Speakers Profile  
 


BroadcastAsia2010 International Conference

Track 1

Michael-Deblasio, Director Product Management & Strategic Planning, Network Video Solutions, Asia Pacific Motorola, Inc.
Michael DeBlasio is the Director of Product Management & Strategic Planning within Motorola’s Network Video Solutions segment in Asia Pacific. He is responsible for driving the development of networks video products and solutions in the region.

Michael holds BS degrees in Business with advanced MS degrees in Electrical Engineering with 30 year experience in the media industries. His knowledge extends across all facets of the media industries including content creation, distribution, terrestrial Broadcast, DBS, cable and digital signage. He had been a key member of teams that have defined, designed, integrated systems and developed products with innovative and disruptive technology for many prominent customers around the world.

Rob van den Dam, Global Telecom Sector Leader, IBM Institute for Business
Rob van den Dam is Global Telecom Sector Leader at the IBM Institute for Business Value and responsible for strategic thought leadership in Communications. In this role he develops future agendas and industry outlooks for the communications sector.

He has more than 15 years of expertise in multimedia, content, communications, emerging distribution channels, and IPTV. He periodically give presentations or chair panel sessions on conferences, and has written or co-written numerous papers and articles on telecommunications and media, including ‘Telco2015, five telling years, four future scenarios’, ‘Changing the Way we Communicate’, ‘Fighting for Viewers – IPTV versus Internet TV’, ‘Primetime for Mobile Television and ‘Mobile Advertising, Ads on the Move’.


Noel Matthews, Business Development, EMEA and APAC, Solution Area TV, Ericsson
Noel Matthews heads Ericsson TV Solutions’ European and Asia-Pacific business development team.

Previously Noel was Vice President of Business Development in EMEA and APAC for TANDBERG Television. He joined the company as product manager for the world’s first MPEG-2 broadcast encoder range and has since performed a number of senior product management and business development roles, counting the world’s first 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video encoder among his successes.

During his 14 years with the TANDBERG Television, Noel has led new business development teams covering OFDM-based digital TV, Telco C&D, ATSC and IPTV. >From March 2004 he led the IPTV business team that established TANDBERG Television as a market leader for telco video. He was seconded as Acting General Manager, APAC, for five months from December 2007.


Colin Prior, Founder, Member, IMPALA, UK

Colin joined S&T in early 2006 and is responsible for sales and business development of S&T’s products and services for digital interactive TV including playout systems, receiver middleware and applications.

Colin spent his early career in software development and electronics design with Thorn Lighting’s Theatre Lighting Division, working on TV Studio projects for the BBC and other broadcasters. He then moved to Aregon International and later Bishopsgate Systems in engineering management roles in the financial trading room and broadcast data systems markets. He joined VG Broadcast in 1992 as Technical Director, leading the development and market launch of the first PC-based teletext and subtitling systems.

Colin is a Chartered Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bradford. He is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Daniel Enns, Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing & Business Development, Comtech EF Data
Daniel Enns is senior vice president strategic marketing & business development for Comtech EF Data. Focusing on strategic activities, Enns initiates development and orchestrates partnerships. He is considered a pioneer in IP networking via satellite. His tenure includes various executive management positions.

Prior to joining Comtech EF Data, Enns was General Manager/Founder of Crown Satellite LLC, guiding product and business development on the SpectraCast® products. Under his leadership, Crown Satellite was acquired by Adaptive Broadband (formerly California Microwave/EF Data). Enns also held the position of engineering director for World Radio Missionary Fellowship. He holds a BSEE from the University of Manitoba.

Track 2

ByungSun Kim, Senior Researcher
ByungSun Kim, Senior Researcher, has 15 years experience in the broadcasting industry having developed many high tech broadcasting applications.

He has specialized in broadcasting content security and anti-piracy since 2006, working with government research centers, consumer electronics and major broadcasters. Now he is joining 3DTV research projects.

Ivan Verbesselt, Senior Vice President Marketing, Nagravision
Ivan Verbesselt is Senior Vice President Marketing with Nagravision. Ivan is also active as a guest professor in Marketing at the International University in Geneva.

