Essential Mediatech 2007 Panelists

Ray Anderson

CEO & Founder, Bango

Ray co-founded Bango in 1999 after realising that the convergence of the Internet with the ubiquity of mobile phones could open up huge opportunities for content and service providers. Ray positioned the company to benefit from the opening up of the operator portals in 2004, and the transition of the mobile content business from a messaging model to a customer friendly browse and buy Internet model.

In 2005, Ray led the successful floatation of the company, and continues to build and steer the Bango team forward into one of the most exciting markets in history.

In 1988, Ray established IXI which created the industry standard network GUI - X.desktop. IXI was an early leader in the creation of the web. It sponsored the first ever WWW conference at CERN and shipped the world's first mercial web browser. In 1993 The company merged with SCO and then floated on NASDAQ. Ray held senior executive roles in SCO, including general manager, senior VP Marketing, and senior VP of New Ventures. He played a key role in transforming SCO from being a small "PC Unix" company to it becoming the industry standard Intel Unix provider.

Ray is an entrepreneur, innovator and investor with 20 years experience. He was named "Technology Entrepreneur of the Year" in February 2006 and in September 2006 at the ME Awards was given a special award for outstanding contribution to the mobile entertainment industry. A member of "The Cambridge Angels", Ray was a founding investor in a variety of growing companies including TeamStudio, Tenison Technology, Electronic Share Information (sold to E*Trade), Aspective, Trigenix (sold to Qualcomm), RE5ULT (82ASK), Shortfuze, Midentity and other technology businesses.

Ed Bartlett

VP Publisher Relations Europe and Co-Founder, IGA Worldwide, Inc.

Ed Bartlett, Vice President Publisher Relations Europe and Co-Founder of IGA Worldwide is one of a new generation of multi-discipline industry visionaries, combining 14 years of videogame sector knowledge and experience with astute business acumen and proven advertising and media expertise.

Having fulfilled senior creative and production roles on key game releases for publishers including Sega, Virgin Interactive, BMG Interactive, Acclaim and Hasbro Interactive, Bartlett went on to found dedicated in-game advertising agency Hive Partners ahead of the curve in 2003, with clients such as Red Bull.

In 2005 Bartlett negotiated the acquisition of Hive Partners by IGA Worldwide before helping to raise its $17 million Series A VC round. He has since been responsible for building the foundations of its industry-leading proprietary Radial Network, securing landmark global deals with the likes of Electronic Arts, Valve, Atari and Codemasters.

Lorenz Bogaert

CEO, Netlog

Lorenz Bogaert studied Law at the University of Brussels and Law and Management in ICT at the University of Namur.

During his studies he was contributing editor for a variety of internet magazines. As a student he also colaunched Redbox.be, the market leading social network for young Belgians.

After a couple of years as a freelance marketing consultant for telecom and energy companies (British Telecom, Electrabel, Telenet, Mobistar, Coditel), he co-founded Incrowd with Toon Coppens and started roll-out of Redbox throughout Europe.

In September 2006, Incrowd launched Facebox, now known as Netlog, which has acquired over 15 Million members in six months. Netlog.com is now an Alexa(tm) global top-100 site and is Europe's leading social portal.

Russell Buckley

Managing Director, Europe, AdMob

Russell is one of the leading experts on mobile marketing in the world, having overseen nearly 2,000 campaigns since 2000. Russell is the co-author of MobHappy, one of the most popular mobile marketing and mobile technology blogs on the web. Before joining AdMob, Russell spent over 15 years working in marketing, including advising leading brands such as Coca-Cola, Diageo, Texaco and Mars. In 2000, he was recruited to be Director of Marketing of UK-based mobile marketing start up, ZagMe, one of the leading pioneers in mobile advertising. Russell learned about AdMob soon after the launch and immediately saw the potential. He gave up his consulting practice to join Omar and launch AdMob in the European market.

Alex Cameron

Entertainment Consultant, Digital TX

Alexander Cameron provides specialist technical, operational and commercial expertise to network operators and content rightsholders across the world to help them make the most of the opportunities generated by IPTV and 'triple play'.

He is a charismatic speaker, irreverent evangelist and technologiical visionary who also writes regularly for both the mainstream and trade press.
Major well-known blue chip household brands like BT, MTV, BBC, Cellcast, Easynet, Video Island, UK Online and Cable & Wireless have benefited from Alex's advice.

