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Speakers 
Mr Paolo Agostinelli,
Marketing Director,
FastWeb
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 Mr Michael Bartholomew,
Director,
ETNO
Michael Bartholomew was appointed director of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO) in July 2000 and re-appointed in May 2003. ETNO is the main trade association for Europe’s 41 largest e-communications operators located in 34 countries.
Mr. Bartholomew, based in the Belgian capital for the past 20 years, is a public affairs specialist in telecommunications, audiovisual, multimedia, trade and technology issues. As director of ETNO, he is responsible for running the Brussels-based secretariat. He oversees all working groups and develops public policy for Europe’s largest telecom companies at the highest levels of government across the European Union and worldwide.
Prior to joining ETNO, Mr. Bartholomew served as Director for European Affairs for the Motion Picture Association that represents the global interests of Hollywood’s major studios. A British citizen, Mr. Bartholomew also founded a Brussels public affairs consultancy, which he managed successfully for nine years.
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Mr Mathieu Bejot,
Executive Director,
TV France International
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Sean Besser,
Director,
Movielink
As the head of Business Development, Sean Besser is responsible for guiding the corporate growth of Movielink, including identifying, expanding and managing all of its strategic partnerships. Sean's current focus is on developing partnerships to boost the demand for legal video content over I/P, add value to Movielink's products, and improve the quality of the Movielink service.
Sean brings to Movielink nearly 10 years of experience in the delivery of entertainment and related services, including work at TiVo, Fox Sports, NBC, and most recently EchoStar (The DISH Network), where he managed all of the company’s broadband business development activities.
Sean holds an M.B.A. from the Haas Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and both a J.D. and B.A from the University of Southern California.
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 Mr Mohit Bhatnagar,
Senior Vice President, Product Management,
Bharti Cellular (Airtel)
Mr.Mohit Bhatnagar is serving Bharti Televentures Ltd. as Sr.Vice President – New Products Development & Alliances in India. Previous to that he was the Vice President – Corporate Sales handling the Corporate Accounts. Before joining Bharti Televentures, he was serving Brightpod Inc. at USA, as their Co-founder and Vice President – Business Development.
Mr. Bhatnagar is an MBA from Kenen Flagler Business School, University North Carolina. He has done his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. , USA.
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 Mr Sushel Bijganath,
Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy Planning,
RTL Group
Sushel’s responsible for strengthening RTL´s position in the analog world, preparing RTL´s TV business for the digital world and heading up the Group´s European technology committee to create attractive digital media content.
Prior to working in his current role, Mr. Bijganath was the CEO’s Chief of Staff at RTL Television in Germany. He also spent two years at the media conglomerate Bertelsmann where he worked directly for the CEO & Chairman on strategy issues. Mr. Bijganath started his career as a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in the UK, India and China.
Mr. Bijganath holds a master degree from the London School of Economics.
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 Mr Guy Bisson,
Senior TV Analyst,
Screen Digest
Guy Bisson has been researching and writing about the global television business for ten years. He is head of on-line data and statistical information service Television and Broadband Intelligence for media research and publishing group Screen Digest. Guy has particular expertise in digital TV, cable and satellite television and programme rights . As well as writing for Screen Digest magazine and other industry publications, Guy has acted as a consultant for numerous media groups, government organisations and investment banks. He has twice been retained as an expert witness in litigation cases involving major US studios. Guy has also authored or co-authored a number of in-depth business reports including the annual European Cable Yearbook (now in its fourth edition); European Programme Rights Markets; and European Digital Pay Television: Market assessment and forecast to 2006.
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Paul Brindley,
Managing Director,
MusicAlly
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 Mr Andrew Burke,
Chief Executive Officer,
BT Entertainment
Andrew Burke is CEO of BT Entertainment, which is a division within BT Retail’s consumer business to drive BT’s broadband activities in entertainment and education.
Andrew is responsible for driving the new division’s strategic brief to enable content providers to reach broadband customers through platforms and services backed by the quality of the BT brand. This includes developing, licensing and bringing to market content value added services such as
on-demand music, gaming, TV and movies.
Andrew’s former role at BT was director, value added services for BT Retail, where he was responsible for devising and delivering the products and services that enhance BT’s range of access products. Particularly focused on broadband, Burke has driven BT's significant leadership through value added services spanning applications, content and devices.