Before he was the Principal of Quadratio Consulting Ltd focusing on Broadband TV.

Prior to this, Ivan Verbesselt was Vice President in charge of Alcatel’s TV business otherwise known as Information, Communication and Entertainment (ICE). Before that he led the Product Marketing and CTO office of Alcatel’s DSL business.

Ivan started his career in telecommunications in 1990 when he joined Alcatel's Corporate Research where he enjoyed contributing to the design of several category defining products in the broadband access space.

Ivan has also held various positions in product management for broadband access products and services, both within Alcatel and Belgacom, the Belgian incumbent operator.

Richard C. Redmond, Director of Strategic Marketing, Harris Corporation’s
Richard Redmond is Director of Strategic Marketing for Harris Corporation’s Broadcast Communications Transmission Business. In this role, he is responsible for global business development, strategy, new product development and marketing including leading digital radio and mobile TV growth initiatives.

Most recently, Redmond served as Director of Product Line Management. Previously he led the television systems integration business, sales management and technology positions.

A member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Audio Engineering Society and World DMB Forum Steering Board, has authored and presented on a number of broadcast technology topics globally.

Redmond received a Bachelor's degree in Marketing Management from Siena College and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Dayton.

Yoshimasa Chounan, Program Engineering Division, Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Yoshimasa Chounan received the B.E. and M.E. degree from Waseda University in 1995 and 1997, respectively.

He joined NHK in 1997, and He belonged to Planning division, engineering administration department from 1999 to 2004, and made plans for investment of broadcasting facilities to progress HD and digital terrestrial broadcasting in Japan.

Since 2005, he has been with the Program Engineering Division. Currently, he is in charge of broadcast system development, mainly master control system for digital satellite, digital terrestrial and international broadcasting.

James Neufeld
James Neufeld is a young but increasingly international recognized figure, passionate about intelligent broadcasting for a new era. Since the age of 13 Neufeld has consulted and worked for several start up broadcasters, helping them grow from community stations to large networks and cutting edge multi-media organizations.

In 2008 never.no recognized the value of Neufeld's unique combination of creativity, ingenuity, and experience and invited him to Norway to join its international team as a product specialist for its award winning interactivity suite.

Rahul Nehra, Regional Director , Latens
Rahul Nehra has built up considerable expertise in the Pay-TV technology business through various positions at Tata Unisys, Hughes Communications, Europe*Star, and Irdeto, where as Country Manager he oversaw the company’s successful regional expansion.

Mr Nehra is also one of the founders of Aura Global Media Corporation and two TV channels, Aarti TV and Tamil Cinemix. As Latens Regional Director in Asia, Mr Nehra is responsible for the overall sales and services of Latens in Asia and plays an important role in developing the company’s sales strategies and new business initiatives, while helping customers to capitalize on the substantial benefits of Latens’ emerging TV technologies.

Track 3

Ralph Bachofen, Vice President of Sales and Head of Marketing, Triveni Digital
Ralph Bachofen brings more than 15 years of experience in voice and multimedia over Internet Protocol (IP), telecommunications, and the semiconductor business to his role as vice president of sales and head of Triveni Digital’s marketing and sales group.

Bachofen joined Triveni Digital from Conexant Systems, a semiconductor company driving broadband communications for the digital home. As Conexant Systems’ manager of product marketing, he led the worldwide DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) semiconductor products efforts. His professional career also includes senior technical and marketing roles at Siemens and Accelerated Networks.

Bachofen’s education includes an executive master of business administration and a bachelor of science in telecommunication technologies. An expert on the role of metadata in the effective provision and monitoring of all variety of DTV services, Bachofen is a frequent speaker on the topic of test and measurement strategies, advanced broadcast platforms, and mobile DTV delivery, at a variety of industry conferences.transactions.

