Speakers
Digital TV Outlook 2008:
ARPU - Learning from Best Practice

Dr. Thomas Baubin, iTV Solutions
CEO

Thomas Baubin has more than 20 years of experience in the business development in media, telecommunication and information industries. As a partner with Accenture (then Andersen Consulting) he was responsible for creating the firm’s strategic plans in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As chief strategy officer of Deutsche Telekom he was responsible for designing and implementing the strategy that transformed Deutsche Telekom from a monolithic national monopolist to a global player structured in four independent business lines.

Jonathan Beavon, NDS
Director, Segment Marketing

Jonathan Beavon joined NDS in 1997. As Director, Segment Marketing at NDS, he is responsible for platform solutions with a particular focus on technology convergence in the entertainment

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

Sebastian is CEO & Co-Founder of thebrainbehind, today responsible for Consulting and Business Development. As a media expert Sebastian is focussed on the international digital TV market. He is a well known speaker and panel host supporting relevant conferences across Europe. Being with [tbb\*] thebrainbehind since 2002, he consulted several key players in the German Media industry. Prior to thebrainbehind, Sebastian worked as Senior Consultant in a Media Agency specialising in broadband projects and iTV.

Elisabeth Bentel Carpenter, Brightcove
SVP Worldwide Sales and Business Development

Elisabeth is responsible for defining and executing Brightcove's go-to-market strategy. She joins Brightcove from News Corporation's British Sky Broadcasting subsidiary in London. Over nearly a decade at News Corporation and Sky, Elisabeth held a variety of senior management roles, including directing Sky's broadband and new technologies strategy and operations, its new media division, corporate development and strategic planning roles. Elisabeth was a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of Harvard University, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Columbia School of Law.

Leandro Boschelle, Cablecom
Product Management

Leandro has 20 years of experience in the TMT business, working in a number of different countries, including Belgium, Germany, China, Australia and Switzerland.
Leandro, an Italian and Belgian citizen, has a degree in Nuclear Physics and Mathematics from the University of Leuven in Belgium and held major executive positions at Alcatel Belgium and Switzerland, Swisscom , Deutsche Telecom, Kirchmedia, and Telenet. Since 2006 he is responsible for Triple Play Product Management responsible at Cablecom, a UPC Affiliate, in Switzerland.

Stuart Collingwood, Sling Media
Vice President Europe

Mr. 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 three years prior to joining Sling Media, 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.

Mihai Crasneanu, Grey Juice Lab
Founder & CEO

Mihai Crasneanu is the founder and CEO of Grey Juice Lab, dedicated in helping telecom, cable and mobile operators around the world with their digital TV strategy and content rights with the studios. Previously, Mihai was the CEO and founder of glowria, first and largest independent VOD white label operator in Europe and #1 online DVD
rental service (cf Netflix) in France and #2 in Germany. Mihai is a Romanian-born French citizen. He speaks six languages and has a degree in engineering from EFREI (Paris).

Ingo Franz, Creathor Venture
Managing Director

Ingo Franz is a managing director at Creathor Venture, a venture capital investor for early stage high-tech companies. His focus is in particular on projects in the field of IT, internet, media and communications.
Ingo has been working in the venture capital industry for 10 years, managing investments from the start-up stage to the exit, with a track record of successful IPOs and trade sales.
Creathor is looking for innovative companies with high-growth potential in the area of IP/ media convergence and has recently financed companies which offer next generation IPTV content, interactive entertainment formats and audience relationship management.

Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli, CMS Hasche Sigle
Partner

Dr. Pietro Graf Fringuelli is partner at CMS Hasche Sigle and leading the media team in Cologne which has been appointed by JUVE for 2006/2007 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.

Maks Giordano, kyte
Business Development

Maks Giordano works with kyte.tv Europe on bringing advanced communication tools to social networks. Before joining kyte.tv, Maks was co-founder and partner of iconmobile, one of the leading convergence agencies consulting international MNOs such as Vodafone, Orange, France Telecom or O2, and brands, including Yahoo and RTL on Web 2.0 and mobile strategies. Before that, he was member of the management board of leading German design agency MetaDesign AG and worked at ID Media AG, bringing many consumer brands to the digital age.

Scott Gronmark, Zype
Managing Partner

Scott Gronmark is Managing Partner of Zype, a UK-based agency which creates video on demand services and advises brands on strategy across all digital platforms. Zype's clients include Honda, Reckitt Benckiser and AMD. He was formerly Online Homepage editor and Head of Interactive TV at the BBC.

