Carlo Salvatori, CEO of the Italian insurance and banking conglomerate Unipol Gruppo Finanziario, has joined the board of SeaChange International."Carlo is an exceptional addition to our team and the Board is enthusiastic to start working with him immediately," said Bill Styslinger, SeaChange President & CEO. Salvatori has been CEO of Unipol Gruppo Finanziario since 2006 […]

STAR, a wholly owned subsidiary of News Corporation and Asia's leading media and entertainment company, has confirmed the appointment of Yeshpal Sharma as its Vice President of Distribution and Advertising Sales for the UK and continental Distribution and Sales and head of STAR's North American and European offices.

Alix Pryde is to become the new Controller, BBC Distribution. She replaces Richard Waghorn who has left the BBC to become Chief Technology Officer for SABC, the South African public service broadcaster. …………..

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) Worldwide Television operation has named Ian Hogg Senior Vice President and Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific territory. In his new role, Hogg will oversee the distribution of MGM film and television properties on a variety of platforms including pay-TV, basic, free TV and digital media in the Asia- Pacific region.

Internap Network Services, a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, has announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Eric Cooney president and chief executive officer, effective March 16th, 2009. Cooney was most recently president and chief executive officer of Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group.

Havas Media, the sixth largest communications group worldwide, has announced its two global executives, Gabriel Saenz de Buruaga and Anthony Rhind, will take the helm at Havas Digital when chief executive Don Epperson steps down at the end of the month.

Volicon has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Sachs as senior director of marketing for the cable, IPTV, and mobile video operator industry. In his new role, Sachs will be responsible for developing the market for Volicon’s Observer and Observer RPM solutions. Sachs has more than 18 years of experience in test and measurement solutions. Since […]

Colette Bowe has been confirmed as the next chairman of media regulator Ofcom. Bowe, currently an Ofcom board member, will replace David Currie, who is stepping down at Easter next year after being in the job for six years, since the regulator was set up. Bowe was appointed as chair of Ofcom’s advisory consumer panel […]

Frontier Silicon has announced its founding membership of the Internet Media Device Alliance (IMDA), to be launched at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Frontier's CEO, Anthony Sethill, has been appointed to serve on the steering committee of the new association. IMDA aims to develop and promote a set of open standards and […]

Thomas Ebeling is to be the new CEO ProSiebenSat.1 as successor to Guillaume de Posch. Ebeling was most recenty CEO of pharmaceutical company Novartis Consumer Health. De Posch announced in June that he would resign at the end of the year.