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TV Outlook 2006:
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Andrew Howells, Zype
Founder

Andrew has worked with interactive media since the late 1980s. He has more recently been responsible for a number of firsts in the interactive advertising industry in the UK. Zype, Andrew's latest company is focused on VOD and the role advertisers can take with the opportunities already available. Zype launched the Honda TV channel this year.

Benjamin Schwarz, France Telecom
Head of Technology Development Programme

With 19 years of international experience focussed on Innovation, Technology Management, Business and Customer focus, Benjamin Schwarz is with France Telecom since 2001 to manage R&D and international TVoDSL deployments. He spent 10 years in a software services company then in 2000 was CTO of an internet start-up. Benjamin has a BA in Computer science and completed a course within INSEAD.

Dave Riggs, Panopoly Pictures
Founder & CEO and President of Hollywood Mobile TV

As founder and president of Panopoly Pictures Inc., one of Hollywood's best known creative advertising studios and winner of more than 100 International Awards for excellence, Mr. Riggs brings a unique perspective to the team at Hollywood Mobile TV. His track record of success includes product advertising (Budweiser, Nokia), entertainment advertising (James Bond Films, Titanic, Fast and The Furious) as well as being a producer of films (Succubus Hell-Bent and Fast Glass). When he is not making movies or creating advertising, Mr. Riggs hobby is flying his personal MIG Jet Fighter in which he holds 5 World Aviation Speed Records.

David Gillies, Pace
Director of Technology

David Gillies joined Pace Micro Technology in 2004 to spearhead the Company's latest moves into next generation set-top box and related technologies. He leads a team of technology experts looking at expanding the opportunities for secure digital content delivery over a range of media and new service concepts based on the innovative application of technology. David has worked in the TV and broadcasting industry for over 25 years, in the UK, France and Germany, and is a member of the Pace Executive Committee, the DVB Steering Board and the UK DTG Council.

Dirk Figge, zeec
Founder & CEO

1997 Dirk joined Pixelpark to develop interactive TV strategies for the Unilever Group. During 1999 Dirk initiated the founding of Pixelpark´s international solution centre for interactive TV and mobile internet. In 2000 he changed to the Bertelsmann, where he was leading the product development team for IP-TV, which is now part of RTL interactive. In 2002 Dirk founded Eyetribe, an enabler for mobile media solutions. Between 2003 and 2006, Dirk was responsible for the media industry business of Midray (100% debitel AG) and was leading the product development and market introduction for T-DMB. Since October 2006 Dirk is Co-Founder of zeec GmbH i.Gr. The company develops social software for digital interactive TV.

Prof. Duane Varan, ITRI
Director

Professor Duane Varan is the Executive Director of the Interactive Television Research Institute at Murdoch University. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Australian Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year; the Australian Award for University Teaching in Economics, Business and Related Studies; and an ITT Award of Excellence in recognition of his contributions towards reducing the gap between business strategy, information technologies and creative design. Professor Varan's clients are among the world's leading advertising brands and media platforms. The Interactive Television Research is considered one of the world's leading research centres in researching the future of television.

Gianluca Ferremi, Sun Microsystems
Business Manager

With a bachelors degree in Information Science from the University of Torino, and a Masters in Information Technology and Telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Torino, Mr. Ferremi relocated to America to work as member of the technical staff of a telecommunications start-up. Mr. Ferremi joined Sun Microsystems in the spring of 1998, and worked from their Paris office as a pre-sales systems engineer. From 1999 to mid 2005, Mr. Ferremi has covered the position of Business Development Manager for Broadband and DTV for the EMEA region. Since October 2006, working from Sun's Barcelona office, Mr. Ferremi is Business Manager for the Video and Media worldwide market for Sun Microsystems.

Graham Seabrook, British Telecom
Broadband Venture Leader BT Group

Graham is responsible for BT's Broadband Research Programme. As such his interests span any activities which might drive additional take-up of broadband or additional revenues from Broadband. Broadband Television is, of course, an area of significant interest and Graham is currently supporting research into Community TV, Personalised TV, Interactive TV, Search and Recommendation and Personalised Video Advertising.
Prior to joining BT in 2004, Graham was Founder and Managing Director or Ridgeway Systems and Software, a venture-backed company delivering secure NAT and firewall traversal solutions for IP Video.

Gunnar Garfors, NRK
Director of Mobile Services

Gunnar Garfors is the Director of Mobile Services in NRK's Division of Developments. He has contributed to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's leading position in the mobile sphere through the launch of i.e. live TV on mobiles, advanced interactivity and real time 3G video on national television. He holds a Master of Management Degree from Norwegian School of Management and a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting from Falmouth College of Arts in the UK. The 31-year-old is originally a journalist and worked in various media companies in Norway and abroad before joining NRK in 2000.

