Artur Kobryn

Obesessed with customer success, passionate marketing and advertising professional with both eyes wide open. VP International Sales at RTLAdAlliance leading relationship and sales growth in with our clients and partners.

Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

About

With 20+ years of international experience in media, marketing, and advertising, I’ve built and led high-performing teams, shaped go-to-market strategies, and driven sustainable growth across Europe. As VP International Sales at RTL AdAlliance (RTL Group), I’m leading a transformation and change process across sales strategy, organization, and commercial models—co-designing product development and supply strategy to align with evolving market needs. Previously, I built RTL AdConnect’s German business unit from scratch, expanding our client footprint across DACH, CEE, the Nordics, and Israel. Before RTL, I held senior leadership roles at Mediacom (WPP), managing global client portfolios and communication strategies. My career spans London, Moscow, Stockholm, Düsseldorf, and Cologne—giving me a broad, adaptable view of international business and media culture. Multilingual and multicultural, I speak five languages (English, German, Swedish, Spanish, Polish) and blend life across Sweden, Poland, Spain, and Germany—bringing cultural fluency to every partnership. My leadership profile is an eNFp – The Charismatic Visionary. I lead with Servant Leadership and a coaching mindset—empowering teams, building trust, and driving collective success.

Experience

  • RTL AdAlliance (8 yrs 4 mos)
    • VP International Sales
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

      As VP International Sales at RTL AdAlliance, I’m driving a strategic transformation and change management process of our global sales organization—reshaping how we go to market, engage clients, and generate value across international territories. My role spans four core areas: 🔹 Sales Organization Design – Leading the redesign of our structure, roles, and processes to build a more agile, scalable, and collaborative sales force. 🔹 Go-to-Market Strategy – Defining new segmentation models, client engagement approaches, and value propositions tailored to evolving media buyer needs. 🔹 Business & Commercial Model Innovation – Co-creating new revenue models, partnership frameworks, and deal structures to future-proof our offering. 🔹 Product & Supply Strategy – Working closely with product, tech, and inventory teams to shape new offerings, bundling, pricing, and market-fit. I collaborate across leadership, regional markets, product, and operations to align strategy with execution—ensuring that change is not just designed, but adopted and sustained. My leadership style blends vision with empowerment, rooted in Servant Leadership and coaching principles. As an eNFp (The Charismatic Visionary), I thrive on inspiring teams, driving clarity through complexity, and delivering growth through people.

    • Business Unit Director
      Apr 2018 - Mar 2025 · 7 yrs

      Building up a new team, sales structure, strategy and process for the German Business Unit of RTL AdConnect, the RTL Group international sales division. Sucessfully recruting, bulding, training and coaching the team, which has managed to exceed sales targets y o y. From Jan 2021, increasing the scope of work to include Netherlands and Nordics, with a team based in the Netherlands. Since then, successfully driving further growth and footprint with clients across Germany, Austria, CEE, Netherlands, Nordics and Israel.

    • Business Unit Director
      Jun 2022 - Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      RTL AdConnect, GuJ International Media Sales and Smartclip are joining forces internationally under the new name of RTL AdAlliance. We are now unified under the new name - more news and details to follow in 2023!

  • Mediacom (10 yrs 8 mos)
    • Managing Partner
      Jul 2010 - Apr 2018 · 7 yrs 10 mos

      Head of International, strategic comms planning, international account direction and client service, new business and business development. Location: Düsseldorf.

    • Head of International
      Sep 2007 - Jul 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Strategic comms planning, international account direction and client service, new business and business development. Location: Düsseldorf.

  • General Manager at 24/7Comms
    Mar 2006 - Sep 2007 · 1 yr 7 mos

    General management of an full-service creative agency including media planning and buying. Strategic lead on key client projects. Responsible for key TV/Radio/Print productions as well as promotional activities. Location: Moscow, Russia.

  • Business Development Director at Davinci Selectwork
    2004 - 2006 · 2 yrs

    New business development and management across different industries. Development of new planning process, partner-management. Location: Düsseldorf / Stockholm.

  • International Account Manager at Mediaedge:cia
    2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

    Management of international blue-chip client across 15 European markets. Pan-EU strategy development, process and organisation management, leading special projects in areas of content creation and sponsorship. Location: Düsseldorf / London.