PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Kramer for Cintel HK

Cintel International has announced the appointment of David Kramer to its Hong Kong Asia Pacific office. David will be the dedicated engineer supporting the region.
A highly respected engineer in the industry, David graduated from the Telecommunications Program at the Napa Valley College in May 1998 and went on to spend 2 ½ successful years with Cintel as a Customer Support Engineer.
After a spell working as a freelance engineer at some of the top LA facilities, David joined Matchframe Video as their Facility Engineer, gaining further skills, experience and knowledge in additional technologies.
‘Its wonderful to be back with Cintel and I’m looking forward to the challenge of working in the Asia Pacific region’ said Kramer ‘it is gratifying to be working as part of such a steadfast and focused team’.

Digby Launches Law Firm

Entertainment laywer Stephen Digby has founded Digby Law, a boutique legal practice specialising in commercial and intellectual property law predominantly for the communications, entertainment, media and IT industries.
Prior to this, Digby spent 16 years in the UK where he was Partner and Head of Intellectual Property at two leading London law firms, including Davenport Lyons, one of the largest specialist media and entertainment practices in the UK. Most recently he was senior consultant in the Entertianment and IP/IT Groups at Sydney law firm Abbott Tout.
"Digby Law is a true blend of law and creativity," says Stephen Digby. "It offers a specialist service with a deep understanding of the Australian and international creative industries gained from experience both as a client and as a laywer.
"The early response to Digby Law's launch has been both very pleasing and positive. We have secured a number of new clients who have recognised the benefits from the freshness of our aqpproach.
"The effectiveness and immediacy that a specialist practice offers has great appeal to those who need to protect, maintain and enhance the value in what they create. Digby Law has been established to meet these specific needs."

Visit http://www.digbylaw.com

Chamberlain MD for da Vinci Asia-Pacific

After much speculation, fuelled mostly by the man himself, former Techtel stalwart, Peter Chamberlain, has taken up the position of Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, for colour enhancement and image restoration technology company da Vinci Systems.
Based in Singapore, Chamberlain will head up a team that includes two sales engineers, an admin person and seven R&D software engineers.
According to Chamberlain, "Asia is easily the fastest growing region in the world for da Vinci with sales and enquiries particularly strong in Japan, China and India."
Contact da Vinci Systems, Asia Pacific
Unit #22-01 Parkway Parade,
80 Marine Parade Road
Singapore 449269
Phone: +65.6345.4680
Fax: +65.6344.8201
Email: peterc@davsys.com

Gardner CEO of AAV

The Chairman of AAV Limited, Bob Mansfield, has today that Michael Gardner has accepted the position of CEO of AAV Limited effective 1 March 2005.
In making the announcement, Mr Mansfield said that Michael will succeed Ted Gregory as CEO and will also be appointed an executive director of the Company.
"Michael's career has been based around the leadership, service and provision of high level sales and marketing of IT related solutions and services throughout the UK, USA and Australia", said Mr Mansfield.
"In 1989 he was founder and CEO of CI Pty Ltd; a business that was subsequently acquired by Computershare. Michael went on to become entrenched in Computershare's global business and in May 2002 returned to Australia and was appointed Managing Director of Computershare Investor Services. Since leaving Computershare in January 2003, he has been on sabbatical leave.
"Michael has extensive experience in conducting successful turn arounds, M&As, change and major growth requirements within various enterprises globally. It is a pleasure to welcome Michael to the position of CEO and I am confident he will provide the necessary leadership to continue the development and growth of the AAV Group", said Mr Mansfield. A detailed summary of Michael's background is attached.
As announced on 17 August 2004, Ted Gregory will be stepping down as CEO at the end of February 2005 after thirty years with AAV; twenty years as CEO. Ted will remain as a non executive Director of AAV. Michael commences with the AAV Group on Monday 10 January 2005 and will work closely with Ted Gregory until Ted's retirement.
"We are indebted to Ted's long term leadership and delighted that his wealth of knowledge and experience will not be lost to the Group", said Mr Mansfield.

