Digital Media Outlook 2006:
"Is it all about football?" - Speaker

Christoph Mühleib, Astra
Business Development Manager

Christoph is Business Development Manager Broadcast Services at ASTRA Deutschland GmbH since 2003. He is responsible for developing the area in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After having finalized his law studies, he founded the first European ASTRA Net Service Provider offering IP-Multicast services for B2B communications. After the successful exit for his company, he became Vice President Business Development and Product Management at a software company based in Germany.

Volker Leyendecker, Astra
Business Development Manager

Volker is Business Development Manager at ASTRA Deutschland GmbH and responsible for IT/Broadband. He started his professional career after a technical and economic driven education in the CE-Industry. Before he joined ASTRA in 2002, Volker was focused on the area of marketing, product management and sales.

Andrea Rinnerberger, Avaya
Director Marketing Avaya-Tenovis Germany

Andrea Rinnerberger joined Tenovis in 2001 as Director Corporate Communications in Austria. She was summoned to Headquarters in Frankfurt in 2003 to head Marketing Communications for Europe . When Avaya took over Tenovis in October 2004 she became Marketing Director for Germany. Before joining Tenovis, Andrea was Director for Corporate Identity at Telekom Austria where she led the build-up of a new company brand from scratch.

Neil Pattie, Avaya
Head of FIFA World Cup Programme, Corporate Communications

Neil is the Head of Avaya's FIFA World Cup™ Programme, with responsibility for Avaya's converged communication network implementation and marketing programs for the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. Neil is based out of Avaya's offices in Guildford, UK and Frankfurt, Germany. Neil joined Avaya in 2001 as director of corporate communications for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. During this time he became involved in promoting Avaya's involvement in the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan™. After the tournament he spent 3-years in a variety of senior communications roles at Avaya's headquarters in Basking Ridge, New Jersey Prior to joining Avaya, Neil was Global Head of Media and PR for ICL where he played an important role in repositioning the company from a provider of mainframe computers and PCs to a leading provider of IT Services. Before joining ICL, Neil worked at Siebe plc, and British Aerospace (BAe). Whilst there he helped commercialize the UK's national satellite remote sensing centre and led BAe PR programs for high profile space projects such as the Giotto Halley's Comet interceptor and the Hubble Space Telescope. Born in India, Neil has a degree in Law from the University of Sheffield. He is married with three children, plays football when his legs let him and is a keen supporter of Manchester United.

Christian Morawietz, Betty TV
Head of Marketing

Christian Morawietz is Head of Marketing at Betty TV AG in Munich. While studying economical mathematics he set up the company Sky Connect Datenübertragungs GmbH, European's first ASTRA NET provider. Having sold the company to RNK GmbH, Christian joined deuromedia GmbH as Head of Marketing and Corporate Development. He was responsible for the management of Loonland Online GmbH, a subsidiary of TV Loonland AG in Munich. In 2001, Christian joined FAST TV SERVER AG as Head of Marketing. After three years with Fast TV, he took over his responsabilies at Betty in 2004.

Benjamin Kott, Booz Allen Hamilton

Benjamin studied Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and on top passed the MBA programme at Insead, in France and Singapore. He is with Booz Allen Hamilton in Milan, Italy since June 2000 as specialist in the CMT area (Communications, Media and Technology).

Main areas of his work are Digital Terrestrial Television (among others: strategy development and implementation for multichannel, interactive services, premium contents, technology platform, set-up of interactive TV Trial), Telco Broadband Portals, Telematics and Operations.

Heide Baumann, British Telecom:
General Manager Content & Applications

Heide Baumann is BT Retail’s General Manager for Content & Applications, where her remits spans Mobility and Convergence activities. She joined from BT Rich Media where she spent nine months as Chief Operations Officer. With a background in setting up 3 Austria and negotiating 3 UK’s 3G mobile content delivery platform Heide has previously managed large complex consulting assignments in 12 countries and introduced one of Europe’s first content online subscription services on behalf of Bertelsmann. She was also responsible for MCI Worlcom’s mobile activities in the German speaking countries and part of the international UMTS bid team.

Ben Regensburger, DoubleClick EMEA and APAC
Managing Director Tech Solutions

Ben Regensburger serves as DoubleClick´s Managing Director Tech Solutions EMEA and APAC. Regensburger is responsible for a client base of leading business companies like media agencies, marketers and publishers.

Prior to joining DoubleClick, he worked inter alia for Procter & Gamble and the Prinz Kommunikations GmbH. For several years he was Marketing Director of Hugo Boss AG. In this capacity, he bore the responsibility for the global marketing, as well as the licensing of the Hugo Boss Group.