Anke Gill, Vice President of Marketing, BNS Ltd
Anke Gill is the Vice President of Marketing of BNS Ltd, one Asia’s leading IPTV content and technology solutions providers. In her role as Vice President of Marketing, Anke is responsible for the company’s overall marketing activities, strategic planning and corporate communications.

Anke is a marketing professional with more than 15 years experience in a variety of industries, including advertising, education, telecommunications and multimedia.

Her experience in the telecommunications industry stretches across senior positions in the marketing departments of some of the largest telcos in Asia, including Reach, Telstra and CityCell.

Gerard Faria, Chief Technology Officer, TeamCast - France
Gerard FARIA is CTO & Co-Founder of TEAMCAST (France). He graduated in 1978 from the Technical University of Paris VI (France). Since 1990, he is involved on the Broadcast sector, contributed to major European Collaborative Research projects, participated actively to the elaboration of various DVB standards (T, H, SH, T2) and represented TeamCast in International conferences & Forums.

Gerard FARIA is also the elected Vice-President of the “Images & Reseaux” French competitiveness cluster and member of expert committees constituted by the European Commission (FP7) and the French "Agence Nationale de la Recherche" (ANR).


Vidar Sandvik, International Product Marketing Manager, Conax AS
Mr. Sandvik is International Product Marketing Manager at Conax AS. Mr. Sandvik joined Conax in 2001, and has been working as a Product Manager from the beginning, until he was promoted to his current position in 2007.

Earlier, Mr. Sandvik has held positions as Business Development Manager at the Post of Norway, VISA International and Telenor. Telenor is the owner of Conax AS and many other companies in the Broadcast and Mobile Industry. Mr. Sandvik graduated in 1987 within the fields of Management, Administration and Electronics Engineering.


Thomas Lund, HD Development Manager, TC Electronic
Thomas Lund started his professional career as a musician and recording engineer. From 1985 to 1992, he studied medicine at University of Aarhus, specializing in perception and statistics.

Thomas has worked for TC Electronic since 1990, and joined the company fulltime in 1994. His current position is HD Development Manager, where he has been responsible for the development of equipment such as TC System 6000, DB8, LM5, Reverb 4000 and more.

Thomas has published around 30 scientific papers mainly about loudness, distortion in digital audio and spatialization for AES, EBU, SMPTE, BCA and NAB; and has taken part in international audio standardization work within AES, ITU and EBU.


Steve Foy, Tektronix
Steve Foy has worked in the video industry for 13 years. He began work in video for the Cambridge start-up Symbionics Instruments in 1996. Symbionics Instruments was rebranded as Adherent Systems in 1997 and was acquired by Tektronix in 2001.

Since then, Steve has worked with Tektronix customers around the world in various roles including MPEG Customer Support, Systems Integration, Project Management and Technical Training for both Tektronix employees and customers.

Steve has worked on large scale MPEG and IP Video monitoring systems implementations for Tektronix's largest compressed video customers worldwide. He has also been actively


Fintan McKiernan, Regional Manager for APAC, OmniBus Systems

Fintan Mc Kiernan is Regional Manager for APAC at OmniBus Systems.
Fintan manages OmniBus System’s business expansion and sales activity in the region. Currently OmniBus Systems iTX production and automation system is deployed by Satellite, TelcoTV and Terrestrial Operators from Tokyo to Sydney. In particular iTX is now being deployed across APAC by operators launching HD and 3D channels.

Previously Fintan has held roles as SVP of US Sales and VP of EMEA Sales at DigiSoft.tv for IPTV, Director of Government Services at Piercom Solutions and has held executive positions with British Telecom and Gateway Computers.

Mr. Kazunori Yokohata, NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories

Kazunori Yokohata received the B.E. and M.E. degree in electronic engineering from Hokkaido University, Japan, in 1993 and 1995, respectively.

He joined Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) in 1995. Since 2002, he has been in Science and Technical Research Laboratories (STRL). Since 2004 he engaged in the work for research and development on broadcast-wave relay and mobile reception technologies for digital terrestrial television broadcasting. He is a member of IEICE and ITE.


