Empowering Women Through Finance

Offra Elmkies founder of Mavila & Elmkies along with La Salle University gave a seminar to more than 50 entrepreneurs women. “We want to provide the knowledge and necessary tools to develop their business ideas…” said Offra Elmkies, who is also one of WAWA’s Board of Directors Member. Her goal is to have several seminars…

Özlem Özsümbül, Director of Sales at MADD

Özlem Özsümbül, Director of Sales at MADD. The Turkish producers Medyapım and Ay Yapım created MADD (Medyapım Ay Yapım Drama Distribution) Entertainment to distribute their contents to the world. Özlem Özsümbül is an experienced Turkish executive. As director of International Sales, she will oversee the sales team. At Mipcom, there will be an international launch…

BBC Worldwide exec Paola Tonella joins Entertainment One

Former BBC Worldwide executive Paola Tonella has joined global media company Entertainment One (eOne) as director of international sales. Based out of the company’s London offices, Tonella will report directly to Dan Gopal, EVP of sales for EMEA, and Patrick Roberts, VP of international TV sales on Nordic territories. Additionally, she will work closely alongside…

Meet Rosalind Rotundo of VIP 2000 TV in Brickell

In 2014, we started a new line of business and started producing our own content: Escandalos. Everything is real except their names, proof of faith and take me or leave me attitude in order to expand its business to the international market outside Latin America, in the USA and Europe. Our next step is to…

Helen Jurado of A + E Networks

The senior director of content sales for Latin America and the US Hispanic market of the company, talks about the boom that the portfolio productions are having, what buyers from different platforms are looking for and the work the company does in the development of formats, among other topics.