Afterwards, Ben Regensburger was Managing Director of Lycos Deutschland and a member of the European Company Management of Lycos Europe. In this capacity, he played an important role in the strategic redirection of the Lycos Group to one of the leading European Internet Providers. Ben Regensburger graduated in politics and economic science.

Hans Hoffmann, EBU
Senior Engineer

Hans Hoffmann joined the Institute fuer Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in 1993 as research staff in Television production technologies department. In February 2000 he moved as Senior Engineer to the Technical Department of the European Broadcasting Union in Geneva.

He has chaired the EBU project groups P/BRRTV and P/PITV which both were involved in new technology innovations in television. He became chairman of the SMPTE technology committee N26 on Networks and File Management in which a number of production standards have been developed. Since about two years he is substantially involved in the EBU technical activities on High Definition in Television Production and Emission. In 2002 he has been appointed to Engineering Director Television in the SMPTE and chairs the Television steering committee. He is a Fellow and member of the SMPTE, member of the IEEE, SID and FKT.

Chieteuk Ahn, ETRI
Vice-president

Chieteuk Ahn is vice-president and a principal member of technical staff in the Digital Broadcasting Research Division of ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute), Korea. He received his BE and ME from Seoul National University, Korea, in Feb. 1980 and 1982, respectively, and Ph. D. from University of Florida, U. S. A. in Aug. 1991. Since he joined ETRI in 1982, he has been involved in developing digital switching system, MPEG standardization and broadcasting technologies. His recent work has been focused on MPEG technology as well as on developing multidimensional interactive multimedia technologies in broadcasting and communications. He has served as an HOD of MPEG-Korea and SC29-Korea since 1996. His main interests are in areas of multimedia signal processing, broadcasting systems and internet.Preliminary presentation title : The Prospects of Personalized TV service technology

Jacques RAYNAUD, Eurosport
Managing Director

Distribution & Advertising Sales Jacques RAYNAUD, 38 years old, graduate of the "Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris" (Higher Business School of Paris). Following a first experience within the TF1 group as Investor Relations Manager, he joined EUROSPORT in November 1994 as Area Manager responsible for the distribution of Eurosport in Central and Eastern Europe. Appointed Director of Distribution and Development in January 2001, Jacques Raynaud was then promoted to Deputy Managing Director, responsible for the marketing and distribution of the television channels Eurosport, throughout Europe , and, Eurosportnews, on a worldwide basis in September of the same year. Managing Director since September 2003, Jacques Raynaud has overall responsibility for the Distribution, Advertising and Development of the Eurosport group.

George Oates, Flickr (Now Yahoo!)
Producer

Originally from Australia, George has lived in Vancouver since late 2003 working at a small start-up called Ludicorp (recently acquired by Yahoo!). On the team she is responsible for many things including the front-end design of Flickr, as well as support of the community at large.

As a founding member of the Flickr development team, George is designing, observing and participating in a fundamental shift in online dynamics -- content organisation that is user-defined, and media sharing that is based on people you know.

George has worked in and around the internet for over 10 years and her interests include the design of organic information systems and ubiquitous computing.

Lars Thomsen, Future Matters
CEO

Lars is CEO and Chief Futurist of the Munich and Zurich based trend- and forecast agency Future Matters Inc. Future Matters is conducting studies, think tanks and product development workshops, helping clients like Deutsche Telekom, Nokia, Deutsche Bank and RWE to explore new products and future business opportunities. Lars is a well known speaker at conferences all over the world and one of Germany's Top 5 futurists.

Joachim Rabe, InteractiveMedia
Head of Business Development & Marketing

After finishing a traineeship in advertising Joachim Rabe (40 years) studied business administration, as well as market and advertising psychology at Ludwig Maximilian’s University in Munich. After successful completion the father of two began working for GfK AG as a Project Manager in advertising research.Ever since 1996 he has been professionally engaged with the Internet, at first as Sales Director of Health OnlineService, a daughter company of Burda, and then with Microsoft’s MSN Internet service as a representative of international online sales. It was there where Mr. Rabe, together with his French and British counterparts played a role in the construction of what we know today as the MSN European online advertising Network. While equipped with the purpose to actively press ahead with the formation and development of a European online marketer he assumed a position with ad pepper media as Managing Director, and later became COO during their transformation into a publicly traded company, which was realized in August 2000.With the change to InteractiveMedia (100% of T-Online) in December 2001 he is now responsible for product management, business development and marketing of Germany’s leading Internet marketer.