Veronique Malan, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Advanced Digital Broadcast SA

Véronique Malan is the Vice President, Strategic Marketing for Advanced Digital Broadcast SA. Her responsibilities include defining and implementing ADB's worldwide marketing strategy, supporting ADB's development of customer-valued innovations, and further strengthening the organization’s market intelligence and communication, in support of ADB's position as a leading pay-TV solutionprovider.
                                       
Previously, Véronique Malan was the Director of Customer Insights, for Hewlett-Packard's worldwide Graphics Solutions Business. She is currently based at ADB's Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

A French native, Véronique Malan holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Schumann University, Strasbourg, France, and a MBA from Cornell University, USA.


Tom Navasero, Founder and Executive Chairman, Widget TV Pte. Ltd

Mr. Navasero has been a serial entrepreneur and builder of businesses for almost 25 years. Businesses include satellite network channel distribution, digital media broadcasting, mobile telephony, Direct to home satellite pay-tv, wireless ip-telephony, w-VOIP, print media, IP channel broadcasting, bottle water, AIDS and pharmaceuticals, e-logistics, aviation, component manufacturing, rail and port infrastructure ,semiconductor design and venture capital. He is presently the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Widget TV Pte. Ltd. Based in Singapore, a new media start up in partnership with Yahoo for developing Widget TV in Asia. Which he just recently sold to SGX listed Infinio Group Ltd.  He is also a partner at Calypso Capital a private equity firm focused on acquiring and controlling small cap companies in the region.  He was also the founder of International Mobile Broadcasting Pte Ltd, a Pan Asia Mobile TV initiative in partnership with Toshiba, SK Telecom, Glocal Media, Bridge Mobile Alliance, and Satellite Operator. Prior to starting up IMB he headed Intelsat’s business development in Asia where he completed several ventures with China and rest of Asia. He founded Glocal Media Networks Inc., a network of ethnic channels that is also the largest acquirer of Filipino content.

Track 4


Brad Redwood
Mr. Redwood joined Masstech Group in 2004 from Techtel Pty Ltd of Australia, a leading supplier of broadcast solutions in Australasia. He has held a variety of key television operational and managerial positions over his 20 year career, including the Director of Operations at Network TEN in Australia. He began his broadcast carrier as a trainee with the National NINE Network in Australia studying electronics and communications and achieving promotion to senior management positions.


Omneon Paul Turner, Vice President of Broadcast Marketing Development, Omneon Inc
Paul Turner is Vice President of Broadcast Market Development for Omneon Inc, representing the company on several industry bodies, and advising customers and potential customers on file-based workflows. Mr. Turner brings with him more than 30 years of experience in the broadcasting industry in Europe and the U.S.,

he held engineering and senior management positions both in the U.S. and the U.K. at Grass Valley Group, where he was responsible for the design, development, definition and marketing of many of GVG’s mixers, DVEs, keying technologies and graphics devices. After leaving GVG, he worked in product management and product marketing roles at several other broadcast manufacturers, including Abekas Video Systems, Scitex Digital Video, Sony Electronics and Pinnacle Systems, where he held the position of director of product marketing for their storage, switcher, DVE and character generator product lines. Mr. Turner is a member of the Board of Directors for the Advanced Media Workflow Association, where he chairs the association’s business steering committee.

Track 5


Xiaoying Zhang, Deputy Director of International Relations, Deutsche Welle
Xiaoying Zhang is Deputy Director of International Relations at Deutsche Welle, Germany and in charge of Asia-Pacific affairs. In the early 1990s, she started her journalistic career as a print media reporter for various newspapers and magazines published in China and Taiwan.

As Senior Editor of the Chinese Program of DW-RADIO from 1997 to 2005, she was responsible for program planning, coverage of currents affairs and moderation of live programs. She is an experienced reporter and editor on China- and Taiwan-related issues. She studied American language and literature as well as art history in Beijing and Frankfurt am Main and obtained her master’s degree in philology.