Chris Coffman

Senior Analyst, Library House

Chris leads Library House’s analysis in the Mediatech sector. Prior to joining Library House in July 2007, Chris was senior analyst with Informa Telecoms & Media in London. He is the author of several reports on mobile data services; has been a frequent speaker and panelist at mobile industry events; and has been quoted in The Guardian, Reuters, BBC Online, and the Wall Street Journal Europe, among others.

Previously, Chris spent four years in the Silicon Valley and in London as an analyst for BlueRun Ventures (formerly Nokia Venture Partners), an early-stage venture capital firm established by Nokia. He has also held positions with two Silicon Valley startups: FVC.COM, an IP-based videoconferencing provider now owned by Radvision; and Epinions, a consumer-reviews website acquired by eBay.

Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Dartmouth College.

Jamie Conyngham

CEO, Telcogames

Since being appointed CEO in July 2004, Jamie has grown Telcogames into arguably the largest global mobile games aggregator.

Prior to his role with Telcogames Jamie was Vice President of Business Development for Terra Mobile. Prior to Terra Mobile, Jamie was Director of Business Development for iOBOX, a Finnish startup which was sold to Telefonica for €160m in 2002.

Jamie has been involved in the mobile games business since its creation and is one of the most senior participants in the sector. He was responsible for some of the major deals in developing the sector, namely the Midway deal for titles including Defender, Marble Madness, Paper Boy, Robotron, and Rampage.

Prior to joining the mobile sector Jamie worked for a number of high profile investment banks, dealing with 3rd party suppliers of dealing room systems (such as Reuters, Telerate and Bloomberg). The banks included Westpac, Reserve Bank of Australia, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Invesco London and AMP.

Jamie has a Law Degree and is an Associate of the Securities Institute of Australia.

Alain-Gabriel Courtines

Investment Director, Intel Capital

Alain-Gabriel Courtines is a 13 year veteran of Venture Capital and Investment Banking, focusing on technology, consumer electronics and emerging growth companies. A native New Yorker with both European and US experience, he has been based in London for the past five years, where he has led investments for Intel Capital across Europe in support of Intel Corporation’s Strategies. In addition, he leads Intel’s Digital Home & Digital Enterprise investment initiative throughout EMEA.

Courtines joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to Intel Capital, he was a Vice President in the Corporate Finance Group of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. Inc., a New York based investment bank focused on emerging growth and middle market companies. There he completed numerous equity and debt financings and also provided advisory services on several public and private M&A transactions. Prior to that he was an Associate in the Corporate Banking group of NatWest Markets, the investment banking arm of National Westminster Bank, plc.

Courtines holds an MBA from Columbia University with High Distinction and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Georgetown University. He is a dual citizen of France and the US.

Colin Donald

Co-founder, Futurescape

Colin Donald is a co-founder of social media marketing specialist Futurescape. The company publishes reports on best practice for marketing via sites such as YouTube and Facebook and produces social media marketing campaigns.

He started the New Media department at Flextech Television (now Virgin Media) in 1995, launching a series of award-winning websites to market Flextech channels such as Bravo and Trouble.

He was previously at the authoritative business newsletter Financial Times: New Media Markets, on the editorial board of media consultancy Informed Sources, analysing the Internet and television industries, and has written on new media for publications including The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and Broadcast magazine, with his ActiveTV column.

He continues his new media analysis on Futurescape's Internet Futures blog and is a regular conference speaker, most recently at Broadband and Triple Play and Video on the Net, both in Rome. He has degrees from Exeter University and the College of William and Mary.

Lee Henshaw

Founder, Silence Advertising

Lee Henshaw is the founder of the online advertising agency Silence.

Silence designs advertising campaigns for the internet and the mobile phone,and buys, sell and evaluates digital media. It also offers guerrilla advertising.

Lee is often credited as the founding father of online PR. In 1996 he started the online entertainment PR company Way to Blue, which now employs over 40 people across London, Paris and Rome.

Previously a journalist writing about media and technology for the broadsheet press, he is also the author of an Oasis biography.

His debut novel, Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room, will be published in February.

