Olaf Sperwer

Olaf Sperwer is heading the Department of Business Development for Virtual Production and XR Stages with a focus on film and broadcast for ROE EMEA. His background is more than 29 years in the global media business. He was part of international blockbuster productions and a co-producer of film- and tv series. Olaf and his teams were in charge of planning and building the biggest tv- and film production studio – MMC-Studios -in Europe www.magicmediacompany.de/en/

Before Olaf joined ROE Visual EMEA, he was director and senior executive for European Governments and media funding Initiatives in the UK and Germany and for many years he was in several leading roles in the international film- and tv industry.

Olaf’s role at ROE Visual is expanding the ROE Visual LED business into the film-, tv- and broadcast production market. Since the use of ROE Visual LED volumes in Disney’s Mandalorian, ROE Visual has become the “gold standard” for virtual production in the global international film- and TV- studios.
As a support to ROE´s global sales teams, Olaf is developing new strategic partnerships in the field of live broadcast- and film production solutions. As ROE Visual belongs to the “go-to” industry in the field of virtual production and XR, Olaf also dedicates his role to creating new partnerships with solution architects and integrators, helping ROE Visual customers implement state-of-the-art VP solutions. He is the contact person at ROE Visual EMEA for project partnerships, public tenders and project integration.

One of the benefits of working with ROE is the connection of a daily growing international client- and partner network and the global ROE teams. Olaf is part of a unique project called www.ghostframe.com, a live broadcast and live event XR solution, using multiple and hidden visual sources and AR in one live production frame. Current use cases of Ghostframe are live-sport and news formats such as FOX NFL Sport and Sky MFN Sport Studio London.