About us > Team
The people behind
Who are the people behind esctoday.com? Where do they come from and what is their connection with the Eurovision Song Contest? Get to know them all! If you want to contact one of our team members, we kindly ask you to use the ContactCentre, which you can find here.
Welcome word
Welcome to esctoday.com!
My name is Barry Viniker, and I have replaced Sietse Bakker as Managing Director of esctoday.com.
I would like to welcome you to our website! I have worked on this website for three years, first as an editor, then Press Officer and most recently as Head of Communications.
In relatively short time, esctoday.com became the most visited independent Eurovision
Song Contest website, with more than 30,000,000 pageviews during the last year.
The strong voluntary team behind esctoday.com makes sure that the website is
as up-to-date as possible. More than 20 people from all over the world put their
time and energy into esctoday.com, to make sure it remains a daily Eurovision
centre! The people listed down here deserve a warm applause!
Staff team
The responsible people
The staff team is responsible for the daily co-ordination of esctoday.com activities. The editorial headquarter of esctoday.com is located in London. Esctoday.com is a trade mark of MediaBattery, registered at the Amsterdam Chamber of Commerce.
| Name | Position | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Viniker | Managing Director |  United Kingdom |
| Richard West-Soley | Co-Chief Editor | United Kingdom |
| Marcus Klier | Co-Chief Editor |  Germany |
| Stella Floras | Head of Communications |  Greece |
| Sir jw | Head of Internet Technology | United Kingdom |
| Michalis Vranis | Head of Multimedia | Greece |
| Miguel Granja | Moderations Manager |  Portugal |
Team members
The contributors
| Name | Position | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Itamar Barak | Editor |  Israel |
| Alexandru Busa | Editor |  Romania |
| Russell Davies | Editor | United Kingdom |
| Velimir Djelic | Editor |  Serbia |
| Dominique Dufaut | Editor |  France |
| Luis Florindo | Editor | Portugal |
| Edwin van Gorp | History manager |  The Netherlands |
| Laura Gudim | Editor |  Croatia |
| Sanel Hadziahmetovic-Jurida | Editor |  Bosnia Herzegovina |
| Bjarni H. Halldorsson | Editor |  Iceland |
| Tom Espen Hansen | Editor |  Norway |
| Victor Hondal | Editor |  Spain |
| Zlatko Iker | Editor | Serbia |
| Sanjay Jiandani | Editor | Spain |
| Aris Kalimeris | Editor | Romania |
| Serol Karalar | Chat moderator |  Turkey |
| Anna Krasilnikova | Editor |  Russia |
| Michael Kuipers | Editor | United Kingdom |
| Gil Laufer | Editor | Israel |
| Danny Lewis | Editor | United Kingdom |
| Arvydas Makselis | Editor |  Lithuania |
| Aija Medinika | Editor |  Latvia |
| Gavin Murray | Editor |  Ireland |
| Anja Nesterenko | Chat moderator |  Ukraine |
| Sónia Pinto | Editor | Portugal |
| Leif Råberg | Editor |  Sweden |
| Juha Repo | Editor |  Finland |
| Rene Romkes | Editor | The Netherlands |
| Zaven Shegrikyan | Correspondent |  Armenia |
| Hakan Yalcinkaya | Editor | Turkey |
