
Speakers | Digital Media Europe 2020
Digital Media Europe 2020
SVP Consumer Marketing and Revenue, Schibsted Media, Norway

Tor is now SVP Consumer Marketing and Revenue at Schibsted Media, with responsibility for subscription revenue across Schibsted´s publishing brands. Tor has previosly had different positions at VG, VG Mobile, Aftenposten, and Schibsted Norway´s 4 subscriptions newspapers. Tor also has experience from Telenor, Deloitte and Nielsen.
Managing Director, Mediapart, France

Distribution Director, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany

Director of News Ecosystem Development, Google, UK

In his role, Madhav Chinnappa works on partnerships and collaboration between Google and the news industry. Most recently, he launched the Digital News Initiative which in March 2018 evolved to become part of the Google News Initiative, Google's overarching global framework for engagement with the news ecosystem.
Madhav joined Google in 2010 to focus on Google News & Magazines in the EMEA region. He has worked in the news industry since 1994 - first in the launch team of Associated Press Television (APTV), a year in M&A at United News & Media and spent over 9 years at BBC News, latterly as Head of Development & Rights.
Sales and Customer Marketing Director, L'EQUIPE, France

Project Lead Bergens Tidende, Norway

Jan Stian Vold is a Norwegian journalist with more than 20 years of experience in the online news business. He was the news editor in Bergens Tidende from 2014 to 2020 and is currently working as a project lead in the same media house. Amongst his recent responsibilities is the so-called Boligrobot - a new and sophisticated way of presenting automated text from the real estate market in and nearby Norway's second-largest city.
Chief Marketing Officer, United Robots, Sweden

Cecilia Campbell is a Swedish media journalist with over 20 years experience reporting on the news publishing industry internationally. She is the CMO of Swedish tech start-up United Robots, based in Malmö. Her work at United Robots includes advising publishers on how to free up reporter time and drive revenue through newsroom automation. Previously she worked for WAN-IFRA, co-leading the reader revenue group and authoring the 2018 report Engaged Readers Don’t Churn – Retention Lessons for Digital Subcriptions.
Digital editor, Decât o Revistă (DoR), Romania

Director of Subscription Strategy, Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland

Danuta Breguła is Director of Subscription Strategy at Gazeta Wyborcza, the largest Polish opinion-making newspaper.
She is responsible for Gazeta Wyborcza’s digital subscribers' growth and revenue as well as the publication's performance marketing in digital and its paying audience engagement. Under her supervision, the number of digital-only subscribers of Gazeta Wyborcza has just reached 240,000 in 2020.
Publisher, pv digest (paid content newsletter)

Markus is editor&publisher of pv digest, a paid-for trade publication on the reader revenue side of journalism. Before starting as self-publishing expert for paid content and press distribution, Markus was C-level exec at a national press distribution service provider and a subscription marketing company, both subsidiaries of Axel Springer. He started his career as direct marketing manager at world’s (then) biggest distance retailing company Otto Versand (times are changing!).
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Head of Newspapers, DC Thomson Media, UK

Director Reader Revenue, Mediahuis, Belgium

Global Strategy Lead, Google News Initiative, USA

Director of Innovation & Leadership, Craig Newmark J-School/CUNY, USA

Head of Digital Subscriptions, Der Standard, Austria

Florian leads an interdisciplinary team dedicated to developing new revenue streams from digital products at Austria’s largest quality newspaper DER STANDARD. In this role, Florian is responsible for DER STANDARD PUR the ad-free and tracking free subscription as well as the implementation of DER STANDARD’s contributions model. He previously worked for Neue Zürcher Zeitung Austrian branch NZZ.at as Head of Development and founded the online magazine Paroli.
Head of Digital, Denník N, Slovakia

Tomas Bella is web director and executive board member at Denník N, an independent Slovak daily paper that also develops open-source software for publishers Remp2020.com. Previously he was editor-in-chief of the most popular Slovak news site and CEO of Piano Media.
Group Chief Commercial Officer, News UK, UK

