Satnews Daily
November 12th, 2009

CASBAA Just In — Election Results For Chair, Board and Governors


CASBAA 09 Ramping up for 2010 the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) election results are in from its 2009 Annual General Meeting elections to the CASBAA Chairmanship, the CASBAA Board of Directors and the CASBAA Council of Governors for 2010/2011.

Marcel Fenez, Global Leader, Entertainment and Media Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers was re-elected for a two-year term as Chairman of the Association.

Robert Gilby, SVP & MD of Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific) has newly joined the CASBAA Board of Directors, while the following members retain their Board seats:
  • Marcel Fenez, Global Leader, Entertainment & Media Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Peter Jackson, CEO, AsiaSat
  • Jonathan Spink, CEO, HBO Asia
  • James Ross, Regional Director, ITV Global Entertainment
  • Todd Miller, EVP, Networks, Asia Pacific, Sony Pictures Television
  • William Pfeiffer, CEO, Tiger Gate Entertainment
  • Sompan Charumilinda, Exec. Vice Chairman, TrueVisions
  • Ian Carroll, EVP & GM, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific
Tom Keaveny, EVP & MD, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, steps down from the CASBAA Board for 2010. 

Meanwhile, elected for two-year terms to the CASBAA Council of Governors are
  • Anurradha Prasad, MD & Chairman, BAG Network
  • Manu Sawhney, MD, ESPN STAR Sports
  • Mark Patterson, CEO, GroupM Asia Pacific
  • William Kwan, CFO, HK Cable TV
  • Ravi Mansukhani, MD, IMCL (Incablenet and Indigital)
  • Paul Brown-Kenyon, COO, MEASAT
  • Gregg Creevey, MD, Multi Channels Asia
  • Andrew Jordan, President & CEO, SAT-GE
  • Vikram Kaushik, MD & CEO, Tata Sky
  • Jeremy Kung, CEO, TM Net
  • Alexandre Muller, MD, Asia, TV5MONDE
  • Christopher Hoare, Director of Asia, Viaccess

Retaining seats on the CASBAA Council of Governors 2010 are:
     
  • Peter Papaioannou, Director of Operations, Video and Cable Solutions Group, Cisco
  • Christine Fellowes, MD Asia, Comcast International Media Group
  • Jill Grinda, Director, Worldwide Distribution, Euronews
  • Arjan Hoekstra, MD, Eurosport Asia
  • PJ Wong, Founder Chairman and CEO, iMediaHouse/Focus Media
  • Garie Pimentel, President & CEO, Mabuhay Satellite
  • Nigel Francis, Partner, Minter Ellison
  • Jeanette Chan, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
  • Dario Choi, VP & GM , Asia Pacific, TANDBERG Television
  • Lee Beasley, Director of Media & Entertainment, Origination & Client Coverage, Standard Chartered Bank (HK)
  • Kathleen Syron, Head of Content, StarHub
  • Alvin Lee, Executive Director, International Relations and Public Policy, Asia Pacific, Time Warner

The following Patron members of the Association also have an automatic seat on the Council: Phil Lawrie, Al Jazeera; Tom Choi, Asia Broadcast Satellite; Peter Jackson, AsiaSat; Rohana Rozhan, Astro; Bruce Dover, Australia Network; Shawn Galey, Bloomberg Television; Tom Keaveny, Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific; Robert Gilby, Disney-ABC International Television (Asia Pacific); Ward Platt, Fox International Channels; Paul Dujardin, Genesis Networks; Jonathan Spink, HBO Asia; David Ball, Intelsat; Bengt Jonsson, Irdeto; James Ross, ITV Global Entertainment; Ben Way, Macquarie Group; Indra Suharjono, MTV Networks Asia; Raymund Miranda, NBC Universal Global Networks; Sue Taylor, NDS; Lindsay Servian, NOW TV; Marcel Fenez, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Ali Zamiri, Qualcomm MediaFLO Technologies; Gregory Ang, Rainbow Media; Elias Zaccack, SES World Skies; Timonthy Carmichael, SingTel; Todd Miller, Sony Pictures Television; William Pfeiffer, Tiger Gate Entertainment; Ken Yeung, Tom Group; Sompan Charumilinda, TrueVisions and Ian Carroll, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific.