Ognian Dimov, CEO

Ognian Dimov

CEO

kanal3 TV

Location
Bulgaria
Education
Doctorate, MBA
Experience
32 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :32 years, 7 Months

CEO at kanal3 TV
  • Bulgaria
  • My current job since February 2014

Strategic planning; financial planning; programming; marketing strategies; P&L analysis; staff management (120); day-to-day management

Chairman of the Board of the Directors at TV7, News7 and Super7 - media group
  • Bulgaria
  • September 2010 to October 2013

Overseeing the top management performance; setting strategic goals; negotiations with potential strategic partners and investors

CEO - Bulgaria at ProBG and Ring TV - part of Central European Media Enterprises (CETV - NASDAQ)
  • Bulgaria
  • April 2007 to July 2010

Oversee the CME (CETV NASDAQ) operations in Bulgaria; responsible for ProBG TV and Ring TV - TV channels with national coverage and 620 people.

TV Station manager at BECON TV
  • United States
  • September 2001 to April 2007

BECON TV is owned and operated by the School Board of Broward County Florida and is a full power TV station (WBCN). Main profile is educational and public service television, supported by the Public Schools Budget.

I was running the entire TV station under the supervision of the Director of BECON and the Superintendent of the Schools.

Marketing Communications Manager at Teleplace
  • United States
  • April 1999 to July 2001

Teleplace was an Internet infrastructure startup based in Boca Raton Florida, partnering with Texas Utilities, Weber Schandwick, RR Donnelley and many others - leading companies - to provide a unique business model and value-added services to the booming Internet industry at the time.

I was hired under Number 17 in the company, that - before collapsing - had more than 200 employees, and I was responsible for all the content, messages, strategic key words etc included in the corporate communications.

Chief Marketing Officers at Bulgarian National television
  • Bulgaria
  • October 1990 to July 1998

Created the sales and Marketing department of the national TV in Bulgaria; served as a liaison between the European Broadcasting Union and the Bulgarian National TV; part of the international work group that started the Champions League of Football (Lucerne, Swiss); elected member of the Group of Development at the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva, Swiss; worked closely with EGTA (European Group for TV Advertising, Brussels, Belgium).

Education

Doctorate, MBA
  • at Robert Kennedy College, Switzerland
  • November 2005

an MBA program, under the guidelines and standards of the University of wales, UK - run by the Robert Kennedy College in Switzerland - online 3 years program.

Doctorate, MA in Economics and Marketing
  • at Corvinus University of Economics
  • July 1989

A full 5-years long program for masters degree in Economics with special attention to Marketing and International Trade

Bachelor's degree, french civilization
  • at French high school
  • June 1981

One of the 5 unique high schools in Bulgaria - at that time - where teaching was taking place in the selected foreign language (French in my case).

Specialties & Skills

Startups
Marketing
Media Strategy
Television

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Bulgarian
Expert
Hungarian
Intermediate
Russian
Intermediate