Sorosh Tavakoli

Current

Founder and CEO at Videoplaza

Past

Project manager at Mediamätning i Skandinavien AB (MMS)
Owner at ButcherBoy Communications (Self-employed)
Broadcast engineer at Sveriges Television AB (SVT)

Business & Product Developer at SF Anytime
Conference manager, MediaTech Day 2005 at KTH

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Education

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
Handels Högskolan i Stockholm (SSE, Stocholm School of Economics)
CLIC, Academia de Lenguas de Sevilla

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Marketing and Advertising

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Sorosh Tavakoli’s Summary

Currently working with my first startup, Videoplaza, in the online video advertising space.

We help premium media publishers to monetise their online video through our ad server for video.

Follow Videoplaza at www.videoplaza.com/blog/

And by the way, I love my job!

Sorosh Tavakoli’s Specialties:

online video, online advertising,

Sorosh Tavakoli’s Experience

Founder and CEO

Videoplaza

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Videoplaza offers an ad server for video. Our product helps publishers present, manage and track advertising in and around online video.

We currently help major premium media publishers such as broadcaster, newspapers and magazines to monetise their online video.

We operate mainly in northern Europe, check our site for a client list: http://www.videoplaza.com
Project manager

Mediamätning i Skandinavien AB (MMS)

(Information Services industry)

September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)

At MMS, I was leading the media research project "Moving Images 2007" ("Rörliga bilder 2007").

Description
The ways of consuming “moving images” have increased dramatically during the recent years to a point where we can talk of an explosion of consumer possibilities. This development, exposing both new possibilities and threats, literally affects every single person working within the moving images industry. In order to to make the right decisions based on high quality information and statistics, Moving Images 2007 has been produced.

The report from MMS gives a new perspective on moving images by looking at how and how much moving images are consumed on various platforms in Sweden. The report has been sold to a great number of media companies in the nordic countries. I've also held more than 15 talks on the topic in different contexts.The results of the 138 page-report has also been frequently quoted in the Swedish media.
Owner
ButcherBoy Communications (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Media Production industry)

June 2005 — April 2007 (1 year 11 months)

Working as a consultant with communications strategy and media production.
Broadcast engineer

Sveriges Television AB (SVT)

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Worked there for two summers. 5 weeks of in-house education included.
Business & Product Developer

SF Anytime

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

April 2006 — June 2006 (3 months)

Working for the management of Bonnier Entertainment & SF Anytime as a business/product developer consultant for a three month project analyzing and suggesting improvments to the leading swedish video-on-demand service SF Anytime.
Conference manager, MediaTech Day 2005

KTH

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

August 2004 — May 2005 (10 months)

Leading the organisation a national TV-broadcasted conference with more than 500 registered visitors, top notch industry speakers and a lot of student love.

www.medieteknik.com

Sorosh Tavakoli’s Education

Kungliga Tekniska högskolan

McS , Media Technology , 2001 — 2007

Majors in Moving images (at KTH) and Media management (at HHS).
Handels Högskolan i Stockholm (SSE, Stocholm School of Economics)

Specialization , Marketing , August 2005 — June 2006

Via a scholarship from the Royal Institute of Technolgy I am studying the following courses at SSE within the Marketing Department.
-Consumer Behaviour
-Market Systems
-Media Management
CLIC, Academia de Lenguas de Sevilla

Spanish April 2003 — August 2003

Learned spanish fluent