Antoine Schmidt-Roy

Antoine Schmidt-Roy is an engineer of media technology and culture- and media manager. Between his both studies he worked in Brazil at TV GLOBO and the ZDF South America studio in Rio de Janeiro.

After graduating from the Institute for Cultural and Media Management in Hamburg, he took over as Head of New Media at Studio Hamburg Distribution, where he has developed the commercial exploitation of ARD-productions via digital channels, e.g. by publishing them for the first time in the iTunes Store or within apps.

In 2012 Antoine took over the position of CEO of Germany's Gold, a company founded by 17 leading companies in the German television and film industry (ZDF Enterprises, WDR Mediagroup, Beta, Brainpool etc.) with the goal to market 60 years of German television on a new VOD-platform.

In January 2014, Antoine Schmidt-Roy founded Nikita Ventures. Today Nikita controls and distributes more than 25.000 titles on YouTube and other VOD-platforms.