Lavinia Carey
Lavinia Carey, Director General, BVA. Director General of the BVA since 1993, with responsibilities for parliamentary affairs, industry and external relations, co-ordinating the association’s market research and charitable activities. Chair of the Alliance Against IP Theft since 1998, which campaigns for legislative reform to enable IP rights owners to protect and promote their rights in the interests of British industry and employment. Set up the Industry Trust for IP Awareness in 2004, whose remit is to improve public awareness of and respect for the value of copyright. Since October 2007 chairs Respect For Film, a steering group running the industry anti-piracy pilot project in the UK.
Anthony Smith
Antony joined Nimbus in 1986 and was responsible for organising Nimbus Records’ distribution network for classical and Jazz CDs, first in the UK and then in the US, and was subsequently appointed General Manager of Records in 1993 with responsibility for Production and International Sales and Marketing. In 1995 he joined the companies Laser Mastering Division, Nimbus Technology & Engineering (NTE) as Vice President of Commercial Operations, responsible for global contract negotiation and European Sales. In November 1997 he became Director of Asia Operations and in March 1998 relocated to Singapore to head up all aspects of sales and service from Australia to China, India to Japan. He returned to England in 2002 and is now the Business Director for Wyastone Estate Limited, a holding company which owns and manages the national and international distribution of the Nimbus labels , The Wyastone Business Park, The Wyastone Concert Hall and the high quality, short run, fast turn around duplicator and digital printer Nimbus Disc & Print Services.
Yves Caillaud
Yves Caillaud is Senior Vice President, EMEA, Warner Home Video and Digital Distribution, part of the Warner Home Entertainment Group. A home entertainment industry veteran of seventeen years, Caillaud has oversight of the european home video and digital distribution operations for Warner Bros., responsible for making Warner Bros.’ filmed entertainment content available to audiences through as many channels, platforms and devices as possible across EMEA. Prior to this role, he held a range of senior management and sales and marketing roles across Warner Home Video, beginning as Marketing Director for France and rising through the organisation, as MD for WHV France, VP Europe, supervising Nordic, Spain, Italy, Eastern Affiliates and Israel and SVP, EMEA.
Before joining Warner Home Video in 1992, Yves Caillaud held a number of marketing roles in international companies, as a Marketing Director for CPC Best Foods and previously, with American Tobacco France and Gerber Baby Foods. He was President of France Video Association between 2001 and 2003 and has been Chairman and Board Director of DEGE since 2007. He holds an MBA from HEC Business School, Paris.
Lindsay Brown
Managing Director, Operations, International, Eagle Rock Entertainment. Lindsay and his team are responsible for the world wide sales and marketing through our offices in New York,Hamburg and Paris as well as the International affiliates of all Eagle Rock DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs as well as the global release schedule, promotion, artwork and manufacture. He joined Eagle in June 1997, having been International Director of Polydor UK since 1994, looking after such acts as Van Morrison, Bjork, Boyzone, The Cure and the Bee Gees. Before joining Polydor in 1993, he had spent over 20 years in the music business, mainly in artist management, managing amongst others Barclay James Harvest, Van Halen and The Sweet.
Dieter Daum
Dieter Daum is CEO of Sony DADC Global. In this capacity he has overall responsibility
for Sony’s worldwide disc business. Sony DADC is a global supply chain partner to the entertainment industry and operates facilities in the Europe, US, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, India, China, Australia and Japan. In addition, he also serves as President of Sony Disc and Digital Solutions Inc., a Tokyo based subsidiary of Sony Corp.
Previous positions of Mr. Daum include CEO of Sony DADC Austria as well as Chief Production Officer at Sony Europe.
Before joining Sony in 1986, Dieter Daum had been working in the semiconductor industry with over four years at Austria Microsystems International, a manufacturer of application specific integrated circuits, leaving the company as its Vice President of Engineering.
Dieter Daum studied Electronics Engineering at the Technical University Graz, Austria, where he received his Masters Degree in 1977, and completed Management Courses at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mr. Daum has offices in New York, Tokyo and Salzburg, Austria.
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