BroadcastAsia2012 International Conference Speakers' Profile

Sharad Sadhu is the Director of the ABU Technology. He took up the position in mid-September 2007. He joined the ABU in 1993 as a Senior Engineer in the Technical Department, handling transmission and spectrum activities. He has considerable interest in the new delivery technologies addressing handheld devices and in broadband delivery.

Sharad has been instrumental in developing a strong base for the spectrum management and regulation activities in the ABU, as also in introducing mobile and ICT technologies. He has represented the Union at many international and regional conferences and events.

He has more than 40 years' experience covering all areas of TV and radio broadcast engineering and in associated areas. Sharad has previously worked as Director Engineering in Doordarshan, India and as General Manager in Telecommunication Consultants India Ltd.

Pak Lum oversees the Network Engineering and Information Services division. He is responsible for establishing StarHub’s technical vision and leading all aspects of technology development. He also looks into the strategy for technology platforms and external partnerships. Prior to joining StarHub, Pak Lum spent eight years in Pico Art International Pte Ltd and GT Communications Pte Ltd. He then moved to head 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd. He was also appointed the CEO of the technology arm of MediaCorp Pte Ltd where he oversaw the IT, engineering and transmission support functions. Pak Lum holds a Bachelor of Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the National University of Singapore and a Master in Business Administration from the University of California, USA.

Bilal Aman Khan have over 18 years of Experience in Satellite, Terrestrial and Cable Television Broadcasting. He is currently Director, Broadcast Operations and Engineering Department at Jamuna Television.

Among his many accomplishments include designing the workflow for the first full 3G HD television station in Bangladesh and also in the entire South Asian region (Maasranga Television (Square Group))He has also headed, designed and commissioned RTV's fully IT based automated play out and news room System.

Siu Yin is a Broadcast Technology Consultant with Beyond Broadcast LLP.

While at Beyond Broadcast LLP he has worked with many clients in broadcasting and telecommunications in the region providing a broad range of services from TV facility design, custom broadcast software development, strategic planning for broadcast executives, project management and broadcast engineering and operations training.

Siu Yin is also proficient with cutting-edge software development having taught at the master's level at a Singapore university. He is a sought after speaker having spoken at leading conferences such at the NAB and Broadcast Asia.

Siu Yin has more than 25 years experience in the broadcast and television industry. He held positions of general manager of Sony Pictures Television and assistant vice-president of Engineering at MediaCorp (then TCS) prior to being a founding partner of Beyond Broadcast LLP.

Benartzi Pelossof is an Israeli entrepreneur focused on growing new and global business ventures out of the state of Israel.

Benartzi Pelossof's expertise is in the area of Technology, Media and Finance. He currently serves as the Managing Director and CEO of Live Asia TV, the developer and operator of a proprietary unique OTT solution for distributing TV channels and programming over the Internet. Live Asia's broadcasting services focus on the Asian communities, mainly Indians, Chinese, Filipinos and Koreans around the world. Benartzi Pelossof is the grandson of Israel's former Prime Minister Mr. Yitzhak Rabin (1974 -1977 and 1992-1995). Benartzi Pelossof led the establishment and foundation of the Yitzhak Rabin Centre for Leadership and Democracy.

As Assistant Chief Executive (Industry), Kenneth is responsible for all of MDA's industry development and promotional efforts, across seven sectors - Film, Broadcasting, Animation, Music, Games, Publishing, and Interactive Digital Media.

A prominent and passionate advocate and public spokesperson for local industry for over twenty years, Kenneth's extensive experience includes previous appointments as Managing Director of Village Roadshow's Singapore joint-venture companies, Golden Village Multiplex and Golden Village Pictures; Chief Operating Officer of MediaCorp TV; Chief Executive Officer of MediaCorp Radio; and Managing Director of Acorn Marketing & Research Consultants. He has also served as Chairman of the Promote Mandarin Council, overseeing the national Speak Mandarin Campaign.

He has been the Chairman of the Singapore Film Society since 1984, and is also the current advisory committee Chairman of the School of Film and Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Jake has spent over 15 years in the Broadcasting industry working with all the major UK broadcasters. He specialises in media services, workflows and playout solutions managing innovation, teams and projects alongside the migration of channels and systems. Jake also assesses and implements new systems and technologies as well as maintaining legacy formats and restoration. Currently he is heading up the company development and build of our new facilities in Singapore, Australia and the U.S.A.

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Peter White has been Director General of the IABM since 2009, implementing and developing the association's strategies and leading the secretariat team. Prior to IABM, he held the post of CEO at another non-profit association in the UK and was a tutor at the Leadership Trust.

Over the past 25 years, Peter has gained vast experience in both the commercial sector and non-profit sector holding roles as Managing Director and Chief Executive. Peter is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Jean-Christophe Jubin joined Httv in 2002 as EVP Sales and Director. Further to the acquisition of Singapore based STB software specialist SindiTV, Jean-Christophe recently moved to Singapore to manage httv's APAC activities.

Jean-Christophe Jubin holds a master degree in management from La Sorbonne University (Paris).

Hisayuki Ohmata joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 2003. Since 2007, he has been engaged in research and development on content management and delivery systems in NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories (NHK STRL).

He is currently working on development "Hybridcast", a hybrid system of broadcasting and the Internet.

Benartzi Pelossof is an Israeli entrepreneur focused on growing new and global business ventures out of the state of Israel.

Benartzi Pelossof's expertise is in the area of Technology, Media and Finance. He currently serves as the Managing Director and CEO of Live Asia TV, the developer and operator of a proprietary unique OTT solution for distributing TV channels and programming over the Internet. Live Asia's broadcasting services focus on the Asian communities, mainly Indians, Chinese, Filipinos and Koreans around the world. Benartzi Pelossof is the grandson of Israel's former Prime Minister Mr. Yitzhak Rabin (1974 -1977 and 1992-1995). Benartzi Pelossof led the establishment and foundation of the Yitzhak Rabin Centre for Leadership and Democracy.

