Sandra Ouaiss spent nine years at Canal+ Group as Director of Fiction Acquisition for Canal+ from 2002 to 2009. During these years, she has considerably developed an address book of key TV players in the International Production & Distribution business. Further, she is reputed to have a keen eye for selected major hit series, proven by her track record in brining Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Rome, Madmen, Weeds, and more, to the French market.

In 2009, appointed Director of Programs and Channels Relationships at Canal+Overseas (the international subsidiary of Canal+) she designed and managed the content budget. Here, she not only strengthened relationships with broadcasters (TF1, M6, Lagardère, Disney, among others), she also held production responsibilities that placed here in charge of launching local show for Canal+ Africa and Overseas territories.

Before arriving at Canal+, she spent five years at Universal Channels in France, where as Director of Acquisitions and Programming, she defined the programming strategy and organization of the program grid, as well as designed the acquisition strategy, while managing the allocated budgets for rights and coproduction and supervisising the team.

Working closely with the agency Mediaphil (www.mediaphil.fr), under the direction of Philippe Di Nacera, a former Director at France 24, So CONSULTING focuses on publishing projects and supporting African operators for the group.

In addition, So CONSULTING closely collaborates with Merwann Abboud, an international director and writer.