STAR Appoints Welch for Government Affairs

Hong Kong-based STAR has announced the appointment of Joe Welch to the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Government Affairs. Welch will be responsible for government and regulatory affairs and overseeing public policy issues related to STAR's operations. Welch reports to Chief Executive Officer Michelle Guthrie.
Welch was previously the Regional Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs for MCI Asia Pacific with responsibility for the company's operations in Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Mainland China, Australia, Singapore, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia.
Prior to joining MCI in 2000, Welch served as Telecommunications Business Consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton, working in its Thai, Indonesian and Singapore offices. Welch also worked closely with key Malaysian policy makers to develop plans for the regulation of the country's telecom and media sectors.
Educated in the US, Welch holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from Amherst College in Massachusetts and a law degree from Santa Clara University, California. He is a member of the bar in Maryland, US.

Cintel Taps Mak for Asia-Pac

Cintel have appointed KK Mak to head their new Asia Pacific operation, with a new office based in Hong Kong. The new office strengthens Cintel’s existing presence by providing dedicated sales and customer support for the region.
According to Adam Welsh, Managing Director at Cintel, “Working in conjunction with Cintel’s existing Asia Pacific representatives, KK will be aiming to ensure post-production houses and facilities are kept abreast of all Cintel technological advances in order that they will be able to make informed decisions when investing in film scanning and image manipulation equipment. The positioning of a Cintel office in the region will also be able to keep users of Cintel technology apprised of the many product enhancements and upgrades.”
“The service to our existing customers will be vastly improved”, explained Welsh. “By having a Cintel office housing spares in the Asia Pacific region our customers will have direct access to service engineers when they need it and will be guaranteed faster response times. The opening of the Asia Pacific office guarantees that we will be able to offer a round-the-clock service to all customers, no matter where in the world they are located."
KK Mak, a highly respected and well known figure in Asia’s post-production industry, was a prominent member of the Strand Lighting sales team, later Managing Director, working alongside Cintel for over 20 years. A graduate of the University of London, KK brings extensive knowledge of Cintel technology and an in-depth appreciation of the post production industry within the region.
"After many years working with Cintel I am glad to become part of the company," said Mak. "All markets in the Asia Pacific region are rapidly evolving and are now looking to embrace DI. Cintel are in a strong position to understand and service these needs and I am looking forward to dynamic changes in the near future."
Contact Cintel International in Hong Kong on +852 2887 8727 or email kkmak@cintel.co.uk

Cintel are represented in Australia and New Zealand by Quinto Communications. Visit www.quinto.com.au

Kurz Returns to Europe

After nearly three years in Asia, Alexander Kurz has left Tektronix Hong Kong to move back to Austria and join a new start-up company called Mediornet as Sales Manager.
According to Kurz, "It has been a great experience and a real pleasure to collaborate with all of you in a variety of tasks. Thank you all for your friendship and support in the last three years.
"I wish you happiness, health and success for your future … and am looking forward to meeting some of you again at IBC & NAB or somewhere else in this small world. I plan to visit this region of the world as part of my new job as well – but it may take a while before I can make it back here."

Griffin for Hyro

Hyro Australia has appointed Garet Griffin as its new Product Manager for Wireless and Mobile Services. Recruited as part of a recent move to expand the existing Hyro offerings across premium SMS, i- Mode, WAP and rich content solutions, Garet brings over 14 years experience from the database marketing, e-commerce, CRM and mobile marketing fields, both in Australia and the US.
Before joining Hyro, Garet served as Director Technology & CRM for BraveSky Mobile Marketing, playing an instrumental role in the development and implementation of the Skybay opt-in SMS service pilot with supporters Visa, Telstra and NAB, as well as other mobile marketing and transactional offerings.
The span of Garet’s career has included work for Microsoft, HSBC, MasterCard International, Catholic Education Commission, GlaxoSmithKline and UKTV.
Working with the Hyro wireless specialist team, Garet will be spearheading one of Australia’s first fully integrated end-to-end mobile service solutions, with coverage across premium SMS, mobile internet and rich content delivery. Since joining Hyro, Garet has already helped define holistic mobile service strategies for clients such as NRMA. Network Ten Motorsport, and the Weather Channel.
Regarding the mobile landscape and Hyro’s capabilities Garet comments: "Media fragmentation, particularly in the digital realm, has already reached a point where there is an overload of available information. The consumer’s natural response to this is exactly the kind of intense demand for personalisation and control we are now seeing emerge. The mobile mediums are ideal in this context, and it’s extremely empowering to be with a group that can assist its clients in meeting this demand in an integrated, brand-consistent fashion, regardless of the channel.”

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