Alison Casey
Alison Casey is Head of Global Content for Futuresource. Alison has over 15 years’ research and consulting experience and leads much of Futuresource Consulting’s analysis in the video and music sectors.
Alison joined Futuresource Consulting in 1998 and heads up the Entertainment Content division, working closely with many of the Hollywood studios and major music companies. In addition to reviewing market developments for physical media and assessing supply chain issues, Alison also has a particular focus on electronic delivery of content, including areas such as the roll-out of electronic sell-through and online VoD.
Alison is a regular speaker at international conferences and holds a BSc (Hons) from the University of London, Diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a Member of the Market Research Society.
Andy Evans
Fresh from a Masters degree in 1994, The Pavement’s managing director, Andy Evans began his career in multimedia solutions and Virtual Reality simulations at the BT Research Laboratories, prior to joining London-based post production facility TVI two years later. There he focussed on MPEG applications, including VideoCD and CD-ROM projects in the corporate sector before relaunching the division as a DVD production studio called Stream. Under his guidance, the company authored some of the first pan-European DVDs for clients such as Universal Pictures and MGM.
Andy left Stream in 2000 to form The Pavement (www.thepavement.com) with then partners Kristen O’Sullivan and Lloyd Shaer. The Pavement quickly became known as London’s premier media and motion graphic production company and one of Europe’s most creative DVD facilities, mastering a wide variety of discs for the music, TV, feature film and corporate sectors.
In 2005, the company was approached by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to become part of their beta development of UMD-Video tools and Andy pioneered this new technology at The Pavement, producing some 50 UMD titles.
Going from strength to strength, the team relocated from Shoreditch to Soho in 2008, also launching its popular Blu-ray division, which today continues to enjoy steady growth in the TV, film and music industries.
Recognising the studio’s potential, one of the largest independent film production and post production companies in the US and UK - Goldcrest Group invested in The Pavement at the beginning of 2009, in a bid to develop the company’s much sought-after service offering, including Blu-ray, DVD, online, mobile and production.
And with more than a decade at the cutting edge, Andy has most recently steered The Pavement to increase its already popular mobile content provision with the launch of a new iPhone App development service.
Tom Moran
Tom Moran is the Senior Director of Media and Entertainment Markets for Savvis. Tom Moran joined Savvis Communications Inc. when they acquired the commercial business of Eagan, MN based WAM!NET Inc. in 2003. Having served as Director of the Media and Entertainment division of WAM!NET from 2001 through 2004, Moran was promoted to Senior Director of the Media Services division of Savvis in January 2005. He is responsible for corporate strategy, business development, as well as sales and market development for the WAM!NET Service Portfolio at Savvis (SVVS).
Moran helped lead the successful restructuring of Cybernet Systems Inc. of Minneapolis, MN from hardware sales into professional services and training for its media industry customers, ultimately leading to the acquisition of Cybernet by WAM!NET in 2001. While leading the Media and Entertainment business unit at WAM!NET Moran was responsible for establishing a unique domain expertise that led to the implementation of a number of ground-breaking content management and distribution projects, serving customers such as Universal Music Group, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, EMI and Technicolor, and many other marquee names in the Media Industry.
Moran is the primary architect of business-to-business systems that are now the industry standard practice for production and distribution of media content electronically as opposed to the more costly, risky and time-consuming processes associated with handling physical media. This success led to his appointment to the Executive Governing Board of Directors for the Global Society for Asset Management in 2003 as well as a number of other industry accolades. Tom serves on the Board of Directors for the Content Delivery and Storage Association (CDSA) and the Media and Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) as well as being the chairman of the Digital Supply Chain Committee of MESA.
WAM!NET’s Media and Entertainment business unit was the fastest growing and most profitable division of the Company under Moran’s management. By providing leadership for an industry-wide transformation of the way both packaged goods and on-line media products are produced and distributed, WAM!NET offers solutions that enable media companies to shave weeks off production schedules, get products to market faster and reduce the impact of content piracy.
Prior to entering the technology business, Moran was a successful artist, freelance photographer and media producer. He worked in Minneapolis, New York and London for major magazines, newspapers, film, and music production companies during his seven years as a freelancer. Moran studied Journalism and Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota from 1988 to 1992. He founded the highly regarded international artists collective “Otaku” in London in 1992.
