Mika Salmi, Director

Mika is the President of Global Digital Media for MTV Networks. In this role, he works across MTVN’s growing portfolio of multiplatform brands to further develop and implement the company’s strategy of building an engaging universe of music, games, entertainment, networking and interactivity for its communities of targeted audiences. Prior to MTV, Mika founded AtomFilms, which focused on discovering, creating, and enabling new entertainment formats, and marketing and distributing them to a broad array of distribution channels. Mika has also led business development for the media and entertainment industries at RealNetworks; and has worked for TVT Records, Sony Music and EMI Music, where he discovered bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Presidents of the United States of America. Mika was born in Finland and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin, later earning his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.