Mihai Crasneanu

Current

• CEO at Grey Juice Lab
• Partner at Result

Past

• Founder & CEO at Glowria
• VP of International Deployment, Sales and Marketing at UOL
• Founder & CEO at MCC One (Argentina)

• Project Manager at BNP Paribas

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Education

• EFREI
• Stanislas

Recommended

1 person has recommended Mihai

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Mihai Crasneanu’s Summary

Mihai Crasneanu’s Specialties:

Negotiation with Hollywood Studios, TV Channels and content producers.
Setting up and operating IPTV & VOD services for Telcos, Cable Operators, DTT distributors and Internet properties.
Entrepreneurship (more than 10 companies launched), managed companies up to 150 people in 7 countries and 3 continents.
Investing in early stage innovative companies.
Venture capital, private equity, M&A, international expansion.

Mihai Crasneanu’s Experience

• CEO

  Grey Juice Lab

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  Grey Juice Lab is dedicated to helping telecom, cable and mobile operators around the world in defining and structuring their digital content strategy, conceiving their IPTV and VOD offering, negotiating the best and most appropriate content with the majors studios and with the local right owners, successfully implementing and launching the service, and last but not least, accompanying the operator in the day to day operations of the service to ensure good content management, efficient interfaces, profitable pricing and promotions and product innovation. Grey Juice Lab focus is product definition, content negotiation, content business models and marketing, customer adoption and product innovation.
  
  Current Grey Juice Lab customers are telecom, mobile and cable operators in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Middle East.

• Partner

  Result

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  As a partner at Result (www.result.com), I help companies in the TIME sector (Telecom, Internet, Media, Entertainment) accelerate their international growth. Thanks to its presence in more than 15 countries, Result has created an ecosystem for growth that enables companies to expand faster, more efficiently and more successfully. Result clients include startups such as Piczo and FON, and leading media groups such as Schibsted.

• Founder & CEO

  Glowria

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  November 2001 — May 2007 (5 years 7 months)

  glowria is the largest independent VOD white label operator in Europe, with more than 5000 VOD titles negotiated with the Major studios (Warner, Sony, Universal, Paramount, etc.), the international providers (BBC, HBO, MTV, Turner, etc.) and local content providers for each country. It operates the Video On Demand service on IPTV (via Set Top Box) and PC (download), such as Neuf Cegetel (#2 ISP in France, 3.5 million subscribers), Fnac (largest French online retailer), Vodafone, Carrefour (4 countries), etc. Glowria is also the largest online DVD rental service (cf Netflix) in France and #2 in Germany, with a library of 25.000 titles.

• VP of International Deployment, Sales and Marketing

  UOL

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 1999 — March 2001 (1 year 10 months)

  Launched the International branch of the leading Brazilian ISP and portal UOL. Opened 7 countries : US (Miami), Spain (Madrid and Barcelona) and 5 countries in Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia). Undertook HR, content and technology deployment. Rolled out the sales and marketing force. JV with local media companies. Positionned UOL the #1 portal and service provider in Latin America after 1.5 years of international launch.

• Founder & CEO

  MCC One (Argentina)

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1997 — June 1999 (2 years 6 months)

  I founded MCC One to offer a packaged, customized and ready-to-deploy Webmail/Freemail service, aimed to large ISPs and Telcos and supporting large volumes of users, in a region where almost nobody new at that time about Hotmail. The product/service was a success among regional providers. Telefonica of Argentina massively deployed it and later integrated the service in Terra portal.

• Project Manager

  BNP Paribas

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  April 1995 — January 1997 (1 year 10 months)

  Managed the deployment of the worldwide intranet and the first steps in online banking.
  Based in Paris (France), Montevideo (Uruguay) and Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Mihai Crasneanu’s Education

• EFREI

  Engineering , Software, Computing, Electronics , October 1990 — June 1995

• Stanislas

  September 1987 — June 1990

Additional Information

Mihai Crasneanu’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Mihai Crasneanu’s Groups:

•    International TV Professionals
•    FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
•    OpenCoffee Paris
•    International Television Expert Group (www.itve.org)
•    iptv
•    VOD Content
•    EFREI Paris, Alumni Group
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Stanislas anciens/alumni
•    IPTV & Triple-Play Group
•    Global Digital Media
•    Americs Com: Telecoms in Central, South & North Americas
•    IPTV World Series
•    Digital TV World Summit 2009
•    MyID.is Certified

Mihai Crasneanu’s Honors:

- E-commerce Man of the Year, 2nd place (Paris, 2007)
- Technology Entrepreneur of The Year (Paris, 2005)
- IT Capital Award, Most Promising Company (Paris, 2003)

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