Reid Hoffman

Chairman and President, Products, LinkedIn

Reid was LinkedIn’s founding CEO for the first four years before moving to his role as Chairman and President, Products in February 2007. While CEO, Reid built the company to over 9 million members and profitability. He now drives product and business strategy for LinkedIn.

Prior to LinkedIn, Reid was Executive Vice President of PayPal. At PayPal, Reid was in charge of all business relationships: business development, corporate development, international, government relations, and banking/payments infrastructure. During his tenure at PayPal, Hoffman was instrumental to the acquisition by eBay and was responsible for partnerships with Intuit, Visa, MasterCard and Wells Fargo. Reid also has held management roles in large technology companies, including Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Currently, in addition to LinkedIn, Reid serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart and Mozilla Corporation. Reid graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. in Symbolic Systems and from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in philosophy.

Joshua Hong

Co-founder and CEO, K2 Network

Joshua Hong co-founded K2 Network in 2001. Prior to establishment of the company, he was vice president of strategic planning and growth at Kali, developer of one of the first network-based multiplayer game systems. In 2004, Mr. Hong co-founded Item*Star, China's leading digital game item trading platform, and serves as its CFO, and co-founded Game Networks in the United States, the game industry's first cross-industry conference for broadband ISPs, content aggregators, service providers and game developers.

Prior to becoming an entrepreneur in the online game industry, Mr. Hong was a management consultant at Accenture. He holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in finance, accounting and international business from the University Of Chicago Graduate School Of Business.

Mark Iremonger

Head of Digital, Proximity London

Proximity London is an integrated creative agency that produces advertising and marketing communications across many media for clients such as Royal Mail, Allianz, Volkswagen, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Proctor & Gamble and RNLI. Proximity aims to change people's behaviour through communications based on actionable human insights. Last year Proximity London was ranked 5 in the UK by New Media Age for digital marketing services, and has received 7 major effectiveness awards in the past 18 months including IPA and NMA.

Before joining Proximity, Mark spent four years as MD of award winning digital creative agency unit9. Prior to this he ran the cross platform production company, Sleeper, a joint venture between digital agency Deepend London and TV ad production company Blink, where he advocated an integrated approach to advertising and marketing that played to the strengths of digital media. Mark grew up in Dublin and graduated from Dublin City University with a BA (Hons) in Communications Studies.

Mark is a member of the British Council's Creative Industry's Unit Advisory Panel to help promote UK creative services abroad. He has also served as Vice Chair of the British Interactive Media Association (BIMA).

During his career he has worked on projects that have received awards and nominations that include Design Week, D&AD, The One Show, Creative Circle, LIAA, IVCA, Cannes Cyber Lions, NMA Effectiveness & Revolution Awards.

Sugih Jamin

Co-founder, Chairman & CTO, Zattoo

Sugih is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, and possesses more than 16 years experience in Internet measurement, protocol, and infrastructure design and deployment. He has supervised five PhD dissertations in these areas.

Previously, Sugih served as a visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo as well as at the University of Cambridge. He has also worked at the Xerox PARC. He has earned numerous awards including the Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, and the White House Presidential Award.

Gunnar Larsén

Product Marketing Director, Mobile Entertainment EMEA , RealNetworks

Gunnar has been active in the mobile entertainment industry since 1998, and is currently serving as the Product Marketing Director for RealNetworks’ European mobile entertainment efforts with responsibility for defining and developing Real’s product vision and exciting the marketplace about the opportunities. Gunnar has also served as the Director Mobile Games for Real where he was responsible for driving the RealArcade business in EMEA.

Previous to joining RealNetworks, Gunnar was the Head of Marketing at Mobile Innovation, a user experience consultancy now part of Adobe. Prior to that he spent 5 years as Head of Product Management at Purple Software, a pioneer in the mobile casual games industry which produced the first ever BAFTA winner for mobile games in 2002.

Gunnar has spoken at key industry events such as 3GSM, E3, GDC Mobile, MEM, Casuality, Mobile Games Analyst Summit, Mobile Games Forum, Games and Mobile, and Symbian’s The Smartphone Show. Gunnar is a native of Sweden with a degree in Political Science from Lund University. His current favourite mobile game is Playman Extreme Running (and musically he really likes Midlake’s “The Trials of Van Occupanther”)!

Cosmo Lush

Head of Product Management, 4oD, Channel 4

Cosmo Lush is Head of Product Management, Video on Demand at Channel 4, in which capacity he is responsible for the day-to-day management and the broader commercial strategy of Channel 4’s VOD service 4oD.

