history of working in many global markets. She provides advisory and consulting services to broadcasters and content owners covering content rights negotiations, monetisation models and strategies and technical implementation of digital products, with affiliate partners, and CTV streamers.