Name: Michael Haas
Title: Media consultant, Senior partner, The BCI Group GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Michael started his media career at the university: he was studying journalism and German Language and culture and upon graduation moved on to join the US Army and has been stationed for almost a decade in Germany.

He's got involved in several extremely successful German media projects, having been founding program director of Radio Antenne Bayern in 1988. In 1995 he's moved to one of major German cable networks SAT1 where he was deputy managing director and executive vice president for marketing, promotion and design. In 2000 he got involved in interactive TV as a start-up manager of Intelligent Broadcasting, Artemedia AG at legendary film studios Babelsberg, and since 2001 he has been involved with the The BCI Group GmbH & Co. KG.

Michael is on advisory boards of dooyoo.de, Klotz Digital and IDP 3i Investments. He co-authored “Handbook of Radio Management for Journalists” (1991) an wrote “Radioformatics – Business System for Broadcasters.”