Simon Leadlay joined Pace as a Product Manager via the acquisition of Latens Systems in 2010, and has pursued a focus on advanced user-interfaces, data-driven services, and next-generation platforms.

He has more than a decade of experience in delivering TV systems to hospitality, IPTV, and traditional operators. Previous to starting at Latens in 2009, Simon worked at Espial for nine years in a Professional Services & Consulting role.

Founder & CEO of the Gamechanging 360 degree Media Company, "Underocover Productions Ltd" - Writer, Producer & Director Abhigyan Jha has 17 years of media experience. He has written over 10 TV shows and 2 films. His second film Sacred Evil also was his directorial debut venture. The film received critical acclaim and went on to win the Golden Palm at the Mexico International Film Festival in 2010. He was the Creative Director & Executive Producer of India's Iconic Late Night Show: Movers & Shakers.

Abhigyan has also produced 2 major TV shows for two of India's biggest broadcasters Star Plus & Zee TV.

In 2009, Abhigyan Jha created history by launching the World's First Full Format TV Show exclusively for the Internet. Jay Hind! The late Night Show has since been hailed as "paradigm changer" by India's leading business papers and is also hugely popular with millions of views.

Arvind leads the fast-growing mobile wireless business unit at Geodesic, a global mobile and web software products company targeting handset vendors, carriers, content providers and consumers. In this capacity, he brokers partnerships and deals with leading mobile wireless companies worldwide, and plays a key role in the company's rapid growth.

Prior to Geodesic, Arvind was VP of Strategy and Business Development at SpectraLink Corp (acquired by Polycom) and VP of Marketing at Hellosoft Inc. He has also held senior marketing and business development positions at Morphics Technology (acquired by Infineon), Zoran Corp. and Synopsys. Arvind has an MBA (Sloan Fellow) from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MSEE from Syracuse University, New York. In addition to his role at Geodesic, Arvind advises silicon valley startups and assists VC and PE firms worldwide with deal sourcing and due diligence. He is also a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches classes on entrepreneurship. In addition, he is the founding CEO of Malabar Associates, a business strategy-consulting firm targeting mobile wireless and telecom opportunities in the US and in Asia.

Fares Lubbadeh obtained his PhD in Television engineering in 1978. He worked at Jordan Radio & TV as Director of Planning, Projects & Studies till 1995, when he joined Arab Radio & TV (ART) as Director General of Engineering. In 2005, he established "SpaceTech TV Engineering" providing technical consultation & turn-key projects implementation in the fields of radio, television and satellite broadcasting & communications.

Dr. Lubbadeh published a number of refereed papers in different scientific reviews, and authored different technical papers at IBC, ITS, Broadcast Asia, DVB and Dubai CabSat conferences. He participated in the activities of EBU & ASBU, and was selected a member of the IBC Council since 1998.

As Director of Media, Mark is responsible for all content partnerships, working with third parties in Inview's key markets to provide applications across a broad genre video-on-demand, music-on-demand, social networking, lifestyle, news and information. Mark Rooney has spent the past 25 years in the telecom and digital TV industry. A qualified barrister with a BA and MA in law from Oxford University he worked as a journalist with BBC in Manchester before joining British Telecom to drive their content acquisition in premium rate telephony. He later headed BT sales in Manchester.

He subsequently held a General Manager position with British Aerospace's satellite division where he launched bespoke television channels and was responsible for all content delivery. He has headed up European operations for two US based companies – Terayon and Entone - and in 2001 he was appointed CEO of VDSL Systems Oy in Helsinki. For over 10 years he worked for Pace plc as General Manager, Europe Sales (1996-2000) and as Group Account Director Pace Networks (2006-2010).

Chin Chye Koh holds the Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara and B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Washington State University.

Dr. Koh has held post-graduate positions at Intel Corporation in Arizona and Philips Research in The Netherlands. Dr. Koh is a member of IEEE, SMPTE, and the VSF. He is currently a Solutions Strategist at Nevion USA, where he works on the development of professional broadcast video transport solutions. His current interests include video quality metrics, video compression, and broadcast video transport infrastructure.

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Danny Wilson is the founder of Pixelmetrix Corporation, a Singapore-based company that specializes in the design and production of management and telemetry systems for digital broadcasters. Pixelmetrix award-winning products are deployed globally at numerous terrestrial, satellite, cable and IPTV operators.

Wilson's management career began at Hewlett-Packard, Canada, as Business Manager, Communication Measurement Division. He led the introduction of the MPEGScope TS Analyzer and the world's first ATM/B-ISDN Test System. Thereafter, at HP, Kobe, Japan, he managed HP's Asia Business Centre, leading the development of the world's first multi-port network monitoring system. Wilson is a member of the IPTV workgroup, Singapore.

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

He is responsible for the project field "New Media" dealing with IPTV, mobile TV, 3D TV, Web TV and OTT, Convergent TV, TV Apps and also more mid- to long-term related innovation topics like Free Viewpoint TV.

Jules Elliott-Sysum joined Pilat Media in 1999 having worked with Pilat Media at BSkyB in the original design phase of IBMS. Having taken that project live on time and on budget, Elliott-Sysum joined Pilat Media to evangelize the merits of IBMS to broadcasters, globally heading up the sales team. Since then Elliott-Sysum returned to her native Australia to head up regional operations as Pilat Media's General Manager for Asia-Pacific and continue to grow the business in Asia-Pacific. There are currently 16 FTEs in the Sydney office.

Elliott-Sysum's background comprises 35 years in the media industry working for television, radio and advertising agencies, complimented with a degree in marketing.

Stephen Condon brings more than 25 years of marketing experience to Limelight Networks from the technology, advertising, and entertainment industries. His primary role as Vice President of Global Marcom is to establish a leadership position for Limelight in the Cloud-based services market and drive lead generation for the business units. His responsibilities include strategic marketing, marketing communications, lead generation activities, and packaging solutions for the Media and Entertainment and Enterprise marketplaces.

