Advanced Digital Broadcast (ADB) has announced a new composition and responsibilities for its Executive Committee. Andrew Rybicki will continue as Chairman and Group CEO. Krysztof Bilinski, EVP, will be heading a new Broadcast Division. Francesco Schiavinato, EVP, will head the new Broadband Division. Both divisions combine business activities from all product ranges of the Group. […]
Michael K. Powell, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to 2005 and a member of the FCC for eight years, has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA). As CEO for NCTA, Powell will serve as the cable industry’s leading advocate, spokesman, and representative […]
Mark Rigolle, formerly SES’ chief financial officer, and more recently CEO at O3b where SES has an important 34 per cent stake, is not rejoining the satellite operator. This is directly contrary to a statement issued by Rigolle as part of his hand-over to O3b’s new CEO. Rigolle successfully supervised the raising of $1.2 billion […]
BSkyB has appointed former BT media strategist Barry Louth as head of media planning. Louth will report to Andrew Mortimer, director of media strategy and planning and will work on developing media strategy for the Sky brand and its broadening products and services.
ADB SA CEO Francois Pogodalla is leaving his post with immediate effect by mutual consent, says the company. Andrew Rybicki, ADB Group CEO, will take on his responsibility for now. Profits were $12.9 million in 2010 down from $15.25 million in 2009, in part due to the cost of integrating Pirelli Broadband Solutions. Pogodalla joined […]
ViewCast has confirmed the appointment of Kevin Dowd as Managing Director of ViewCast’s Hong Kong office. In this role, he will be responsible for defining technology solutions for customers in China and the Asia-Pacific region, supporting sales initiatives to deliver ViewCast products to new and existing customers, and training distribution partners. “Expansion in the Asian […]
National Cable & Telecommunications Association President Kyle McSlarrow will join Comcast as president, Comcast/NBCU, Washington, the company announced. “Mr McSlarrow will have dual responsibilities in business operations and public policy in Washington, D.C. On the operations side, Mr McSlarrow will help lead the company’s efforts in the Washington metropolitan area around the customer experience and […]
smartclip, the European digital video ad network, has appointed Yahoo’s Shirlene Chandrapal as VP Connected TV. Chandrapal joins smartclip from Yahoo Europe where she was Director of Yahoo Connected TV, a platform that delivers Internet content to TV sets. In her role, she covered all major European markets and was responsible for strategy implementation, partnership […]
3D Storm, distributor of NewTek products in Europe, Africa and the Middle-East, is pleased to announce that Joshua S. Th Schneeloch has joined the NewTek Europe team as Sales Representative for Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH). “Our presence in the field started with Roberto Musso, based in Milan (sales representative for Italy, Adria, Greece, Cyrus […]
The CEO of SeeSaw, the catch-up TV service run by transmission infrastructure company Arqiva, is leaving. Pierre-Jean Sebert’s exit comes as Arqiva recently merged its three divisions into two. SeeSaw was created when Arqiva bought Kangaroo, the commercial VOD project of BBC, ITV and C4, which was forced to shut down by the UK’s Competition […]