Sergey Sozanovsky

Expertise: strategy development, mediagroups foundation and management - TV channels and production power houses, business plans development and execution - launch and implementation of the media projects, comprehensive strategies on media holdings launch and securing the synergy in the interactions of their components, international markets approach, cost effective production resolutions, forming the constructive management and executive boards, investments attraction, crisis management, content production and supervision.

Experience in media: 20 years.

Featured Employers: 2002 - present: co-founder and leader FILM.UA Group, Ukraine; 1992 - present: co-founder Konnov and Sozanovsky law firm, Ukraine; 2007 - 2010: chairman of the board, Inter Media Group, Ukraine; 2001 - 2005: member of the board, Inter Media Group, Ukraine.

Contribution and achievements:

• co-founding the production house FILM.UA, which is now a creative powerhouse and one of the largest Eastern European media groups with 20 companies, operating in global markets and covering the full production cycle: development, production, adaptation and distribution of audiovisual content through the vertical business structure;
• founding Inter, the first media group with a vertical integration in Ukraine. Nowadays Inter TV Channel is a top-5 broadcaster and Inter Media Group is comprised of 8 TV channels, a number of production and distribution companies and new media channels;
• board expert at Teletriumph National TV Award, Ukraine;
• juror of the International Emmy Awards;
• member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences;
• co-producer of more than 10,000 hours of content for TV, movie theatres and new media.

Education: Faculty of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.