Bangkok--10 Nov--LEWIS PR
Industry heavyweights Warner Bros Entertainment, WiderThan and Dada were voted onto the expanded board at MEF Asia’s annual general meeting on 2 November in Singapore. The AGM was held on the second day of Mobile Entertainment Market (MeM) Asia, MEF’s official annual event for Asia’s mobile entertainment professionals.
The newly appointed members join existing board directors from Hungama, Sony BMG, Streamezzo, Sun and VeriSign. The board also voted to re-elect Stefan Rust (Sun) as Chairman and Ruuben van den Heuvel (Sony BMG) as Vice-Chairman. See below for new MEF Asia board in full.
Stefan Rust, MEF Asia Chair commented: “With an expanded regional executive board, MEF Asia can better facilitate the development of commercial standards and best practices in our fast-evolving industry. I look forward to working closely with our new board members to create critical initiatives and promote industry advocacy.”
Patrick Parodi, MEF Global Chair added: “It is fantastic that we now have representatives from Korea, China and Japan, who bring a wealth of experience as well as new and different perspectives to MEF Asia. I look forward to working with this expanded board to grow the mobile entertainment industry in a responsible and healthy fashion across this exciting and diverse region.”
The continued growth in membership and MEF’s geographical reach mean the forum is ideally placed to provide authoritative comment and provoke debate to drive the industry forward. Recent initiatives have focused on hot topics including mobile video, DRM, mobile communities, quality of service and ad-funded mobile content.
MEF Asia Board 2006/2007
Chairman
Stefan Rust - Sun Microsystems Inc, Head of Web Services
Vice Chair
Ruuben van den Heuvel - Sony BMG Music Entertainment, VP Digital Business, Asia & Japan
Board Directors
Dennis Hamann - VeriSign Hong Kong, Director Content Solutions
Alexandre Olmedo - Streamezzo, Sales Director, Asia
Neeraj Roy - Hungama Mobile, MD & CEO
New Board Members
Jay Kim - WiderThan, Exec Vice President of APAC business
Julian Lai-Hung - Warner Bros Entertainment, Director Wireless, APAC
Richard Robinson - Dada Asia, CEO
About Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF)
MEF exists to represent the interests of its global membership across the mobile entertainment value chain. Our goals are to build awareness, create business development opportunities and facilitate the development of commercial guidelines and best practices to promote a healthy and profitable industry.
With headquarters in London, a Hollywood-based Americas secretariat and the newly expanded Asia chapter, MEF’s network of members represents a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of mobile entertainment businesses and entrepreneurs. For more information and a full list of members please visit: www.m-e-f.org .
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