smartclip was established in Germany in early 2008. Since then we have expanded our international presence and developed local teams in Spain, the UK, France, Benelux, the Nordic Countries, Italy and Russia.
smartclip Management
In March 2008, Jean-Pierre Fumagalli founded smartclip, Europe’s market-leading online video advertising company. As founder & CEO of smartclip, he is in charge of corporate strategy and development.
Prior to founding smartclip, Fumagalli was Managing Director of Sales for Lycos Germany / International with responsibility for the company’s entire online advertising business. He ran the sales offices in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Gütersloh and was in charge of communication with both direct customers and agencies.
Before joining Lycos, Fumagalli worked as a lawyer negotiating international film, TV and music licenses, for example for Trimark Pictures in Los Angeles and Studio Hamburg.
Roland Schaber is the co-founder of smartclip. As COO, he is in charge of the day-to-day business with a primary focus on business development.
Before smartclip, he worked in London as the Managing Director of Lycos UK. He also built and managed the European third party Ad Network Business of Lycos. Previously, Schaber held various positions at telecommunication and e-commerce companies and brings substantial Internet experience to his position.
Stephan Cavalar is as CFO a member of the management board since January 2011. He is responsible for the area of finance of the entire smartclip group.
Stephan has extensive expertise in international finance management. Prior to joining smartclip, he was on the management board for zanox, a leading online marketing service provider. In this role, Stephan was responsible for finance and accounting and following the acquisition of zanox by the Axel Springer Group/PubliGroupe he played a pivotal role in the financial integration of the two companies.
Prior to joining Zanox, Stephan set-up and managed the financial and accounting departments for several fast growing start-up companies in the Internet industry, an experience which will serve him well in his new role at smartclip. Stephan also holds a degree in Business Administration.
Patrick McClellen is Chief Technology Officer at smartclip. Patrick is responsible for a team of people in smartclip's owned Technology hub in Germany, leading the development of new and existing products and platforms. In addition to spearheading the company's innovations and product enhancements, he oversees the operations of smartclip's campaign delivery and reporting system SMARACD.
Patrick has an extensive and high-profile background in technology and information architecture. He has been working in the industry for 17 years and has built up a wealth of technology and development knowledge in multiple companies and tech roles. Patrick previously held the role of Chief Information Officer at EyeWonder in Atlanta, USA. There, he was responsible for the company’s global product and technology development. Prior to his role at EyeWonder he worked as a Chief Technology Architect for one of the five largest banks in the USA. Before that, he was the eBusiness Technical Manager of Implementations at Manhattan Associates and a Senior Enterprise Architect at Arthur Andersen.
In her role as Vice President Connected TV, Shirlene Chandrapal is responsible for driving and implementing smartclip’s strategy as a unified pan-European solution within the emerging, high-potential market of Connected TV.
Prior to joining smartclip, Shirlene Chandrapal was Director of Yahoo! Connected TV, a platform that delivers Internet content to TV sets, where she covered all major European markets and was responsible for strategy implementation, partnership development across Europe and product marketing.
Shirlene Chandrapal has extensive expertise in the online industry on an international level. She was responsible for the successful pan-European roll out for several of Yahoo! products including the Yahoo! Direct Response product. Before, Shirlene was the Commercial Director at Bluelithium responsible for sales and product marketing. Previously she held positions at Opodo as Sales and Distribution Director and as Partner and Media Manager at Vodafone.
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