Founder Profiles
Christopher Kikis | Thoma Kikis | Nicholas Levis | Cherise Wolas | Alan Zelenetz
Thoma Kikis 
Thoma Kikis brings to Ovie innovative thinking and visual artistry in the areas of corporate branding, design and development, film and TV production, and media communications, as well as critical experience in web design, Internet culture and Digital Cinematography. He has worked with such companies as MTV, VH1, SonicNet, Icon Medialab, Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Columbia University and ERT, Hellenic Broadcasting, Greece's national television station. Mr. Kikis conceived the Ovie name, designed the corporate logo and continues to develop Ovie branding and business strategies.
His most recent experience includes work in Europe, where he developed his expertise in film and TV production, explored new foreign markets, and enhanced his skills in Digital Cinematography. While in Europe, he served as Director of Photography on a European produced digital feature film and as one of the creative producers of ERT TV's magazine show, "Hellenic Weekly," focusing that season on the Athens Olympic Games in 2004.
Previously, Mr. Kikis was instrumental in developing Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield's "Butterfly" branding concept, ad campaign, and interactive website along with Icon Medialab. He also developed distance learning edutainment programs at Teachers College, Columbia University, and at TCI/Teachers College Innovations. As co-founder of Siliconfish, an Internet incubator, he developed Harmone.com, a DRM (Digital Rights Management) portal designed to explore revenue models for legal and proprietary ways of licensing music via the Internet.
Before co-founding Siliconfish, Mr. Kikis worked at MTV Interactive, a unit of Viacom, where he was responsible for projects involving interactive strategy, solutions, branding and design. At MTV, he worked on the redesign of the MTV.com website, on the online branding campaign for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, and he helped introduce the first interactive web/TV game show, "webRIOT," starring Ahmet Zappa. He also developed spots for "My VH1 Music Awards" for VH1 and FlashRadio for SonicNet.com. Prior to his work at MTV, he was a member of the creative producing team of The World Mysteries/The Mysteries of Eleusis, a theater and music spectacle presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's 1998 Next Wave Festival.
Mr. Kikis attended the Tisch School of the Arts and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications Management with a minor in Graphic Communication from New York University.
