HOT BIRD™ TV Awards 2008

Mr Jerzy Barski (from Lodz, Poland) has 25 years’ experience in journalism. He started his journalistic career in a local daily paper “Dziennik Lodzki” as a reporter, then worked all the way up to the editor-in-chief. For 5 years he was working as the head of the programming in a local public radio station, then he was a director of the Warsaw-based Polskapresse News Agency and the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine “European Union Monitor”. Now he is the adviser to the Minister of National Education.
For 19 years Mr Barski has been writing for “TV-SAT Magazyn”, the oldest and most prestigious Polish monthly magazine devoted to the problems of satellite television. The magazine, founded in 1989, was the first of its kind in Eastern and Central Europe. It is addressed to cable operators and DTH subscribers. The magazine has readers not only in Poland but in Polish colonies in many countries of the world (to mention Germany, Great Britain, Israel, USA).
As the “TV-SAT Magazine” author Mr Jerzy Barski is responsible, among others, for the international news. His main fields of interest – thematic channels, sport, music, politics. He writes about technological news in the satellite industry, he also specializes in problems of public media in other countries.

Mr Jacques Braun (EURODATA TV, France)

Born in 1948, Jacques BRAUN is a graduate in economic sciences and a doctor in applied economics. In 1970 he joined the SOFRES as a research analyst. In 1974 he worked as head of marketing research at UNISABI (MARS group).
He became, in 1975, radio and television quality research manager at the Centre d'Etude d'Opinion. From 1978 onwards he held the post of managing director in charge of marketing and research for France and Italy at Radio Monte Carlo (RMC).
In 1987, he became Marketing Manager of Zygofolis, a leisure and entertainment park in South of France.In 1989, after establishing a consultancy company (JB Media) he joined MEDIAMETRIE as mission analyst assistant to the CEO for international affairs and became Mediamétrie’s international director and Eurodata TV Worldwide Coordinator.
As of 2007, he is an Executive Director at Mediamétrie as well as EurodataTV Worldwide’s Vice-President. He has been an Esomar member for more than 20 years.

Mr Paolo Dalla Chiara (PENTASTUDIO, Italy)

Degree in Statistics with focus on economics, “La Sapienza” University, Rome. Besides statistics and mathematics, he is very much interested and busy in marketing and communication activities.
Since 1994: founder and President of SAT Expo, the most important space and advanced telecommunications exhibition in Europe. Since 1996: responsible for Eutelsat External relations in Italy Since 2003: advisor for Skylogic Italia, subsidiary company of Eutelsat Since 2000: Chairman of OpenSky Italia (via sat services industry). Other details: Founder-member of ASAS, Associations for Services, Applications and Technologies for the space. Director of Pentastudio, communication, marketing and advertising agency Founder of the Vicenza Oro Magazine (1984) and editorial director of other magazines of the Vicenza Fair for the gold and jewellery sector (Oromacchine, Good Morning Jewellery, VIORO Today, VIORO Internationals Editions) With Giuliano Berretta, Chairman and General Manager of Eutelsat, he wrote “Televisione dallo spazio” published by “Il Sole 24Ore”.

Mrs Stefanie Von Beöczy (EGTA, Europe)

Stefanie is Head of TV & Radio Projects at egta, the Brussels based Association of Radio and Television Sales Houses. In 2007 she was in charge of a survey on “Thematic Channels and Advertising” and the organization of a related workshop on “Thematic Channels: A Viable Business Model?”.
A second edition of the study is planned for May 2009. Stefanie von Beöczy joined egta in December 2006. She graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
In 1999 she moved back to her roots – to Germany – and began working for the international public relations firm Weber Shandwick where she was Senior Account Manager for clients such as the BMW Group, Siemens, Cisco Systems and the French international TV station TV5MONDE. From 2004-2006 Stefanie worked for an independently owned communications agency. Her clients included the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour and the TV5MONDE. Stefanie led the channel’s German and Austrian representation and safe-guarded the channel’s distribution in these markets.

Mrs Giovanna Maggioni (UPA, Italy)

Giovanna Maggioni General Director of UPA (Utenti Pubblicità Associati – Associated Advertising Users) Over her rich work experience, Giovanna Maggioni has dealt with communication issues under different points of view.
During her ten years at the Corriere della Sera – Rizzoli publishing group, Giovanna Maggioni reached a deep knowledge of the publishing world of advertising and promotion, with more and more important roles and functions.
This experience has then taken her to UPA, where she developed first the research and study area (she is in the board of directors of Auditel, TV audience surveys, Audiradio, radio audience surveys, Audipress, Audiposter, billboard audience surveys – which she chairs –, Audiweb and Audimovie) until becoming its General Director.
Giovanna Maggioni has a degree in Statistics at the Catholic University of Milan. She is a professor at the Master’s degree in Business Communication at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and at the Master’s degree in Brand Communication at the Politecnico di Milano University. She is also in the Managing Board at the Institute for Advertising Self-Discipline.

