Zodiak Television Appoints Two Senior Executives

Global content distributor Zodiak Television World has added two senior executives to its team.
Tobi de Graaff has joined the company as Director of Sales and Acquisitions, and is based in the London office. Focusing primarily on sales in the UK and German-speaking territories, Tobi will also acquire formats from all territories for production companies within the Zodiak AB group plus acquire formats and finished programmes for distribution by Zodiak Television World.
Louise Juel joins Zodiak Television World’s office in Copenhagen as Vice President. Louise, who has extensive experience in both production and distribution, will handle format sales to a number of key territories in Southern Europe including France.
With more than seven years experience of working within the television distribution industry, de Graaff was formerly a member of the FBC sales team and prior to this was at format distributor Distraction.
Juel was until recently Managing Director at MTV Mastiff, a member of the Zodiak Group of companies based in Sweden. Prior to this she was Managing Director at Strix Denmark, a Swedish format production company.
Heather Stevenson, Zodiak Television President commented: “This is a very exciting time for us as we continue to grow across a number of territories. Louise and Tobi have substantial regional and production expertise that will be invaluable to the Group as we build and develop our business. Whether through format deals, co-productions, first look and other distribution deals, we have a strong and experienced team in place to make it happen.”
Zodiak Television World is a leading international distributor of content across all programming genres.
Based in Copenhagen (Denmark), Zodiak Television World's core business activity is the international exploitation of rights of format programming created by the Zodiak Television Group as well as formats devised by other leading companies and finished programming produced around the world.
Additionally, Zodiak Television World holds worldwide rights to its 'Funny Home Video Clip Library' consisting of more than 6000 clips.
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