Burke has been the chairman of both BT’s digital content platform venture, BT Rich Media, and BT’s online payment services venture, BT Click & Buy. He is also a board director of BT Directories, BT Pay Phones. Burke reports directly to BT Retail group managing director, consumer and ventures Gavin Patterson.
Before joining BT, Burke was founder and chief executive officer of eVerger - a $100 million venture capital fund led by Aegis Group plc and Warburg Pincus and focused on eMarketing and CRM companies worldwide. Prior to that he was COO of eVentures, the internet venture capital fund owned by News Corporation and Softbank. He was the founder and CEO of LineOne, the leading UK internet service provider latterly acquired by Tiscali, and established News International’s initial internet presence in early 1995 by publishing The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and News of the World online.
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Mr Simon Calver,
CEO,
Video Island
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Ms Sara Clemens,
Head of Partnerships and Alliances, New Media and Business Development,
Telecom NZ
Sara joined Telecom New Zealand late 2003 from Hutchison 3G UK, where she headed up the global technology sourcing group. She has over 10 years experience in the IT, Telecoms and Broadcasting sectors in a variety of business development, commercial, regulatory and policy roles. Prior to joining the private sector Sara lectured in Mass Communications while completing her Master’s thesis on the deregulation of the NZ broadcasting market.
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 Mr Ted Cohen,
Senior Vice President Digital Development and Distribution,
EMI
As Senior Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this “big five” record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio.
In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide digital policies, which have provided EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena.
Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the groundbreaking Webnoize conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year.
Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and various other entertainment, technology and new media organizations. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media.
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Mr Frederic Court,
Principal, Technology Investment,
Advent Ventures
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 Ms Margot Daly,
Chief Executive Officer,
Music Choice London
Before joining Music Choice in 1995, Margot Daly was brought to Europe by DMX Europe to launch the digital audio product in 1993. Prior to this she worked in the audio compression and radio industry for Cutting Edge Technologies in Ohio and in brokerage with Citibank, New York. She was appointed Sales and Marketing Director of Music Choice in July 1999 and Chief Operating Officer in August 2000. She was appointed Chief Executive in February 2003. In 2005 Margot together with an independent investor group purchased Music Choice and took it private.
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Pete Downton,
Vice President of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships,
Warner Music
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Ms Susan Elkington,
Executive Vice President - Content Development, Acquisitions and Programming, Film and General Entertainment,
chellomedia
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Ms Claire Enders,
Chief Executive Officer,
Enders Analysis
Claire Enders started Enders Analysis in 1997. She previously worked in senior corporate development and strategy roles in all sectors of the UK entertainment industry (including cable, television, satellite television and music). Enders Analysis is one of the leading independent research companies in the UK and focuses on analysing significant issues in fixed and mobile telecoms and media, not only in the UK, France and Germany, but also in Japan and the US. Major companies in its sectors subscribe to its research, as do many of the world's leading fund managers and hedge funds.
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 Mr Andrew Fisher,
Chief Executive Officer,
Shazam Entertainment
Andrew Fisher joined Shazam from InfoSpace Inc where he was European Managing Director. At InfoSpace Andrew led the company’s significant European growth focusing on music and entertainment services for mobile operators and portal solutions for many leading online service providers. Over the past 14 years Andrew has led the successful growth of a number of technology focused enterprises having founded TDLI.com which was subsequently acquired for an enterprise value of $360m and as General Manager of Thomson Directories Business Ventures.
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Frederic Fleck,
Managing Director,
Ostrich Media
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Mr Brad Foxhoven,
President,
Titan Productions
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 Mr Michael Fuchs,
Former CEO and Chairman, HBO and former Chairman, Warner Music Group,
HBO
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 Ms Angel Gambino,
Vice President Commercial Strategy and Digital Media,
MTV Networks Europe
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 Mr Attila Gazdag,
Managing Director,
Walt Disney Internet Group
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Mr Jon Gisby,
Vice President, Media Yahoo! Europe & Managing Director, Yahoo! UK & Ireland,
Yahoo! Europe
Jon is responsible for generating long term opportunities and taking an ongoing leadership role within Yahoo!’s European business.
Prior to joining Yahoo! in 2004, Jon worked at Freeserve (now Wanadoo) from 1999 as the Director of Strategy and New Business, moving on to become the Managing Director of icircle.com and finally the Managing Director of Portals in 2002. Jon integrated multiple teams from across the company to work as one seamless and progressive unit, shaping the company vision and strategy and launching dozens of new tools, services and content areas across Freeserve’s sites. He managed a team of over 120 people and over 200 content and commerce partnerships.