Adrian Teo, Founder & CEO, Pepperconn Pte. Ltd
Adrian is the Founder and CEO of pepperconn Pte. Ltd., a provider of enterprise-class social media solutions to businesses and government agencies. Adrian’s career spans 14 years in both traditional and new media management roles. At MediaCorp, he spent 7 years there in TV production, business development and programming roles which grounded him in the fundamentals of traditional media management. In 2002, he took a leap of faith into new media and over the next 7 years, he led and managed teams in mobile, internet and IPTV content business management, marketing and business development at SingTel, Samsung Asia and Nokia. Prior to the founding of pepperconn Pte. Ltd., Adrian was the Asia Pacific Head of Regional Content Aggregation at Nokia.

Simone Brunozzi, Technology Evangelist for Europe/APAC, Amazon Web Services

Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age.
He joined Amazon.com in march 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years.
In January 2010 he relocated to Singapore, becoming the first AWS Technology Evangelist for the APAC region.

Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

Joanne Teoh, Director, Sapphire Studios

Joanne has been invited speak on digital narrative design and multimedia content innovation at conferences and universities around the world. A broadcast veteran with a special interest in multimedia narratives, she has published widely and produced courses, TV programmes and documentaries on the subject.
Joanne pioneered path-breaking TV content on medicine, travel and cuisine with leading media organizations in Asia. With the advent of the Internet, she has turned her range of expertise in multimedia and journalism to the key questions facing media practitioners today – how the Web is changing the business and craft of communication and digital content innovation.

Creative Content Production Conference
Wellington Fung, Assistant Head, Create Hong Kong
Presently Secretary- General of the Hong Kong Film Development Council, Wellington Fung was the CEO of BIG Media Group Limited, a listed company (no. 8167) on GEM of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Mr. Fung built his career in the Hong Kong media and film industries since 1978. March 1994, he co-founded the Media Asia Group. In the ten following years, he served as General Manager of Media Asia Films, Deputy Managing Director of Media Asia Distribution and Executive Director of Media Asia Holdings, respectively. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Media Assets, a company of STAR TV, in charge of film production. From 1980 to 1992, Mr. Fung personally produced 12 feature films for Cinema City, and oversaw the production of over 30 movies starring Hong Kong’s leading actors and actresses. From January 2003 to December 2006, Mr. Fung was the Executive Director of M-Bright Science & Technology Limited, an entity focused in content development for Internet and Mobile business.

Malcolm Young, Managing Director/Executive Producer, Firefly Films(Singapore) Pte Ltd
Malcolm started writing, producing and directing television commercials, lifestyle programs and documentaries in Australia in 1975. In the 1980’s he was engaged in innovative computer graphic design work at The Post Group in Hollywood.

Later, as Head of Television for TVSN, he established a new broadcast studio and uplink facility in Shanghai. He served as Executive-in-Charge of Production for Hong Kong and Singapore based Bang Productions and recently taught film producing in the Graduate Film Program at Tisch Asia.

Malcolm Young now runs his own company, Firefly Films (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., who’s primary focus is feature film development and production.

Nicholas Chee, Executive Director, Sinema Academy of Motion Pictures Limited
Award-winning photo artist/filmmaker Nicholas Chee has been in the forefront of Digital Imaging and Video.

He is currently the Managing Director of Sinema Media Private Limited, a social enterprise set up to support the development of the Singapore Film Industry, as well as Singapore’s vision of becoming Asian’s media hub.

As a co-founder of the first independent high definition cinema dedicated to Singapore
and Asian independent films, he conceptualised and implemented the setup of Sinema

Old School which is pioneering in low-cost HD post-production, distribution, exhibition workflows and techniques.

Tzang Merwyn Tong, Founder/Director, INRI Studio
TZANG MERWYN TONG, founder of INRI studio, is the storyteller/ filmmaker behind the award winning films, e'Tzaintes (2003) and A Wicked Tale (2005).

