Katarzyna Kieli, SVP, General Manager, Discovery Networks Central Europe

Katarzyna Kieli manages the Central European region and as the General Manager Discovery Networks Central Europe she is responsible for Discovery Networks development in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the company's international structures she is a member of the Discovery Networks Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) management team.

Katarzyna Kieli has been working for Discovery Networks since 2000. She founded the Discovery outpost in Poland and originally as Regional Ad Sales Director was responsible for coordination of advertising sales across several markets in the region. In March 2003 she was appointed Country Manager for Central Europe and in 2006 she opened Discovery’s offices in Romania and Hungary. 

Katarzyna Kieli started her working career in the commercial sales department of a local Warsaw TV station - ‘Nowa Telewizja Warszawa’. ‘Nowa Telewizja Warszawa’ was the second commercial station in Poland, and its sales department was later transformed into Publipolska, a subsidiary of Publitalia, whilst ‘Nowa Telewizja Warszawa’ became a part of Polonia 1. At Publipolska Katarzyna Kieli was overseeing and managing marketing activities of the sales department. In 1998 she moved to then-created digital platform Wizja TV. She created there the advertising department, which was later transformed into At Media, the first thematic channels’ sales house in Poland.

Katarzyna Kieli is a graduate of the Harvard Business School. She has also obtained an MBA title and diploma of the University of Calgary. She also boasts a diploma of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA), where she lectured for some time upon graduation.   

Katarzyna has a keen interest in film, travel, cooking and gardening. In her spare time she loves to ski, travel and read.