Previous to his tenure at Wanadoo, Jon held the role of Senior Adviser in Corporate Strategy at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1997-1999. During his time at the BBC, Jon helped prioritise the BBC’s investment in new digital services across all media, and worked closely with the BBC’s production and resources business to identify new opportunities and improve their performance.
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 Mr Simon Guild,
Chief Executive,
MTV Networks Europe
Simon Guild was appointed Chief Executive, MTV Networks Europe (MTVNE) in February 2005. In this position, Guild is responsible for the day-to-day management of MTV Networks Europe, the number one cable and satellite broadcasting group in Europe in terms of distribution and revenue. MTVNE encompasses a portfolio of 47 TV channels and 41 Web sites that includes the MTV, VH1, TMF, VIVA, Paramount Comedy, Nickelodeon and Game One.
Guild has been instrumental in shaping the company’s European business development over the past 12 years. He has spearheaded a number of key strategic initiatives for MTVNE, including acquisitions of VIVA, TMF and Game One, expanding MTV’s portfolio of niche TV channel and Web site offerings across Europe. Most recently, Guild has overseen further Nickelodeon expansion in Europe and will continue to champion the development of the Nickelodeon brand to create the biggest kids’ network across the region. In addition, Guild will help advance the network’s digital media strategy to personalise the company’s relationships with audiences in compelling ways.
Based in London, Guild reports to Brent Hansen, President, MTVNE and President of Creative, MTV Networks International.
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 Mr Simon Gunning,
Head of Interactive Media,
Celador
In 1997 Simon created his own company, SGM, to handle business management and career development for multi-platinum recording artists and producers. His achievements in music management include five UK number 1 LPs, two Grammy nominations and one MTV Europe Award.
In 1999, having built a successful business around key production clients, he began offering new media consultancy services to the music and television industries, including digital rights management and digital sales.
Simon joined Flextech Television in 2000 as Head of Business Development, Interactive Media. In this role he focussed on developing commercial interests across both new and traditional media, exploring global rights acquisition and exploitation across all digital media platforms.
In 2003 he became Controller of Interactive Programming where he played a key role in establishing and implementing new interactive business strategies across five of the UK’s biggest digital broadcast channels. This included the development of interactive sponsorship and advertising solutions, and the creation of synchronised and standalone interactive gaming, voting, competition and telephony operations to complement the channels’ programming. He was also responsible for establishing commercial and content partnerships across multiple platforms.
Simon joined Celador International in November 2004 as Head of Interactive Media.
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 Daniel Harris,
Founder,
Kendra Initiative
Daniel Harris is an entrepreneur and Internet content expert. Daniel is currently leading an initiative, which he founded in 1999, to promote an open content marketplace for the Internet, called Kendra. The aim is to drive interoperability between and within every link in the content value chain - to enable any device or application to browse, search and purchase content from any content catalogue, seamlessly - driving increased revenue to content owners and a more pleasurable buying experience for consumers.
Daniel has worked extensively in the UK Internet industry. In 1996, Daniel co-founded Cerbernet and served as CEO till late 1998. Under his watchful eye Cerbernet grew to become the UK's leading independent broadband Internet Service Provider. Cerbernet was acquired for over 4m GBP by First Telecom early in 2000 - at the height of the dotcom bubble. Daniel then worked for Atlantic Telecom as their Content Delivery Adviser till early 2001.
In 1994 Daniel co-founded Cerberus, whose CDJ (Cerberus Digital Jukebox) was the first system for copyright protected Internet-based music distribution. Drawing on video broadcast experience, Daniel specified MPEG compression, encryption and distribution technologies for the CDJ. The CDJ went on to influence a whole generation of online music stores.
Daniel is a keen environmentalist. He is CEO and owner of Freewheelers - the international lift share website, matching passengers to car drivers, to reduce journey costs and pollution from car travel. Daniel was educated in art and design at London's Camberwell College. He currently resides somewhere on Dartmoor in deepest, darkest Devon, UK.
