The Messaging Studio team The team behind the message since 2008

The team

• Kerstin Trikalitis Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

  Kerstin co-founded Out There Media in Vienna in 2008 and leads its growth with mobile operators, Google and the largest brands and agencies. Before that she was Managing Director of Imako Interactive, acquired by the LSE-listed WIN plc in 2005, and of WIN SA. She began her career in marketing at Unilever

  Kerstin chaired the MMA EMEA board from 2012 and served on the board of MMA Global, judged the Mobile Lions at Cannes in 2014 and was named an Endeavor High Impact Entrepreneur in 2013. She has spoken at Mobile World Congress, the SDG Media Summit at UN headquarters and the World Economic Forum in Davos

  She studied at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, holds an MBA from ESADE and is an alumna of Harvard Business School and the Stanford Endeavor Leadership Program. Half Danish and half Greek, she speaks six languages

• Daphne Loukas Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

  Daphne co-founded Out There Media in 2008 and runs its global operations. Before Out There Media she was Managing Director of a consulting and trading business

  She is CEO and co-founder of Out There Impact, which ran the World Health Organization's messaging campaign against COVID-19 with operators around the world. Endeavor named her and Kerstin High Impact Entrepreneurs in 2013, and the Mobile Entertainment Forum lists her among its Top 50 Female Executives in Mobile

  Daphne holds a master's degree in advertising, communications and political science from the University of Vienna and completed the Stanford Endeavor Leadership Program. Half Austrian and half Greek, she speaks four languages

• Maria Vasiliou Chief Technology Officer

  Maria leads research and development and the technology behind Messaging Studio, including the studio that builds a rich message from one sentence. Earlier, Maria was Head of Development at Imako Interactive

  Maria has more than 25 years of experience in software architecture, AI and data engineering, a degree in software engineering from the Technical University of Piraeus, an M.Sc. in Big Data and AI and the Stanford Executive Program on Machine Learning

• RB Rob Bampicha Creative Director

  Rob is an award-winning creative director with deep experience in brand and design innovation. He holds an M.A. in Art and Design

• Carina Cunha Chief Marketing Officer

  At Messaging Studio and Out There Media, Carina runs the commercial side: the brand and how it is positioned, the website and the RCS calculator, the Founding User program and its campaign strategy sessions, and the path that takes a visitor from a first click to a signed customer. A founder, entrepreneur and scientist of the human experience, she runs experiments on human behavior in organizations, audiences and individuals, at the point where capital meets communication

  Over 17 years Carina has helped launch tech unicorns and advised more than 100 organizations, from bootstrapped startups to Fortune 100 and 500 companies. Her clients and employers include J.P. Morgan, Credit Suisse, Accenture, Founders Intelligence and Crimson Education. Today she also leads commercialization and go-to-market through Y42, institutional fundraising through Statera, and media and publishing through 403.world

  Carina holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Columbia University, earned at 20 in five semesters, and a postgraduate diploma in differential psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The book First Principles of Persuasion is due in 2027

• Amaryllis ParissiChief of Staff
• Stavy NikolaouGroup Account Director
• Chris StemerdinkAd Operations Director