The group also appointed Hannah Collins as sales manager for the Nordics, CEE, Middle East and Africa.
BossaNova Media, the content creation, financing and distribution company has announced the appointment of Alex Lindsay and Hannah Collins to the team, both sales specialists alongside Ashleigh Henry, a new sales coordinator and EA.
The new team will report into Tatiana Grinkevich head of sales, who oversees territories including pan-EMEA, Germany, Benelux, France and Italy .
Alex Lindsay quickly rose through the ranks at TVF International; first as a sales executive, and now as sales manager leading BossaNova’s expansion in Asia, Canada, Iberia, and LatAm. Additionally, she will collaborate closely with Paul Heaney CEO and Claire Lowe, commercial and business affairs director, to shape the company’s US AVOD strategy, reinforcing BossaNova’s influence in the competitive American market.
Hannah Collins will manage the Nordics, CEE, Middle East and Africa as a TV acquisitions and distribution professional bringing over a decade of experience to the company. Collins has worked across multiple genres including unscripted and formats with team highlights including managing the global roll out of smash hits such as The Traitors, David Attenborough’s Oceans and Fleabag. She began her distribution career within the sales team at All3Media International, working across CEE, MENA spending the past 3 years also driving acquisitions at ALL3Media and Viasat.
Ashleigh Henry has also joined BossaNova, as sales coordinator and EA to the CEO having fulfilled similar role at TF1 America and multi award winning company, Noah Media.
Tatiana Grinkevich said: “Strengthening our sales team was a key priority for us this year and bringing Hannah, Alex and Ashleigh on board marks an important step forward for BossaNova. Together they combine strong market knowledge with sharp commercial instinct and a genuine understanding of client needs even in this changing market. We are moving into ‘BossaNova 2.0’ phase and as we look ahead to preparing to showcase our enhanced capabilities at MIPCOM, we look forward to doing what we’ve been doing but even better.”
These appointments follow a strategic refresh of BossaNova’s acquisitions team, with Francesca Johnson (former Nat Geo alum) now heading acquisitions, Iona Hopper as acquisitions manager, and Lyra Semsedini as acquisitions and materials coordinator.
