Lindsay Charlton is Project Director for ITV Local, ITV’s new broadband television trial which is running in the ITV Meridian region. Originally a newspaper journalist who began his career at the Kent Messenger, Lindsay joined Granada TV in Manchester in 1980 as a researcher, later becoming a reporter. In 1984 he joined Thames TV in the current affairs and documentary department, working on programmes such as ‘This Week’, before becoming an early recruit to the fledgling British Satellite Broadcasting company. He joined London News Network in 1992 as a presenter and held a variety of posts including programme editor and Head of News. He also began LNN’s Factual Programmes department making travel and lifestyle shows for the international market. In 1993 he founded the London Bureau, a television public relations firm. Before taking over the full time management of the ITV Local project, Lindsay was the Managing Director of the ITV Meridian licence. It has a staff of 200 people and its main offices are in Maidstone, Whiteley and Newbury. Meridian has three news services and makes a wide range of diverse programming for the southern region. It is now part of the newly merged ITV plc. In 2004 Lindsay and the Meridian management team planned and designed the new £6 million digital television centre built at Whiteley in Hampshire. This proved to be the model for a number of regional ITV studios that have been built during the past three years. A passionate supporter and advocate of regional and local television, he is also a member of the Royal Television Society and a board member of Screen South. Before joining Meridian in April 2002 Lindsay was Managing Director of London Weekend Television. A keen sailor and skier, he is married with two children.

Eric Braun, Vice President and Managing Director of International Television, Associated Press: Eric Braun, as AP Vice President and Managing Director of International Television, has management responsibility for AP Television News (APTN), AP's global video news agency. Eric has broad experience in a range of media markets and disciplines, both in the United States and internationally. Formerly Vice President for News and Convergence at Raycom Media, Inc, he supervised matters concerning news and public affairs programming for all 39 of the company’s local television operations, which reach one in nine American households. He also oversaw marketing of Raycom’s Internet business and new media strategies. Before working at Raycom, from 1989 to 1998, he held a variety of senior and executive positions at Magid. As Vice President of New Technology, Eric directed Magid’s development of research and consulting services to television broadcasters, networks, new media and Internet businesses. He consulted with networks, group owners, producers, and location stations across North America, and in Europe and Asia, developing research-based business development strategies and new business plans. Eric was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and earned a degree in business administration and finance from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. It was at college that he began his media career, first as a freelance news reporter for television and radio stations, and subsequently as news director for numerous radio and television stations.

John Higgins was appointed Director General of Intellect at its launch in May 2002. John has worked in IT since graduating in 1975. He trained as a Systems Analyst and Project Manager with the London Brick Company before moving to Triad Computing Systems in the mid-eighties. He also held senior positions with Ernst & Young and software applications company SSA prior to joining Rocket Networks, one of the first UK and west coast US based dotcoms, as CEO in 1995. He became Director General of one of Intellect's predecessors, CSSA, in April 1998. John has an honours degree in Mathematics from UEA and a Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. He is a member of the governing Council of the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2004 John was presented with the Individual Award for outstanding contribution to the trade association sector by the Trade Association Forum. John was awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list 2005. He is married with three children and lives in Hertfordshire. John has led and/or contributed to many industry and industry/government bodies and initiatives dealing with a wide range of issues; from the strategy for a Digital Britain, the better use of IT in public service delivery and the use of IT in the NHS to the factors that could contribute to increased innovation and growth in the electronics sector, and the exploitation of intellectual property across the hi-tech value chain. In these activities he has worked with Secretaries of State, Ministers, policy professionals, Government officials and industry executives. John is Vice President of the European high-tech industry association, EICTA. He is a member of the steering committee of the Word IT Services Association. In 2005, he led Intellect's hosting in London of the World Electronic Forum. He is a regular conference and dinner speaker on a wide range of hi-tech industry topics.