Channel 4 launched 4oD in December 2006 making it the first UK broadcaster to make all its home-grown programming available on demand. The service offers a combination of free and pay-per-view content enabling registered users to catch up on the majority of the last 30-days of Channel 4’s schedule free of charge, as well as to access several thousand hours of Channel 4’s iconic programing from the last 25 years. 4oD is available via the Channel 4 website as well as on digital TV platforms Virgin Media, BT Vision and Tiscali TV.

Prior to joining Channel 4 in December 2006 Cosmo was Head of Marketing Strategy at VOD pioneer Homechoice, now Tiscali TV, where he was responsible for developing and marketing the triple play proposition in a hugely competitive market. Before Homechoice Cosmo spent several years in commercial and marketing roles at mobile carriers 3 UK and Orange, focused on the launch of 3G services.

Jonathan MacDonald

UK Sales, Blyk

Jonathan is building the sales team and strategy for Blyk in the UK. Prior to this, he has been involved in numerous media start ups and has consulted various SME and Blue-Chip companies for over 10 years. Formerly the Commercial Director of Ministry of Sound, CEO of Musicians Channel and Chairman of the Music Industries Association Retail Committee, Jonathan is also a respected author of best-practice business books and monthly articles in leading industry magazines.

Emily Melton

Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Emily Melton is a Director at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where her primary areas of interest include software, technology-enabled services and consumer-oriented technologies. Emily initially joined DFJ in 2000, and rejoined the firm in 2005 after earning an MBA at Stanford University. While pursuing her MBA, Emily worked for the CEO of InSpa, an early stage consumer retail company in Seattle, where she was actively involved in developing the company’s new market rollout strategy. During her tenure at the firm, Emily has worked closely with the teams and boards of a number of portfolio companies, including Mailfrontier (acquired by SonicWall), Meebo, TrustedID Ripple Networks and Wavemarket. She currently serves on the boards of MyShape, NearbyNow, ProQuo, Redfin, and Tagworld. Emily holds a BA with honors and distinction in Political Philosophy, and an MBA, both from Stanford University.

Neil Miller

Managing Director, Avenue A | Razorfish UK

Neil founded Avenue A | Razorfish UK in 1996 which has grown from 2 people to being the 3rd biggest digital marketing specialist in the UK with a reputation for creativity, effectiveness and technology.

Since its inception he has worked with a number of famous brands and businesses across a wide range of platforms including the Internet, Mobile and IDTV. He has helped a number of these companies to transform their business models, having a profound affect on their revenues.

Career highlights include the development of the Mortgage trading platform for Standard Life and the recent launch of the new global Samsonite e-commerce platform, rolling out in 8 languages in 45 countries. In the not-for-profit sector, highlights include implementing the hugely successful idea of ‘social commerce’, notably for Oxfam. Projects have included the development and launch of the multiple award winning Oxfam Unwrapped sites and most recently the creation of an ecommerce platform that retails donated goods from Oxfam’s 750 UK outlets via one, centralised online shopping experience.

Ashley Norris

CEO & Co-founder, Shiny Media

Ashley Norris is the CEO and joint-founder of Shiny Media, the UK's largest and most commercially successful blog network. It now boasts 40 blogs which attract 3.7 million unique readers each month. Ashley launched Shiny's first blog, Techdigest.tv back in 2003. It was the first commercial blog launched in the UK. Prior to launching Techdigest Ashley was a freelance journalist mainly writing for The Guardian newspaper. He still writes occasionally about consumer electronics for that title. Ashley has been a key driver in both the editorial and commercial success of Shiny. He was instrumental in helping to secure funding for Shiny from BrightStation Ventures in March 2007. He lives with Deborah and his two children, Astrid and Lola in Stoke Newington, north London.

Antti Öhrling

Co-founder, Blyk

Antti has over 25 years experience as a senior manager in the branded goods, retail and wholesale, publishing, film and advertising industries.

In 1991 Antti was appointed Managing Director of Film and TV production at WSOY, one of the leading publishers in Finland. He has since gone on to produce a number of award-winning documentaries, corporate and marketing films which have won plaudits in the USA, France, Finland and Germany.

