Enabling Change Smartly Speaker' Biographies Dr Javad Mottaghi
Secretary-General, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
Dr Javad Mottaghi is the Secretary-General of the ABU. Before joining the ABU, he was
Director of the AIBD for 12 years. He has 35 years of national and international broadcasting experience in news and programming. Dr Mottaghi holds a PhD Degree from the University of Teesside in England, a Master Degree in Management and Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Sharif University of Technology.
Dr Mottaghi was awarded Elizabeth R Award for Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting. He is a member of the board for the World Radio & Television Council, Associate member of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in New York and a member of The International Academy of Television and Radio in Russia.
Dr Mottaghi also received a Life Time Award in 2010 for his 12 years of achievement in AIBD. He was the Director of Radio and TV Sports Department of IRIB for 18 years. His other positions were Director International Relations, TV Social Department, News Department as well as Advisor to the President of IRIB on Sports Coverage.
Dr Mottaghi was Adviser to the Minister of Culture and Tourism, the Executive Commissioner, Qeshm Free Zone and Vice Minister of Iran for Sports and Federations from 1989-1992.
Martyn J. Horspool
Product Manager - TV Transmission, GatesAir
Martyn Horspool is currently Product Manager for Television Transmission at Harris Broadcast in Mason, Ohio. Mr. Horspool has been in the
broadcast industry for 41 years, starting with the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the United Kingdom in 1974 as a transmitter engineer. Moving to Harris Broadcast in 1980 started a long career path, leading to his current role, including positions in Program Management, Antenna Engineering,
Field Service,
Sales Support, Applications Engineering and Bids & Proposals. Mr. Horspool has participated and presented at all major Broadcast conferences Worldwide and has authored numerous publications and technical papers.
Charles Sevior
Chief Technology Officer (APJ region) Charles Sevior is CTO for Isilon, a part of the Emerging Technology Division of EMC2
. With a
strong background in the media sector, he also provides focus on solutions for Life Sciences,
Healthcare, Video Surveillance, Enterprise and other sectors across the Asia-Pacific-Japan region.
Charles has 30 years of engineering experience. Prior to joining EMC he was providing media technology consulting services, and before that was head of Engineering and IT for leading commercial television broadcaster Nine Network Australia.
There, he oversaw
the business and technology transformation required to adopt a fully digital file-based workflow across News and Presentation, including construction of state of the art broadcast facilities. He has enjoyed hands-on experience at major live broadcast events such as the Australian Grand Prix and Olympics, and was also involved in the first terrestrial free-to-air broadcast of a live 3D sporting in May 2010. He also served as Chair of the Free TV Australia Engineering Committee during the period of government negotiation and development of the analogue TV switch-off / digital frequency restacking process that is now completed in Australia.
Charles has also held positions of Director of Global Television, the leading Australian outside broadcast and studio facilities provider, and Director of TX Australia, the owner and provider of television broadcast transmission facilities in Australia’s major metropolitan markets.
Charles enjoys working with adopters of leading technology
solutions for digital media and associated analytics of massively scalable big data repositories. He prefers an approach favouring collaborative solutions with leading application partner vendors to yield excellent results for EMC’s customers.
Charles Sevior holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) degree from the University of Melbourne, and a Master of Business & Technology (MBT) from the University of NSW / AGSM in Sydney.
a member of the Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers (SMPTE).
Twitter: @CharlesSevior LinkedIn:
http://au.linkedin.com/in/csevior/ Guillaume Boutin
Sales Manager, WorldCast Systems Guillaume Boutin has worked for WorldCast Systems for over 10 years in different areas (Northern Europe, Africa and Middle East, Latin America and Asia). He specializes in
business development within the product areas of audio transport, FM transmission and Radio & TV Monitoring. With many years’ experience in putting together custom projects for broadcasters of all types, Boutin is well regarded amongst his clients for listening to their needs and his ability to tailor a complete turnkey project for small private stations and countrywide networks. He specializes in the areas of RF and content monitoring as well as remote facility management.
He is also
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