Age: 33
Nationality: American
www.kpe.com

Zwillenberg's mission is to move the media and entertainment industries into the digital age.

A job as global marketing director at advertising agency DDB led him from New York to England, where he helped launch an Internet division for the Daily Mail, one of the country's largest newspapers.

He also ran Soccernet, which eventually sold to Disney for $37.4 million. Last November Zwillenberg became head of the European division of KPE, a four-year-old incubator and venture capital firm for start-ups that provide content for the Web and digital television.

In addition, KPE runs what it calls Europe's first "TV meets Internet" production studio, Hat Trick KPE Interactive. Hat Trick's first initiative is an interactive game show based on a popular satirical TV news quiz, Have I Got News for You.

The vision thing: "The idea is to combine the best of the TV, movie and games businesses to create the next generation of media and entertainment."

Forward spin: By placing creative teams in key European cities KPE intends to boost digital programming in local languages.

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