Eurodata TV Worldwide announces the new organisation of its Sales Department. François Lhomme has been promoted as the Sales Director for Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and the Asia-Pacific region (APAC). In this task, he will be supported by Bo Zhang, Jennifer Aubine, Salomé Fuchs and Siméon Mirzayantz, who will report to him.

The Regional Sales Department for the Americas (North America and Latin America) will be led by Kunal de Souza, previously Sales Manager and now Regional Sales Director.

Lhomme and de Souza will report to Frédéric Vaulpré, Vice President of Eurodata TV Worldwide, who provided this comment: “The international market of programmes and audiences is increasingly complex and globalised, responding to new dynamics connected to the digital medium. This organisation of our sales department will allow us to give our growing client base even more astute expertise to help them make decisions and analyse opportunities.”

Biographical highlights:

A graduate of the European Business School Paris in International Business (1990), François Lhomme held roles in sales across different business sectors in France and Spain.

He entered the media world in 2009 as the Sales Director for EMEA at Rovi Corporation (now TiVo). Having specialised in music and TV metadata, he joined Eurodata TV Worldwide in 2011 as B-Right Service Director, then he became an international Sales Director in charge of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America. He graduated from the IMM Media & Tech Leadership Program in 2019.

Kunal de Souza holds a Bachelor’s in Business/Commerce from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2001). He also earned a Master’s in Marketing and Distribution for the European Audiovisual Industry from the Institut national de l’audiovisuel (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne) in 2009.
Since 2016, Kunal has been a Sales Manager at Eurodata TV Worldwide, after having worked in international sales and marketing consulting for NDM/Mantarraya, Funny Balloons and Toluna in France, and for Statistics NZ and EPMU based in New Zealand.

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