Tzang’s films are characterized by his rather offbeat style, often incorporating elements of fairytale and comic fantasy. Both films have traveled to critical acclaim and full house crowds in prestigious film festivals in Rotterdam, Montreal, Berlin, Potsdam, Munich, Tel Aviv, Lund, Leeds, with festivals hailing him as a ‘new generation filmmaker’ calling for a change in the way films are made. His works have been featured in international publications like Res, Cinependent, Montreal Mirror, Fangoria and Rue Morgue. Tzang is now working on a new film called The FRVL Project.

Riaz Mehta, President and Founder, Imagine Group
Riaz is the founder and CEO of Imagine Group. He is responsible for global business development and has formed a network of alliances with production heavyweights all over the world, allowing Imagine Group to create ground breaking and globally branded content in Asia. Riaz was educated at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia and worked in business development, heading up SEA for Australia’s largest tech company (KAZ Group).

By 2009, Riaz was responsible for bringing one of the world’s most successful TV brands, The Biggest Loser to Asia, in conjunction with production Gurus, Shine Reveille. This inspirational brand became the ‘entertainment buzzword’ of the year, achieving top ratings and No.1 spots for its broadcasting channels. With this project Riaz has changed lives, broken barriers, and truly brought Asian media and production to the eyes of the world stage, with Biggest loser Airing in 22 countries globally. With his recent success and ever growing partnerships in media and production, Riaz strives to develop original content and production across Asia, utilising it’s varied and cost effectives resources to develop local economies and bridge the gap between Hollywood and the East..

Fortini Paraskakis, Head of Content, Fremantle Productions Asia
Fotini Paraskakis has been living and working in Asia since 1993, experiencing first hand huge changes in the region’s television industry. Fortunate enough to have had lived, worked or visited almost every country in Asia, she has been able to put all this acquired knowledge to good use, contributing greatly to the industry’s rapid growth and expansion.

Over these past 15 years, Fotini has been instrumental in the success of many channel start up operations and big budget projects for ESPN/Star Sports, Star TV, Astro, Disney, HBO, MTV and FremantleMedia.

She has successfully developed a number of formats across the Asian region which have changed the face of television, resulting in huge ratings and numerous series renewals, most recently with Idols, Asian Idol, Hole in the Wall, The Apprentice, Project Runway, various classic games shows, such as Family Feud and Price is Right, and the current launch of Got Talent across the globe.


Tony Chow, Managing Director, Off The Fence Production
Tony Chow has been a pillar of the Singapore’s screen industry, as the former President of the independent producers’ association as well as an active practitioner in generating higher quality content for television programming and training schemes.

He emanates from a broadcast television background as producer/writer and has worked extensively in the advertising and corporate areas of film, video and TV production. Holding a degree in political science from the National University of Singapore, Tony was a pioneer graduate of the Economic Development Board’s Broadcasting and Media Production Special Conversion program at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore.

Creatively, Tony is also the Executive Producer of several digital feature films, as part of the Film Incubator Program with the Singapore Film Commission.

Presently, Tony is the Managing Director of Off The Fence Singapore. As Director of Off The Fence Singapore, Tony manages the business and strategic relationships as part of Off the Fence expansion in Asia.


Keiko Bang, President, Bang Productions Ltd

Keiko Hagihara Bang is the President and founder of Bang Productions Ltd, an award-winning production company based in Asia. Bang is committed to excellence in production across a wide range of genres, including documentary, feature as well and branded and new media content.

Ms. Bang began her career as a freelance print journalist in Asia working as a reporter/producer for CNN in Korea, ABC News (U.S.) in Japan, NHK and CNBC (formerly ABN) in Hong Kong.

In 1996 Ms. Bang established Bang Productions in Hong Kong, later moving the head office to Singapore in 2003. Bang also established a Korean and Japanese subsidiary in 2009.


Jocelyn Little, Managing Director, Beach House Pictures

After more than 15 years in film and television, Jocelyn has acquired an expert knowledge of the broadcast and commercial industry. From international program producing, managing broadcast design campaigns, corporate videos and commercials, Jocelyn’s experience covers the full production gauntlet.

