Jean Fougerolles

Jean has over 15 years’ experience working in media and digital businesses. After obtaining his MBA from INSEAD, he became Head of Distribution for MTV Europe out of the London office. He then started working at Two Way TV, a pioneer in interactive technology, games and digital content, where he became CEO and structured partnership deals with many leading content owners (Big Brother, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, X-Factor, Deal or No Deal, Test the Nation), broadcasters (BBC, ITV, C4, C5, Sky Sports, Flextech, Cartoon Network), and platforms (Sky, Virgin, UPC, BT). Jean led the sale of Two Way TV to Ingenious Media Active Capital Limited, a leading private equity group, in 2007. Jean is also an angel investor and was an early seed investor in Atom Films, which was later sold to Viacom for $200m. Jean is originally from Montreal where he received his BA in History with Honours from McGill University. After a year in Czechoslovakia teaching English and French at Masaryk University in Brno, he became an economist in New York after having completed a Masters Degree in International Relations from Columbia University.