Zodiak Rights Hires for Scandinavia

LONDON: Zodiak Rights is establishing a sales base in Scandinavia with the hire of Ole Steen Stolberg, who joins in January and will be based within Mastiff Denmark’s offices in Copenhagen.

Stolberg will be serving as VP of sales for Scandinavia at Zodiak Rights. He comes to the company after having served as sales and acquisitions director at Nordic World. Stolberg also previously held sales and acquisitions roles at C More Entertainment, TV4 Group Sweden, TV 2 Danmark and Danish Film Institute. For Zodiak Rights, Stolberg will be working with Scandinavian broadcasters and local Zodiak Media production companies to ramp up sales activities in the region.

Tim Mutimer, the CEO of Zodiak Rights, said: “We are delighted to be welcoming Ole on board for the New Year. This role allows us to give real focus to the key Scandinavia region and also means that we can increase our activity selling locally produced shows from the Zodiak Media Group within the region.”

Stolberg said: “With new forms of audience consumption content is more in demand than ever. Zodiak Rights has a range of content from phenomenal fiction series, engaging entertainment formats to first-rate factual programming. It’s an honor for me to become a part of both the local Nordic team and the international sales team in London.”