Our Team
Rez Mahboubi
Managing Partner – US, East Coast
As the founder and Managing Partner of NewMedia Partners, Rez oversees the firm’s engagement activities on the East Coast of the US, with a particular focus on: New York, Boston, Atlanta, and Miami.
Rez has over 15 years of global experience in Private Equity, Investment Banking, Leveraged Finance, and Corporate Development within the Media, Entertainment, and Communications industries. Having worked as a private equity Vice President at GE Capital in the US and as a media & telecom investment banker in Europe, he has extensive insight into the unique structural dynamics of these sectors. Moreover, he refined his strategy formulation and corporate development skills through hands-on management of a portfolio of early-stage private equity companies, participating on executive committees and attending board meetings.
Rez has a BS in Engineering from The University of Glasgow (UK) and earned an MBA with Honors (Beta Gamma Sigma) from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University (USA), majoring in Corporate Strategy and Media Industry. His master’s degree thesis was entitled: “Digital Disruption: Structural transformation of the media industry”, enhancing his insight into the structural and competitive changes currently taking place in the media industry, as well enabling him to develop a number of innovative and proprietey analytical models, such as MediaStrat® and MediaVenture®.
Thalia Tong
Engagement Partner – US, West Coast
As the firm’s engagement partner on the West Coast, Thalia has over 13 years of management consulting and corporate development experience with a particular expertise in: strategy assessment, strategic performance management, strategic cost reduction, and business process transformation.
Thalia formerly served as a senior consulting director at Parson Consulting, a leading management consultancy firm specializing in Strategic Finance, Accounting & Finance Operations, Governance & Strategic Risk Management, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior to Parson Consulting, she held a number of senior consulting roles at Deloitte & Touche, The Hackett Group, and Ernst & Young.
Thalia’s substantial management consultancy background and extensive strategy-related advisory experience bring valuable analytical tools and frameworks to NewMedia Partners, enabling us to formulate creative, impactfull, and differentiating competitive strategies for our clients.
Pierre Casanova
Engagement Partner – Europe
As the firm’s engagement partner for Western Europe, Pierre is also the founder and managing partner of DDH-Partners, an investment banking boutique in France, with a sector expertise in Information Technology, Media, and Telecommunications. He has over 15 years of global experience in Corporate Development, Venture Capital, and Mergers & Acquisitions.
As the managing partner at DDH-Partners, Pierre leads the firm investment banking engagements for international clients. Pierre is also an active board member of a number of early-stage European firms, such as Heatwave Technologies and Springeo, leveraging his unique insight into the critical role of strategy and innovation at early-stage technology firms in order to drive impactfull strategy formulation at those firms.
Prior to founding DDH-Partners, Pierre was a Vice President at GE Capital in the US where he led a large number of strategic cross-border transactions and venture capital investments in the Media and Technology sector, ultimately managing a portfolio of 40 early-stage private equity investments valued at over $250MM.
Pierre holds a BS degree in Physics from the University of Sussex (UK) and a Master degree in Business Management from the IAE Aix-en-Provence School of management, University of Aix-Marseille (France). He also earned an MBA degree with a concentration in International Finance from the Stern School of Management at New York University, (USA).
Advisory Committee
The senior team at NewMedia Partners is honored to be advised by a team of distinguished academics and experienced industry professionals. Collectively, these individuals contribute media industry expertise, corporate finance experience, innovative ideas, and influential networks to our firm, enabling us to effectively fulfill our core mission.
