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  • CASBAA welcomes Frank Rittman to its board of directors

    CASBAA welcomes Frank Rittman to its board of directors

    MUMBAI: During its Council of Governors Meeting concluding the CASBAA Convention 2014, CASBAA announced the election of Frank Rittman of the Motion Picture Association to its Board of Directors.
     
    “CASBAA is looking forward to having Frank Rittman’s vast experience in dealing with IP and regulatory issues across the Asia Pacific region,” said Marcel Fenez, Chairman, CASBAA. “His perspective will inform the Association’s strategy toward these crucial areas in the years ahead.”
     
    Rittman will be joining a roster of multichannel TV industry executives charged with leading the direction of the Association including Chairman, Marcel Fenez (PwC) and Directors Sompan Charumilinda (TrueVisions), Christine Fellowes (Universal Networks International), Janice Lee (PCCW Media Group), Todd Miller (Celestial Tiger Entertainment), Alexandre Muller (TV5MONDE), Mark Patterson (GroupM), Bill Wade (Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited) and Christopher Slaughter (CASBAA).
     
    “We would also like to express our deepest appreciation to Andrew Jordan of Eutelsat who is retiring from the Board after many years of service,” said Fenez.  “On the Board, we have benefitted from Andrew’s leadership, industry insight, and dedication to CASBAA’s many projects, and look forward to his ongoing contribution on the Council of Governors.”
     
    CASBAA also welcomed six new Corporate Members to its roster since the beginning of the year with beIN Sports, The Indonesia Channel, MP & Silva, NETVIET, Thuraya and Viacom18 joining the Asia-Pacific’s premier association for multichannel TV.
     
    “Our new members continue to showcase the diversity of industries and regions that make up Asia Pacific broadcasting,” said Christopher Slaughter, CEO, CASBAA. “From Indonesia to India and covering sports rights to mobile satellite services, beIN Sports, The Indonesia Channel, MP & Silva, NETVIET, Thuraya and Viacom18 are important additions to the CASBAA community.”
     
    beIN SPORTS operates multi-platform sports channels and content services in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Philippines and Thailand and aims to bring fans of all great sports live game action, news and analysis of the top leagues and competitions around the planet, as well as exclusive and never available-before content.
     
    A privately-held company with partners from various sectors in the Indonesian business community, The Indonesia Channel was conceived to provide fresh signature content along with quality acquired Indonesian programs subtitled in English.
     
    MP & Silva is a leading international media company that owns, manages and distributes some of the most prestigious sports media rights globally, advises and represents major sports federations and rights holders and offers media production and sponsorship consultancy.
     
    VTC10-NETVIET, produced by NETVIET Multimedia, is the channel of choice for Vietnamese culture and entertainment in Vietnam and features diversified content concerning Vietnamese culture, traveling, cuisine, as well as movies and series in Vietnamese with English subtitles.
     
    Thuraya Telecommunications Company is an industry leading Mobile Satellite Services operator and a global telecommunication provider offering innovative communications solutions to a variety of sectors including energy, broadcast media, maritime, military and humanitarian NGO.
     
    Viacom 18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc. and the Network 18 Group and operates six general entertainment channels and a film business through Viacom18 Motion Pictures, that produces, acquires and distributes Hindi films.

     

  • Fab.com’s Maria Molland joins American Swan board of directors

    Fab.com’s Maria Molland joins American Swan board of directors

    MUMBAI: The online global fashion and lifestyle brand American Swan has appointed Maria Molland to the company’s board of directors.

     

    Optimistic about her association with a vibrant brand like American Swan Maria Molland said, “It feels exciting to join a young, dynamic brand and there is a massive opportunity for American Swan vis-?-vis the increasing amount of capital going into emerging markets. I look forward to bringing my expertise to the brand and help them expand their impressive product range in global markets, as they enter their next stage of growth”

     

    As a new entrant in the e-commerce space, American Swan is one of the rare examples that has adopted fast and strived for efficiency in a competitive domain. Its initiative to adopt the hybrid model by venturing into online and offline channels simultaneously has helped it maximise reach and de-risk the business. The growth for the American Swan brand has been fairly fast-paced, encouraging and consistent. So expanding the brand’s footprint globally after establishing itself in India was an inevitable next step.

     

    American Swan director and CEO Anurag Rajpal added, “We are delighted to have Maria Molland join us. She brings broad, international experience and deep knowledge of the e-commerce industry. We are confident that the perspective she brings to American Swan and its Board is extremely valuable, given our strategic priorities of International presence and ecommerce growth.”

     

    Molland will bring her vast experience in ecommerce to advise American Swan on international expansion as it seeks to be the leading online fashion brand in emerging markets apart from bringing the best ecommerce practices. American Swan has grown quickly in the Indian e-commerce domain by offering a range of classic preppy fashion and authentic smart casuals to the urban fashion-conscious consumers who seek International brands and styling. It is rapidly expanding to other emerging markets in Asia.

     

    Molland is an executive who recently served as the chief European officer at Fab.com, one of the fastest growing ecommerce companies. The European business grew from negligible to more than 40 per cent of Fab’s global revenues during her tenure.

     

    Prior to Fab, Molland was the global managing director of Digital Ventures at Thomson Reuters where she managed teams in the US, Europe, India, China and the Middle East. Molland has also held global executive roles at Dow Jones and Yahoo.

     

    India has close to 10 million online shoppers and is growing at an estimated 3 per cent CAGR and is poised to witness significant growth in the next few years. It has been speculated that the industry will touch a benchmark of $34.2 billion by 2015. As the e-commerce business is growing by leaps and bounds, the growth in the sector is a reflection of evolving nature of the market and that of the consumer. American Swan as a new, dynamic brand is seeking avenues to increase its presence through top online aggregators like Myntra, Jabong, and Flipkart as well as through a strong retail footprint pan India. Four Cross Media (www.fourcrossmedia.com), a high-end global digital media conglomerate with a network of innovative businesses has invested Rs 40 crore in this venture.

     

     “We welcome Molland at American Swan. There are not many entrepreneurs who have had the chance to scale companies from small teams to hundreds of people globally, and Maria has done that. We are looking forward to leveraging her expertise with fast growing technology companies as we continue to grow our business,” says Four Cross Media Asia co-founder and managing director Puneet Johar.

  • Sir Gulam Noon joins Zee Telefilms Board of Directors

    Sir Gulam Noon joins Zee Telefilms Board of Directors

    Mumbai, February 16, 2006: Zee Network, India’s leading media and entertainment conglomerate announced the appointment of Sir Gulam Noon as an independent director on the Board of the Company.

    Announcing this appointment Mr. Ashish Kaul, Senior Vice President, Zee Telefilms Ltd. said, “It is an honour to announce the appointment of an accomplished entrepreneur like Sir Noon as a director on the Board of Zee Telefilms. We wish him all the very best in his new role.”

    Sir Gulam Noon is a British National, an accomplished entrepreneur, who founded Bombay Halwa Limited, a Company engaged in the business of manufacturing Indian confectionary, Indian savouries and aviation catering. Currently he is Chairman & Managing Director of Bombay Halwa Limited. Sir Noon founded Noon Products Limited (now a member of Kerry Foods Limited) in 1988. This Company is engaged in the business of frozen and chilled ethnic food specialists, supplying to supermarket chains under their own labels. The Noon Brand range of frozen ready meals is also supplied to outlets in the UK and worldwide.

    Sir Noon has been presented with various titles and awards like Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award, Asian of the Year, the Queen of England conferred on him Knighthood and the honour of Member of the Order of the British Empire. He holds five honorary degrees from leading British universities.