10 TVBEurope
People on the move By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
New COO for BBC Studios and Post Production
DAVID CONWAY has been appointed Chief Operating Officer for BBC Studios and Post Production. He will be responsible for leading and managing business support functions including finance, HR, business systems and procurement and report into the CEO. Conway has been a non-executive member of the BBC Studios and Post Production board since summer 2011 and is currently head of Investment and Major Projects within BBC Corporate Finance. He previously held a senior role with Bacardi- Martini in their corporate development team.
RAGHU RAUhas been appointed permanent CEO of SeaChange International. First appointed interim CEO of SeaChange last November, Rau has led an aggressive strategy to focus the company on its core software business while significantly reducing the overall cost structure of the company. He will also retain his seat on the company’s board of directors. “In a matter of just a few months, Raghu has dramatically improved SeaChange’s overall operations and its ability to serve global markets, to the immediate benefit of our customers as well as our
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shareholders and employees,” said Thomas Olson, chairman of the board, SeaChange.
“In a matter of just a few months, Raghu has dramatically improved SeaChange’s overall operations and its ability to serve global markets” Thomas Olson, chairman of the board, SeaChange
Mitchell is the new head of Imaging and Archive Services.
Arnaud de Lagabbe Grass Valley
Devin Workman Scrub
Dominique Giral TV One
Telestream announced the forming of Telestream GmbH, a fully-owned subsidiary of Telestream, Inc on 11 April to support long-term business growth in Europe. The expanded operations provide European-based technical support services, managed by Michael Wambach, for Telestream’s enterprise-class video capture, transcoding, workflow automation and management products. Wambach and his team of engineers come to Telestream from Cross Atlantic Medien, which has served as Telestream’s European- based technical support services organisation since 2003. Dominique Giral has been appointed sales manager for the territory of France and will oversee the sales of TV One products into this area. Giral will be based in Paris and be responsible for maintaining and developing new business within the French market.
Lisa Jordan LipSync Post
Alpermann + Velte has hired Gilbert Viegas as the new sales manager at its branch office in London. Viegas previously served as the sales manager for South America and the UK at Eyeheight.
dB Broadcast has added further expertise to its in-house engineering team with the arrival of Dave Allister. He joined dB early in 2012 and has been working on a London-based project, where he is responsible for migrating a number of playout channels.
Grass Valley has appointed two new members of staff:Hassan Ghoul as managing director and sales manager for operations in the Middle East and Arnaud de Lagabbe in a new role as
Jamal Bnari Visual Unity
sales manager for southern Europe. Joining the European Solutions Team, de Lagabbe brings experience in consulting, IT and media and has previously worked for Avid. Paul Shorter has taken up the role of technical services manager for Harman’s Soundcraft, Studer and AKG brands. A 22-year veteran of the pro audio industry, he joined Harman in 2009 as field applications engineer. LipSync Post has promoted two key staff members. Lisa Jordantakes the role of facility director while James Clarkebecomes head of DI. Jordan joined LipSync 10 years ago, most recently running the bookings department. Miranda Technologies has appointedMark Nelsen as market
segment manager, Production; and Boromy Ung as market segment manager, Playout.
Polar Audio has announced the appointment of Thomas Walshin the role of Business Development manager for the consumer division. Mark Smith has joined
ScheduALL as the managing director for EMEA. Smith’s experience spans more than 30 years across global broadcast, telecom and transmission services.
Scrub, HHB Communications’ Soho based post production office, has bolstered its sales team with the addition of former Avid Product Specialist Devin Workman. With an audio engineering background,
Carles Rams VSN
he also has knowledge of the EUCON workflow and Euphonix control surfaces. Mark Davidson has joined Solid State Logic in the newly-created role of Global Systems and Solutions Business development manager. Based in Munich, Davidson will be responsible for the SSL global strategic business development strategies.
Technicolor has hired new talent into its UK operations with the appointment of Greg Barrett and Mitch Mitchell to two key roles, based in Soho and Pinewood. Barrett has been appointed director for Film and Post Production Services at Technicolor Creative Services UK.
Visual Unity has consolidated its position in the Middle East and Asia by appointing Jamal Bnari to the position of head of Sales and Marketing for both regions. He has extensive experience in new media technology strategy, innovation and product development and will be based at Visual Unity’s office in Media City, Dubai. He joins Visual Unity from the Etisalat Group. VSN has hired Carles Rams as Technology & Professional Services director. Rams joins the IT company from Spanish national TV La Sexta, where he was technical and exploitation manager in Barcelona. At VSN he will lead the project department while coordinating consulting tasks for the implementation of new VSN applications platform Spider.
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