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 Mr Orri Hauksson,
Vice President, Research and Business Development,
Síminn – Iceland Telecom
Experience
• Managing Director, Síminn Research and Business Development, 2003 -
• Managing Director and Sales Manager for North and South America, Maskína, 2002-2003
• Argnor Wireless Ventures, 2001
• Political Adviser to the Icelandic Prime Minister, 1997-2000
• International Division, Eimskip, 1995-1997
Qualifications
• MBA, Harvard Business School, 2002
• Mechanical engineer, University of Iceland, 1995
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 Mr Dean Hawkins,
Chief Operating Officer,
Video Networks - Home Choice
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Brett Hawkins,
President and Co-Founder,
Global Gaming League
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Mr Roger Jackson,
Vice President Content,
iFilm
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 Mr Robert Leach,
Head of Interactive Services,
BSkyB
Having worked in Advertising and Marketing on both the client and agency side for 10 years, Robert joined BSkyB as Client Sales Manager in September 1997.
He became Controller of Interactive Airtime Sales in September 2000, with the responsibility of assembling an interactive sales team and setting sales, pricing, product development and marketing strategies for Sky’s pioneering interactive advertising services.
In May 2001, when Sky took 100% ownership of Open...., Rob's team expanded and he also became responsible for the sales of the Sky Active interactive advertising sites, as well as enhanced TV programme sponsorships.
In June 2003, Robert was promoted to Head of Interactive Services, with the additional responsibility of managing the text sales team and integrating the recently launched digital text services into the interactive offering.
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 Mr Gerd Leonhard,
Author, Speaker, Advisor, Music Futurist,
The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution
A native of Bonn, Germany and now residing in Basel, Switzerland, Gerd has spent over twenty years in new technology and entertainment, both in the U.S. as well as in Europe. In 2005, Gerd co-authored the critically acclaimed book "The Future of Music" and he now frequently lectures at tradeshows, conferences, think-tanks and leading events world-wide, as well as on podcasts and net-forums such as on Corante, ITConversa-tions, Inside Digital Media, Technation and others.
Gerd experienced the .com boom years as Founder/President/CEO of Li-censeMusic.com, Inc. in San Francisco, revolutionising the process of music licensing and introducing E-Commerce into B2B processes for la-bels and publishers. He now is the Founder/CEO of ThinkAndLink (TAL, www.thinkandlink.biz), a strategic advisory agency based in Switzerland and San Francisco, and recently started his own company again, SONI-FIC (www.sonific.com). Gerd is also Founder/Chairman /Executive Pro-ducer of the annual Popkomm "Innovations in Music & Entertainment Awards" (www.popkommawards.com), and works with many cutting-edge start-ups and new ventures in the entertainment and technology industries worldwide, as well as with investors and venture capital com-panies.
In the 90s, Gerd served as the Executive Producer of the pan-European talent event EuroPopDays and as Expert Advisor on the Cultural Indus-tries to the European Commission in Brussels (1993-1996).
In the 80s Gerd graduated with a diploma in Jazz Performance (Guitar) from Boston's Berklee College of Music (1987), and won the college's highly acclaimed Quincy Jones Jazz Masters Award. His performance credits include touring internationally, including opening engagements for major acts such as Miles Davis
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Helmut Leopold,
Head of Platform and Technology Management,
Telekom Austria
Helmut Leopold has been with Telekom Austria since 1999, where he currently holds the position of Head of Platform and Technology Management. He is responsible for the implementation of new technologies and the realization of new services on the basis of Telekom Austria's infrastructure.
From 1994 to 1999 he filled various management positions at Alcatel. From 1989 to 1994 he served as a research engineer at Alcatel Austria Research Center in the field of high performance networking and multimedia communications. Mr. Leopold has always been actively involved in European projects in the broadband area (including ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS and COST) as well as with regard to international standardization (ETSI). Moreover, he is member of various task forces within the scope of the Austrian Government's telecommunication programs. Since 1997 he has given lecturers on Broadband Communications at the University of Technology of Vienna and acted as evaluator in the R&D programmes of the European commission.
He is also vice president of the Austrian Research Center 'Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW)'. Mr. Leopold has a degree in Electronics and Communications from the Technical College HTBLV Rankweil, Austria and a degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Vienna.
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Mr Joy Marcus,
Senior Vice President,
Time Warner Global Marketing
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 Mr Nenad Marovac,
Managing Partner,
DN Capital
Nenad Marovac has more than 15 years of venture capital and private equity investment experience in the media, telecom and technology sectors.