Condon commenced his career in advertising working for J. Walter Thompson and Chiat/Day on leading brands such as Kraft Foods and NutraSweet. His advertising career introduced him to the high technology entertainment business when he worked on the hugely successful launch of DIRECTV. He later joined DIRECTV, as Senior Director of Marketing. In 1998 Condon moved from delivering video over satellite to delivering video on the Internet and joined INTERVU as Vice President of Marketing where he lead strategic marketing efforts and marketing communications up until the Akamai acquisition.

Since then, Condon has held various senior technology marketing positions including Chief Marketing Officer of Intertainer, Vice President of Marketing for broadband video ASP Entriq, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Verisign and most recently Director of Market Development at AT&T. He holds a bachelor's degree in business and has undertaken post graduate studies in Marketing at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

Steve Oetegenn's career in the Information Technology industry spans 25 years. He has a wide range of experience in international business, having launched numerous high tech products to the global marketplace. He began his career with Burroughs Corporation (now UNISYS) as a specialist for Optical Character Recognition Systems. He has specialized in Digital Security and Anti-Piracy since 1998, working with Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and Major Hollywood studios.

Prior to joining Verimatrix, he was COO of MediaSec Technologies LLC, a pioneer and leader in the field of digital watermarking, COO of Argus Systems Group, a leading provider of Internet server security software, and CEO of DCE Communication Ltd, a world-wide provider of business messaging systems. Mr. Oetegenn has spoken at numerous global digital security conferences and he also speaks fluent German.

Yangbin Wang is the founder and CEO of Vobile, a Silicon Valley based technology company offering leading edge video content identification and management services. Prior to founding Vobile, Yangbin was the CTO of Onewave Technologies following the acquisition of the IPTV business of YZTECH by Onewave in 2004. He was the founder and CEO of YZTECH, a leading IPTV technology provider in China famous for the landmark deployment of its IPTV platform by Hangzhou Netcom/WASU. It was the first and largest commercial IPTV service offering in China.

Previously, Yangbin was the founder and CEO of EnjoyWeb, which pioneered the time-shift delivery of video contents via broadband Internet. In addition, Yangbin was director of software architecture at Oak Technology's Broadband Consumer Group. Yangbin earned a BS degree from Zhejiang University in China and an MSEE degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He also completed the executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Deepak Mohan leads the business development for Vobile's Singapore office. His current focus is on emerging solutions for the content industry in the region. Prior to joining Vobile, he spent close to five years at Hewlett Packard's business printing division, holding technical leadership roles in R&D and enterprise sales enablement.

Deepak has a Bachelors' and Masters' degrees in engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). During his early work on the X-Sat micro satellite project he has co-authored a number of international publications in fault tolerant computing and cost effective computing platforms. He also holds an MBA from the NUS Business School.

Kevin Campbell has an accumulated 12 years' experience in Telco and Broadcast. Beginning as a network management engineer dealing with SDH, ATM and IP networks and moving into broadcast nine years ago as customer support manager for APT WorldCast Systems codecs.

For the past eight years Campbell has worked in numerous commercial roles within APT WorldCast Systems, including European Sales Manager, VP Operations North America and in his current position as APT WorldCast Systems Sales Director. During that time he has accumulated a wealth of experience on IP audio and codec based distribution projects across the world. He has presented papers on audio coding and IP technologies globally at international conferences including NAB, NAB Radio, AES USA and AES Europe. Campbell is a graduate of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow and a post-graduate of the University of Ulster, Belfast.

He has more than 10 years' experience in the broadcast industry, having led sales in Southern Europe for Thales Broadcast, and developed the Greater China market for Grass Valley, where he was director of sales for North East Asia, with responsibility for the cable and terrestrial TV markets. Tony BERTHAUD holds a Master Degree in Engineering from the "Ecole Des Mines de Nantes."

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Ralph Bachofen brings more than 15 years of experience in voice and multimedia over Internet Protocol (IP), telecommunications, and in the semiconductor business to his role as 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 manager of product marketing, Bachofen led the worldwide DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) semiconductor product efforts. His professional career also includes senior technical and marketing roles at Siemens and Accelerated Networks.

Bachofen holds an executive master of business administration and a bachelor of science in telecommunication technologies.

Yoshiharu Imazeki received his B.S. degree from the Keio University in 1999 and M.S. degree from the Keio University in 2001. Following graduation, he joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp) and built his career as a video engineer through news program production. He is currently involved in the development of new broadcasting systems.

He is currently an engineer of NHK's Engineering Administration Department.

Paul has been a Broadcast Engineering professional for 25 years since graduating in 1987. He has worked for Government regulators, Free-to-Air Broadcasters, Content providers and Pay-Tv operators for 24 of those years before stepping across to the vendor side with Nagra.

Prior to Nagra, Paul worked as a Senior Engineer at FOXTEL in Australia, originally heading the Interactive Engineering Team, and latterly as the Head of Research and Platform Architecture. Over those years, he has been involved in the migration of video broadcasting from Analogue to Digital, and then onto multi-platform delivery systems. Working in the broadcasting environment has meant keeping in the forefront of technical advancements and maintaining a commercial and technical lead over various competitors seeking to take a slice of the pie.
Paul's expertise ranges from RF through to Operational, Post-Production, Production and Delivery and overall content workflow.

Aaron Shaw is SVP, Operations & Engineering for Encompass Digital Media Asia. Located in Singapore, Encompass is Asia's largest broadcast outsource provider originating and delivering more than 85 television channels to the Asia Pacific region. Aaron has 29 years in broadcast operations and engineering and came to Encompass after five years at CNBC, first in Dubai and then Singapore.

He has also worked for Four Media Company Asia in Singapore, and on projects in China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Originally from New Zealand, Aaron commenced his broadcast career at Television New Zealand, and holds an MBA from Durham University, UK.

James Gilbert co-founded Pixel Power over 20 years ago and is the Joint Managing Director. With offices in the Europe, USA and Middle East it is a market leader in the development and production of media and entertainment graphics creation systems. Since launching the company James has served in many roles from principal architect of the original graphics equipment through to technology engineering and business development.

