Digital -just- another revolution!
Roland Kluger
“My role is to facilitate business development in the Media sector by leveraging the digital revolution”
Potential Contribution in the sectors of media, technology, entertainment, licensing and marketing.
Managing in to day’s digital revolution, I can build the strategic plan as well as the marketing – communication plan.
As a facilitator during formal and informal meetings I can act as a sounding board, sparing partner for top management to help articulate the vision, the strategy, marketing and communication plan.
In this context, because of past experience with creators and artists, I may facilitate creative exploration of «out of the box» opportunities and bring together multi-disciplinary talents in what to day is called the «360° management».
As an entrepreneur I have always run my own businesses but during the 20 years of shopping I did manage HSS -150 people with a turn over of 100M€- with 2 major shareholders: M6 (French) and Kinnevik (Swedish).
Developing a new business in France, still a hard territory to break for outsiders, my experience of living in Paris for the last 30 years, with my Belgian and international background gives me an edge to facilitate the introduction of international companies by exploring with them the potential of the market, the competition and making up a recommendation, possibly finding the deal, if needed establishing a French local entity, raising money for the entity and possibly acting on a interim basis as CEO implementing the first stage of the plan.
I have also been successful exporting to the USA top products of TV shopping using my network i.e. “patins glisseurs” in the USA.
Building business plan, fund raising and exit/selling: my experience gives me an insight of what should be part of a business plan for investors. I can participate in raising the funds from «friends and family» to business angels, private equities funds. As I like working with people I have experienced situations where I am the matchmaker and this how in 2002 I brought together Drouot (the famous Parisian auction house) and Barclay private equity.
As I can bring opportunities to investors, I can also collaborate to their Portfolio in 2 ways: by screening future potential investment reviewing business models, meeting the principals, researching market and competition, asking expert opinion(s)…. and by representing them as a board member.
Orchestrating legal communication and lobbying approach, so important in this period of digital revolution. Not being a lawyer, I can act as a conductor bringing together lawyers and lobbyists and communication-or not- to the Medias. Providing expert advise in my field I can give a «fair opinion» of an investment as requested by market rules (SGAM/Make Music USA), work on due diligence for music repertoires valuation.
I have also been invited as a keynote speaker to conferences and have been running during a one-year period an entrepreneur course at ESCP-EAP Paris.
I can provide such services acting in one or in a mix of 4 possible positions and take full advantage of my French and international network of experts.
1.Consultant & expert- 2. business developer- 3. manager by interim-4.board member
