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People on the move By Melanie Dayasena-Lowe
TVBEuropewelcomes new team members
INTENT MEDIA title TVBEurope welcomes two additions to its editorial and sales teams. Neal Romanek has joined as acting editor to cover for Melanie Dayasena-Lowe who is on maternity leave. He reports to editorial director Fergal Ringrose and works alongside staff writer Holly Ashford. Romanek has worked in the film and television industry for 20 years. As a journalist, he has been a
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regular contributor to industry publications including TVBEurope, Broadcast and Screen International. As a member of the IBC Conference executive committee, Romanek produces conference sessions for IBC’s Content and Innovation Stream and for the past two years has worked on its sports-related sessions. A new addition to the team is Richard Carr who joins as
sales executive, reporting to sales manager Ben Ewles. He has previous experience in production and worked as a camera assistant in the past for Channel 4. As well as working in event management, Carr’s most recent media sales role was for The Cavendish Group working within the energy sector with companies looking to break into emerging markets (within the BRIC regions).
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he will direct ERA’s creative solutions. Fowler has worked with MPC, Rainmaker, Vanguard Animation and The Jim Henson Company. LipSync Post has recruited VFX
Emma Riley dock10
Mohamed Makki Ibrahim MGI
Tim Claman Quantel
Simon Littler Rimeline Television
DALET DIGITAL Media Systems has appointed Massimo Berardito the newly created post of general manager, Dalet-Italy. Berardi, a broadcast industry veteran and a founder of the Italian company Gruppo TNT, joined Dalet in 2010 with the acquisition of TNT.
Craig Newbury Wohler Technologies
dock10, the MediaCityUK-based media services provider, has hired Emma Riley as head of Business Development as the facility continues to expand. She joins from Sunset & Vine where she held the position of head of Production Technology and
Andrew Davies WRN Broadcast
brings 10 years of production experience at companies such as Mentorn, ITV, BBC and RDF. David Fowler has taken on the role of business development for ERA’s creative portfolio. Based at the company’s offices in London’s Soho,
supervisor George Zwierand VFX producer Paul Driver to join its visual effects department. Zwier joins LipSync from Double Negative where he has worked on feature film projects including Thor: The Dark World. Meanwhile, Driver joins LipSync Post from Cinesite where he worked on 300: Rise of an Empireand Jack Ryan. Systems integrator Media Group International has strengthened the management team with three appointments. The new recruits include Matthew Perman, who joins the company as business manager, andMohamad Othman and Mohamed Makki Ibrahim, who both join MGI as business development managers. Perman was formerly with Sony Professional where he held various management roles. Othman previously worked for broadcast systems integrator Qvest Media and connectivity supplier Al Mazroui ICAS while Makki Ibrahim joins MGI from INC-Technology. Christopher Thomashas joined PESA as EVP of engineering and CTO and will be responsible for all hardware and software engineering projects as well as developing the technology roadmap.
Tim Clamanis the new CTO at Quantel, bringing experience gained as both a supplier and user of broadcast and post production technology. Most recently, as CTO of Avid, Claman helped shape the company’s technology and product strategy over a period of 14 years. Bill Baker has joined root6 Technology as a junior sales engineer. He joins the product development arm, recently re-sited in a new facility in Soho’s Berwick Street.
Timeline Television has appointed former dock10 employee Simon Littler to head up its operations team at BT Sport’s new production hub. Littler will be responsible for the five-year managed services contract Timeline Television has with BT Sport to run and operate the technical facilities. Craig Newburyhas been promoted by Wohler Technologies to the role of vice president of sales for the company’s RadiantGrid business line. Prior to joining Wohler in 2012 he served in sales and management roles at Axon Digital Design, AmberFin, and Snell & Wilcox (now Snell). WRN Broadcast has hired Andrew
Davies as the company’s head of Sales and Business Development. He joins WRN Broadcast from TSL Middle East, where he was general manager and was instrumental in winning and delivering a number of high profile projects – including the Sky News Arabia project.
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