Her extensive list of program credits include 12 engineering documentaries under the Man Made Marvel Series for Discovery Channel. She also worked on the long running series “Lonely Planet Six Degrees” with global travel brand Lonely Planet and the award winning “China First Time Filmmakers” and “Afterlife” for the Discovery Channel. Jocelyn has also worked with the National Geographic Channel on “Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled”, “Malaysian Journey with Jason Scott Lee” and documentaries “Glory – When East Meets West”, “Crime Scene Bangkok” and “Bodysnatchers of Bangkok” (Best Documentary – ATV Awards & NGC/EDB Awards).

Geoff Boyle, Director of Photography and Cinematographer
He has been shooting 3D since 2007, is both a Cinematographer & Stereographer He is also the founder of CML - http://www.cinematography.net/
An influential website for cinematographers Geoff Boyle is a noted cinematographer, founder and owner of the worldwide mailing list for directors of photography, the Cinematographer’s Mailing List (www.cinematography.net).  A native of England, he has a long list of credits shot worldwide, including About a Girl,  Mutant Chonicles,  Steet Fighter and Dark Country. He is currently in pre-production with Woodland Cross and Welcome to Purgatory, slated for a 2011 release.



New Communications & Broadcast World
Daniel Thunberg, Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, Irdeto
Daniel is the Senior Director of Marketing for Irdeto, assuming the role in 2009. Prior to this role, he served as Irdeto’s Director of Business Development responsible for activities globally in the digital TV market. He has held several other positions within the organization including account, product and client device management roles.

He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Amsterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Linköpings University in Sweden. Daniel also has a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Strategic Marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK.

Dr. Randolph Nikutta, Leader New Media, Innovation Development, Deutsche Telekom Ag, Laboratories
Randolph started his career at Deutsche Telekom in 1996 at a R&D subsidiary. Between 2002 and 2008 he was working for Detecon International GmbH (consultancy subsidiary of T-Systems International). Since April 2005, he has been assigned to Deutsche Telekom Laboratories which he later joined on a permanent basis.

Randolph is responsible for the project field “New Media” dealing with IPTV, mobile TV, 3D TV, Web TV, Convergent TV and other moving images related innovation topics like Free Viewpoint TV.

Douglas Pierce, Vice President & General Manager, Advanced Digital Broadcast SA
Douglas joined ADB in 2008 with responsibility for ADB’s Asia-Pacific Business Unit, including defining and executing its Asian product development and market strategy. He spent the last 7 years living and working in Asia.

Prior to joining ADB, Douglas was APAC General Manager for WiQuest Communications. He also worked at Texas Instruments for 11 years in various positions - general management, business development, field sales and engineering.

Douglas holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Bradley University, USA and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, USA.

Dr. Ofer Weintraub, CTO, Orca Interactive
Ofer is Chief Technology Officer of Orca Interactive. With extensive expertise in managing research and development and in software consulting in both the telecommunications and hi-tech industries, he joined Orca in November 2005 to take on the role of CTO.

His responsibilities include driving technological innovation to continuously leverage Orca’s position as an IPTV market pioneer and overseeing new product development to revolutionize the industry as a whole by introducing the IPTV services of the future.

Anke Gill, Vice President, Marketing, BNS Ltd
Anke is the Vice President of Marketing of BNS Ltd, one of Asia’s leading IPTV content and technology solutions providers. In her role as Vice President of Marketing, Anke is responsible for the company’s overall marketing activities, strategic planning and corporate communications.

She is a marketing professional with more than 15 years experience in a variety of industries, including advertising, education, telecommunications and multimedia. Her experience in the telecommunications industry stretches across senior positions in the marketing departments of some of the largest telcos in Asia, including Reach, Telstra and CityCell.

Anke holds a Master of Arts in Communications from the University of Lueneburg in Germany and a Postgraduate Certificate in Journalism from the University of Queensland, Australia.