Jamie Fitzgerald, BSkyB
Interactive Advertising Manager

Jamie Fitzgerald has worked in TV advertising for over 7 years. For the last 4 years he has managed the interactive sales department pioneering developments in red button advertising & sponsored enhanced programme content. Jamie also ensures that Sky has a harmonious digital offering by helping to tie together mobile, broadband and red button propositions for clients.

Jean-Christophe Dessange, Cisco Systems
Senior Business Development Manager

Jean-Christophe Dessange is currently Senior Business Development Manager for Broadband & Entertainment Solutions at Cisco Systems Europe. His specific responsibilities encompass leading Broadband & Entertainment Solutions development including, creating video & entertainment ecosystem partnership and go-to-market strategies for Cisco's Service Provider & Media customers in Europe Middle East and Africa. His team pioneered IPTV projects and TV over broadband implementations in Europe. He joined Cisco Systems Europe from Alcatel in 2001. Prior to joining Alcatel, he spent 2 years at Lucent Technologies in a variety of roles, including systems engineering and deployment.

John Holland, Mediamardle
Consultant

Over 25 years, Holland's career has embraced journalism, TV production, management, sales and strategy. He has worked with some of the world's most innovative interactive broadcasters, like Sky, MTV, Disney, QVC and the BBC. He now operates as a London-based consultant, working closely with the Rights Marketing Company and interactive specialist Ensequence.

Jürgen Mayer, yahoo!
Head of Content Acquisition & Product Operations

Jürgen Mayer has been working for Yahoo! now for more than 7 years. Prior to Yahoo! Juergen Mayer was used to work for T-Online (largest ISP in Europe) and a Digital TV Network (ProSieben). Joining Yahoo! in Nov. 1999, Juergen Mayer was 6 years responsible for the Business Development Department at Yahoo!. Since Jan 2006 he is heading Product Operations & Content Acquisition for Yahoo! Germany. He is 39 years old and furthermore Juergen published several books just to mention one: "Streaming Media Internet bewegter, bunter und lauter" which was published in 2001.

Justin Hewelt, PayMedia Consulting Group
Director

Justin Hewelt is the Director of 'PayMedia Consulting Group', a 'boutique' consultancy firm specialising in Pay Television marketing and competitive strategy. PayMedia provides insight into the marketing strategies and working practices of leading Pay TV businesses World-Wide, providing case-studies, reviews of pricing & packaging, evaluating new products (PVR, HD,VOD, IPTV) and tracking communication and advertising campaigns across a variety of media.
Justin Hewelt has extensive experience working on digital TV platforms, covering the development of competitive strategies, definition of service offerings and product marketing, with a focus on interactive services and the customer experience.

Lydia Aldejohann, Siemens Networks GmbH & Co.KG
Vice President Strategy & Head of Business Innovation

As Vice President Strategy & Head of Business Innovation Lydia is responsible within Siemens Networks GmbH & Co.KG to implement innovative business models. Previously she was Director Cooperation and Alliances focusing on evaluation of M&A targets and Vice President Consumer Marketing for Mobile Phones. Before joining Siemens, Lydia held various leadership positions in telecom industry in Lycos Mobile, Giesecke & Devrient and VIAG Interkom (O2).

Martin LIss, MFD
Director Content

Martin Liss is Director Content for MFD, Germany's first licensed nationwide DMB platform. He is responsible for the programme bouquet available on MFD's channels, and for the platform's cooperation with content providers like TV and radio stations or independent production companies. Before joining MFD, Martin Liss worked for almost six years as Creative Director and Vice Program Director at bigFM, Germany' largest commercial CHR radio network. Along the way, Martin Liss won several prizes for sales promotions, marketing campaigns and lately for starting the innovation "visual radio", a UMTS based mobile streaming service that links the audio programme with pictures, information and commercial download options, all on the user's mobile phone.

Michael Lantz, Accedo Broadband
Founder & CEO

Michael is the CEO and co-founder of Accedo Broadband, the leading aggregator and distributor of interactive content and applications for IPTV and broadband-enabled consumer electronics. Previously, Michael worked as a senior management consultant in telecom and media at Xlent Strategy. He holds a MSc in Applied Mathematics and a BSc in Business Administration.

