Hong Kong, 5 November 2008 – The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has announced the results of its 2008 Annual General Meeting elections to the CASBAA Board of Directors and the CASBAA Council of Governors, the Association’s leading advisory group.
James Ross, Regional Director of ITV Global Entertainment, re-joins the CASBAA Board of Directors (The CASBAA Management Board), while the following members retain their Board seats:
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- Marcel Fenez, Global Managing Partner, Entertainment and Media Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers & Chairman, CASBAA
- Peter Jackson, CEO, AsiaSat
- Tom Keaveny, EVP & MD, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific
- Jonathan Spink, CEO, HBO Asia
- Todd Miller, EVP & MD, Asia, Sony Pictures Television International
- William Pfeiffer, CEO, Tiger Gate Entertainment
- Sompan Charumilinda, Exec. Vice Chairman, TrueVisions
- Ian Carroll, SVP & GM, Turner International Asia Pacific
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Anthony Tse, CEO of Cosmedia Group steps down from the CASBAA Board for 2009.
Meanwhile, elected for two-year terms to the CASBAA Council of Governors are:
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- Peter Papaioannou, Director of Operations, Video and Cable Solutions Group, Cisco
- Christine Fellowes, MD Asia, Comcast International Media Group
- Anthony Tse, CEO, Cosmedia Group
- Jill Grinda, Director, Worldwide Distribution, Euronews
- Arjan Hoekstra, MD, Eurosport
- PJ Wong Founder, Chairman and CEO, iMediaHouse
- Garie Pimentel, President & CEO, Mabuhay Satellite
- Nigel Francis, Partner, Minter Ellison
- Jeanette Chan, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Lee Beasley, Head of Media & Entertainment, Standard Chartered Bank (HK)
- Kathleen Syron, Head of Content, StarHub
- Dario Choi, VP & GM , Asia Pacific, Tandberg
- Alvin Lee, Executive Director, International Relations and Public Policy, Asia Pacific, Time Warner
Retaining seats on the CASBAA Council are:
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- Manu Sawhney, MD, ESPN STAR Sports
- Mark Patterson, CEO, GroupM Asia Pacific
- Stephen Ng, Chairman, President and CEO, HK Cable TV
- Nick Pilbeam, MD & Founder, Itsun limited
- Mongryong Lee, President & CEO, KDB Skylife
- Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO, MEASAT
- Michelle L. Guthrie, MD, Providence Equity Asia
- Andrew Jordan, President & CEO, SAT-GE
- Alex Muller, MD, Asia, TV5MONDE
- Gregg Creevey (Individual member)
The following are Patron members of the Association also have an automatic seat on the Council: Phil Lawrie, Al Jazeera; Tom Choi, Asia Broadcast Satellite; Rohana Rozhan, Astro; Bruce Dover, Australia Network; Shawn Galey, Bloomberg Television; Shyue-Ching Lu, Chunghwa Telecom; Jeremy Pink, NBC Universal Networks Asia Pacific; Robert Gilby, Disney-ABC International Television; Paul Dujardin, Genesis Networks; David Ball, Intelsat; Bengt Jonsson, Irdeto; Ben Way, Macquarie; Ian Chapman-Banks, Motorola Mobile Devices – North Asia; Amit Jain, MTV Networks Asia; Sue Taylor, NDS; Pawan Gandhi, Nokia; Lindsay Servian, now TV; May Oh, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies; Elias Zaccack, SES New Skies; KaHoe Low, SingTel; Joe Welch, STAR Group; Ken Yeung, Tom Group and Gregory Ang, VOOM HD Networks.
“This will be a challenging year for our industry in Asia, but the fundamentals for pay-TV growth remain solid,” said Marcel Fenez, Chairman of CASBAA.
“The inaugural meeting of the CASBAA Council of Governors for 2009 re-affirmed our priorities with regulatory issues at the top of the list, along with further engagement in markets such as India, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and Vietnam.“
“Add to this our continued commitment to growing pay-TV advertising and we have a full agenda. Certainly, with more content, increasingly convergent technologies and newly deployed delivery platforms, our markets can only keep growing,” added Fenez.
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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 135 member organisations in the pay-TV business, which in turn serve more than three billion people. Patron members include Al Jazeera International, Asia Broadcast Satellite, AsiaSat, ASTRO, Australia Network, Bloomberg Television, Chunghwa Telecom, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, Disney-ABC International Television, Genesis Networks, ITV Global Entertainment Ltd., HBO Asia, Intelsat, Macquarie Group, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies, Motorola, MTV Networks Asia Pacific, NDS, Nokia, now TV, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SES NEW SKIES, SingTel, Sony Pictures Television International, STAR Group, Tiger Gate Entertainment, Tom Group, TrueVisions, Turner International Asia Pacific and VOOM HD Networks Asia. To view the full list of CASBAA members, please visit here.
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