Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Bell to Managing Director of its EMEA Distribution Business. Bell, who for the past 15 months has led the company’s distribution operations and technology arm in EMEA, consolidated Deluxe’s theatrical, broadcast and OTT operations and established the company’s new state-of-the-art facility in West London, Deluxe […]
Synamedia, the independent video software and solutions company, has appointed video software compression pioneer and Envivio founder and CEO, Julien Signes, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of its Video Processing business unit. Signes will lead Synamedia’s video processing business as the industry transitions to software-based encoding for broadcast, as well as for OTT, […]
TiVo is holding on to its temporary CEO, Raghu Rau, for the time being having failed to appoint a permanent replacement for Enrique Rodriguez who left last summer. Rodriguez departed to join Liberty Global as CTO. Rau will hold on to his $750,000 salary as well as an additional stock award worth around $2 million. […]
Deutsche Telekom has been limited to holding a 15 per cent stake in BT for three years, but this ends on January 29th. And BT obviously thinks it may launch a takeover bid. According to reports, BT is consulting takeover advisors Robey Warshaw and Goldman Sachs. Its shares are at a five-year low and the […]
DAZN, the live and on-demand sports streaming service, has announced that Ben King is joining the company as SVP Global Distribution and Business Development to drive its global expansion. King joins DAZN in February from Apple where, over his 12-year tenure, he worked at the forefront of some of the world’s most successful digital entertainment […]
Netflix has confirmed that Spencer Neumann is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Neumann is an accomplished media and financial executive who was most recently CFO of Activision Blizzard and previously held several senior positions at The Walt Disney Company. He succeeds David Wells who served as CFO since 2010. “Spencer is a stellar […]
Video delivery platform specialist SeaChange International has announced the appointment of Yossi Aloni as Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Reporting to Ed Terino, Chief Executive Officer, Aloni will lead global sales and marketing. He will assist SeaChange in fine-tuning its recently-launched value-based engagement model, which offers content and service providers a complete […]
Discovery executive Susanna Dinnage looks set to stay at the broadcaster after deciding not to take up the role of CEO of the English Premier League, having been named Chief Executive in mid-November 2018. A statement from the Premier League said that despite her commitment to the Premier League in early November, Dinnage had advised […]
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he has “very deep concerns” about Huawei being involved in upgrading the UK’s mobile network. Williamson told The Times: “I have grave, very deep concerns about Huawei providing the 5G network in Britain. It’s something we’d have to look at very closely.” Australia, New Zealand and the US […]
Speedcast International, a provider of remote communication and IT solutions, has announced that Sebastien Lehnherr is joining the company as Chief Operating Officer. Lehnherr previously held numerous operational leadership roles at Schlumberger, the world’s leading oilfield services company. At Schlumberger, Lehnherr was responsible for delivering global communications and information technology infrastructure and services. Most recently […]