Adrian Johnson

Adrian Johnson (www.adrianjohnson.com, www.papadad.com) – Entrepreneur – Qinova Media (www.qinova.tv) - MrFootage (www.mrfootage.com)

Having started his entrepreneurial career in Berlin in 1993 with 3D animation company Archimation (www.archimation.com), Adrian later co-founded Poptel, Germany's first Internet Telephony provider in 1997. Poptel, a VC-funded, Internet start-up was sold in a trade sale in 1999.

Adrian then returned with his family to France, where he set up base on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest and continued to invest and create companies in the Internet/Media space. In 2003, he co-founded MrFootage (www.mrfootage.com), with his old friend from the Berlin days, Swedish former producer and Strix Television CEO, Johan Sundberg. MrFootage is in the process of creating one of the largest independent online digitised catalogues of searchable stock footage.

Last year Johan and Adrian spun off Qinova Media to build on their technical know-how and industry contacts to distribute complete films, television series and other audio visual content over the Internet. Qinova Media has developed a comprehensive online video platform, covering VOD, Web TV, User-Generated Content and the original Online Stock Footage Library system. With content owners and community specialists Qinova is also creating a collection of "special interest" Internet VOD sites, namely a Gay and Lesbian channel, Music Film Channel and Latin American Telenovela Channels.

Adrian is also an investor in Kidiboum (www.kidiboum), his wife's online children's clothing store.