Bringing years of marketing, business affairs and development
experience with him, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated producer, Tim
Halkin, joined Rola Bauer as a Partner in Tandem Communications in
November 1999.
Prior to Tandem, Halkin worked for the German television network,
ProSieben. First hired as Managing Director for their video arm, he was
promoted to Senior Vice President of the International Fiction division
in January 1998. In this position, he played a key role in setting up
businesses in international theatrical co-productions, ran the
Animation Department and was Deputy for the entire division.
Prior to his work in television, Halkin headed up marketing for Buena
Vista Home Entertainment Germany - a company he helped set up. During
his 7-year tenure at Buena Vista, he set up operations in both
Switzerland and Austria.
New York born, Halkin came to Germany in 1983 and studied at the
Ludwig-Maximillian University in Munich prior to taking over all
marketing activities for Walt Disney at one of their licensees,
EuroVideo.
In America, he studied at Fordham University in New York and worked in
the area of theatre stage and production management for renowned
theatre institutions such as Ellen Stuart's La Mama and the Chelsea
Theatre Center prior to working in marketing for the Metropolitan
Opera, where he set up and run a direct marketing department.
