team

Executives and Founders

Tech Team

Business Development

Advisors

Administrative

Production

Michael Osterrieder
Michael Osterrieder
 
CEO and Founder
 

Michael Osterrieder is a creative professional and entrepreneur with nearly two decades of IP production experience under his belt. Combining vast experience in 3D graphics, photography and videography, Michael has sold over 500,000 media licenses worldwide. Michael initially founded vAIsual together with Nicolas Menijes and was instrumental in developing its base technology for synthetic media.

Mark Milstein
Mark Milstein - Rainmaker at vaisual.com
Rainmaker – Co-Founder

Mark Milstein brings unique insights into global content operations and the licensed stock media landscape that few can match. War photographer, founder of Eastern Europe’s first internet-based photo agency and founder of Microstocksolutions, a global services company supporting the visual media industry, Mark now directs both vAIsual’s strategic partnership and fundraising efforts along with its daily operations.

Nicolas Menijes
Nicolas Meijes - vaisual founder

Head of Organic Content – Founder


Nicolas Menijes is a recognized superstar within the licensed stock media universe. Nicolas is the powerhouse behind vAIsual’s real life dataset production, and oversees the production and acquisition of all organic content for vaisual.com. His deep understanding of high-volume production workflows and his attention to deep detail is what fuels vAIsual’s success.

Istvan Zsolt Novak
IStvan Zolt Novak - Numbers guy at vaisual.com
CFO – Co-Founder
 

Istvan Novak is vAIsual’s head of finance and is an accomplished taskmaster, bringing more than 33 years of success in sales, marketing and strategic management to the table. Istvan’s respected business acumen was honed while CEO of large corporations such as Kraft Foods Hungary, RWE Hungary, and Arjo Wiggins Hungary. He keeps the lights on and the machines running at vAIsual. 

Keren Flavell
Keren Flavell - COO at vaisual
COO

Keren is an award-winning web producer, author, speaker and strategist. She is internationally recognized as a global thought leader and digital innovator with more than 30 years of experience in the tech industry focusing on community, content and connection via advanced digital platforms.

Keren has spoken about digital content innovation at SXSW, Screen Producers Association, AIMIA Conference, IAP2 Conference, Adelaide Futureproof and was the former radio show host of Byte Into It.

Jakub Pawlak
Jakub Pawlak - Developer at vaisual.com
Lead Developer
 

Passionate about learning and results-oriented, Tatiana Snauwaert brings
her unique experience with machine learning algorithms having learned
from the top-notch professionals in the industry. Tatiana is excited to
engineer and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision models for
vAIsual.

Tatiana Snauwaert
Tatiana Snauwaert - vaisual.com

Lead Developer

Passionate about learning and results-oriented, Tatiana Snauwaert brings
her unique experience with machine learning algorithms having learned
from the top-notch professionals in the industry. Tatiana is excited to
engineer and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision models for
vAIsual.

Dorette Botha
Dorette Botha - Sales team at vaisual.com
Business Development and Sales

 

Driven and passionate business development and sales professional working with global startups and SMEs across tech and the service sectors expand their regional and global footprints. Dorette now heads up business development for vAIsual and the Dataset Shop.

Lee Torrens
Lee Torrens - inner voice of vaisual
Our Inner Voice

Lee Torrens has from its earliest days been the voice and inner ear of the microstock world. First as the founder of MicrostockDiaries, the much-regarded industry blog, and later as the first director of content at Canva, the $40 billion dollar graphic design platform, Lee now guides vAIsual as its advisor on all things related to corporate structure and legal affairs.

Brad Greenwald
Brad Greenwald Hiltop venture partners. Investor and advisor at vaisual
Advisor and Investor

Brad received a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He resides in Denver, CO with his wife and children. He is a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Irina Silva
Irina Silva - vaisual administration
 
Administrative Assistant

 

Experienced in operations and organization for growing businesses, Irina takes a thorough approach to ensuring our systems are functioning efficiently and the executive team are focusing on what matters.

Sebastian Navas
Sebastian - vaisual - office manager
Office Manager

Sebastian oversees the planning and execution of media content creation, planning general objectives of the media material and overseeing the production schedule.

Sol Rosen
vaisual production team - sol
 Production Manager

 

Sol is in charge of the photo shooting and video recording.

Maia Constantinovsky
vaisual production team - maia
Production Assistant

 

As part of the production team, Maia is in charge of general administration and office tasks that may be requested by team members for the benefit of the project.