His engineering background provides an excellent basis for him to act as the key interface between customers and product development, ensuring that he remains closely involved in the technical specification process. This unique experience makes him an industry authority on automated graphics solutions and how they integrate with the evolving technologies.

Born in the UK, Pemberton holds a Joint Honours Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Economics from Manchester (UK). Pemberton joined Softel as part of the Technical Solutions Sales team in June 1997. He went on to receive an MBA from Reading (UK) and quickly progressed through the company. In 2001 he span off Softel-USA, LLC in California and in 2004 added a metro New York office.

In 2007 Pemberton returned to Softel in Reading (UK) to take over as CEO and is currently finalising a comprehensive re-structure of the company to support a fundamental strategic shift.

Andrew Scott is a Product Marketing Manager with the Video Product Line of Tektronix. He has more than 20-year experience with test and measurement products, in both engineering and product management roles, with Hewlett-Packard, Agilent Technologies, and Tektronix.

As a member of the Innovation department of the Dutch Broadcast Facility Company (NOB, now Technicolor), Thijs Vanderhallen was responsible for companywide research and development and the introduction of innovative cross media technologies and services for television, internet and mobile. In 2002, he was co-founder and Managing Director of Vivesta BV.

In the beginning of 2011, as Vivesta merged with SGT, Thijs became the Marketing Manager of the group. He is now responsible for Marketing and Product Strategy, and is dedicated to technological innovations and trends in the world of Broadcast.

Yoshiaki Shibata has started his career as a semiconductor researcher at Sony Corp. in 1991. He then moved to the IT/Multimedia field in 1996, studying the video over Internet and video compression technology. In 1998, Shibata joined the MPEG-7 standardization activity, took a leadership in the MPEG-7 schema design as a WG chair and a project editor for ISO/IEC 15938-5.

Since 2001, Shibata has started working in the M&E industry, where initially he made a significant contribution to update the UMID specification (SMPTE ST 330/RP 205) as well as to invent the EssenceMarkTM for professional AV products. In 2003, he took part in the XDCAMTM development project, where he played a crucial role in the metadata part of the product development and applied for more than forty patents of metadata related technology. In 2011, Shibata has left Sony Corp., making a trial to provide the Japan's first independent consulting service for the media and metadata technology in the M&E industry. Then, after his one year preparation period, He has founded metaFrontier.jp, LLC in Jan. 2012.

Fabio Gattari is the President of Etere, which he founded in 1986.He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Ancona University.In 1987 he founded Etere, an automation software solution for the broadcast marketplace.At its beginning, Etere was the first Italian company to produce TV and Radio broadcasting software with automation systems. In 1992 Gattari created the first digital audio broadcasting system based on-local network connected- PC's, this event was the milestone of the great company history. In 1994 he implemented the 1st digital video playout for a national TV.

The spirit of initiative of Mr. Gattari in conjunction with his great knowledge has led the company to be in just in 29 years a leader in the broadcast market. Fabio Gattari stronghold is the ability to interface and interact at high level with the business world, resulting in several key partnerships worldwide.

James has been in the broadcast biz for more than 10 years, as a consultant, Head of R&D, and Head of Interactive, helping community stations grow to networks. Enthusiastic about the social connection of television, user-experience and intelligent broadcasting in modern media, Neufeld now serves as the Director of Marketing for the award-winning Social TV specialist firm, never.no.

At never.no Neufeld is responsible for understanding and providing solutions to challenges all broadcasters face as regards to Social TV and Two Screen experiences.

Gerald Smith joined Endemol in 2010 as the Director, Asia of Endemol Worldwide Brands (EWB). EWB is a recently established division within the production giant focusing on extending Endemol properties such as Big Brother, Deal or No Deal and The Money Drop across multiple platforms. Gerald began his career as an investment manager at a privately owned Japanese investment firm, where he gained first-hand experience in identifying new business opportunities and advising on strategic investments.

Tom founded TV Genius in 2005, a software business dedicated to the TV industry. Having built the company with clients including Freeview, SES, and ITV, he sold it to Red Bee Media in August 2011, where he is currently managing the integration of the business. Previously, he was Vice President of Key Service Introduction at T-Mobile with responsibility across Europe, and before that established a £4m p.a. content management business for Parity Solutions.

He has an MA in Physics from Oxford University and lives with his wife, three children, six guitars and a double bass. His book Mobile Strategies was published in 2006, just before the iPhone completely changed the industry. You can't win them all.

Mark Little is the founder and CEO of Storyful, a news agency for the social media age. He has been a journalist for more than twenty years. He served Ireland's national broadcaster RTE as Washington Bureau Chief, Foreign Correspondent and news anchor. He won awards for his reporting from Afghanistan and is the author of three books on US and world affairs.

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Rob van den Dam is the Global Telecommunications Industry Leader at the IBM Institute for Business Value. He is responsible for developing strategic thought leadership in communications and as such contributor to IBM's global communications strategy. He develops future agenda's, industry outlooks and business value realization studies.

He has 20 years' experience in the communications industry. Rob periodically presents at major industry conferences, such as IBC, Broadcast Asia, Streaming Media Europe, Asian Carriers' Conference and the Broadband World Forum. He has published articles in, amongst others, Broadcast Engineering Magazine, European Communications, Total Telecom, AdMap, Telecom Asia and Annual Review of Communications.

Bilal Aman Khan have over 18 years of Experience in Satellite, Terrestrial and Cable Television Broadcasting. He is currently Director, Broadcast Operations and Engineering Department at Jamuna Television.

Among his many accomplishments include designing the workflow for the first full 3G HD television station in Bangladesh and also in the entire South Asian region (Maasranga Television (Square Group))He has also headed, designed and commissioned RTV's fully IT based automated play out and news room System.

Harrie Tholen started his career in advanced development of HDTV technologies at Philips. He moved on to product management, sales and general management in various high technology fields. With assignments in Singapore and Shanghai, he has over 15 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region in the digital broadcasting and mobile multimedia industries.

Harrie Tholen is currently Civolution's General Manager for Asia Pacific, based in Hong Kong. Civolution is the leading provider of watermarking and fingerprinting solutions to content owners and content distributers for identifying, managing and monetizing their media content.