Dominic joined News International in 1991 and held various roles across The Sun and Times Newspapers Limited before leaving in 2000 to join Mirror Group Newspapers as Group Advertising Director.
In 2006 he returned to News International as Trading Director across The Times & Sunday Times and expanded his role in 2008 to include The Sun. Dominic was appointed Commercial Director of News UK in September 2011 following a restructuring of the Commercial team. He stepped up to become Managing Director in July 2015 and was named Chief Commercial Officer in January 2016.
In 2018 Dominic was appointed Group Chief Commercial Officer for News UK and Wireless Group’s operations in the UK and Ireland, overseeing all national commercial operations across print, digital, video, and audio. Dominic is a keen motorcyclist and is married with three children.
Consultant at The Ozone Project, UK and Mentor at Media For All

CEO, The Ozone Project, U.K

Managing Director, styria digital one, Austria

Founder of Crazy Creatives, Sweden

Anna Arvidsson started in the music industry as Brand Manager at Sweden’s biggest radio station and launched Hoffmaestro, the most touring band in Scandinavia. After transitioning into media, she started Metro’s Creative Sales Department in Sweden, which became a key factor for the global media company. In 2013 Anna was former Head of Bonnier News Brand Studio, where she built a creative team for the future.
Director Content & Creative Strategy, Axel Springer, Germany

Head of Brand Studio: 24.com, News24, South Africa

Senior Marketing Manager, Belo Media Group, USA

VP Commercial Strategy, Technology and R&D, The Washington Post, USA

Jarrod Dicker is an entrepreneurial technology and media executive. He oversees the commercial strategy, operations, technology and R&D at the Washington Post. Until January 2019, Dicker was Chief Executive Officer of Po.et, a platform for a new decentralized media economy.
Prior to Po.et, Dicker served as innovation chief at the Washington Post and founded RED, the Post's research experimentation and development team. There he oversaw the companies technology, product, operations and strategy across the entire business.
Before the Washington Post, Dicker lead strategy, product and technology teams at RebelMouse, Time Inc. and the Huffington Post. He also sits on the Board of Advisors for Rutgers University School of Innovation and Mogul Inc., a technology platform that enables women worldwide to share ideas and access content based on personal interests.
Dicker's writing and work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, AdAge, AdWeek, Digiday, Axios, AdExchanger, Poynter and more.
CEO, HOPPex, Hungary

Executive Vice President, COO, JP/Politikens Hus, Denmark

Dorthe Bjerregaard-Knudsen is COO at JP/Politikens Hus, one of Denmark's leading media companies in printed and digital publications. JP/Politikens Hus publishes three of Denmark’s leading national news brands; Ekstra Bladet, Jyllands-Posten and Politiken. The group’s activities also include local newspapers in Denmark and Sweden, a publishing house, operation and development of a range of digital activities and news services as well as other business areas.
Prior to joining JP/Politikens Hus Dorthe Bjerregaard-Knudsen was Managing Director at OMD Denmark. Before that, Dorthe held a number different positions at Omnicom Media Group; amongst others she was Managing Director of Insight Group.
Dorthe holds a master’s degree in Economics & Business Administration Economic Marketing from Copenhagen Business School.
VP Consumer Market, Amedia, Norway

Chief Digital Officer, Vocento, Spain

CDO of Vocento, one of the main Media Publishing companies in Spain. In charge of Digital Products, march tech, ad tech, data and analytics, customer strategy/paywalls and innovation. IAB Spain and Wemass alliance Board Member. Curious about tech business impact, willing to learn and help my colleagues. I have two wonderful children, ages 24 and 19, who teach how to be better. Every day I am more convinced of the news media important mission in today's society.
Business consultant, Star K, Sweden

Paywall and Product consultant, former Director of Product at the Financial Times, UK

Head of IT Solutions at Ring Publishing, Ringier Axel Springer, Poland

Wojciech Ehrenfeld is Head of IT Solutions at RingPublishing. Ever since he has been building large-scale cloud solutions to fit the needs of a changing market. He is an expert in building adapting business models for IT solutions for media. Now he is responsible for implementing IT services and platforms at Ringier Axel Springer Media AG in Europe and delivering platform-based media solutions to external clients. Whenever he is not working, he is somewhere where only snow and wind can be found.
Project Manager Digital, Data & Insights, Erdee Media Groep, The Netherlands
