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Sorosh Tavakoli

Sorosh Tavakoli

Founder of Videoplaza

Sorosh founded and ran Videoplaza which became the leading video advertising platform for media companies in Europe and Asia with close to 100 employees across 8 offices. In late 2014, on its 7 year birthday, Videoplaza was sold to Telstra's subsidiary Ooyala where he served as SVP of Adtech until mid 2016. After helping charity Founders Pledge setup in NYC Sorosh is now focused on his next venture hoping to help battle Climate Change in a real way... stay tuned.

Sorosh was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, lived 4 years in London and 2 years in NYC before moving back to Stockholm in early 2017. He holds an Engineerings Masters from the Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm School of Economics.

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