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Night Train Media (NTM) was founded in February 2020 by Herbert L. Kloiber, former managing director of Tele München Group (TMG). Its core segments include development, licensing, co-production and -financing of fictional content. Based in Munich and active on a global scale, NTM is a content partner of NENT Group, the Nordic region’s leading entertainment provider.

On September 10, 2020, NTM announced a significant, long-term investment from Serafin Group Co-Founder Philipp Haindl to cover complete funding of NTM’s current and future projects, as well as future company growth.

By partnering with Serafin, a diversified, Munich-based industrial investment group with an annual turnover of $1 billion in 2019, NTM has secured complete funding of its existing and future projects. Serafin's Haindl said he considers NTM being nimble, having a short decision-making process and significant liquidity as major advantages in securing great projects, and the flexibility provides NTM with the chance to adjust its strategy quickly, depending on fallout from Covid-19, and take advantage down the road of strategic media growth opportunities in Europe and throughout the world.

Because Serafin typically focuses on industrial sector investments, NTM will remain independent from its other activities and not be integrated into the group. Nevertheless, NTM will benefit through the partnership from the core competencies of Serafin which, unlike traditional private equity funds seeking quick turnarounds, invests its own unlevered funds into companies. Serafin is also known for taking an active, extremely long-term strategic role in their development, including examining potential strategic growth opportunities through M&A.

NTM also announced Olivia Pahl as head of development and co-production, overseeing the company's expanding slate of global film, premium network television and streaming projects.

Pahl joined NTM, after serving in a similar capacity at StudioCanal TV and Tandem Productions. Her arrival coincided with NTM having gained rapid traction with its primary focus on core segments including the development, licensing, co-production and -financing of English- and local-language fictional content.

At StudioCanal TV and Tandem Productions, where she rose to Head of Development after joining the company in 2015 from Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Pahl worked closely with writers in a supportive role while managing development and key partnerships across the studio’s pipeline of international TV series. Additionally, she managed third-party submissions; served as Co-Executive Producer of SHADOWPLAY, an eight-part thriller series produced by Tandem Productions and Bron Studios, and co-financed by ZDF, NENT, CANAL+, NC+ and NPO, and as a development executive on Moscow Noir, Sanctuary and The Lawyer.

In August 2020, NTM teamed with content partner NENT Group, Starlings Television and Canada’s Mediabiz International to develop the futuristic, female-driven augmented reality drama "Veil" and UK producer Blackbox Multimedia to announce a series based on the novel "The Ex-Wife" by Jess Ryder, adapted from the New York Times bestselling Catherine Steadman (2018’s "Something in the Water"), who starred as Mabel in "Downton Abbey." The latest addition to its slate is “Doppelgänger” (8X45), an English-language crime drama with Argentina’s Avi Films. The German-language adaptation of the series stars August von Wittgenstein (“Das Boot,” “The Crown”).

Kloiber formed NTM following his tenure as Managing Director of Germany's TMG, where he led its seven subsidiaries including Concorde Film, Concorde Home Entertainment, TELE5, TMI, ODD and Clasart.

During his 2012-19 tenure overseeing all operations, strategy, acquisitions, sales, co-productions and co-financing for the leading European media company, Mr. Kloiber led TMG’s expansion into the direct-to-consumer market with the launch of the SVOD service Filmtastic; entering into strategic output deals with Netflix and Amazon; optimizing the value of its content with more efficient windowing across its distribution platforms; and expanding revenue streams internationally through distribution, co-production and direct investments in IP-based production companies such as Stories Media Group.