Paul Woidke joined OpenTV in May 2008. With forty years of broadcasting and cable experience, Woidke is tasked with evolving OpenTV's advanced advertising business both in the US and internationally. In addition to the industry leading EclipsePlus traffic and billing system, OpenTV has advanced advertising products in the areas of addressability, interactivity, measurement, and campaign management systems.

Previously, Woidke served as Senior Vice President for Technology at Comcast Spotlight. During his six years there, his responsibilities included corporate management of the research, design, selection, and deployment of hardware and software architectures and technologies supporting the enhancement of advertising revenue opportunities for Comcast.

During the eleven years from 1991, Woidke served with Adlink Cable Advertising, the Los Angeles cable interconnect. As Chief Technology Officer, he directed strategic planning efforts for design, development and deployment of new technologies.

Peter is working on specifications and architecture for Tedial's BPM, MAM and Archive products in Europe and the Middle East. He is also involved in the creation and development of marketing collateral for Tedial's products.

In addition to an in depth understanding of media technology Peter has excellent writing skills and have contributed articles on Media Asset Management and broadcast workflow to leading European trade magazines and industry journals.

Eric DuFossé leads the Grass Valley™ Global Marketing team working closely with the product groups and global services organization, as well as the regional sales organization. In this role, Eric is responsible for the solutions packaging and the go-to-market efforts with a focus on a complete offering by market segment and application.

An expert in broadcast systems and production and advanced workflow solutions, Eric spent 10 years in TV production. In 1995, he joined the industry suppliers industry, where he held various roles in sales, marketing, product management, as well as management roles.

Yew Kuin is a Senior Associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Singapore office of Baker & McKenzie. He specialises in dealing with contentious Intellectual Property matters and has experience in both civil and criminal litigation for copyright and trade mark infringement matters.

Yew Kuin also has experience in advising on legal issues arising from the media industry and has worked with major terrestrial television broadcasters, print and publishing companies, recording companies as well as various industry bodies from the film, music and software industries.
Yew Kuin is also an adjunct lecturer at the Ngee Ann Polytechnic Film and Media School where he teaches Media Law to aspiring film students.

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Aale Raza has been associated with the Broadcast and Post production industry for the past 15 years. He has been involved with commissioning more than 30 large Broadcast facilities. He had foreseen the eventual demise of analogue systems and argued for digital automated systems. He introduced a number of new technologies to the industry.

Prior to starting his own company, he was the Head - South Asia and Strategic markets for KIT Digital Asia .
He holds an MBA in Marketing, resides in Singapore and shuttles between various offices in the Asia Pacific region.

Martyn J. Horspool is the Product Manager for Television Transmission at Harris Broadcast Communications Division, based in Mason, Ohio, USA. In his current position, Martyn's primary responsibilities include development and execution of new product development plans and bringing them to the worldwide market. Mr. Horspool received a Higher National Certificate in Electronic Engineering from Worcester University (England) and a Diploma in Advanced Television Engineering from Plymouth University (England). With over 37 years of experience in the television broadcast industry, Mr. Horspool has presented technical papers at major engineering conferences worldwide. Before his current position, he has held several positions with Harris, including Manager of DTV Applications Engineering.

Nils has more than 25 years' experience in the Broadcast field (3 years Cable TV and Satellite Up/Downlink; 10 years Senior Sales Project Manager at Tektronix Europe with 10 years of Studio (SD&HD) & MPEG /DVB Business & technologies; 4 years Broadcast for Aerospace Industry and 2 years Head of Sales Project Management at Bruel & Kjaer for Sound and Noise Measurement & Monitoring solution

Charles W. Kelly Jr, is a 39 year veteran of radio, starting at his college station at the University of Illinois. Along the way he has held the positions of Disk Jockey, Program Director, News Director and Chief Engineer of stations in Illinois, and Colorado. In 1980, he moved into the equipment side of the industry, and held senior sales positions at ITC/3M, and Broadcast Electronics before joining Nautel in 2006.

Chuck has been a member of the Society of Broadcast Engineers for over 31 years and has held positions of Board Member, Vice President and President, and is proud of having been elected to the Society's highest honor, a Fellow of SBE.

Jhonny Maroun currently serves as Wohler's Asia Pacific regional sales manager, and is responsible for building the Wohler brand in this region by strengthening long-term relationships with customers and channel partners.
Prior to joining Wohler, Maroun served as sales manager and business development engineer for IRT Electronics Pty Ltd in Australia, where he oversaw all international sales and business development functions including product development and rollouts, account management, customer relationship development, contract negotiations, and order fulfillment.

Maroun holds a bachelor of engineering in mechanical and biomedical from the University of Sydney, and completed a number of broadcast and telecommunication courses.

Fabio has had the opportunity to develop privileged experiences and technical relationships in these 30 years of full dedication, with Opinion Leaders in the Professional Lighting Design and this fact, combined with the technological advancements in the general industry, are placing him in a strategically important position to first understand the requirements, to then translate them into modern products and services to answer the market demand.

Naoyuki Kurita received his M.S. degree from Waseda University in 2004. Following graduation, he joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp) and built his career as an audio engineer through studio program production and live telecasts. He is currently involved in the development of new broadcasting systems, particularly OB van and audio systems. He is currently an engineer of NHK's Program Engineering Division.

Yoko entered the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 2022 after graduating from the University.
Since she has been assigned to the lighting section first, she has worked as lighting staff for about 10 years.
Now she is mainly taking charge of the lighting of musical program, information programs, puppet play and so on.
She fixed equipment of lighting system in NHK studio and she is developing lighting instruments to realize energy conservation and contribute to the measure of global warming prevention.