Daniel Doll-Steinberg
Daniel is CEO and Founder of Tribeka Ltd, developer of SoftWide, he revolutionary and world leading solution for the high street retailing of software and entertainment media, such as DVD movie and console games. SoftWide licenses and manufactures in store a full product for customers in on average 2 to 3 minutes, and is set to prove a disruptive influence in the channel.
Tribeka now has agreements with over 200 major software publishers worldwide and is launching spoken word and DVD movie. The company has established and is rolling out SoftWide with tier 1 retailers worldwide including Carrefour, Digital Lifeware/Fuji, GAME, and PC Spezialist in the UK, Europe and Australia and has a pipeline of new partnerships building across Europe, the Middle East and USA.
Tribeka is one of the only UK companies to have been awarded a Wall Street Journal Innovation award and SoftWide is a European Retail Solution of the Year.
In a personal capacity Daniel is involved in UK and European innovation policy and sits on both the European Commission’s Enterprise Policy Group and the UK Government’s BIS EU Strategy Group.
Todd Collart
Todd Collart, SVP New Media, Deluxe Digital Studios. Mr. Collart is responsible for Deluxe’s new media initiatives, including network services (such as BD-Live, Digital Copy, Managed Copy, digital distribution), technology strategy, R&D, and intellectual property development. One of his first initiatives at Deluxe was launching Blu-ray compression and authoring services, shipping over 1000 Blu-ray skus, of which 500 are enabled for BD-Live. Prior to joining Deluxe, Mr. Collart was a SVP at Sonic Solutions responsible for driving corporate and technology strategy across Sonic’s divisions, including the Roxio consumer software division. He joined Sonic via its acquisition of InterActual Technologies in 2004, where he was co-founder, President and CEO. InterActual is best known for inventing what is now called “connected DVD” or “WebDVD” that shipped on over 1500 Hollywood DVDs and used by over 130M consumers worldwide. InterActual’s technology was the predecessor for the advanced interactivity features included in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. In addition to his role as an evangelist, speaker, and developer in the DVD and Blu-ray community for the last 12+ years, Mr. Collart was chosen by insider publications as one of the 21 most influential executives in the DVD industry since DVD’s introduction in December 1995. Prior to co-founding InterActual, Mr. Collart served in marketing and managerial roles with NEC Technologies, Synopsys, and Andersen Consulting. Mr. Collart received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and has 20 issued patents, several of which have been deemed essential to the Blu-ray format.
John P. Quinn
John is EVP WW Operations for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros.
Current responsibilities include sales, field marketing, manufacturing and distribution for game products developed and or distributed by WBIE. John started in this role in December 2006.
Prior to WBIE John was EVP Worldwide Supply Chain Management for Warner Home Video and was responsible for worldwide procurement of manufacturing and distribution services for all home video finished goods, components and mastering services, determining WHV’s supply chain strategy, vendor criteria and selection and internal organizational issues. As Service Management MPO, John’s responsibilities included integration of processes across all service management functions including Pre Production, Supply Chain and Order to Cash. From 2004 to 2007 John was the Business Sponsor for WHV’s implementation of its global ERP and PLM solutions.
John joined Warner Communications in 1977 as Director of Sales for WEA, the sales and distribution division of Warner Music Group. In 1983 he moved to Warner Home Video as Director of Sales. John left WHV from 1986 to 1988 to take a position as Director of Store Operations for a major audio video retailer. In 1988 he rejoined WHV as VP Sales for the US and in 1996 was promoted to SVP Sales. During John’s tenure as head of sales (1988-2001), WHV U.S. revenues grew from $136 million to $2.5 billion. In 2001 John moved to the newly created position of EVP WW Supply Chain, in 2004 he added responsibility for Service Management MPO and in 2007 took on the WBIE responsibilities.
John has been involved in many key initiatives including the transition of the video industry from a rental to a sell through model, the successful launch of DVD, the initiation and global expansion of WHV’s Vendor Managed Inventory function, the development and global expansion of WHV’s Category Management function with several key retail customers including Wal Mart and launching WHV’s China sales and distribution joint venture. John also established a global sales process for all territories and was part of the team which negotiated the sale of WMG’s manufacturing assets with specific responsibility for the long term, multi billion dollar supply agreement with the purchaser.