Stephen Petheram, MICROSOFT TV EMEA CONTENT MARKETING MANAGER: Stephen has over 15 years experience in the provision of software solutions to the TV content production, distribution, aggregation and broadcast sectors. Prior to joining Microsoft he was VP Client Services at a London-based broadcast management software company managing accounts such as UPC, Flextech, Jetix (formerly Fox Kids), Fox UK, Fox Spain, La7, CineNova and TV Cabo. Before that Stephen was General Manager of Lysis UK, a London-based subsidiary of the Kudelski Group of Cheseaux, Switzerland. Lysis UK developed rights and content management software targeted at the TV content owners, particularly the U.S. west coast studios. In 2001 Kudelski acquired Lysis SA of Lausanne, Switzerland, a software company specializing in advanced content management solutions for digital television where Stephen was the VP Rights Management for the Lysis group. Lysis customers include the cable companies ntl, Telewest, Mediakabel, Cablecom, Madritel and Ono. He joined Lysis on its acquisition of Concision Limited, a company he co-founded, in November 1999. Concision specialized in the development and installation of intellectual property rights management software for the entertainment industry. Its clients included leading entertainment companies such as Paramount Television, Universal Television, Canal+, MNET, British Film Institute, Front Row Television and Telewest Communications. Prior to co-founding Concision in 1990, Stephen worked as a UK government bond broker in the City of London. He holds a degree in Engineering Science from Oxford University.

Noel Matthews – CTO Group - VP of Global Business Development, TANDBERG Television: A member of TANDBERG Television’s strategic CTO group, Noel Matthews is responsible for the global roll-out of the company’s on-demand, interactive and mobile TV solutions. Bringing together best-in-class technology and expertise in advanced compression, on-demand and interactive entertainment, this complete set of solutions enables content owners, programmers, network operators and broadcasters to launch next generation TV services today and to create new advertising models. A strong commercial player, Noel has been with TANDBERG Television for over a decade, having joined the company as MPEG-2 Product Line Manager when it was known as NTL. Noel has held a number of business development roles at TANDBERG Television for both traditional digital broadcasting markets and in new markets such as IPTV, cable, VOD and wireless links. Prior to working in the TV market, Noel was involved in the mobile phone and paging market both as an engineer and subsequently as a marketing manager.

Michael Gordon, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks: Michael Gordon is a 20-year industry veteran whose career spans a wide range of executive and leadership positions in technology, software, networking and telecommunications. As Chief Strategy Officer, Gordon was instrumental in creating Limelight’s digital media delivery strategy, as well as a digital media focused service deployment that has resulted in over nine successive quarters of profitability as a private company. Prior to Limelight, he co-found and led Axient Communications which built and deployed a nationwide next-generation Internet network for high volume Internet users. Before Axient, Gordon co-founded Cyclone Commerce, a leading enterprise software company that provides cross-enterprise connection and collaboration solutions. He also co-founded Gateway Data Sciences Corporation, a software and services company that went public in 1996. Gordon has also held sales and management positions at IBM and National City Bank.

Derek Kuhn is the Sr. Director of Marketing and Business Development for Alcatel’s Strategic Solutions Development Group and is based in Canada at Alcatel’s Ottawa, Ontario Campus. As a business and marketing lead, Mr. Kuhn is Alcatel’s primary liaison with the content community including film, television and gaming. Mr. Kuhn is also a past Chairman of the Broadband Services Forum (BSF), an independent, non-profit trade association that addresses the business of broadband and works with the service provider and content community to deliver content-rich consumer and business services. Prior to helping found the BSF, Mr. Kuhn served as Chairman of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum (BCDF), which under his stewardship merged with another prominent industry association, the Service Creation Community (SCC), to form the BSF in January 2005. Mr. Kuhn has held senior positions in Marketing, Business Development and Product Management for both wireless and wireline multimedia delivery solutions at Alcatel. Prior to Alcatel’s acquisition of Newbridge Networks in May 2000, Mr. Kuhn was Senior Product Manager, ATM Access Products in 1999, and Product Manager, Narrowband Packet in1998. Mr. Kuhn joined Newbridge Networks when they acquired Castleton Network Systems of Burnaby, British Columbia where he was a Systems Engineering Manager. Mr. Kuhn began his career as a consulting engineer with Totten Sims & Hubicki from 1988 to 1996. Mr. Kuhn holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.