As the Senior Professional Support Manager at Dolby Laboratories, Mike Babbitt works with operators, networks and local stations to deploy, implement and understand the use of Dolby technologies based upon their specific infrastructure and transmission requirements, as well as helping post production professionals understand and navigate network delivery requirements for broadcast content and implement Dolby technologies for both standard and high definition DVD media. Mike has assisted in the multichannel broadcast of many high-profile live events like the Grammy Awards, Major League Baseball games and NFL broadcasts, and has been recognized for this service several times by the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as sharing Emmy Awards for the development of Dolby E and the DP600 Program Optimizer. Mike also travels the world speaking on issues like loudness control, audio metadata and Dolby technologies, and has been in the audio industry for nearly 30 years and with Dolby Laboratories for 14.

Ralph Bachofen brings more than 15 years of experience in voice and multimedia over Internet Protocol (IP), telecommunications, and in the semiconductor business to his role as 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 manager of product marketing, Bachofen led the worldwide DSL customer premises equipment (CPE) semiconductor product efforts. His professional career also includes senior technical and marketing roles at Siemens and Accelerated Networks. Bachofen holds an executive master of business administration and a bachelor of science in telecommunication technologies.

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Vidya Subramanian Nath is the Global Industry Manager with the Digital Media group in Frost & Sullivan. She has over a decade of experience in the Information and Communications Technology domain with a predominant focus on digital media topics. Her primary expertise includes coverage of broadcast, post-production & delivery equipment, digital video compression, mobile and Internet video delivery, content delivery, and cloud computing among others.

She frequently engages with fortune 500 firms and investment banks to offer strategic guidance on investment, acquisition, and product line expansion decisions. She is also a speaker at industry forums. Prior to this, Vidya was a corporate media consultant and independent filmmaker during which she worked on a rich variety of projects, enabling her gain a critical understanding of multiple aspects of digital media. Vidya has received acclaim for her research through articles and quotes published in Forbes, Multichannel News, Digital Media Online, Yahoo Finance, Streaming Media.com, Communications Technology and others.

Brian Campanotti is Chief Technology Officer at Front Porch Digital responsible for leading industry advancement in global broadcast content storage management, file-based workflows, and intelligent content management. He is active in a wide range of industry groups including the SMPTE AXF committee.

Mr. Campanotti started his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto, Canada as a systems engineer. During his tenure, he was a member of an Emmy award-winning team for leadership in serial digital video technology implementations. He was the founder of Masstech Group and has been with Front Porch Digital since 2004.

Michelle is co-inventor of Aspera's fasp™ transport technology and is responsible for overseeing the company's direction in collaboration with co-founder Serban Simu. Michelle was a software engineer in research and start-up companies including the IBM Almaden Research center before founding Aspera in 2004. She has dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and in Physics from Kansas State University and was a Goldwater Scholar for achievement in Science and Mathematics, and later a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University where she received a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science. She was the 2006 KSU College of Engineering Alumni Fellow (the youngest recipient ever), and has received national achievement awards from Glamour Magazine and USA Today. Michelle is also a frequent speaker on technologies and trends around Big Data Transport, Cloud Infrastructure, and Mobile.

Paul has been a Broadcast Engineering professional for 25 years since graduating in 1987. He has worked for Government regulators, Free-to-Air Broadcasters, Content providers and Pay-Tv operators for 24 of those years before stepping across to the vendor side with Nagra.

Prior to Nagra, Paul worked as a Senior Engineer at FOXTEL in Australia, originally heading the Interactive Engineering Team, and latterly as the Head of Research and Platform Architecture. Over those years, he has been involved in the migration of video broadcasting from Analogue to Digital, and then onto multi-platform delivery systems. Working in the broadcasting environment has meant keeping in the forefront of technical advancements and maintaining a commercial and technical lead over various competitors seeking to take a slice of the pie.
Paul's expertise ranges from RF through to Operational, Post-Production, Production and Delivery and overall content workflow.

Ian Hamilton has been an innovator and entrepreneur in Internetworking infrastructure and applications for more than 20 years. As a founding member of Signiant, he has led the development of breakthrough software solutions to address the challenges of fast, secure content distribution over the public Internet and private intranets for many of the media and entertainment industries' largest companies.

Prior to Signiant, Ian was Chairman and Vice President of Product Development at ISOTRO Network Management. He was responsible for launching ISOTRO's software business unit and created the NetID product suite before the company was successfully acquired by Bay Networks. Ian held senior management positions at Bay Networks and subsequently Nortel Networks, from which Signiant emerged. Previously Ian was a Member of Scientific Staff at Bell Northern Research performing applied research and development in the areas of Internetworking and security.

Sameer Kanse Heads Global Media & Entertainment Solutions (GMES) team of Tata Communications, which is a dedicated group focusing on Media vertical. He has considerable experience in developing strategies and new solutions to help Media & Entertainment companies profitably manage the changing technology landscape in this industry.

A well-known industry figure, Howard Twine has held key roles with well known companies in the broadcast sector. Prior to joining SGL, Twine was Product Manager at Pro-Bel where he was responsible for the Morpheus range of Automation and Media Asset Management solutions. Before this, he was Project Manager at TransMedia Dynamics, and was involved in the integration of broadcast and IT hardware with an extensive Media Asset Management and Workflow software application. He also held a key role at Edifis where he was Head of Applications and prior to this he spent four years at Leitch Europe as Product Manager and Business Development Manager.

Ken Yap has more than 15 years’ experience in the TV & Media technology industry, specializing in consultancy, sales & business development, project management, solution development and service operation. As Head of TV Software Solutions for Ericsson in Asia-Pacific, Ken is responsible for leading the software solution sales support teams to strengthen and drive the software solution sales revenues and market share within the APAC region.

Ken joined Ericsson’s Asia-Pacific team as Compression Solution Sales Support Consultant in late 2003. After joining, Ken facilitated the successful closure of a number of large scale IPTV, TV & Media projects in the region. With Ken’s extensive experience in project management and system development, he was promoted and tasked to establish a project and solution management department in late 2005, speared heading the regional system delivery and solutions architect activities.

In 2007, with the significant achievement of Ken’s role in establishing the project and management department, he was promoted to the Director of solution sales support leading a team of software and compression solution sales support team responsible for the overall technical sales development activities in the region.

Before Ericsson, he was the Director of System Development of SpeedCast Limited, a leading satellite communications service provider in Asia Pacific, fully owned by Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat). He led the development and implementation of the company’s satellite multimedia, internet broadcast and broadband platform.

