mBlox founder continues his glorious reign as MEF completes board election.
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (Global) held its AGM on the eve of MeM09 in London last week. Bud got the go-ahead for a second year, and has a new deputy in Billy Wright of Nokia, who is now vice-chair.
Meanwhile Pete Wood, VP of international mobile business development at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment joins the existing board members:
* Jim Beddows, MEF Americas Chair
* Mark Harding, Media & Digital Content Specialist, KPMG
* Gerrit Jan Konijnenberg, MEF EMEA Chair & EVP of Sales, Comfone
* Miguel Lopez-Quesada, General Manager, Zed TV
* Patrick Parodi, CMO, Amobee
* Neeraj Roy, MEF Asia Chair & CEO, Hungama Mobile
* Seth Schachner, VP, Digital Business Latin America, Sony Music Entertainment
* Ingrid Silver, Partner, Denton Wilde Sapte
The new board identified as its key objectives:
* initiatives which accelerate and change the industry such as the recently launched Smart Pipe Enablers initiative
* regulatory and policy activities which represent the industry and protect revenues and consumers
* trade development activities across EMEA, Asia and the Americas
* greater localisation, commencing with the launch of an Italian chapter
* MEF metrics and intelligence
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