Antti is now the co-founder and chairman of Contra Advertising, which operates in London, Helsinki, San Francisco, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. He is also a chairman or board member for more than 10 companies; a well-versed speaker, Antti is a regular at lectures on global marketing and brand issues for international audiences.

Ashish Patel

Managing Director Europe, Israel & the Middle East, Intel Capital

Ashish Patel is Intel Capital’s Managing Director for Europe, Israel, and the Middle East. He is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Mr. Patel has been investing in young business for best part of a decade and has been with Intel for over seven years during which he has invested in over 25 technology start-ups including Suse, NetCentrix, and Multimania. He is currently Intel’s non-executive director of Pipex Wireless and is Intel’s board observer on ip.access, ruNet, and AVG.

Prior to Intel, Mr. Patel was an Investment Director with Actis, a leading Global PE investor in emerging markets focused on IT and Communications. He qualified as an ACA with Coppers & Lybrand where he was engaged with corporate finance advisory activity mainly with large cap international businesses. Mr. Patel graduated in Economics from London School of Economics in London.

Doug Richard

Chairman, Library House

Having appeared in the second series of Dragons' Den, Doug is the founder and Chairman of Library House, Founder and Vice-Chairman of the Cambridge Angels, Co-Founder and Chairman of Hotxt and Chairman of the Conservative Party Small Business Task Force.

Doug is a successful entrepreneur with 20 years' experience in the development and leadership of technology and software ventures, both in the US and in the UK. Between 1996 and 2000 he was President and CEO of Micrografx, a US publicly quoted software company which he sold to Corel Corp. in 2000. Prior to that he also founded and subsequently sold two other companies: Visual Software and ITAL Computers. Doug holds a BA in Psychology from University of California at Berkeley and a Juris Doctor at the school of Law, University of California at Los Angeles. In 2006 Doug was an Honorary Recipient of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.

Katarina Skoberne

Co-founder, OpenAd

Katarina Skoberne launched successful ad agency the Vision Factory in Ljublijana, Slovenia in 1993. There, she ran the Fiat/Alfa Romeo account and the Seita-owned Gauloises and Gitanes brands.

In 1996, she left to create her own primetime TV show on advertising for the public broadcaster, TV Slovenia. Called Cik-Cak, it made her a household name for seven years and saw her interviewing many of the world’s top ad people, including filmmaker Wim Wenders, actor and director Dennis Hopper, Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, and numerous advertising people.

She left in 2003 intending to have a well-earned year off. But instead, she agreed to a three-month project to help set up OpenAd.net in London, Australia, Switzerland, Latin America and the US. And four years later, she is still there. At OpenAd.net, Katarina is enacting real change in the world of advertising by leading the world’s first company to sell advertising ideas online. The service offers marketers large and small access to what amounts to the biggest creative department in the world, with an online community of over 9000 creatives in 122 countries.

Marcus Stuart

EVP of Corporate Development, GM Eros New Media

Marcus leads corporate development and new media for the leading Indian Media & Entertainment company Eros International. Since joining Eros Marcus has led Eros’ efforts in joint ventures, global film slates, new media and Hollywood co-productions. Marcus brings a wealth of new media, B2B, investment banking and management consulting industry experience to Eros as it seeks to maintain it’s position as the leading Indian Media & Entertainment company globally.

Prior to Eros, Marcus founded Saffron Media, a South-Asian focused media and entertainment fund. Prior to Saffron, Marcus served as SVP of Marketing & Subscriber Acquisition for JumpTV.com, Managing Director of HarrisonGray’s Media & Entertainment practice. Prior to working in media and entertainment Marcus worked in investment banking and management consulting industries with Arthur Andersen, Goldman Sachs and Mercer where he served a diverse array of multinational clients.

Marcus has been interviewed and featured in articles for Crain’s NY, Forbes, CNBC, Consultants News, Atlanta Constitution, India’s DNA and WSJ. Marcus currently serves as an advisor to several leading companies including Intercontinental Hotels Group, Ameranth / QOS Gaming, YouAre Media, Duel Networks and The Glass House. Marcus attended Boston College and the University of Georgia where he obtained degrees in Computer Science.

