Broadcast & Film Africa 2010

Addis Alemayehou currently serves as Managing Director of Paconet Media PLC in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Paconet Media PLC is the first and ONLY English FM station in Addis Ababa.
With a population of over 3.5 million people, the city of Addis A more...

Andrea Bohnstedt is the publisher of Ratio Magazine (www.ratio-magazine.com), an East Africa online business magazine, and works as an independent country risk analyst for several international firms.  Andrea has an established track record in c more...

Bill Torrey has been a broadcast journalist in Washington, D.C., for more than 35 years, including on-air and managerial positions with all-news WTOP, NBC News, the Voice of America and CBSMarketWatch.com.  He was president of the environmental medi more...

Prior to his appointment as Permanent Secretary, he taught Entrepreneurship and Research Methods at University of Nairobi. Besides Policy formulation, Dr. Ndemo is currently steering a campaign to lower the cost of accessing ICT (Connectivity, Hardware more...

As the DISCOP AFRICA Executive Manager, Cherise Barsell has been key in bringing together hundreds of African TV, production and advertising executives to the annual DISCOP AFRICA TV content market in order to build the African TV industry through pro more...

EDUCATION
 
MSc IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA(USC), LOS ANGELES USA
BSc (HONS) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (TELECOMMS) UNIVERSITY OF  NAIROBI, KENYA
 
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
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Elissa Wilding the Chief Executive Officer of Free2view.Prior to this Ms.Wilding has had a distinguished career within the Advertising and Media World extending oversome 30 years. Her experience and passion in the Broadcast arena goes back to 1991 and more...

Fidelis Ngede is Chief Executive Officer of Africa News Network Media Group. He is responsible for creating and maintaining the course of the  group’s overall strategy with a primary focus on growing the distribution of Television Breaking, more...

Filmmaker/writer. Recent productions from his company Savannah Films are: Mwalimu – The Legacy of Julius Kambarage Nyerere [Documentary, 2009, Tz]; African Tales - Short Film Series [Fiction, 2005/2008 – Tz]. He is a Senior Lecturer in Media more...

Currently CEO, Kenya- Today Newspaper published in NairobiPublishes Africa News Online covering African affairsChairman of the Board of Directors of Tracesoft Kenya Ltd, an internet trading platform based in Nairobi with affiliation in NorwayServes on th more...

Joe Frans is an Executive Director for NGB AB and Member of the Board of NGB Africa; He is one of those who started the NGB venture in Africa and is a former Member of Parliament of the Swedish Parliament .He has a diploma in communication studies. He stud more...

Joe Otin
Media CT Director, Ipsos Synovate Pan-Africa
Rotary Public Image Coordinator, Africa

As Media CT Director in Ipsos Synovate Pan-Africa, Joe is at the core of advertising and media development in at least 6 Afric more...

Throughout my career I was blessed to work with great people from all corners of the world and with very diverse backgrounds. My goal is to inspire the best in any team and gain new perspectives which help me in any strategic role to connect the dots.
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Lara Kantor graduated with a first class pass in Drama and Film (Hons) at the University of the Witwatersrand and since then has worked in various senior positions in the South African broadcasting industry. She headed up broadcasting policy at the Indepe more...

I am a Broadcast professional with an extensive career over 20+ years that has encompassed every aspect of broadcast and am now,  CTO of a Pan African TV platform free2view.

In 1997 Markus Fritz joined ASTRA Marketing GmbH, Germany as Manager for Trade Marketing & Marketing Services. After working for 2 years as Director Marketing Corporate & Electronic Banking with BFG Bank A.G, Germany he returned to ASTRA in 2000 more...

Metche Isaac Moses is a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University where his academic and non academic skills in Insurance paved way for his career as a skilled voice over artist and documentary narrator today. His refined Barry-tone voice can easily be more...

 
Michael Dearham SVP 'Cote Ouest Audiovisuel', Mauritius
Mr. Michael Dearham is Senior Vice President of the Cote Ouest Audiovisuel Group and General Manager of the Mauritian Office.
Mike's principal mandate is to oversee w more...

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Mr. Ndalahwa Habbi Gunze is the Director of Broadcasting Affairs in the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) from 2004 todate. He holds a Masters Degree in Broadcast Regulation from the Cardiff University in the UK.
He was more...

She is a graduate of University of Lagos Nigeria, majoring in English and Literary Studies. She was formerly a reputable fashion designer in Lagos where she ran Akenn-G Ltd a fashion house that provides costume for television commercials, movies and spec more...

Oscar’s background is in Broadcasting. He worked for the BBC African Service, Swahili Section in Bush House London for six years from 1966.
 
In the early 70s he worked for the National Broadcaster, the then Voice of Kenya as He more...

Robyn joined IMG twelve years ago, initially as a personal assistant to the Managing Director and has subsequently worked her way up to managing IMG’s interests in Africa. She has been involved in many aspects of IMG‘s portfolio and currently wo more...

Conference Programme Director, Broadcast & Film Africa 2008
 
Russell Southwood is the Chief Executive, Balancing Act, a consultancy and online publishing company specialising in telecoms, Internet and broadcasting in Africa.< more...

Salim Amin is CEO of Camerapix, founder and Chairman of The Mohamed Amin Foundation and Chairman of A24 Media.
In 1963, world-renowned photographer, cameraman and publisher, Mohamed "Mo" Amin, launched Camerapix from a small shop in Dar es Salaam. F more...

Samuel Attah-Mensah is the Managing director of Omni Media Limited, a media outfit that manages Citi 97.3 Fm, www.citifmonline.com and the Weekend Globe Newspaper in Ghana. Samuel is also a fellow of the Aspen Leadership Institute.
Samuel h more...