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Dr. Christoph Schneider is the Country Director of Prime Video in Germany and Austria and also Managing Director of Amazon Digital Germany GmbH. In his position, he is responsible for bundling the strategy of the areas SVOD, TVOD, Prime Video Channels, and AVOD (Freevee). He is also responsible for localization and licensing content in several areas. Before joining Amazon, from 2010 Dr. Schneider was part of the management board of maxdome GmbH. From 2011 onwards he was responsible for the successful integration of the online video platform into the ProSiebenSat1 Group as the sole managing director. Leading up to his experiences at maxdome and ProSiebenSat1, over the course of 14 years, Dr. Christoph Schneider had held various management positions at Hubert Burda Media, the Kirch Group, the Bertelsmann Group and lastly, the managing director role at Abantis Media GmbH (Burda). At Abantis he developed convergent media solutions for the Women and Food section. Prior to this position, as a managing director at Burda Yukom Publishing GmbH, he was responsible for the acquisition and integration of Yukom Medien (Axel Springer) into the Burda Group. Before Yukom Publishing, he was on the management board of Venturepark AG (Bertelsmann), publishing director of ELLE Germany (Burda), and sales director and head of Coproductions for Italy at Kirch Group (Beta Film). Dr. Schneider studied international business administration at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar, and earned his doctorate at the Marketing department of the University of Mannheim.

Jesse is the International TV Co-Editor at Deadline, overseeing breaking news and features coverage out of Europe and Asia. He joined the site in 2022 from UK TV trade Broadcast, where he was Insight Editor, overseeing features and long-form reporting, for four years. A veteran entertainment industry journalist, he has also worked at Television Business International, where he was Editor, and at C21Media. He has moderated panels around the world and appears on radio and podcasts talking about the TV business. Jesse is based in London.