Joiz: Startup specialist strengthens management
The Swiss digital media company Joiz is strengthening its management team and hiring Antonius Salis as Chief Business Development Officer. This job has been created in order to to drive forward the company's international expansion.
Salis, 35, has spent the last four years as vice president of Berlin-based start-up investment firm Rocket Internet, supporting various young Internet companies in their global implementation. Joiz, in addition to its two digital TV channels in Germany and Switzerland, has in recent months begun international marketing of its self-developed digital platform under the brand "Joiz Global" and announced several deals with partners in Holland, USA, Israel and Germany.
Joiz CEO Alexander Mazzara explains in a statement: "In order to further drive expansion and scale our platforms globally, we have created the new job of Chief Business Development Officer. Antonius Salis is the ideal appointment. He has implemented numerous projects internationally at the start-up investment firm Rocket Internet."
After graduating from HSG St. Gallen, German-born Antonius Salis first worked as an analyst at the investment bank Morgan Stanley in London. He then managed a start-up specializing in renewable energies and worked for the start-up investment company Rocket Internet since 2011, most recently as Vice President for Business Development. Among other things, he headed the international online marketing of Groupon, co-founded the real estate platform Lamudi and served as country head of the online delivery service Foodpanda.
Antonius Salis says: "Joiz has an interesting business model due to its integrated digital platform. The technology combines optimal content management and commercialization of user data and offers very good global prospects."
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