10 TVBEurope


People on the move By Jake Young


WRN Broadcast appoints Dave Travis as new CTO


SERVICES COMPANYWRN Broadcast has chosen Dave Travis as CTO. He was formally head of Operations & Technology Services. Travis commented: “WRN Broadcast has an immensely strong offering across TV, Radio, IP and Broadcast Support and it’s been great playing a part in developing those areas. My appointment as CTO will be a challenging and rewarding role which will allow me to help drive the company forward with the rest of the executive management team.” Travis was director of Engineering at TSI Broadcast before WRN Broadcast acquired it in 2009. Prior to that he had worked at Viacom, including MTV Networks and was part of the team responsible for building Showtime, Arabia’s multi-channel playout facility in Dubai Media City.


Dave Travis, WRN Broadcast


STEFFAN HEWITT has stepped down as Managing Director of Polecam to concentrate on product development and sales. To enable Polecam to expand its operations both in Europe and around the globe a shareholding has been taken by ex Olympus Managing Director and President Graeme Chapman. Chapman takes over the role and has immediately formed a board comprising of himself, Hewitt and Jonathan Lewis of Reid & Co as Financial Director.


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Graeme Chapman, Polecam


“Polecam is a unique company with fantastic products. Steffan Hewitt, the current owner has ambitious plans for the company and my joining will enable those plans to be realised”


Graeme Chapman


RTBF (Belgium), and Claudio Cappon, RAI (Italy), who were re-elected at the Summer General Assembly in Strasbourg to the posts of president and vice-president respectively for 2013–2014.


Jeff Meyer Atlona


Simon Freer Chellomedia


Ron Huisman Chellomedia


Ricky Crafford Deluxe Media Technologies


Services provider Encompass Digital Media has appointed Brett Belinsky as MD of Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Belinsky will identify commercial growth opportunities in adjacent markets further expanding the company’s client base in EMEA. He will be based in London, where he will also oversee all existing facility operations. NETIA has promoted Francis


Freihuberto VP of the NETIA Management Board. Freihuber has been with NETIA for the past five years, serving as the company’s operations director, and his new role builds on his experience developing and refining NETIA client support services. Dewaine McClellan has joined US-based pro audio and video signal distribution company PESA as international sales manager. He is responsible for sales of all PESA product lines to territories outside the US and Canada.


Brett Belinsky Encompass Digital Media


Atlona, a digital connectivity solutions provider, has appointed Jeff Meyer as the company’s director of business development for the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. In his new role, Meyer is responsible for Atlona’s sales in these territories.


BHV Broadcast, the UK-based manufacturer and supplier of vision mixers, standards/format converters and the Video Ghost phantom power system, has added Harriet Diener of Desert Moon Communications, and Martin Cook, an independent broadcast consultant, to its board with immediate effect.


Dewaine McClellan PESA


Simon Freer has joined Chellomedia as chief commercial officer. In addition to overseeing revenue growth in the existing portfolio of 66 channels, Freer will lead Chellomedia’s Corporate Development team and will be responsible for developing the business through partnerships and M&A. Chellomedia will also be bolstered by the appointment of Ron Huisman as CFO, a post he will take up during Q1 2013. In the operating businesses, Mike Moriarty expands his scope of responsibility, taking on the


Aurelien Goujet Quantum


roles of MD Chello Benelux and MD, Chellomedia Investments in addition to his current role as MD of Chellomedia, Central Europe.


Deluxe Media Technologies (DMT) has appointed Ricky Craffordas CTO responsible for the technical strategy, architecture and delivery of the company’s metadata software currently under development. Joe Trainor, MD of DMT, said, “We are developing software which will revolutionise how broadcasters capture and manage their content. Ricky’s extensive experience in the industry and track


Dominic Harter Harman’s Soundcraft


record for delivering technology innovation will be instrumental in our success as a business.”


The EBU General Assembly has elected nine members to the Executive Board for a two-year mandate. The nine members for the 2013-14 term are Cilla Benkö, SR; Petr Fedorov, RTR; Rachid Faïçal Laraïchi, SNRT; Roger Mosey, BBC; Remy Pflimlin, FT; Andrzej Siezieniewski, PR; Themis Themistocleous, CyBC; Ulrich Wilhelm, ARD and Alexander Wrabetz, ORF. The board will continue to be led by Jean-Paul Philippot,


Quantum has appointed Aurélien


Goujet to director of Pre-Sales EMEA — Big Data, and Laurent Fanichet to Product Marketing manager Big Data EMEA and APAC. Goujet and Fanichet will be key drivers for accelerating the market footprint of StorNext Solutions. Dominic Harter has rejoined Harman to head up Soundcraft’s global sales operation, following the promotion of Adrian Curtisto VP Sales of the Harman Professional EMEA sales team. Harter originally joined Harman in 1998, primarily to manage the systems supply of the vast quantity of Harman equipment to the Millennium Dome project.


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