Andrej Henkler, inLive
CEO

Andrej Henkler is Co-Founder and CEO of inLive - one of Europeans most promising technology start-up in the field of interactive television. Henkler entered the media business when joining the Bertelsmann in 1991. Appointed as personal executive assistant to the CEO of Bertelsmann Group where his tasks included the company's strategic expansion plans into television, he was entrusted in 1993 with the turnaround management of the German broadcasting network VOX. From 1995 until 1997 Henkler served as Program Director of VOX before setting up TV Miles a leading cross-media marketing agencies in the world which he successfully exited in 2004. Henkler is 37 years old and a business graduate from the Institut d´Etudes de Sciences Politiques, Paris, France.

Melanie von Wangenheim, InteracT!V
Director Sales & Campaign Management

Melanie von Wangenheim received her BS from the University of Vermont, USA in Marketing & Management. She started her business career on industry side in Marketing with Estée Lauder Cosmetics. This was followed by three years of working freelance as Marketing and Consulting Strategist including various marketing activities in areas such as project management, sales promotions, public relations, events and sponsoring. In 2001 she joined argonauten360° (Business Line of Grey Global Group) agency and consulting group and worked as Account Director in the field of online projects, before she grew into the position as Senior Consultant New Business. Beginning of this year, Melanie joined InteracT!V heading sales and campaign management for big players from industry, the media and mobile operations. So far, Melanie has advised clients in various trades amongst others she has worked with ADAC, Audi, Fujistu Siemens Computers, Quelle, TAG Heuer, telegate and Volkswagen.

Thomas de Buhr, IP- Deutschland
Sales Director Special Ads

Thomas studied economics at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen. He started his business career as a sales manager for Masterfoods (1994-1996), grew into the role of a Promotion Manager (1996-1998) and became Services Buying Manager until 2000 before he left Masterfoods as a Media Manager in 2002.

In his current role as Sales Director Special Ads at IP Deutschland he is responsible for all co-operations and partnerships in IP Deutschland, the saleshouse of RTL, VOX, Super RTL and n-tv.

Andrew Hunt, MEGA VISION
Manager, International Business Development

Living in Japan since 1991, Andrew spent 18 months working for JAWOC IT Infrastructure section in 2001 and 2002. He was responsible for overseeing the planning, design, installation, operations and removal of entire end-to-end technical infrastructure at Japan venues. This included all locations within stadia and external facilities such as media centres and broadcast compounds and Saitama stadium where MEGA VISION was used to shoot 3 (out of a total of 11 ) matches that were displayed live using high definition during the World Cup 2002. Andrew is currently responsible for sales, marketing & promotion and equipment management for MEGA VISION Corporation.

Nikolas Samios, moreTV
Managing Director

Nikolas is an industry expert for both digital TV, information technology and the field of consumer electronics. Beginning in the mid nineties, he has founded some companies and worked as consultant in these areas. In 2003 Nikolas founded moreTV together with Senior Media-Executive Roland Tetzlaff, the company that in the meantime has grown to a leading player in the yet underdeveloped german interactive TV / digital TV ecosystem.

moreTV is bringing concepts well known from international markets to Germany – maybe for the first time in a massmarket approach backed by high-profile cooperation-partners like AxelSpringer or Bauer Publishing Group, Premiere PayTV, leading CE-manufacturers like SIEMENS or Medion and many more. moreTV's services include premium DVR services, rich superteletext portals, and interactive TV services broadcasted using all carriers including DVB and IP networks like DSL

David Whittaker, NDS
Director of Product Marketing and Advertising Technologies

David Whittaker is Director of Product Marketing and Advertising Technologies at NDS He has been with NDS for six years with 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. With both a technical and business background, David previously ran his own Digital Solutions company designing digital production technology for television operations such as BBC, Granada , NOB, Sony, Sky and Formula 1. A particular focus of his current work is the commercial development of PVR and "Red button" advertising and associated measurement.

David Cockram, NDS
Market Development Analyst

David Cockram has been with NDS for two years and is responsible for marketing NDS' conditional access, middleware and interactive TV solutions to pay-TV operators and broadcasters across Europe . He also manages NDS RapiAd, a service that enables non-technical personnel at broadcasters and advertising agencies to build, preview and deploy “Red Button” interactive TV campaigns. After graduating from Cambridge University , David was previously employed as Managing Analyst of the Interactive TV research team at Datamonitor, delivering market analysis and consultancy services for a wide range of blue chip technology, telecoms and broadcasting clients.