Craig Sullivan

Digital & Usability Product Manager, LOVEFiLM International

Craig Sullivan is responsible for the fast-growing LOVEFiLM Video-on-Demand (VoD) service, launched in 2005 and now carrying over 4,000 hours of feature length film content from the major studios. LOVEFiLM was the first service in the UK to offer a 'Download to Own' service in early 2005, followed by the worlds first feature length titles that were entirely funded by advertising.

He also looks after the usability brief and customer experience for the LOVEFiLM brand, conducting research in order to gain insights into consumer behaviour, usability and product development.

Prior to the merger with LOVEFiLM in 2006, Craig was working as the Product Manager for Video Island. His background, which includes companies like Ocado, John Lewis, Waitrose and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, is in the application of user centred design techniques and detailed research to online product development.

Chris Whalen

Vice President, Progress Partners

Chris Whalen has been involved in internet/new media focused businesses for over 17 years. He has been a key founding member in enterprise software, strategy, and new media technology companies in Boston, San Francisco, Oslo, and Montreal including CatalystOne, Continuum Software, and Links2Go, Inc. At Progress Partners Chris focuses on client strategy, business development and private placement transactions.

Prior to Progress Partners, Chris was Managing Director of BCW Capital Partners, a boutique advisory firm he co-founded. BCW focused on strategy consulting and advisory services for emerging companies as well as monetizing intellectual property assets for Fortune 50 companies, such as NEC.

Chris has spent his entire career in start-up and entrepreneurial ventures in various executive capacities, raising capital, corporate growth and executing merger and acquisition activity. He is a graduate of Assumption College and has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Olin School of Management, Babson College.

Nicholas Wheeler

Managing Director, ITN On

Nicholas Wheeler is Managing Director of ITN On, ITN’s business that specialises in packaging content specifically for mobile and broadband platforms, and for developing ITN’s interests in this area.

During the past four years Wheeler has overseen the transformation of ITN On into the market leader for the delivery of video news and entertainment on 3G phones and broadband.

He has successfully built business relationships with most of the major phone networks - Vodafone, 3, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, BT Movio on Virgin Mobile and television operators ITV News and Channel 4 News and in 2005, was first to launch a made-for-mobile news channel.

Wheeler is responsible for creating content on an increasing range of platforms for ITN’s new media clients, including Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, MSN, Telegraph Group and Blinkx. He also provides news to 278 commercial radio stations across the UK on the IRN network.

Simon Wheeler

Director of Digital, Beggars Group

Previously a musician, remixer, engineer, producer and promoter, Simon has been with The Beggars Group since 1990. Starting work with online distribution in 1997 licensing the catalogue for individual download with Liquid Audio and Amplified.com and delivering the first territorially restricted download in 1998. Since then Simon has worked with almost every significant entity in digital media, and many who are best forgotten!

Simon is chairman of AIM's New Media Committee in the UK, has testified at the USA's CRB webcasting proceedings, made statements to the UK parliament on DRM and has spoken at most music conferences around the world on digital music and media, but the most important role is keeping the Beggars Group of labels at the forefront of all new technologies to deliver its award-winning roster of artists to the widest possible audience.

The Beggars Group consists of the innovative and groundbreaking labels, XL Recordings, Beggars Banquet, Matador, 4AD, Rough Trade, Too Pure and Playlouderecordings.

Dan Whiley

Commercial Vice President, Digital Media, MTV Networks International

Dan Whiley joined MTV Networks International (MTVNI) in 2005 as Commercial Vice President, Digital Media, to lead the company's commercial activities in the digital media space. In this role, Whiley is responsible for developing initiatives and partnerships that strengthen MTVNI’s global presence as a multi-platform entertainment group spanning all technologies from broadcast TV to broadband, PC and mobile handsets.

MTV Networks International includes MTV: Music Television, Nickelodeon, VH1, TMF: The Music Factory, Comedy Central and Game One, which collectively provide the largest global network of localized TV channels and websites targeting kid, youth and adult audiences.

Prior to joining MTVNI, Whiley was responsible for new media business development at Universal Music International. During his 5 years at UMI, he successfully introduced ringtones to the record labels in Europe, oversaw the licensing of online digital download services and developed the business policies for both video and audio online exploitation.

Before joining Universal Music International, Whiley spent 4 years with strategy consultants LEK Consulting, based in London and Los Angeles. During this time, he advised on many major entertainment and technology brands such as Disney and AOL Time Warner as well as undertaking a wide range of M&A work.