Jacky KAHAN

GSM: 0475/55.41.00
Email: jacky@kahan.com
Url: http://Jacky.kahan.com

Born in Antwerp, 3rd of June 1965

Professional experience

Since May 2002 MagicCafé Productions
Managing Director click here for more info

2000 - 2002 Belgium, Lasne TheBodyWorld.com link
Marketing Manager : Internet Strategy - WebMarketing - WebDesign - SiteConcept

1998-2000 Belgium, Brussels GLOBALSIGN
Sr. Marketing & Communication Manager

1997-1998 Belgium, Brussels LR TECHNOLOGIES
Sales & Marketing Manager

1996-1997 Belgium, Brussels BELGIUM ONLINE
Account Manager

1995-1996 Belgium, Brussels CGI SYSTEMS / IBM
Independent Sales Consultant

1992-1995 Belgium/USA MATCHING SOUNDS
Director, Editor, PR and Promotion

1992-1994 Belgium, Mechelen ASE
Product Manager/Advisor for AKAI Professional and AKAI Digital

1989-1991 Belgium, Antwerp PYRAMID SOUND
Purchaser / Product Manager for Electronic market

1988-1990 Belgium, Aartselaar SUPERCLUB NV
Product Manager in the video/film/tv and Cable sector.

1983-1988 Belgium, Antwerp PREMIER DIAMOND CORPORATION
Expert in rough diamonds for industrial purposes
Belgium, Antwerp JACOB PERI/MOLDI DIAMONDS
Expert in polished diamonds: especially fancy shapes
Tel-Aviv, Israel TARSHISH
Learned to be a Diamond Expert

Professional Achievements

Diamond business: sorting, evaluating, buying and selling.

Film industry: advising on the purchase of movies for the video, TV, theatre or cable market, promotion, stock. The job consisted of handling everything from the moment we had a contract until the finished product. This involved also layout of covers, posters, subtitling and distribution. The territories were Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and France. Checking contracts; payments and orders of films and materials; release planning; monitoring film stock and, among other things, making the research and design for the appropriate software to control more than 3000 contracts.

Electronic Market: buying in the Far East (Hong Kong, Korea, Malaisia, Indonesia), public relation, product management and technical support. Analysing the needs of the company to create the right software.

Akai: promoting, selling, public relation and technical support which included demonstrations and finding the needs of the client within the professional digital recording systems in the music business. (Stand-alone and computer based) MIDI specialist (Music Instrument Digital Interface)

Matching Sounds: editor of a music magazine "Resonance" distributed all over Belgium. Technical advisor in the professional music business (MIDI).
Consultant for recording studios and musicians. Manager of different bands, promoting different composers in the field of filmscoring which includes jingles and commercials (US market). Also participated in most of the professional festivals, such as the Filmfestival of Cannes, Mipcom, Midem, Film Expo, American Film Market, Pop Com and Frankfurt Messe.

CGI SYSTEMS Sales Consultant in the computer development business, mainly in the Lotus Notes field and the Year 2000 problem. Main objective was lead generation and prospect follow-up, company presentations and demonstrations of developed products such as Sales Force Automation as well as organising fairs and marketing.

Belgium Online: Account Manager in the Internet business, responsible for lead generation, follow-up.

LR Technologies: Sales & Marketing Manager in the field of Messaging & Security, Internet / Intranet.

GlobalSign : Responsible for promoting the European network of Certification Authorities of GlobalSign, (Digital Signatures) via a network of PR agencies and events at fairs all over Europe. 5 Subjects were covered: Daily Marketing, Events, Communication, Partners and Webmarketing.

Hobbies

Magic, Reading, Music, Film and Computers: Internet, Graphic Design
Languages and education

English : fluent
French : fluent
Dutch : fluent
Hebrew : fluent
Hungarian : good
German : moderate

Schools: Tachkemoni School, SIHA 1 (Business & Administration)
Very good knowledge of Internet, computer programs in general: word processing, spreadsheets, desktop publishing Graphic Design (PhotoShop etc) and professional music recording programs.