Cilla Benkö was appointed Director General & CEO of Swedish Radio in 2012. Since 2009, she held the position of Deputy Director General of Swedish Radio. During the time, Swedish Radio has transformed from a traditional analog company to a modern digital media player on a market that is not very national anymore. Cilla has been working for Swedish Radio for more than 30 years and during this period held several senior management positions.

Since 2010 Cilla has been serving as an EBU Executive Board member and is currently the Chairperson of the EBU Personnel Committee.

She is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Pontus Schultz prize for leadership, the Leader of the Year award by ‘Chef’ magazine and the Kings medal for ’Eminent services to Swedish media’ by HRH King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.

Ezra Eeman is Strategy & Innovation Director at NPO. Ezra has more than 20 years of experience in media, innovation and journalism. Previously he was Change Director at the international media company Mediahuis, where he was responsible for coordinating newsroom transformation and digital acceleration across a wide range of cross-media brands. Before that, Ezra was also the Head of Digital, Transformation and Platforms at the EBU, The European Broadcasting Union, worked as head of an innovation lab at VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster and was a journalist and editor in chief at the Flemish commercial broadcaster VTM.

Tomas Granryd has over 20 years of experience at Swedish Radio, encompassing roles in hosting, producing, managing channels and commissioning radio content. In the last five years, he has been the Head of Digital Partnerships, leading efforts to integrate Radio and Swedish Radio to digital platforms, with a focus on connected car platforms. Additionally, Tomas serves as Vice Chair of the Digital Committee at the EBU.

Graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Télécom Paristech, Laurent Frisch joined Radio France in 2015 as Head of Digital. He has served as CDO and Head of Production at Radio France from 2018 until his recent appointment as the CDO and Head of Innovation Strategy in June 2023.

Previously he has worked as a new media consultant at France Telecom North America in New York, dematerialization and cryptography project manager and director for Security and Trust Technologies at Orange Labs and director media & entertainment at Orange. 

He also served as the Marketing Director for digital performance at the French Yellow Pages and headed the Digital for France Televisions.