(President)

Thierry is founder of Pan European Investment Network Media Deals focussing on cross border Media investment.  He is also CEO of peacefulfish, a consultancy specialised in the financing of the content industry.  He offers 15 years experience in the communication and entertainment industry. 

After graduating in Paris, he worked in London as a business consultant for entertainment companies and telecom operators, then in France and Germany in Business Development for Vivendi and for ARTE (Franco-German TV station) in Strasbourg.

He then completed an MBA at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and at UCLA in Los Angeles, where he specialized in film financing and e-commerce.

He then worked on film projects in the USA with Mandalay Entertainment before becoming Head of Strategic Development for the Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, near Berlin.

t: +49 (0)30 488 2885 61

f: +49 (0)30 690 88 386

tbaujard@media-deals.org

Marc Lauriac

(Secretary General)

Marc Lauriac holds a Master of Science degree in business from the EDHEC Grande Ecole in France. After starting his career in sales and marketing at Alcatel, he moved as a project manager to one of Germany’s biggest Internet agency, die argonauten. He then joined peacefulfish in 2003 where acts as Senior Consultant focussing on new distribution platforms (VOD, IPTV, mobile content, games), financial aspects of the audiovisual industry as well as entrepreneurship.

He has been responsible for the production of various strategic reports for the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission on issues such as “The role of banks in the European film industry” or “The implication of current changes in the home entertainment industry for European SMEs”.

Together with Thierry Baujard, he created Media Deals, a pan European investment network focussing on the mediatech sector (content enablers and content providers).

t: +49 (0)30 488 2885 64

f: +49 (0)30 690 88 386

mlauriac@media-deals.org

Christoffer Kontny

Business Development

t: +49 (0)30 488 2885 68

f: +49 (0)30 690 88 386

ckontny@media-deals.org