Sorosh Tavakoli

Founder and CEO at Videoplaza

Stockholm Area, Sweden

Current
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
Education
  • Kungliga Tekniska högskolan
  • Handels Högskolan i Stockholm (SSE, Stocholm School of Economics)
  • CLIC, Academia de Lenguas de Sevilla
Connections
500+ connections
Industry
Marketing and Advertising
Websites

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 2007Present (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 2006June 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 2005April 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 2005September 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 2006June 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 2004May 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 , 20012007

    Majors in Moving images (at KTH) and Media management (at HHS).

  • Handels Högskolan i Stockholm (SSE, Stocholm School of Economics)

    Specialization , Marketing , August 2005June 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 2003August 2003

    Learned spanish fluent


Additional Information

Sorosh Tavakoli’s Websites:

Sorosh Tavakoli’s Groups:

  •    KTH medieteknik alumni
  •    AdMonsters
  •    European Leadership Programme
  •    In-Video Advertising
  •    Internet TV
  •    Ad Traffickers & Ad Ops Group
  •    Ad Operations Professionals
  •    STING
  •    IAB UK
  •    Streaming Media Professionals in Scandinavia
  •    One Alfred Place Members' Network

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