Hong Kong, 12 November 2007 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) today announced the results of its 2007 Annual General Meeting elections in Hong Kong to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the CASBAA Board of Directors and the CASBAA Chairmanship for 2008/2009.
Marcel Fenez, Global Managing Partner, Entertainment and Media Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers was re-elected for a two-year term as Chairman of the Association.
Newly elected to the CASBAA Board of Directors (the CASBAA management Board) were Tom Keaveny, EVP and Managing Director of Discovery Networks Asia; Todd Miller, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Asia of Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) and Anthony Tse, President, China Entertainment Television Broadcast.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Spink, CEO of HBO Asia; Peter Jackson, CEO of AsiaSat; Sompan Charumilinda, Executive Vice Chairman, TrueVisions and William Pfeiffer, CEO of Celestial Movies retain their seats on the CASBAA Board. Ian Carroll, SVP and GM, Turner International Asia Pacific was re-elected for a second two-year term as a CASBAA Board Director.
Stepping down from the CASBAA Board of Directors are Nic van Zwanenberg, Regional Director, Distribution and Business Development, BBC Global Channels, James Ross, Regional Director, Granada International and Tom Choi, Co-founder & CEO, Asia Broadcast Satellite.
Also elected for two-year terms to the CASBAA Council of Governors, the Association’s most senior advisory body, were:
Stephen Ng, Chairman, President and CEO, HK Cable TV
Christine Leo-McKerrow, SVP, BBC Global Channels, Asia
Manu Sawhney, Managing Director, ESPN STAR Sports
Mike Reynolds, President, StarHub
Sue Taylor, VP and GM, NDS
Surh Dong Koo, President & CEO, KDB SkyLife
Alexander Muller, Managing Director, TV5MONDE Asia
Andrew Jordan, Vice President & General Manager, SAT-GE
Mark Patterson, CEO, GroupM
Craig Harvey, Director Media Research, Synovate
Michelle Guthrie, Managing Director, Providence Equity Asia
Nick Pibeam, Managing Director & Founder, ITSun Limited
Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO, MEASAT
and
Gregg Creevey (Individual)
Retaining seats for the second of two-year terms on the CASBAA Council are:
Christine Fellowes, MD Asia, Comcast International Media Group; Craig Zimbulis, President and COO, Anytime; Gabriel Pimentel, President & CEO, Mabuhay Satellite; Hugh Stephens, SVP, International Relations & Strategic Policy, AP, Time Warner; Ian Barnard, President, MIH Asia; Jeanette Chan, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Jeremy Pink, President & MD, CNBC; Juno Henares Chuidian, VP, Program Packaging and Merchandising, SkyCable; Malcolm Spry, EVP, VNU Global Media Services, AGB Nielsen Media Research; Nigel Francis, Partner, Minter Ellison; PJ Wong Founder, Chairman and CEO, iMediaHouse; Susan Ho, Head of the Creative, Media & Tech Industries Team, Standard Chartered Bank and Thierry Raymaekers, Director, Marketing Asia Pacific, Irdeto.
Patron members of the Association receive an automatic seat on the CASBAA Council of Governors. The full list of member representatives can be found at http://www.casbaa.com
According to Mr Fenez, during 2008 the Association will focus on the increasing impact of mobile technologies and the further development of pay-TV advertising. He also noted clear signals from the CASBAA Council of Governors that the Association should step up initiatives in India and China, while continuing to engage with the regulatory authorities in multiple markets and promote industry development in Indonesia, Vietnam, Korea and India among others.
“The next 12 months promise to provide a banner year for the pay-TV industry across the region and CASBAA’s role will be to support industry growth where ever it can,” said Mr Fenez.
About CASBAA – www.casbaa.com
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) is an industry-based advocacy group dedicated to the promotion of multi-channel TV via cable, satellite, broadband and wireless video networks across the Asia-Pacific. CASBAA represents some 128 Asia-based corporations, which in turn serve more than three billion people. Members include AETN International (History Channel), Asia Broadcast Networks, Asia Broadcast Satellite, AsiaSat, Astro, Australia Network, Bloomberg Television, Chunghwa Telecom, Discovery Networks Asia, Genesis Networks, Granada International/ITV Worldwide, HBO Asia, Intelsat, Macquarie Group, MediaFLO Technologies, Motorola, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, Nokia, now TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SES New Skies, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Sun Microsystems, TrueVisions, Turner International Asia Pacific, Walt Disney Television International, Chello Zone, Al Jazeera, Amarchand Mangaldas, Asian Food Channel, BBC Global Channels Asia-Pacific, Celestial Movies, Deutsche Welle, ESPN STAR Sports, Hallmark Channel, GMA Network Inc., GroupM, HiT Entertainment, Hong Kong Cable TV, Irdeto, KDB Skylife, Lovells, Measat, MGM Networks, Microsoft Corporation, Minter Ellison, National Geographic, Network18, Paul Weiss, Playboy TV, ProtoStar, Providence Equity Partners, PT Direct Vision, SAT-GE, Tandberg Television, Tata Sky, TBN, Ten Sports, TFN Media, TimeWarner, TV5MONDE, Viaccess and Zee TV.
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