Turner promotes Tarek Mounir
Tarek Mounir.Turner Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has announced that Tarek Mounir is promoted to Vice President and General Manager Turkey, Middle East, North Africa,...
Tarek Mounir.Turner Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) has announced that Tarek Mounir is promoted to Vice President and General Manager Turkey, Middle East, North Africa,...
Dominic Baillie.Discovery Communications has named Dominic Baillie, Chief Technology Officer, Olympics & Sports leading up to the 2018 Olympic Games. The network has won exclusive multimedia rights...
NETIA has announced two new appointments in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Adel Hamla has been named the companys Sales Manager for the MEA region, a position in which he...
Rob Arnold, VP at Omnitek.Omnitek, a test and measurement and IP and design services company, has appointed Rob Arnold as its Vice President of Worldwide Sales for...
LiveU has announced that it is increasing its presence across the Middle East with the appointment of United Broadcast and Media Solutions (UBMS) as regional sales partner.Dubai-headquartered and works across the...
Abou Mustafa.Datamena has announced the appointment of Abou Mustafa as Vice President. This change comes in response to the rapid expansion of datamena platforms customer base, and aims...
Naresh Subherwal.SAM has appointed Naresh Subherwal as Managing Director, Middle East, effective immediately. Based in SAMs new Dubai office, Subherwal will assume responsibility for sales and...
Media Links EMEA has announced the expansion of its UK based team with the addition of Alex Cozens as Technical Support Manager. Cozens, who has previously worked for Media Links Australia,...
IABM has announced the appointment of Hassan Ghoul as Director, MENA. This newly created position will strengthen IABMs presence and activity in this rapidly developing region, and is just the...
ZOO Digital has appointed Syed Ahmed to focus on international business development. He will oversee the Middle East, South Asia and Asia Pacific. ZOO Digital offers cloud-based services in subtitling,...
Rani Raad will continue to oversee Turner's Kids and General Entertainment businesses across Turkey and the Middle East in addition to his other core responsibilities.Rani Raad,...
Harris Morris is now Chairman of Wazee Digital.Wazee Digital has appointed Harris Morris to be the Chairman of the board.Morris has served as Wazee Digitals CEO...
Bhavesh Vaghela.Paywizard, which is a major player in subscriber management for pay-TV in the UK, has appointed Bhavesh Vaghela as Chief Marketing Officer. The OTT service provider...
Bexel Global Broadcast Solutions has appointed Simon Atkinson as Head of Projects for its EMEA division. Atkinson brings nearly 25 years of experience to his new role and will work...
Ahmed Shanti.Avid has appointed Ahmed Shanti to the role of Territory Account Manager for Middle East. Shantis responsibilities are to increase Avids market share in the region...
Graham Lay, General Manager, Argosy Middle East.Argosy has appointed Graham Lay as General Manager of its Middle Eastern operation. Lay has worked for IEWC, Argosys parent...
Hasan R. Sayed Hasan (l) with Hassan Ghoul.Hassan Ghoul, a well-known figure in the MENA broadcast industry, has joined Master Media, a media consultancy and professional...
Andrew Childs, Business Development Manager, Trilogy.Trilogy has announced the appointment of Andrew Childs as Business Development Manager for the Middle East.Childs arrives at Trilogy from Quantum,...
Kevin Prince.Kevin Prince will join Broadcast Pix as President and CEO, as well as a member of the Board of Directors, effective Oct. 1. He will...
Dima Khatib, MD of AJ+.Al Jazeera Media Network has appointed Dima Khatib as Managing Director of its digital-only news platform, AJ+.AJ+ was launched in 2014, with...
IABM has appointed Stan Moote to the position of CTO at the association.Stan Moote began his television career in 1977, while interning as a plant engineer for CFTO-TV in Toronto,...
Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director.Khaled Al-Jamal has joined Irdeto as Sales Director and will head the companys MENA operations, BroadcastPro ME can reveal....
The Scottish Loan Fund (SLF) has committed $ 5.46m of funding in support of Paywizard. The funding boost from the SLF will support Paywizard as it seeks to capitalise on...
John Smith.Media Links has appointed John Smith as Head of EMEA region.Media Links EMEA develops broadcast network infrastructure technologies to transport content over IP contribution and...
Ramnik Kamo, CMO, Imagine Communications.Imagine Communications has appointed Ramnik Kamo to the position of Chief Marketing Officer. In addition to overseeing Imagine Communications overall marketing strategy,...
Ghallab Mohamed has been appointed COO at MediaGuru MEA.Ghallab Mohamed, a well-known name in the Middle East broadcast and media industry, has been appointed as Chief...
Roberto Pascual Fonte, Sales Director at VSN for Europe and Africa.Spanish broadcasting solutions provider VSN has appointed Roberto Pascual Fonte as new Sales Director for Europe...
Jacques Delacoux (l) and Karine Fouque.After years of business development for Canon in the broadcast and cinema industry, Karine Fouque is joining Ithaki-Group and Jacques Delacouxs...
Dr Riyadh Najm.Dr Riyadh Najm, Head of Saudi Arabias state media authority, has been relieved of his duties.He was heading the media authority that ensures broadcasters...