Michael Werber, Fiveworks
Managing Director

Michael Werber is cofounder and Managing Director of FiveWorks Media Development GmbH. FiveWorks develops, enables and implements innovative media business models and is shareholder of YouProm TV, Germany's first TV project to broadcast User Generated Content. Before this Michael was Head of Online and Interactive Department at Premiere Media and responsible for the launch of Premieres first digital interactive services and Mobile Services.

Nikolas Samios, moreTV
Managing Director

Nikolas is an expert for digital TV, IT and the field of consumer electronics. He has founded several companies in these areas. In 2003 Nikolas was co-founder of moreTV, a company that in the meantime has grown to a leading player in the upcoming German interactive/digital TV ecosystem. moreTV is bringing concepts from all over the world to Germany. moreTV´s services include premium DVR services and rich superteletext portals.

Olivier Heckmann, Kewego
Chief Executive & Founder

Olivier Heckmann is one of the pioneers of French Internet. He co-founded in 1995 MultiMania, the leading French Internet community web site. MultiMania went public on the French stock exchange in 2000 and was acquired by Lycos Europe for 220M€. Olivier then became Managing Director for Lycos Europe. There, he developed a new range of paying hosting services in 8 European countries managing an international group of 110 people. Under the impulsion, Lycos Hosting became the European leader of hosting (1 billion pages views per month) and the first source of direct income of the Lycos Europe group with over 150 000 clients.

Peter Mercier, MobiTV
Director of Business Development EMEA

Peter Mercier is Director of Business Development for MobiTV (Europe) with more than ten years experience in mobile media, content, and pay television. Peter joined MobiTV in October 2005 from T-Mobile International where he worked as a Director of Alliances and Partnerships, responsible for content and marketing licenses on a pan European basis. Peter also has extensive experience in UK pay television launching digital channels, interactive services, and managing a business development team at ITV and Cable & Wireless.

Patrick Walker, Google
Head of Content Partnerships, Google Video EMEA

Patrick Walker joined Google in January of this year to lead the development of content strategy and partnerships for Google Video in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He has over 15 years of experience in the television, radio and online media industry, including his tenure as General Manager of International Video Services for RealNetworks, where he was instrumental in launching Real's first premium audio and video services in Europe, Asia and Latin America. While at Real, Patrick was also responsible for developing direct-to-consumer broadband video products with partners such as UEFA, BBC Worldwide and Channel 4.

Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli, CMS Hasche Sigle
Head of Media Unit

Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli is leading the media team of CMS Hasche Sigle in Cologne which has been appointed in 2006 as "Law firm of the Year" in the field of media & entertainment. Pietro did his thesis on IPTV and is i.a. advising the German Premiere League, Vodafone and the European Commission in the field of new media. He is associate professor for media law at the International Film School in Cologne and member of the advisory board of the German Association of TV, Film and Video Industry.

Reiner Kreplin, Intel
Marketing Manager Digital Home

Reiner Kreplin is Market Development Mananger in the Digital Home group of Intel EMEA. He is focused on establishing the Intel® Viiv(TM) technology as universal and open entertainment platform for consumers throughout Europe which encompasses enabling of an eco-system of services and supporting devices. He joined Intel in 1983 and held various positions in engineering and marketing. He qualified in electrical engineering at Technical University in Braunschweig.

Roberto Kauffmann-Dev, Independent consultant
Consultant

Roberto Kauffmann-Dev works as independent consultant with emphasis on the future of home entertainment and the impact and opportunities for content owners, broadcasters, MSOs, device manufacturers, etc. In previous roles, Roberto developed home entertainment intelligence systems at Sony Europe and drove external collaborations, set up Sony Business Europe's e-business operation and Internet development group, worked as a consultant for Oracle in France and Switzerland, set up CompuServe's first Internet products for its German subsidiary and investigated funds vanished during re-unification on behalf of the German government.

Sebastian Becker, [tbb\*] thebrainbehind
Partner & Co-Founder

Sebastian is co-founder of [tbb\*] thebrainbehind and responsible for research and business development. As a media expert Sebastian is focussed on the international digital TV market. Being with [tbb\*] thebrainbehind since 2002, he wrote a comprehensive study of the German idTV market. Within the last years he consulted several key players of the German media industry.

Scott Gronmark, Scott Gronmark Associates
Managing Director

Scott worked in national TV news and current affairs for a decade before joining BBC Online in 1997 to become Homepage Editor. After a year, he moved to Interactive TV, where he devised and launched the corporation's 24/7 text and video services on all digital TV platforms. In 2000, Scott took charge of all BBC programme-related interactivity. During his four years as Head of iTV, the BBC reached more viewers on more platforms with more services than any other interactive TV broadcaster in the world. Scott left the BBC in 2004 to form his own interactive media consultancy, SGA, specialising in Video On Demand, IPTV, PVRs, and interactive TV. SGA clients include Zip TV, Teachers' TV, Sysmedia Ltd, NTV, PACT, NewYou, Danmark's Radio and the UK Department of Trade & Industry.

