IP Cable

Mr Balan Nair is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Global, Inc.  In this capacity he is responsible for overseeing global network and technology operations which span four continents and over 30 million homes. He also oversees global procurement functions.

 Over the course of his career, Martin has covered many aspects of broadband access - from university research on fiber optic transmission to business modeling of broadband services. Previous positions include Research Project Manager, Turnkey Access Solutions Manager and Head of Broadband Product Management, all at Ericsson.

In February 2003 Mr Jan Vorstermans joined the Telenet management team as Senior Vice President Networks & Customer Operations. He manages the Integration of acquired cable assets and sponsors projects as cable upgrades, VoIP and interactive digital television.

 Mr. Bartlomiej Kasinski (34) is responsible for strategy and development issues in the company. Mr Kasinki has been with Multimedia from 1998 till 2002 rejoining in 2005 to present.

 He is the CTO of ZON Multimedia, where his main concerns are at the same time the technology and the strategy for the introduction of new and convergent services for both the IP network and the cable and satellite digital networks.

William R. Gaston gained radio broadcast experience while working at local radio stations in college. Upon graduation in 1970 he returned to his native Pennsylvania and became Chief Engineer of WYSP and WIFI in Philadelphia. 

Mourad Veeneman is the Vice President Design & Architecture at UPC. Mr Veeneman has been working at UPC since 1996 delivering the very first triple play broadband products.

As Vice President of Product Marketing, Ramin Farassat is charged with strategically marketing RGB Networks’ line of video processing products to service providers around the world. 

John Moulding has been writing in the digital TV technology marketplace since 1999 and before becoming a freelance writer in September 2007 was editor of Cable & Satellite International magazine from its launch in 1999 to end-2005, and editor of New Video Technology until September 2007.

Dr Blakeway is President of the SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers), a post which he has held for the last 15 years. The SCTE is constituted as a ‘learned society’ and serves the technicians and engineers involved in the broadband telecommunication and allied fields.

Fielibert has worked for Scientific Atlanta for more than twenty years, starting as a design engineer in analog system processing and progressing to his current position of VP and CTO for Europe and Asia. Fielibert was serving as senior vice president and chief operating officer of BarcoNet n.v. when it was acquired by Scientific-Atlanta, Inc. in January 2002.

David is responsible for pioneering Harmonic’s leading position in digital video broadcast, distribution and IP based delivery technologies.

David Jacobs, co-founder of JacobsRimell, has over 20 years experience in networking and the online industry. David led the company from inception as a professional services company, through its transition to become the leading provider of customer centric service fulfilment solutions.

Joe Frost has 25 years experience in the IT and networking industry and was appointed the Vice President Marketing in March 2005. He is responsible for marketing, strategic alliances and product management for all of JR’s service fulfilment and management solutions.

Edward Allfrey is responsible for TANDBERG Television’s EMEA and APAC digital cable and video on-demand business.  He joined TANDBERG Television in September 2005 as a “senior solutions architect”, responsible for defining TANDBERG Television’s roadmaps and new products in the cable space.

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.

Wim De Ketelaere graduated in 1998 as a Master in electronic engineering at Ghent University, at the department of Information technology, where he stayed on for two years as research assistant working in the area of high-frequency measurements.

He has held this position since the company acquired Libit Signal Processing in 1999. In this role he provides strategic direction that aligns Texas Instruments’ technology strengths with the needs of the cable industry. He is also responsible for identifying market trends and providing the vision to the RGES group.

Based in London, Cesar Bachelet is ABI Research’s lead analyst covering global multi-channel video markets, including pay-TV technology platforms, operator strategies, and services delivered over cable TV, satellite, digital terrestrial, and IPTV networks. .He brings to the role 18 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry.
Prior to joining ABI Research,

Dr. Dorothea von Wichert-Nick is Managing Director at Solon Management Consulting. Her project work includes M&A support and strategy development for cable operators, telcos, media companies and their investors.

Adi Kishore tracks digital media applications and services at Heavy Reading. Prior to Heavy Reading, he was the Director of Global Media and Entertainment at the Yankee Group, responsible for managing media research and consulting programs in North America, Europe, and Asia. 
 

Andy joined MindShare in April 1999 as Broadcast Buying Director. His work spans clients ranging from Ford, Gillette, Kellogg, Mattel, Kodak, Nestlé, IBM, BP to name a few.  In 2004 he was responsible for trading the newly created GroupM in the UK. In 2005 he was promoted to the Exec board of MindShare London, and in 2006 to Head of Investment overseeing all of MindShare’s media buying across all media.

Paul is Chief Technology Officer at Osmosys, a member of the ADB Group of Companies where he leads technical strategy and the company’s Research and Development team. Paul is also ADB Group’s key representative within the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) consortium, sitting on the steering board as well as various sub-groups, and is chair of the DVB Personal Video Recording sub-group. He has been pushing forward the MHP and GEM specifications for ten years.

At 43, Benjamin Schwarz's international background comprises senior executive experience in consulting and Telco organisations. He has also proven himself to be innovative and hands-on manager in internet start-ups. He has extensive experience in search engines, web portals, music distribution, TV / VoD services and Quality of Experience systems.

S.V. Vasudevan ("Vasu") is Director of Cable Video Architectures at Cisco Systems, where he works with technical executives at cable MSOs worldwide on developing and evolving media delivery systems that are scalable, flexible, and economical.

Viêt Nguyen Cao has over 15 year’s experience of business development in technology for media and telecommunications. He is currently Director of Business Development for Microsoft Mediaroom in EMEA.

Jonathan Tombes is editor of Communications Technology. He also edits CT’s Pipeline, CT Reports, and CT’s Communications Executive and contributes to the Cable360.net website.

As TMF’s Sector Head for Cable Markets, Kelly Anderson Neiman is responsible to drive the TMFs overall cable initiatives. 

Malcolm Taylor has been Managing Director of EuroCableLabs, the technology arm of Cable Europe, since June 2007. In addition, he has been responsible for cable’s certification activities in Europe since 2000, which are now provided by a separate company, EuroCableCertification bvba, in conjunction with Excentis, the test laboratory based in Ghent, Belgium.

Daniel is a Product Manager responsible for the CMTS product-line of Cisco Systems for the European and Emerging markets. He has been involved in the European cable industry since the early days of (Euro) DOCSIS.