Kasia Kieli

President and Managing Director
Discovery Networks
Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa

Kasia Kieli is President and Managing Director for Discovery Networks Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (CEEMEA).

Kieli has strategic management responsibility of Discovery's operations in the region, which became a standalone business in July 2010 and today encompasses 105 countries across three continents. In each of these markets, Discovery broadcasts up to nine channels from a list that includes Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science and Discovery HD Showcase.

Kieli founded the Discovery office in Poland in 2000 when she joined as Regional Ad Sales Director, and in March 2003, she was appointed General Manager for Central Europe. During her ten years at Discovery, Kieli has launched more than 12 channels across five markets. The most recent to launch, TLC, is an entertainment channel for women that is now available in Poland, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, Serbia and Slovenia.

Her working career started in the commercial sales department of a local Warsaw TV station - Nowa Telewizja Warszawa, the second commercial station to launch in Poland. In 1998, she moved to digital platform Wizja TV, where she developed the advertising department that later became At Media, the first thematic channel advertising sales house in Poland.

Kieli is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. She also has an MBA and degree from the University of Calgary and a degree from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana (U.S.) where she lectured for some time.