Oliver Haeggberg, PolyTechnos

Managing Partner
Oliver joined PolyTechnos in 2007 with 11 years of experience in the Private Equity industry. He previously founded Value-Grid-Partners, a global business development structure supporting strategic partnering, M &A scenarios and market penetration for listed an non-listed companies.
He started his career at Treuhandanstalt, Berlin and with Stöhr and is a former member of the VP level managing board of T-Venture, the corporate VC arm of Deutsche Telekom. Prior experiences are with Grant Thornton, Arthur Andersen and Thyssen Handelsunion.
Oliver is a former advisor to the VC fund Magnum Communications and investment committee member of Eurofund2000, where he was instrumental to the due diligence and beta tests for the PolyTechnos company ColorChip. Oliver headed T-Venture operations in the U.S., Israel and Europe specializing in telecommunication and internet infrastructure and services, including several board seats, IPOs and trade sales.
He is a Graduate of the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Kit Harvey, Playboy TV
European Business Development Manager

Kit is responsible for IPTV, VOD, Online & Mobile content agreements across Europe. He brings seven years media experience with him, including advertising, interactive TV & .com. He lives in the English countryside with his family and enjoys paragliding

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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.

Stefan A. Jenzowsky, trommsdorff + drüner
innovation + marketing consultants
Partner

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.

Dirk Kanngiesser, Polytechnos
Managing Partner

As one of the founders of PolyTechnos, Dirk has 17 years of venture capital experience, mostly in partner roles. He was previously a partner of Baring Private Equity Partners. Prior to that, he worked at Procter & Gamble and Siemens. He has studied and worked in the U.S. and Europe. Dirk is a board member of a number of European technology companies including PolyTechnos' advised funds portfolio company Varioptic, and has served on venture capital firm boards such as Capricorn Venture Partners and the EuroMerchant Balkan Fund. He also serves as a member of the EVCA High Tech Committee.

Roberto Kauffmann, Operax
Development & Solution Alliances Director

In his position at Operax, Roberto Kauffmann is building a Quality of Experience ecosystem for IP services such as IPTV, VoD or VoIP. Prior to Operax, Roberto worked as a consultant for home and mobile entertainment and the technology impact and opportunities for content owners, broadcasters, etc. He also has extensive experience in home entertainment and e-business from senior roles at Sony, Oracle and CompuServe. Roberto holds a French-German business degree and a British MBA of ESCP-EAP.

Tony Kelly, On Demand Group
CEO

Tony founded On Demand Group in 1995 with co-founder and company Chairman Andy Birchall. The pair has been instrumental in successfully creating all forms of video on demand, pay television and pay-per-view over the last two decades.

Peter Kerckhoff, T-Home
Senior Vice President

Having gained a MBA from the University of Cologne and Columbia University, New York, Peter Kerckhoff joined The Boston Consulting Group as a consultant in 1992. In 1995, he then went on to gather extensive experience in the media sector as Senior Project Manager and Member of the Board, Corporate TV, for the RTL Group, Bertelsmann AG. Since 2002, Peter has been with Deutsche Telekom AG as Senior Vice President, Content Sourcing / Media Cooperation. His responsibilities also include heading the T-Online Portal and worldwide Content Acquisition and Media Cooperation.

Dirk Kleine, Seven Senses
Managing Director

Dirk joined the ProSiebenSat. 1 Group in 2002, where he is now Managing Director of SevenSenses and Manager of Business Development and Digital TV of SevenOne Intermedia.
Prior to this, Dirk worked for BSH Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte and Kirch Intermedia. He holds a PhD from the University of St Gallen and an MBA from the Universities of Lancaster and Vienna.

Terry K. Quan, Vivendi Games, Inc.
SVP Business Development

Mr. Quan oversees casual online/console games, mobile games and international acquisitions for Vivendi Games. Prior to this, he was Head of Business Development for Gemstar-TV Guide's TV Group, responsible for growing channel, IPG, and interactive services worldwide. He was also SVP, Business Development and Strategy at Vivendi Universal, New Media Group, where he leveraged film and television assets into new areas. He owns a private digital media consultancy helping grow businesses where entertainment

Dr. Martin Ruckensteiner, ACCELATE,
Managing Partner

Since 1999 Martin Ruckensteiner has been a managing partner and co-founder of ACCELATE, a growth strategy consulting company in telecommunication and technology markets. From 1994 to 1999 Mr Ruckensteiner was employed with Roland Berger & Partners, the leading European based top management consulting firm, acting as a co-head of the company´s international competence centre Aviation and Tourism in Frankfurt, Germany. Martin Ruckensteiner is a graduate from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and holds a PhD in Economics.

