The executive will lead the teams across commissioning, production, digital, and journalism and work closely with talent and partners to help drive the sport's growth across the BBC's digital services.
It will be in South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, and across the Middle East through the mobile payments company Digital Virgo. The FilmBox lineup will be accessible on platforms such as PLAYVOD, Veedz.TV, Unlimited Streaming, Moov TV, and MTTV.
The offer includes a collection of films that are not available on mainstream movie channels. After ROK in 2022, ths is the second channel from CANAL+ Group to be launched on Freeview in the UK.
Founded in 2012 with the ambition of making quality African content accessible on all media, Marodi TV is positioned as the leading producer of series in Senegal, which are also very popular in Africa.