Martti Granberg, Nokia
Director Media Business Programs Nokia Multimedia

Martti Granberg is responsible for the business in the EMEA area of the Rich Media Business Program (Rich media devices, Mobile TV) and Music Business Program (Mobile Music Devices, Nokia-Loudeye mobile music solution, Visual Radio). He has enjoyed a long and distinguished career at Nokia, where he has served as Director, Business Development (Nokia Mobile Phones, Europe & Africa), responsible for the launch and development of chosen new businesses and business concepts and as Director, Digital Services & Applications (Nokia Mobile Phones, Europe & Africa), with profit and loss responsibility for Nokia's digital services and applications business in Europe and Africa region. Previously he had global responsibility for coordinating and implementing e-business technologies (security technology, mobile payment and mobile commerce concepts) for the whole product range of Nokia Mobile Phones. He has also played a key role in the market creation and business development for advanced wireless messaging and mobile financial services concepts (Wireless Application Protocol), for Nokia Internet Communications. From 1996 Martti Granberg held management responsibility for mobile payment and mobile commerce concept development, Nokia Research Center. Between 1985 and 1996 he also took on assignments in the marketing and technology management of smart cards and new payment systems (electronic purses).

Gunnar Garfors, NRK
Director Mobile Services

Gunnar Garfors is the Director of Mobile Services in NRK's Division of Developments. He has been overseeing the development of various mobile services, including mobile TV and MMS videos on TV, both of which Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation was first in Europe to launch. Garfors has held a number of presentations around the world on NRK's leading position on mobile services. He is originally a journalist, holding a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting from Falmouth College of Arts in the UK and a Master of Management from BI, Norwegian School of Management. The 30-year-old has been working in various media houses before joining NRK in 2000.

Marcus Hochhaus, Plazamedia
Head of Business Development and new media

After studying economy in Germany and New Zealand, Marcus started his professional career at the German Kirch Group in 1998. He was focused on the area of investment management. In 2001 Marcus was responsible for a complex corporate analysis of broadcasting and IT. In the same year he was promoted to the position of Manager Project Office, which was focused on the merger of KirchMedia KGaA and ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. In 2002 Marcus tackled a broad range of projects coping with specialised areas of the sale of various KirchMedia units. After changing company in 2003, he became Head of Business Development and New Media at PLAZAMEDIA Film- und TV-Production.

Kari Aalto, INCCOM
Director Satama Interactive

Kari is in charge of strategy and offering at Satama’s mobile competence centre – NeoMotion. Kari has 15 years of experience in business modeling and user experience. He is an advisor for leading European mobile operators and hardware manufacturers on issues ranging from future service roadmapping to mobile service user experience design and market introduction. Kari is involved in digital services and football through as Satama’s representative in INCCOM – an EU funded consortium focused on defining successful business and delivery models for football content.

Scott Gronmark, Scott Gronmark Associates

After working in publishing for four years, Scott Gronmark wrote thrillers for seven years. Joining the BBC in the late eighties, he worked in national TV news and current affairs until joining BBC Online in 1997 to become Homepage Editor. After a year, he moved to Interactive TV, where he devised and launched the corporation's 24/7 text and video services on all digital TV platforms.

In 2000, Scott took charge of all BBC programme-related interactivity. During his four years as Head of iTV, the BBC reached more viewers on more platforms with more services than any other interactive TV broadcaster in the world. Scott left the BBC last year to form his own interactive media consultancy, SGA, specialising in interactive TV, Video On Demand, PVRs, and digital TV channels. SGA clients include Zip TV, Teachers'TV and PACT.

Stefan Jenzowsky, Siemens
Vice President Siemens Com Strategy & Head of Business Innovation for Siemens Communication

Stefan Jenzowsky is Vice President in Siemens Com Strategy & Head of Business Innovation for Siemens Communications. Since July 2002, Stefan is heading the Business Innovation think tank for Siemens Communications. His job: Analyzing and piloting innovative products and business models, thereby securing future business by developing and piloting market- and end-user-driven innovations.

Dr. Henning Stiegenroth, T-Online
Senior Manager Content Sourcing & Product Marketing Sport

Dr. Henning Stiegenroth joined T-Online International AG as Head of Content Sourcing in 2003. His principal tasks are purchasing different contents for the T-Online services and platforms (Internet, Mobile and IP-TV over Set-Top-Box). In particular he was responsible for the acquisition of exclusive internet and mobile football bundesliga rights for the seasons 2004/ 2005 and 2005/ 2006 from the DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) and the syndication of these rights to top mobile operators in Germany. Furthermore he is responsible for promoting the “onSport” Portal of T-Online and the activities regarding WC 2006. Prior to his tasks at T-Online Dr. Henning Stiegenroth worked for several years as Head of Marketing and Sales in various New Media and Internet-Software Companies.

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