John attended the University of Houston, received his EMBA from SMU in 1988 and has completed several advanced study sessions at Kellogg Graduate School of Management including Supply Chain Management, Sales Force Effectiveness and Consumer Marketing.
Lesley Johnson
Lesley Johnson is Head of Production at 2 entertain, a role which sees her managing the production of more than 300 DVD titles a year together with challenges of High Definition on Blu-ray and Digital Distribution.
Lesley started out as a print and broadcast journalist. She has since had a wide ranging television management career which has covered most aspects of the industry from facilities and parliamentary broadcasting, to network programme production and commissioning for the multichannel world.
Seth Hallen
Seth Hallen, President, Testronic Laboratories U.S.
Currently President of Testronic Laboratories, Hallen brings nearly two decades of proven success in business development, operations, marketing and executive leadership. Prior to Testronic, he was Vice President of North American Operations at Lightworks, the developer and supplier of high-end editing solutions for film and television.
Hallen’s career began right after he graduated from the University of Maryland in 1990 with a degree in Radio, Television and Film. During the 1990’s he founded three highly successful marketing companies. In 2000, he was recruited by Lightning Media in Hollywood, CA, to handle sales, marketing and business development where he oversaw the development of their Digital Media Services and DVD Authoring divisions.
Two years later, Hallen became the Director of Marketing and Business Development at the commercial production company Big Picture Studios, producing television commercials and representing the company’s roster of directors to ad agencies.
He gained further experience in the prep to post supply chain as Executive Vice President of Standard, a full-service production and editorial facility in Los Angeles.
Hallen’s production expertise was recognized when he won an Emmy Award in 2005 as Producer of TalkShow.TV, which was honored as Best Magazine Format Broadcast. The program was a talk/reality show distributed on cable, the Internet and video-on-demand during the spring of 2005.
Mr. Hallen currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of MESA as well as being a board member of both the Hollywood Post Alliance and the International Digital Media Alliance/DVDA.
Petr Stránský
Petr Stránský, General Manager of BRICKBOX DIGITAL MEDIA is the leading provider of services connected to the processing and subsequent production of optical digital media in Central and Eastern Europe. The company provides a wide spectrum of services covering the entire product lifecycle – from content management and processing to the production of optical media, distribution, repackaging and recycling.
The company primarily works on Central and East European markets with particular emphasis on movie distributors, publishers, game distributors and related branches. The company produces and realizes titles in Blu-ray and DVD format. At the same time, the company is actively involved in the development and introduction of new HD formats.
Jim Cardwell
Jim Cardwell, Entertainment Industry Consultant
Jim Cardwell helmed the world’s largest home video distribution company, Warner Home Video, from 2002 to 2005. A $5.5 billion global operation with 1,700 employees and 25 subsidiaries, WHV’s revenue stream and profitability increased by 10-35% each year and maintained #1 market share in the home entertainment industry during Cardwell’s tenure as president. He created two new divisions (TV on DVD and Special Interest), which contributed $1.5 billion in annual sales in less than 3 years and was instrumental in paving the way for WHV’s strategic positioning in emerging technologies such as Hi-Def DVD, electronic sell-though, portable video, etc.
A master’s degree holder in Economics from the University of Manchester in England, Cardwell’s remarkable career with WB started in 1977 when he joined the studio as an auditor coming from Price Waterhouse Coopers. Before becoming president, Cardwell was responsible for US and Canada for over 15 years, later adding Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to his overseer capacity in 1999. Among his notable contributions: successfully executing WHV’s strategic move from rental to video sell-through business, terminating the use of rack jobbers (middlemen) thus enabling direct-selling to major retailers, then later on installing revenue-sharing plans with rental retailers. Cardwell was instrumental in WHV’s purchase of video distribution rights to the MGM, UA, Cannon, Thorn EMI and other libraries. His tremendous contributions to WHV helped it grow to its present world-leader position.
Now, leveraging on his formidable expertise, Cardwell is an entertainment industry consultant and is expanding his horizon to the content production end of the entertainment industry, with a special focus on strategic financing and new business development for projects. Among his completed ventures are Bienvenue Cannes and Final Season and several other projects are in development.
-
register
-
title sponsor
-
premier sponsors
-
silver sponsor
-
bronze sponsor
-
Event Sponsor
-
media partners
