Jim Phillipoff, the media & telecom director of the ISTIL Group, has been named as general director of ISTIL Studios.
Phillipoff will also remain the chief executive officer of Public Media, the company which owns the Kyiv Post, one of Ukraine’s leading news sources.
The appointment follows the resignation, for personal reasons, of former ISTIL Studios director Dmitry Kotelenets.
ISTIL Group owner and Kyiv Post publisher Mohammad Zahoor said: “We are sorry that Mr. Kotelenets decided to leave us, but we are confident that Mr. Phillipoff will continue to develop our studio as one of the best producers of content in Eastern Europe.”
ISTIL Studios is a state-of-the art TV and film production studio.
Phillipoff is an American native with a B.A. in international relations from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