Mr. Marovac is the Founder and Managing Partner of DN Capital which is a pan-European venture capital firm focusing on investments in software and IT in the enterprise and communications sector. Mr. Marovac is a Board member of Empower Interactive, JacobsRimell, Kaidara SA, Shazam Entertainment and Chairman and CEO of DN Capital.
Mr. Marovac founded DN Capital in June 2000 after leaving Advent International, one of the world's leading global private equity houses, where he was a Partner in the London office. At Advent International, he spent five years investing in European media, IT services, Internet and telecom companies. His investments include Synergon (IPO: LSE/BSE), Hogart, Internet Securities (Now Euromoney) and @Entertainment (IPO Nasdaq>Now UPC). Prior to Advent, Mr. Marovac was a Financial Analyst in the leveraged buyout group of Bankers Trust in New York focusing on media and communications.
Mr. Marovac received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Business Administration cum laude from San Diego State University with Distinction in Finance.
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David Noble,
Senior Advisor,
3i
David has been a Sector Adviser at 3i since 1998. Before joining 3i he had gained more than ten years of general management experience. He has previously worked at IMI, Thorn EMI and then Wills Group, where he was eventually promoted to divisional chief executive. He then joined Quadrant Group as managing director of the video equipment division, eventually becoming the managing director of the group's imaging division.
David specialises in media, working with investment teams worldwide. Key deals that he has been involved in include; Fonecta, a telephone directory businesses; De Telefoongids and Herold Mediatel, subsequently merged into Yellow Brick Road; Educational Information Group, an educational publisher; Magix, an entertainment software company; and Zefa, the third largest picture library in the world.
David is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, an associate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a student of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
He has an MBA from Manchester Business School, a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Manchester, a diploma in marketing and is a part qualified ACCA Professional.
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 Ms Marilyn O’Connell,
Senior Vice President, Broadband Solutions,
Verizon Communications
Marilyn H. O’Connell is senior vice president - Broadband Solutions at Verizon, a post she has held since December 2003. She is responsible for leading the development, deployment, and customer experience management of products enabled by Verizon’s Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) infrastructure. These include both data and video applications. She also leads Verizon’s retail and wholesale DSL product line, new product development and implementation such as iobi and broadband value-added services.
Previously, O’Connell has held several senior manager posts in Verizon and one of its pr edecessor companies, GTE. Most recently, O’Connell was vice president – Marketing Services and lead Verizon’s Retail Markets team in gathering and analyzing key information about competitors and customers in the residential and general business marketplace, developing long-term strategies and plans, monitoring key performance metrics and managing customer databases. Before that, O’Connell was vice president – Strategy and Business Development, leading corporate-wide efforts that examined key strategic options and alliances, particularly in the areas of revenue growth and competitive response.
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Colin Phillips,
Manager of Service Innovation,
ntl
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 Mr Arne Rees,
Head of Strategy and Partnerships,
UEFA
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Mr Steve Rogers,
Head of Production,
BBCi
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 Mr Ira Rubenstein,
Senior Vice President,
Sony Pictures Digital
Ira Rubenstein has built a career on identifying and implementing new marketing and distribution tactics for entertainment properties through interactive, online and mobile initiatives. As senior vice president of Sony Pictures Digital Sales and Marketing, a division of Sony Pictures Digital, he is responsible for overseeing the division’s efforts to extend Sony Pictures properties into the digital marketplace through SonyPictures.com, mobile entertainment, personalization products, online and mobile games, and innovative strategic partnerships.
Previously, Rubenstein directed Sony Pictures Integrated Network’s brand integration and sponsorship strategies and was also responsible for overseeing the production and creative direction for SonyPictures.com. In addition, he was integral to the establishment of Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment’s on-demand movie initiative, which ultimately became Movielink, a groundbreaking partnership among five studios.
Rubenstein also served as vice president, marketing for Columbia TriStar Interactive where he developed over 100 film sites and received numerous honors including Webby awards, a Gold Clio and The Hollywood Reporter Key Art award.
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 Mr Maxime Saada,
Vice President, Corporate Strategy,
Canal Plus
CANAL+ Group is the leader in pay television and one of the top broadcasting companies in France. It is also a key player in feature film production and distribution with its subsidiary StudioCanal. Maxime Saada is responsible for driving key strategic initiatives on content acquisition, marketing & sales, technological developments, as well as strategic partnerships, mergers & acquisitions. Maxime is also responsible for CANAL+ Group’s consumer studies.
