NATPE Budapest announced yesterday that Victoria Elmacioglu and Rustam Kasymov have joined their team to head up buyer relations.

Based in Greece and with more than 20 years of experience in development, distribution and co-production strategy/planning, Victoria Elmacioglu has a rooted legacy in the CEE region’s TV market. Her family’s production company, Television Enterprises, is one of Greece’s most successful indie studios, and has produced content for channels and platforms operating throughout Europe and the Middle East. In 2017, Victoria established the Mediamixx Television Festival in Thessaloniki, an event and awards ceremony that celebrates television excellence in the CEE & SEE regions.

Also on the buyer relations team for NATPE Budapest 2023 is Rustam Kasymov, who worked for DISCOP for 10 years before it was acquired in 2017 by NATPE Global Markets, where he continued to serve as a Buyers Specialist for five more years. Rustam has considerable expertise in supporting the buyer experience at both NATPE Budapest and NATPE Global.

“With more than 150 buyers already signed up for NATPE Budapest, including many CEE media leaders, we are scaling our team to over-deliver on our promise to clients to grow the value they get from attending the region’s most important content market,” said Russell Goldstein, President & CEO of Brunico Communications.

NATPE Budapest is currently open for qualified buyer registrations. More content buyers from linear TV channels, streaming platforms and distribution companies are signing up to attend the event every day, including teams from leading companies such as AMC, Antenna, ERT, Kanal D Romania, MGM+, MTVA, Paramount, National Geographic, RTL Hungary, TRT World, TV2, TV Slovenia.

CEETV is an exclusive media partner of NATPE Budapest.