Darren Whitehead, Director or Business Development at IABM.IABM has appointed Darren Whitehead to the position of Director of Business Development at the Association.Whitehead has a background...
Rupert Murdoch.Rupert Murdoch is preparing to step down as CEO of 21st Century Fox, according to a CNBC report. His son James Murdoch will take over...
Benjamin Ampen.Twitter has appointed Benjamin Ampen as Head of Sales for the MENA region. The social media platform is preparing to open an office in Dubai...
BroadStream Solutions has recruited new members to expand its engineering, sales & marketing and technical support teams, as well as strengthening its senior management team with a new SVP of Human Resources.The...
Edoardo Abis.Never.no has appointed Edoardo Abis to head up EMEA business development. Abis will operate out of the company's MediaCityUK base. In his new role Abis will...
Russel Peirson-Hagger.ATG Danmon has promoted Russell Peirson-Hagger from his current role as Commercial Director to take the position of Managing Director. He succeeds Christoffer Kay who...
Paul Molinier.Paul Molinier will be appointed as CEO of Viaccess-Orca with effect from June 15. Molinier will take over responsibilities from François Moreau de Saint Martin,...
Mike Rizzo.Artel Video Systems has announced the appointment of Mike Rizzo as President and CEO. Rizzo joins Artel with more than 20 years in executive management...
Giles Trendle.Giles Trendle has been appointed acting Managing Director of Al Jazeera English (AJE). He succeeds Al Anstey who left to head up Al Jazeera America.Trendle...
Caroline Faraj, VP Arabic Services, CNN.Caroline Faraj has been appointed VP Arabic Services for CNN. In this new position, she will have strategic oversight of CNNArabic.com while...
Al Anstey.Al Jazeera Media Network has appointed Al Anstey as CEO of Al Jazeera America with immediate effect. Anstey replaces interim CEO Ehab Alshihabi who was...
Mario Diaz.VSN has appointed Mario Díaz Becar to the role of Sales Director for international markets. He will head the whole sales team, including the different...
Jawid Mahmoodzada.Jawid Mahmoodzada has been appointed Head of Consulting at BFE Studio und Medien Systeme GmbH, Mainz. He will be responsible for the ongoing expansion of...
Arnd Froehlich has taken on the role of Visual Unity's CEO.OTT solutions provider Visual Unity Global has announced a change of CEO and leadership in corporate...
Jan Lange.Jan Lange will head up regional sales for Avids broadcast and video sector in Central Europe, Middle East and Turkey as of April 9, 2015....
Graham Sharp.Vitec Videocom has announced a new management team and organisational structure. The company plans to democratise some of its high-end technology by putting the tools...
Doug Lowther, CEO, Irdeto.Irdeto has announced that Doug Lowther will be assuming the role of Chief Executive Officer following Graham Kills resignation in September 2014 to...
From left: ARRI's Markus Zeiler, Dr Jorg Pohlman, Sigrid Muller and Sohail Shafi.ARRI has established a new subsidiary lighting company in Dubai with the name of ARRI...
Kaveh Farnam.RED has opted to include channel distribution in the Middle East and North Africa region in light of rising competition and increasing demand for local...
George Boath, Telestream.Telestream has announced expansion of its sales management team to address sales growth for its enterprise-class video products in the EMEA and Asia Pacific...
John Aslett, General Manager, Vislink.Vislink has appointed John Aslett to its Dubai office as General Manager. Aslett will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the...
Youssef Al Deeb.Youssef El Deeb is joining MediaGates in the newly created role of Managing Director.El Deeb has been a key figure in Arab television as the founder of Fatafeat TV...
Muriel De Lathouwer, Managing Director and CEO, EVS.EVS Broadcast Equipment has announced the appointment of Muriel De Lathouwer as Managing Director and CEO of the company....
Globecast has announced that it has completed a company-wide reorganisation in order to enhance its position as a fully integrated media solutions provider, operating in a unified manner across all...
Ingo lalla, Limelight Networks.Limelight Networks has announced the opening of its office in Dubai, underscoring Limelights ongoing commitment in the MENA region.Commenting on the companys presence...
Phillip Jameson.Custom Consoles has appointed Phillip Jameson as Regional Sales Manager. Based in the UAE, he will work in partnership with the management team at the...
Matthew Allard.Matthew Allard has joined Ross Video as Marketing Product Management Content Creation Manager.This is an extremely interesting opportunity at Ross Video as they have made strategic acquisitions...
Turki Al-Dakhil, GM, Al Arabiya News Channel.MBC Groups Chairman Sheikh Waleed Al-Ibrahim has announced the appointment of Turki Al-Dakhil as the new General Manager of Al...
Richard Waldner.Imagine Communications has appointed Richard Waldner to the role of Director, Channel Sales EMEA. He will be based in Munich, and is responsible for strengthening...
Paddy Taylor (l) and Mars Orozov.JVC Professional has announced the appointments of Paddy Taylor as Regional Sales Manager for MEA and Mars Orozov as Middle East...
Piksel has hired three senior executives to advance commercial expansion in EMEA. Greig Hilton, Jason Johns, and Jonathan Steel join the Piksel EMEA team under Executive Vice President of Commercial...
