Thomas Gould

Head of Sports & Venues

Paysafe

Mar 2024 - Current (2 years 8 months)

Paysafe Limited (“Paysafe”) (NYSE: PSFE) (PSFE.WS) is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With over 25 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $140 billion in 2023, and approximately 3,200 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in over 40 currencies around the world. Deliver

Head of Sports, Media and Entertainment

Paysafe

Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 (2 years 1 month)

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Commercial Director (Consultant)

Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 (3 months)

Voted Best Technology for Fan Engagement at Sports Technology Awards 2022. Reactoo offers industry-leading “Watch Together” and live cloud video production technology trusted by the world’s leading content creators. Our white-label Watch Together video and text chat solution on web and mobile apps provides the very best co-viewing experiences. Our clients include broadcasters, federations, rights-holders, and brands that want to grow their digital fan base and commercial inventory, regardless of geography or device. Our client list includes DAZN, ElevenSports, LIVENow, and others. Our browser-based Cloud Video Production suite gives you the tools to create broadcast-quality production formats including but not limited to Watchalongs, Intera

Strategic Advisor / Constultant

Joymo

Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 (6 months)

Joymo is a direct-to-fan OTT platform, working to power and unlock the potential of sport. We work with sports rights owners and sporting events at all levels, to build a unique viewer arena for their content, develop a significant and engaged community of fans, unlock invaluable data insights, and maximize the commercial value of the rights Joymo is prepared to invest significantly in the development and future broadcasting of your sport Together, we will deliver a best-in-class OTT / Direct-to-Fan viewing experience for your loyal support base: Acquisition of top-tier content Investment in production and content creation Share in the upside of a win-win partnership Serving the underserved grassroots of your sport

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Director of Sales & International Partnerships - Aser Ventures Group

Aug 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 5 months)

A pay-per-view platform disrupting the way live events are consumed and monetized. Part of Aser Ventures; a venture capital and investment company that operates in the sports, entertainment and lifestyle sectors.

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Senior Sales Director - DACH, Benelux, Scandinavia, Israel, The Baltics & Transport

Dec 2019 - Aug 2021 (1 year 9 months)

We love the story of sport. It’s at the heart of everything we do. Inverleigh (in
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VP Sales - Benelux, Czech Republic, Hungary, Middle East, & Turkey; VOD EMEA & Transport Sales

Flame

Jul 2018 - Dec 2019 (1 year 6 months)

Sales Manager- Middle East; Digital Rights & Transport Sales Executive EMEA

Flame

Apr 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 3 months)

Flame is the distribution arm of specialist factual and lifestyle television production company, Flame Productions. As well as our own productions, our rapidly expanding catalogue also features exciting documentary content including food, travel, history, science and crime titles from award-winning producers from Australia and around the world. The Flame team is made up of experienced professionals located in the UK, Europe and Australia. Our sales specialists proactively seek to build and maintain strong networks of producers and buyers to ensure that content acquired and sold is topical and market-relevant. We have established contacts with key buyers of content around the world and work actively to build and maintain those relationships.

Acquisition Coordinator (Free TV, Pay TV, VOD/New Media) - Scandinavia, Baltics, CEE & Africa

Modern Times Group MTG AB

Nov 2014 - Apr 2016 (1 year 6 months)

Modern Times Group MTG Ltd is an international entertainment broadcasting group with operations that span four continents and include free-TV, pay-TV, radio and content production businesses. MTG operates free-TV and pay-TV channels, which are available on MTG’s own satellite platforms and third party networks, and also distributes TV content over the internet. MTG is also the largest shareholder in CTC Media, which is Russia’s leading independent television broadcaster. Modern Times Group MTG Ltd is a growth company and is listed on the Nasdaq OMX Stockholm stock exchange.

