Nicolas Zylberstein
Member of the Chief Strategy Officers Community - Media, Entertainment & Sports at World Economic Forum
Nicolas Zylberstein
Member of the Chief Strategy Officers Community - Media, Entertainment & Sports at World Economic Forum
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
ByteDancer
2020 - Current
- Leading Strategy/Operations, M&A, Investments & AI strategic partnerships for ByteDance in the Americas & EMEA - Driving ByteDance’s AI & Generative AI strategy, partnerships & investments across GPU, cloud, foundational models, tooling & applications outside of China - ByteDance’s businesses incl. TikTok, CapCut, eCommerce, AI/Generative AI, Gaming, VR, SaaS & Cloud
Member of the Chief Strategy Officers Community - Media, Entertainment & Sports
2023
Members of the Media, Entertainment & Sport Industry community engage together to shape the future of the sector, foster innovation & adoption of new business practices, and inform policymaking
Ambassador
2017
La French Tech is a movement bringing together startups, investors, policymakers & community builders to transform France's startup scene
Head of Corporate Development
2017 - 2020
- Defined & drove user growth, content/video creation, shopping & advertising efforts which led to the scaling of MAUs from 200M in 2017 to 420M in 2020 & ad revenue from $470M in 2017 to $1.1B in 2019 - Defined Pinterest’s long-term strategy & provided key input into IPO process with CEO, COO & CFO
Senior Principal, Strategy, Operations & Corporate Development
2014 - 2017
- Launched & scaled YouTube's $15B subscription businesses, including YouTube Premium & YouTube TV - Defined YouTube’s long-term strategy with the CEO; drove 4 acquisitions & key strategic partnerships
GM/Head of EMEA Digital Distribution
2009 - 2014
- Direct P&L responsibility for Disney’s digital businesses & products; grew Disney’s digital business 3X in 2 years - Developed Disney’s first-ever Direct to Consumer strategy & transition to streaming with the launch of Disney+
Engagement Manager - TMT & Consumer Goods
2007 - 2009
Provided strategic consulting to Tech, Media & Consumer clients in operations, sales & marketing and strategy
M&A Associate
2001 - 2005
Worked on 15 M&A deals incl. $70B Sanofi/Aventis merger (Pharma), $18B Pernod Ricard/Allied Domecq acquisition (Spirits), $2B Danone/Suntory JV (Water) & $1B Lagardere/Vivendi asset swap (TV)
Education
MBA
2005 - 2007
MBA
2006 - 2006
Masters
1999 - 2001
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
1997 - 2000
Bachelor of Economics
1993 - 1997