Toby Russell, 3vision
Chief Executive Officer

Toby is the founder of 3Vision. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the business as well as managing the company’s high level content provider relationships.
Toby has wide ranging experience in the content marketplace. Over the years, he has built up many strategic business relationships with key contacts around the world including the Hollywood Studios, leading broadcasters like the BBC and major music labels such as EMI and Warner Music.
In addition, Toby is the Director of 3Vision People – a specialist recruitment firm for the media and telecoms industries.

Nikolas Samios, wiredworld
Managing Director

Nikolas Samios is Serial-Entrepreneur, Consultant and currently Managing Director of ||| wiredworld GmbH, a consulting and incubation company focussed on corporate development in convergent markets. Nikolas has more than 10 years of experience as founder, manager and consultant in different segments of the electronic media, IT and CE industries. In 2003, he co-founded moreTV to realize the first “TiVo”-class iTV services in Germany. Before that, Nikolas worked with partners like Axel Springer Verlag, Microsoft Inc., Vodafone, Siemens or Medion.

Dr. Carl von Siemens, Generation Digitale
Founder & CEO

After finishing his studies in Philosophy, Politology and Economy in Oxford, London and Munich, Dr. Carl von Siemens worked for Roland Berger and Axel Springer Verlag. Working at the time as a Strategy Lead at Razorfish Carl, founded in 2003 together with Michael Reinermann the interactive media service agency Generation Digitale.

Alberto Sigismondi, Deutsche Telekom – Mediaset
Director Platform Development and Content Innovation for Digital Television

Alberto Sigismondi is currently Director of Platform Development and Content Innovation for Digital Television in Mediaset. He is 50 years old and has been working in the Broadcasting Industry for almost 30 years. He teaches Communication at Università Statale di Milano.

Oliver Slipper, Premium TV/Inform Group
Joint CEO

Oliver joined Premium TV - the market-leading provider of digital products and services to the sport and entertainment sector - in 2001 and was promoted to the top role from his previous role as Commercial Director in January 2006. Since taking over Oliver has overseen Premium TV’s international and entertainment growth strategy and has secured its place as the number one provider of digital services for the sporting industry.
Prior to Premium TV, Oliver worked in Accenture’s Media & Entertainment division, working on clients such as Sony Playstation, Cable & Wireless Communications and NTL.

Damir Tomicic, Axinom
Co-Founder & Managing Director

Damir Tomicic is co-founder and managing director of Axinom Holding (www.axinom.de), the leading European technology integrator specializing in the IPTV/WebTV platforms and ECM solutions.
Axinom creates value for its customers by leveraging cutting edge technologies to design, build, and deploy customized, reliable architectures and scalable infrastructures to increase profitability, improve speed-to-market, and accelerate growth. Damir has over 15 years of industry experience. He is member of Board of Directors at IASA (International Association of Software Architects), president of INETA Europe (International .NET Association) and Microsoft Regional Director for Germany.

David Whittaker, NDS
Director of Business Development and Advanced Technologies

David has particular responsibility to ensure that digital and interactive television solutions are designed to deliver real world business benefits to consumers, broadcasters and advertisers. He has also been closely involved with the development and deployment of NDS’ XTV secure PVR technologies in platforms such as BSkyB and DIRECTV.

Frank Winnenbrock, Welt der Wunder
CEO

Frank is CEO and Co-Owner of Welt der Wunder GmbH, producer and owener of one of the most successful German non- fiction TV-Shows. After several years in the consulting business and media industry, he is  entrepreneur since 1995. He holds a german Diploma-Degree in Business Administration and a Master of Business Law degree of University of St. Gallen (HSG).

Wolfram Winter, Premiere Star
Managing Director

Wolfram Winter is the Managing Director of the newly founded Premiere Star, after having held the position of Managing Director of NBC Universal Global Networks Germany for eight years. Prior to this, he held various positions at DF1 Das Digitale Fernsehen, DSF, MGM Media and Antenne Bayern.