Ekaterina Yakushenko has been appointed the sales director of Thema Rus, the Moscow-based branch of Thema Group, with immediate effect.
In this newly created position, she will lead Thema Rus strengthened sales team and manage all existing and future commercial relationships between Thema Rus and all satellite/cable/ IPTV/OTT and mobile platforms’ operators in Russia and all CIS countries.
Prior to joining Thema Rus,Yakushenko was deputy general director (Strategy and Key Partners Relations Development) at Universal Distribution, since 2019, in charge of Russia and CIS countries, with television marketing development and digital distribution responsibilities.
From 2013 until 2019 she was Universal Distribution’s deputy executive director, responsible for the overall distribution of all Universal portfolio’s thematic channels and company-wide general issues.