Mrs Asu Maro (MILLIYET SANAT AND MILLIYET DAILY, Turkey)

Asu Maro was born in 1972 in Istanbul / Turkey. She has a B.A. degree from Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University. She started her career in Culture and Arts Department of Cumhuriyet newspaper. Then she worked as editor and text writer for a TV programme called Prizma for two years.
Then she joined Radikal newspaper and worked as an editor in Arts, Cinema and TV supplements of the newspaper. Since 2005 she is one of the co-editors of Milliyet Sanat (a monthly magazine about arts) and has a column in the newspaper in which she writes about culture, arts and TV.

Mrs Mimi Turner (HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, Europe)

Mimi Turner is European Television Editor for The Hollywood Reporter and has been reporting on the European entertainment business for eight years. She joined the Hollywood Reporter as U.K. Television correspondent in 1999.
Mimi has made frequent media appearances discussing the business of television and film, most recently on CNBC, CNN, The Today Programme, Channel 4 News. She has moderated media panels at the MipTV trade conference in Cannes, 3GSM in Barcelona, the Financial Times Media conference in London.
Prior to working at the Reporter Mimi was a science writer for the Sunday Times reporting on a wide range of environmental, medical, aeronautical, biotech and engineering issues. She joined the Sunday Times after writing on technology and IT as technology/IT reporter for the Times.
She began her writing career at the Financial Times as launch editor of Television Europe and was also a contributor to a number of Financial Times media publications. She has published a number of reports for the Financial Times on television and technology issues.
Mimi is a committee member of the Broadcast Press Guild and an annual judge on such broadcast awards as the Royal Television Society International award, the Broadcast Press Guild multichannel award and last year was a judge of the Eurovisioni Channel of the Year award for the first time. She was a founder member of Women in Journalism in London and a committee member for five years, launching Women in Journalism in Scotland. She studied civil engineering at Imperial College in London.

Mr Patricia Wynn Davies (DAILY TELEGRAPH, Uk)

Patricia has had a long career in UK daily and Sunday newspapers and magazines. From 1989 to 1997 she worked primarily in news and comment at The Independent covering the fields of home and legal affairs and politics, and also took responsibility for commissioning feature pages.
In 1997 she left the paper to study fine art, thereafter combining freelance journalism and consultancy with making artwork. During the last 10 years she has worked continuously in the field of TV, radio and film criticism, alongside other topics, serving during part of this period as Deputy TV & Radio Editor for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph.
Other freelance clients for whom she works regularly on a consultancy basis include Vanity Fair magazine (promotions and supplements) and commercial and public sector organisations. When she is not doing this she is a practising artist working in the fields of painting and photography.

Mr Matteo Altobelli (EUTELSAT, Europe)

Matteo Altobelli is Eutelsat’s marketing director, covering both product and strategic marketing matters. Prior to joining Eutelsat he was a manager with consulting firm Booz & Co where he carried out projects related to strategy, operations, business planning and financial valuation in all areas of telecommunications (fixed, mobile, satellite), media and Internet in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Prior to joining Booz & Co, he worked as a space systems engineer at the European Space Agency in the Netherlands. Before that, he served as an officer in the Italian military navy.
He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a MSc with honors (magna cum laude) in Aerospace Engineering from “La Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy) and was an Erasmus student at Cranfield University (UK).

Mr Mauro Roffi (MILLECANALI, Italy)

Mauro Roffi has always been interested in media affairs and particularly in radio and television; and gained a degree in DAMS at the University of Bologna.
In Bologna he collaborated with local television channels for news programmes, undertaking simultaneously his journalistic career in the media and starting to collaborate with magazines about TV programmes (ŒTelepiù, ŒBuongiorno TV, ŒSorrisi e canzoni, ŒMillecanali).
In 1985 he started to work for the Millecanali monthly magazine on a regular basis, becoming in the meantime full-time professional journalist; in 1990 he became the editor-in-chief of ŒMillecanali¹. From then onwards he has been coordinating the editorial office of this magazine which recently joined the Il Sole 24 Ore Business Media group.