Ken was with ASTRO Malaysia before Speedcast, one of the largest DTH operator in APAC. His key contribution was the development and implementation of DTH infrastructure, broadband satellite Internet platform. Ken started his areer in the IP networking sector and involved in the implementation of various sizable IP network and IT system projects in Malaysia.

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Mark joined BT Media & Broadcast in mid-2006, keen to build on his experience of delivering the best possible client solutions with an organization at the forefront of a rapidly changing sector.

At BT Media & Broadcast, Mark runs a Global team of sales and marketing professionals, who are responsible for taking BT's media solutions portfolio to clients.

He is focused on ensuring that team is able to identify client needs through detailed analysis of their business and to advise specific courses of action to improve their commercial performance. Mark personally leads some major strategic client opportunities.

Thierry Fautier is the Senior Director, Convergence Solutions at Harmonic, and leads the company's global convergence and multiscreen initiatives across all markets—cable, satellite, Telco, mobile, and Internet. Fautier is also responsible for pioneering Harmonic's leading position in the IPTV segment since 2004.

Before joining Harmonic, he was Vice President of Marketing for Vsofts and held a number of positions at Philips. At Philips Fautier was one of the primary drivers in the creation of MPEG technology and in the development of MPEG-2 STB system on chip solutions.

Carmi joined the Latens Management Team as President in 2011 and has a history of successfully introducing new products and services into the content delivery market.

Before being appointed President of Latens, Carmi was CEO of Bogot Consulting LLC, working with various high tech companies providing consulting and in many cases taking a lead role with product design, marketing, business development and sales activities.

Prior to Bogot Consulting, Carmi spent 18 years working with the NDS Group. As VP Sales & Business Development, Carmi's role was to manage the creation of new products and services tangential to the NDS main product lines.

Sanjay is the Chief Operating Officer of TEN Sports, based in Dubai. He is an result oriented Professional with over 19 years of work experience in Consumer Durables, Entertainment, Direct to home Television (DTH), Non Fiction Television, Print, News & Entertainment Television and Media.

His core specialities include in depth knowledge and experience of Business operations, Profit centre management, Product Management, Marketing and Promotions, Consumer Insights, Research and Strategy, Branding and Identity, Content Management and Planning, Strategic planning, Entertainment and Broadcast Operations. He has much international media exposure and experience with stints in India, Malaysia, Indonesia & Middle East.

Reuben has 15 years' experience of technology sales, systems design, project delivery and consulting in Telecommunications and Media companies across Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States. Reuben's expertise spans enabling new business models through technology, creating innovative customer experiences and delivering new media solutions. Prior to Accedo,

Reuben has been an independent technology consultant, a lead architect at BEA Systems and a technical marketing manager at Kenan Systems. Reuben holds a Masters of Engineering from Cambridge University.

Bilal Aman Khan have over 18 years of Experience in Satellite, Terrestrial and Cable Television Broadcasting. He is currently Director, Broadcast Operations and Engineering Department at Jamuna Television.

Among his many accomplishments include designing the workflow for the first full 3G HD television station in Bangladesh and also in the entire South Asian region (Maasranga Television (Square Group))He has also headed, designed and commissioned RTV's fully IT based automated play out and news room System.

Shahrul Imran Sultan has been with Astro's technology division since 1996. Today, as the Vice President of Consumer Product, he is responsible in administrating the development of consumer product across various platforms such as DTH, IPTV and OTT.
Reporting directly to the Chief Innovation Officer of Astro, Shahrul plays an integral role in the direction of new technology requirements and oversees the consumer product roadmap which includes Set-Top-Box (STB), PC, companion devices and mobile for DTH, IPTV and Over the Top (OTT) delivery. He is also responsible for middleware development and content protection solution for Astro. Beyond Astro, Shahrul is an active industry player, and serves as one of the Board of Directors for the Malaysian Technical Standard Forum Berhad (MTSFB).

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Since January 2009, Emmanuel is with the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel and is Commissioner in charge of Economics and European affairs, New services and Internet, Free-to-air commercial TV. From 2005 to 2009 He was Head of the Technology & Information Society Dept with the Ministry of Economy.

Thomas is Programme Producer on Secondment to ABU Programming from Korea Educational Broadcasting System, EBS-Korea.

SHOGEN, Kazuyoshi joined NHK in 1979. He has been engaged in research on broadcasting satellite system since 1982. In 1998-2003, he has worked in NHK Engineering Administration Department engaging in media planning and international affairs, working with groups such as ABU, ITU-R and APT. In 2003, he was transferred to NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories.

He was a chairman of the ABU Technical Committee and was a vice chairman of the ITU-R SG6 WP6S. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a Fellow of IEICE of Japan. He retired from NHK in June 2011 and he is now in B-SAT.

Pierre Larbier is ATEME's Chief Technology Officer and a renowned expert in the field of algorithmic design and MPEG / H.264 video compression. He has specifically dealt with video encoder architecture and designs for a wide range of platforms and applications: from low-power single DSP solutions to ultra-high quality FPGA based HD broadcast encoders. Pierre obtained his engineering degree from INSA, Rennes, France, with a specialization in electronics. He is a DVB & SMPTE active member.

Makoto Taguchi received his B.E. in physical electronics and M.E. in advanced applied electronics from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He joined NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 2001 and worked at the NHK Nagasaki broadcasting station. Since 2005, he has been a Research Engineer in the Broadcasting Networks Research Division of NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories in Tokyo and has been engaged in research and development related to digital terrestrial broadcasting systems.

Girish Bettadpur is a Sr. Product Manager for Akamai’s Digital Media group. In this role, he leads Akamai’s Media Analytics product. As part of the Media Analytics team at Akamai, Girish is working on building an industry leading product that provides deep insights on how content, packaging, and quality together drive Audience Behavior.

Since 2001, Girish has focused his attention on developing analytics platforms for business and technology users’ at large media and entertainment companies. At Pluris, Girish split his time between Denver and Boston, leading a group of statisticians, developers, and marketers to build cable industry’s leading marketing offer optimization and recommendation product

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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).