Derek Lei Liu, Senior Director of Product Marketing, Huawei Technologies
Derek is Senior Marketing Director at the Core Network Division of Huawei Technologies, overseeing the company's next-generation CDN (Content Delivery Network) solutions. Prior to Huawei, Derek worked for Secom China in Beijing, Sprint Canada in Toronto, Tasmania Networks, Cisco Systems and Conviva Networks in Silicon Valley.

He has extensive expertise in the areas of strategic planning, development, and marketing of CDN products and solutions, with a focus on video delivery. He now focuses on media delivery optimization solutions for Telecom operators.

Derek received his Bachelor’s degree from Peking University, China and Master's from University of Delaware, USA.

Nigel Smith, Chief Marketing Officer, NDS
Nigel was appointed NDS Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in June 2007 and is responsible for all corporate marketing activities at the company.

He formerly held the position of Vice President of Broadband Internet for NDS, where he was responsible for developing and implementing the strategy of NDS’ IPTV business line. He has over 14 years of experience in the pay-TV market, covering satellite, cable and broadband. Prior to joining NDS in 1995, he held several roles within software companies in the area of advanced database development. During this time, he authored three packaged software products.

He holds a degree in Computer Science from London University and a post-graduate degree in Software Engineering from Brunel University.

Dr Martyn Taylor, Partner, Gilbert & Tobin
Martyn specialises in competition law and market regulation, principally advising clients in the telecommunications, technology, and media sectors. He has over 15 years of regulatory and commercial experience, obtained principally within the Asia-Pacific region.

Martyn’s clients have included some of the world’s largest and highest-profile multi-nationals, and leading telecoms, media and technology companies. He has acted in some of the region’s largest corporate transactions.

Martyn has advanced postgraduate qualifications in corporate finance and economics, as well as legal qualifications that include a PhD in competition law.

Jose Miguel Cansado, Head of Multimedia Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
Jose started his professional career with the IBM Networking Hardware Division with Product Engineering responsibility for EMEA. In 1997, he joined Alcatel where he held different management positions for Network Applications in Spain and Latin America. In 2004 he moved to Asia Pacific with the Alcatel Mobile Communications Group, and later with the Alcatel-Lucent Convergence Business Group with business development and business management responsibilities for the region.

Currently based in Shanghai, he leads Multimedia Solutions for Asia Pacific. Multimedia Solutions include Triple-Play, Multiscreen, Digital Home, Advertisement and Mobile Multimedia.

Jose graduated in Telecommunications Engineering in Valencia, holds an Executive Master’s of Business Administration from IE Business School, Madrid, and a Marketing Telecommunications postgraduate from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.

Henri Setiawan Wyatno, Researcher Business, R&D Center PT Telkom Indonesia
Henri is a Researcher in the R&D Center of PT Telkom Indonesia, the biggest incumbent telecommunications company in Indonesia. Henri is responsible for the research of business, standardization and making recommendations for strategic and tactical level.

Recently, he has been involved in several projects such as IPTV Project, Metro Ethernet project, Evaluation for Retail Product, Evaluation for Enterprise Product, Evaluation for Wholesale Product, Broadband Network Deployment based on DSL, known as Speedy Project, and intense research of FTTH network deployment. Before being appointed to his current role, Henri held the position of Senior Engineer, Wireline Network Laboratory. And prior to that, as Engineer, Optical Lab. Henri has played a defining role in the research and development work of Telkom’s business groups since joining the company in 1996.

Thomas Parish, Vice President, Broadcast Technology, Globecomm Systems
Thomas has over 40 years’ experience in troposcatter, microwave and satellite communication network engineering. Since early 1997, Thomas has focused on developing the digital video and audio broadcast capabilities at Globecomm Systems. Since then, his Broadcast Technology Team has been responsible for winning large contracts to provide terrestrial repeater transmitter stations as well as many other broadcast projects.

In the Direct-to-Home (DTH) television broadcast center arena, Thomas has leveraged the latest state-of-the-art digital processing technologies to enable Globecomm Systems to provide totally integrated broadcast center solutions to customers around the globe with one of the latest being a Media Processing Center for Bharti Airtel in India.

Thomas holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Engineering Degrees from the University of South Florida