Jonathan Beardsworth
Jonathan Beardsworth serves as vice president of sales and marketing for Technicolor Home Entertainment Services, Europe. He is responsible for overseeing the company’s capabilities related to replication and distribution of Blu-ray, DVDs and Xbox products. Jonathan also oversees the pan-European supply chain management for content owners, games publishers and software companies.
Prior to joining the company, Jonathan was European managing director of Zoo Digital and held senior management positions at Virgin-EMI Music and with THE, a UK distributor.
Hans Arentsen
Hans Arentsen is Co-founder of the PaperFoam® Company and co-inventor of PaperFoam® Technology: the carbon friendly lightweight packaging for consumer electronics, cosmetics, media and entertainment. Hans has spearheaded the development of the company from the initial idea through the technological development stage with a hands-on style, determination, and a focus on the commercial performance of technology. Over fourteen years of experience in the environmentally sustainable packaging industry, with major packaging projects for consumer electronics at AMD, Motorola and Apple, have helped Hans to recognize the need for further carbon emission reductions. At the same time he managed the setup at manufacturing partners in Northern Europe, South East Asia, China and North Carolina/US. From 2007 onwards he has been dedicated to mainstream applications of PaperFoam packaging, especially in the media and entertainment market. PaperFoam’s ultra low weight and the absence of oil-based ingredients do significantly contribute to the carbon reduction targets of many global players.
Ron Lund
Ron Lund is the CEO and a principal of SilkRoute Global, Inc., a supply chain software solutions provider based in Troy, Michigan. His current efforts are centered around the deployment of SilkRoute’s sophisticated supply chain software infrastructure in support of their “Any Source to Any Shelf” mission. Prior to founding SilkRoute, Mr. Lund spent more than a decade working in the retail home entertainment industry. During this period, he held positions including Senior Vice President of Supply Chain, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Business Development & Corporate Strategy for a leading North American home entertainment category manager.
Graham Lambdon
I joined the Industry in 1978 , with Lightning Distribution , becoming Managing Director in 1990 , when the company was taken over by Telstar Records . In 2001 , I joined EUK to head up EUK Direct , their Internet Retail supply business . In April 2009 I joined the Pilton Group to head up MSE , a wholesale one stop company providing global supply chain solutions for both bricks and mortar and online retailers .
Mark Upton
Mark Upton is Head of Production for Anchor Bay Entertainment and has over 10 years’ experience in the Home Entertainment industry. He is responsible for the production of over 200 DVD releases a year in the UK and a growing number of Blu-ray and Digital releases.
In 2008 Mark oversaw the production of Anchor Bay’s first international DVD/Blu-ray releases and 2009 oversaw the first Theatrical release from Anchor Bay Fims.
Prior to joining Anchor Bay in 2006, Mark has worked for Universal Pictures International in both London and Tokyo and Paramount Home Entertainment.
Gerald Aburrow
With 20 years in the entertainment business working on both the retailer and studio side, in a wide range of business disciplines including Sales, Marketing and Supply Chain. I bring the devils’ advocate to most meetings within the business, and am always willing to challenge internally as well as externally on how we get better at what we do.
Peter Ciriello
Mr. Ciriello has been at Cinram since 2007 where he has had global responsibility for engineering, technology, compliance, Cinram’s green program (CERC), and procurement. Prior to Cinram, from 1997 until 2007, Mr. Ciriello was the President & CEO of Shape Global Technology and Carthuplas, Inc. Prior to Shape, Mr. Ciriello was the Managing Director of Media Products for Kao Infosystems Company. Mr. Ciriello was formerly on the executive committee of CDSA and is the member representative for Cinram at the DEG. Mr. Ciriello holds a BS in Structural Engineering from the University of Maine and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University.
Jean Claude Torbey
Jean Claude TORBEY Regional Executive Director for Rotana Home Entertainment, Licensee for the Middle East of Disney HE, Fox, MGM and Sony Pictures. Rotana is part of Kingdom Holding owned by Prince Waleed Bin Talal. Previously Jean Claude was the exclusive representative of Virgin Radio in the Middle East and opened successfully 5 Radio stations in the region. From 2001 to 2006 Jean Claude TORBEY was the General Manager of Virgin Megastore in the Middle East where he successfully launched 8 megastores in the region. From 1987 to 2001, Jean Claude TORBEY was the managing partner in JCT Productions in Lebanon; a regional company specialized in concert promotion, TV production and artist management.
Jean Claude Torbey is a bachelor from E.N.S.A.T.T. in Paris as concert promoter degree; he has completed many other management and marketing courses and is also a speaker in the IMDI institute in Dubai.
Laura Toop
Before entering into the world of entertainment, nearly 10 years ago, I managed a variety of non-food categories, from lingerie to toys; with some of the UK’s favourite high street names. I arrived into the ‘entertainment’ category; and more specifically category insight & commercial planning more by accident than by design; taking a position as ‘Merchandising Manager’; but this was before the explosion of Category Management within entertainment. The role quickly evolved to something way bigger than merchandising; merchandising was simply one of the levers in driving the category strategy forward. 10 years on, as Commercial Insights Director, I am continuing to drive category insights & solutions working with a wide variety of clients both inside & outside of the entertainment industry.
Sven Deutschmann
Well experienced in the branch, Sven Deutschmann started his career with Bertelsmann in the beginning of the 90s. After positions as Head of sales and customer service, he became Managing Director of topac MultimediaPrint GbmH, Guetersloh, in 1996.
By 1st September, 2002, Sven Deutschmann became Senior Vice President of Sonopress GmbH, Guetersloh, in addition to his former responsibilities.
By 1st July, 2003, he became Managing Director Sonopress GmbH, Guetersloh
Effective 1st May, 2005, Sven Deutschmann took over Management of Sonopress in Europe and is additionally to his former responsibilities as Managing Dircector Sonopress Guetersloh, in charge of Sonopress’ operations in the U.K., France and Ireland. From 2007 onwards CEO arvato digital services Manufacturing EMEA.
Since September 2007, he is also responsible for the worldwide coordination of customers in games and audio segment within arvato digital services, and since June 2009, for the global Entertainment segment (Audio, Video, Games) of the Group.
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