Content Administrator (London Film Festival)

British Film Institute (BFI)

Aug 2014 - Oct 2014 (3 months)

The BFI is the lead organisation for film in the UK. We are a Government arm’s length body and distributor of Lottery funds for film. The BFI was founded in 1933 and our mission is to ensure that film is central to our cultural life, in particular by supporting and nurturing the next generation of filmmakers and audiences. We combine cultural, creative and industrial roles, bringing together the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library, film distribution, exhibition at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, publishing and festivals with Lottery funding to film production, distribution, education, audience development and market intelligence and research. We provide Lottery funding for training and education through partners such as Skillset and Fir

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Program Sales Coordinator, International Content Sales, EMEA

A+E Global Media

Oct 2013 - Jun 2014 (9 months)

A+E Networks, LLC. is an award-winning global media content company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television networks to websites, to home videos/DVDs to gaming and educational software. A+E Networks is comprised of A&E® Network, Lifetime®, HISTORY®, LMN®, BIO.™, H2™, HISTORY en Español™, Crime & Investigation Network™, Military HISTORY™, Lifetime Real Women®, A&E IndieFilms®, A+E Networks International®, A+E Networks Digital® and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. A+E Networks channels and branded programming reach more than 300 million households in over 150 countries. A+E Networks, LLC. is a joint venture of Disney-ABC Television Group and Hearst Corporation.
• Played a vital role in helping Seni

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Transmission Operator

VISION247

Jul 2012 - May 2013 (11 months)

Vision247 is a high growth media technology and content distribution company. We believe in the power of the internet to deliver a greater range of content choice and interactivity to viewers via all internet-connected devices and platforms. We manage the multi-screen world for our clients: we develop Apps for smartphones, tablets and Smart internet-connected TVs (Samsung, LG, etc) and Set Top Boxes (Roku, Boxee) which are downloaded by consumers to watch their favourite live TV channels and Video on Demand (VoD) content. As an example search for and download the Vision TV Network App in the Apple App Store. Using xtremeIPTV, our powerful Online Video Platform, and our Tier 1 Content Delivery Network, we transcode, manage and stream petabyt

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Business & Technical Operations Coordinator

Dec 2011 - Jul 2012 (8 months)

• Creating VT and Quality Assessment reports
• Creating Purchase Orders and quoting clients on prices with Sales Director.
• Encode and Transcoding files to multiple platforms
• Using software programmes such as Sony Vegas Pro, FCP, MD5, etc..
• Ingest, QC & Transcoding using Carbon Coder, Digital Rapids & FCP
• Use of various open-source software for encoding
• Client account management and liaising throughout delivery workflows
• Ingest and QC’ing encoded or transcoded files
• Working with software programmes to apply subtitles to content using Subtitle Edit.
• Testing & evaluating pre-existing technical processes for a post house that specialises in multi-platform and international digital con

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Senior Content and Programming Coordinator

IP Vision (UK) Ltd

Mar 2010 - Dec 2011 (1 year 10 months)

IP Vision is a true pioneer in the UK digital TV space, having developed and launched FetchTV™ the UK’s first commercial hybrid Over The Top/IPTV service for consumers. FetchTV is the most compelling on-demand service that operates on a PAYG or mini-subscription model rather than a monthly contract, making it an ideal entertainment choice for price-conscious consumers. Via IP Vision’s agreements with leading content providers, the FetchTV content portal includes on-demand access - on a pay-per-view or mini-subscription basis - to thousands of hours of the latest movies and TV shows from Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, ITV, National Geographic, Turner, Playboy and others. Multiple-award winning FetchTV is available in a growing number of wa

Librarian

Discovery Inc

Oct 2007 - Apr 2010 (2 years 7 months)

Discovery Communications, Inc. is the world’s number-one non-fiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science and Discovery HD. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, 12 Discovery brands reach 199 million cumulative subscribers in 103 countries with programming customized in 24 languages.
• Co-ordinate the storage of tapes arriving into the system and after ingest.
• Co-ordinate the movement of tapes between the facility and external storage.
• Ensure that the correct material is recalled from the libr

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