Stefan Jenzowsky, Tromsdorff + Drüner
Partner

Stefan Jenzowsky is Partner at trommsdorff + drüner innovation + marketing consultants.
Stefan studied Communication Science and Psychology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Concurrently, Stefan worked as a scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, teaching media psychology, media and advertising effects, and entertainment research. 1999-2006 Stefan has been working at Siemens Information and Communication Networks (ICN), and Siemens Communications (Com) in Munich. 2001-2003 Stefan was heading Business Innovation within Siemens ICN Group Strategy. He was responsible for the overall Innovation Strategy and heading the Innovation Board Office. 2003-2006 Stefan was VP Innovation Strategy & Head of Business Innovation at Siemens Communications, heading a Business Innovation Think Tank for fixed and mobile communications within Siemens Communications.

Stefan Kiwit, TBWA
Managing Director

Stefan is Managing Director at the TBWA / Stream in Germany and member of the board at Weltruf TV Berlin. TBWA / Stream is the leading company for "Brand Entertainment", one of the fastest growing markets in media business. Their expertise is merging brands and media outside classical advertisement, by telling different stories and creating customized media concepts. Weltruf TV is an independent, traditional TV production company that founded in the middle of 2005 a separate Mobile TV Unit, which is specialised in producing "Made for Mobile" content. Prior to this, Stefan served as Managing Director for Nikon Optic in Germany.

Stuart Collingwood, Sling Media
Vice President Europe

Stuart Collingwood joined Sling Media in June, 2006 and has responsibility for all of the company's European operations including partnerships, country and territory expansion and strategic planning. For the last three years Mr. Collingwood advised pay TV providers, digital media companies and technology start-ups on the launch of new digital platforms and technology. He also served as Vice President EMEA for Liberate and spent eight years at Fujitsu-ICL. Mr. Collingwood is based in London.

Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Comcast
Senior Director, Cross-Platform Applications

Ty Ahmad-Taylor is currently Senior Director for Cross-Platform Applications at Comcast. His job duties encompass applications that straddle distribution channels, such as search, games and music. He is responsible for Comcast's video and video search products on PC, mobile and portable devices. Additionally, he is leading the firm's interactive strategy group.

Toon Coppens, Alcatel
Marketing Director Consumer Applications

Toon Coppens is responsible for worldwide IPTV & Triple Play Marketing in the Consumer Applications Marketing team of Alcatel's Fixed Solutions Division. In his previous roles, he was one of the founders in 2002 of the Research and Innovation Residential Networked Applications project that invented the IPTV applications MyOwnTV and AmigoTV. He was responsible for innovation marketing, business modelling and external projects and author of numerous patents and papers. In 2001, he started at Alcatel in the network strategy group, where he studied the performance of video over IP. He received a Master Degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 at VUB in Brussels.

Uwe Schnepf, Tiscali
Director New Media & Head of IPTV

Milestones of Uwe´s activities were the setup and operations of the first German live webradio in 1995 (PersonalR@dio for the Bavarian public broadcast station BR), the project leadership for the relaunch of the Team Telekom website incl. live audio webcasts of cyclists' interviews during Tour de France in 1998, as well as the technical project leadership for the setup of the Telekom Broadcast Network of Deutsche Telekom AG between 1998 and 2000. Since spring 2001 he heads the business unit "Streaming / New Media" at Tiscali Business GmbH in Germany and is responsible for a product division, which developed from a pure streaming service unit into an international full service provider for New Media. Since August 2006 he heads the working group "IPTV / Interactive TV" of the BVDW (German Association of Digital Economy).

William Cooper, informitv
Consultant

Principal consultant at informitv, Dr William Cooper advises clients on convergence media strategy and implementation. Previously, as head of interactive at BBC Broadcast, he operationally managed the successful launch and delivery of online and interactive television services for the BBC. Prior to that, as product manager for the new media division of the Press Association, he led the launch of their online syndication services. William began his career as a broadcast journalist, following a PhD in Communications and a degree in English from the University of Leeds.

Will Bell, MintDigital
Head of Research

Will Bell is Head of Research at Mint Digital. Mint Digital is behind Islandoo.com, the first user-generated initiative tied to an established TV show to achieve real success on the Internet. Educated at Oxford and UCL, Will Bell previously worked for RDF Television, one of the UK's leading independent production companies.