Maxime Saada reports to Bertrand Meheut, Chairman of the CANAL+ Group.
CANAL+ Group is a 100%-owned subsidiary of Vivendi Universal.
Previous responsibilities held by Maxime include 5 years at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in Paris and 5 years in the United States with the French Government entity in charge of North American investments in France.
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Mr Howie Singer,
Vice President, Technology,
Warner Music Group
Howie leads the Digital Technology & Architecture Group, which supports technical and business development aspects of WMG's on-line music, anti-piracy, and new media initiatives. He is responsible for the company’s digital rights management and content protect strategies.
Before joining WMG in 2002, Singer held a variety of positions in start-up firms in the digital distribution space including Rightscom, Reciprocal and a2b music.
He spent the first 20 years of his career at AT&T, working on the development of speakerphones, cellular phones, and smart cards. He is a frequent speaker at music industry and Internet related conferences.
Singer is listed as an inventor on more than a dozen U.S. patents and he holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University at Stony Brook and a MS and PhD from Cornell University.
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Mr Geoffrey Vella,
Chief Executive Officer,
Data Stream
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 Mr Tony Wadsworth,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
EMI Music UK and Ireland
As chairman and CEO of EMI Music UK, Tony Wadsworth's job is to find, invest in and nurture musicians and recording artists and deliver their music to fans in all the ways they want - on CD, online and to portable players and mobile phones.
During 20 years of working in and overseeing some of the world's finest record labels including EMI Records, Parlophone, Virgin and EMI Classics, he has constantly sought to develop longterm career artists and music of the highest quality. He has also been at the forefront of the music industry's development of new digital and wireless products and services in an intense period of technologically-driven change.
Artists he currently oversees in the UK include Athlete, The Beatles, Kate Bush, Coldplay, Faith Evans, Gorillaz, Kylie, Norah Jones, Paul McCartney, Queen, Radiohead, Joss Stone, Robbie Williams, the Rolling Stones and Supergrass.
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 Mr Todd Wagner,
Chief Executive Officer,
2929 Entertainment
Todd Wagner is co-owner and Chief Executive Officer of 2929 Entertainment and founder of the Todd Wagner Foundation. Wagner created 2929 Entertainment to leverage his expertise in digital technology and his passion for the entertainment business, and has strategically built the company into a vertically-integrated venture over the last three-and-a-half years, enabling it to control the entire pipeline for entertainment product: from development and production to distribution and exhibition, spanning film, TV and home entertainment with a specialized niche in digital content.
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 Mr Nicholas Wheeler,
Managing Director, Multimedia Services,
ITN Multimedia
Nicholas Wheeler has a dual role as Managing Director of ITN’s Multimedia Content division responsible for developing ITN’s interests in news on mobile phones and in broadband as well as Chief Editor, ITN Radio, a position he took up in March 1996, six months after joining ITN as Editor of Independent Radio News (IRN). For some year’s Nick has been widely renowned as one of the radio industry’s leading figures in news programming, and is now adding earning a reputation in mobile news content as well.
In his first year since appointment he has established ITN mobile video news on a number of platforms but especially on Vodafone live!, O2 Active, developed its position on 3 and broadened its content offering beyond hard news to include more fun and entertainment packages.
Nicholas began his journalistic career in local newspapers in 1972 and moved into radio in 1979 as a news producer at BBC Radio Solent. In 1984 he worked as a news producer for Radio One’s ‘Newsbeat’ and the following year joined Capital Radio to help start the highly successful and popular news programme ‘The Way It Is’.
Two years later in 1987 Nicholas took control of Capital’s News and Talks Department, pioneering a new style of radio news presentation. In 1994 he was appointed Programme Controller to oversee the running of Capital FM and Capital Gold and, in the same year, he beat Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme to win the prestigious Sony Award for Best News Programme.
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 Mr Jeremy Yates,
Managing Director,
Playboy TV UK
Jeremy is Managing Director of Playboy TV UK, overseeing the company’s networks, which include 9 channels broadcast from the UK and one in Europe. The role covers other European operations and the sales and marketing of the channels and content throughout Europe, including growing VOD, online and DVD businesses. Jeremy has over 15 years experience in cable and satellite television, principally working on launching and operating niche services for the Pay market, including the UK’s first Asian Pay channel; a B Movie channel; the UK and Europe’s first erotic network.
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