Nils has more than 25 years' experience in the Broadcast field (3 years Cable TV and Satellite Up/Downlink; 10 years Senior Sales Project Manager at Tektronix Europe with 10 years of Studio (SD&HD) & MPEG /DVB Business & technologies; 4 years Broadcast for Aerospace Industry and 2 years Head of Sales Project Management at Bruel & Kjaer for Sound and Noise Measurement & Monitoring solution

Dr. Jayakumar.S has been working on Audio, Speech and Digital radio related area in the past for "more than a 15 years". Jayakumar has done his schooling and college education in Thanjavur. Jayakumar had graduated from Aerospace department of Madras Institute of Technology and did his Masters and Ph.D. in Systems Control Engineering Department of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.

Currently, he is founder and Chief Technology officer in Epigon Media Technologies Pvt Ltd (http://www.epigon.in/) . Flexibility in life is becoming way of life and added to that it is most interesting way of life. To honor Flexibility in Digital Radio, Jayakumar has been working closely with powerful team to create Software Defined Radio for Satellite and also for Digital Audio Broadcasting Receivers. In this direction, early success came in Satellite Radio version. Most part of the effort of Jayakumar has been focused on Synthetic Music and tools creation for Synthetic Music.

Janne T. Morstøl is COO and one of the founders of T-VIPS. She orchestrates the organisation of the company in its mission to enable change in the professional video broadcasting industry by providing efficient and intelligent ways of moving video around the globe. Janne is responsible for the development of the company's solutions and is passionate about ensuring that T-VIPS customers are able to deliver next-generation television including 3D, HDTV, live sports and state of the art digital terrestrial solutions.

She manages key functions including R&D, Customer Support, Finance and Administration. Janne has an MSc in Electronics and an MBA.

Lachlan joined Sony Corporation in 2002 and has been involved in standardization and demodulator development. He is an active participant in the DVB-T2 standardization, and currently chairs the Validation and Verification working group within TM-T2, which recently has been tasked with verification of the T2-Lite profile in V1.3.1 through both hardware and software testing.

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Since 2001 Joan Warner has been the CEO of Commercial Radio Australia, the national industry body for commercial radio in Australia. Joan is responsible for lobbying Federal and State Governments on issues such as media legislation – including digital radio policy - industry regulation, and advertising codes which affect the radio industry. She is also responsible for radio industry education and training programs, the industry wide on-air radio Brand Campaign, the co-regulation of the Commercial Radio Codes of Practice, the negotiation of audience survey contracts and of industry wide copyright agreements with composer and music industry organisations, the planning and coordination of the commercial launch of digital radio in Australia, and, the running of annual National Commercial Radio Conference, the Siren Creative Awards and the Australian Commercial Radio Awards.

Vishnu's extensive digital experience include the development of AMP Radio Network's apps on the iOS, BlackBerry and Android platforms, streaming audio and the deployment of infrastructure in the cloud.
With certifications from Apple and Microsoft under his belt, he has been in the media and IT industry for 18 years.

Triton Digital was formed by the merger of StreamTheWorld and Ando Media Group. Nicolas is passionate about the internet's impact on the evolving media world and the rapid increase of new revenue opportunities for both broadcasters and agencies. Previously Nicolas was the VP of Client Services at StreamTheWorld and has held positions as web strategist, PMO director, and sales Manager. Triton Digital works with some of the largest and well-known broadcasters around the world including CBS, ClearChannel, Media Prima Radio Network, Prisa, Multimedios, Spectrum Medya, Arabian Radio Network, and Pandora. Nicolas lives in Singapore.

Alexander Zink is Senior Manager Business Development Digital Radio at Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Erlangen, Germany). In 2001 he started as project manager for the professional broadcast encoder "Fraunhofer DRM / DAB ContentServer™

Since 2002 he is project director of Journaline, an interactive text based information system for digital radio.
In addition he works in the fields of AudioServers, software defined radio, and transmission protocols. For Digital Radio Mondiale he acts as co-president DRM Assocication, member of the Steering Board, and vice chairman Technical Committee. In addition he is an active member of WorldDMB.

Nick Piggott is Head of Creative Technology at Global Radio (UK), and Chair of the RadioDNS Project.

Nick has spent the majority of his career working in the commercial radio industry, initially in programming and then moving to digital radio in the late 1990s. In 1999 he built up a small multi-skilled team to launch the world's first commercial Digital Radio stations. Under Nick's leadership, that team has consistently delivered innovative new services to radio stations, including interactive text message services, music downloading, mobile and multi-platform applications, and visualised radio services. The team has won numerous awards for innovation over the last decade. Nick was one of the founders of the RadioDNS project to converge broadcast radio and IP. Nick is an active member of the WorldDMB forum, and talks globally about the opportunities for radio in the digital age.

John Abdnour is Regional Sales Manager, Asia/Pacific for Hackett's Cove, NS, Canada and Bangor, ME, USA based Nautel. In his capacity he is responsible for the organization of the sale of Nautel MW-AM and FM radio transmitters in this region. He is in regular attendance at national and regional broadcast conventions, seminars and meetings. He is a forty-five year veteran of the radio broadcast industry. Prior to his position with Nautel, he previously worked in sales-engineering capacities with such companies as U.S. based Broadcast Electronics and Continental Electronics. His experiences also include those of radio engineering and programming.

Prem Rajalingham is the responsible for worldwide sales and support activities at Frontier Silicon (London, UK), a fabless semiconductor company focused on providing silicon, module, software and platform solutions for digital radio receivers. Having enabled over 15M digital radio receivers worldwide over the last 10 years, Frontier Silicon are the market leaders in this space.

With over 15 years' experience in the semiconductor and consumer electronics industry, Prem has held various positions in Europe and Asia in development, applications, product management and sales. Prem joined Frontier Silicon in 2004, and works closely with all major CE brands, manufacturers, retailers, importers to help develop and bring to market hundreds of digital radio receiver products each year.