Speakers
Among our speakers on the day, we are delighted to welcome:
Greg Dyke
Former Director General of the BBC
After an early career as a journalist, Greg Dyke started his broadcasting career in 1977 at London Weekend Television. He became Editor-in-Chief of TV-am in 1983 and the following year Director of Programmes for TVS (Television South).
He returned to LWT in 1987 as Director of Programmes, and in 1990 became Managing Director, before being Group Chief Executive of LWT (Holdings) plc from 1991 - 1994.
After the Granada take-over of LWT, Greg Dyke joined Pearson Television as Chief Executive. During his time in the post, from 1995 to 1999, he built it into the largest non-US independent production company in the world. He also guided the consortium which created Channel 5 and became its first Chairman.
Greg Dyke became Director-General of the BBC in January 2000, having joined the previous year as Deputy Director-General and Director-General designate. In his time at the BBC Greg Dyke reorganised its structure with the twin aims of putting him closer to programme-makers and of spending more of the BBC's income on programmes and services for audiences and less on running the organisation. He has also made major commitments to use digital technology to provide new education opportunities and to improve the cultural diversity of the workforce and BBC programmes.
He left the BBC in January 2004 in controversial circumstances. Many thousands of the BBC staff took to the streets to protest at his departure. Greg Dyke was recently made the new Chancellor of the University of York: he will take over in November 2004 from Dame Janet Baker.
Michael Golden
Publisher of the International Herald Tribune
Michael
Golden was named publisher of the International Herald Tribune in November 2003.
He is responsible for both the journalistic and business operations of the
newspaper. In October 1997, after having served as vice president for operations
development since January 1996, he was appointed vice chairman of The New York
Times Company and senior vice president, two positions he continues to hold.
Also in 1997, Mr. Golden was elected to the Board of Directors of the Company.
Prior to his appointment as publisher of the IHT, he was elected to The IHT
Board of Directors in 1997 and served until 2002.
Mr. Golden was executive vice president and
publisher at the Companyís Tennis magazine from October 1994 until January
1996. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and general manager
of the Companyís Women's Publishing Division from September 1991 until October
1994. The Times Company sold its Womenís Publishing Division in 1994.
Before working at The Times, Mr. Golden was
publisher of McCall's magazine from May 1990 until August 1991 and general
manager of Child magazine from January 1988 until April 1990. From August 1986
until January 1988, he served as senior vice president of The Retail Magazine
Marketing Company, which was the Companyís magazine distributor. Also prior to
joining the Times, he served as production manager of Family Circle since he
started with the magazine in July 1984. Previously to this, he worked for eight
years in a series of editorial and management posts at The Chattanooga (
Additionally, Mr. Golden serves on the boards
of Graham-Windham Services to Families and Children,
From 1974 until 1976, Mr. Golden was on the
faculty at the Institute Franco-American in
In 1989, Mr. Golden was selected by the New
York City Partnership to be one of the six David Rockefeller Fellows to
participate in the first year of its program. Born in
Mr. Golden is married and has two daughters.
Simon Guild
Deputy Chief Executive & Executive Vice-President, MTV Networks Europe
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As
Deputy Chief Executive & Executive Vice-President, MTV Networks Europe,
Simon Guild has been integral to the ongoing implementation of MTV Networks
Europe's regionalisation strategy and is credited with driving MTVís
acquisition policies and strategic alliances across
In his role as Chief Operating Officer, MTV Networks Europe, Simon is also at the helm of a number of key MTV Networks Europe's business operations including its pan-European production arm, MTV Productions Europe, (responsible for developing and execute all of the networkís pan-European programming including high profile fully-integrated events including MTV Europe Music Awards, Isle of MTV, MTV Shakedown and MTV Winterjam). He also oversees MTV Broadcast Services (the networkís facilities and transmission business) and network-wide functions including Human Resources, Finance and IS functions.
Simon joined MTV Networks Europe in 1993 as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Planning, MTV Networks Europe. He was promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer in 1997.
Prior to joining MTV Networks
Europe, Simon spent 6 years with Mercer Management Consulting in
Charles Hodson
Main anchor for CNNís World Business Today
Charles Hodson is anchor of the CNN International daily evening business programme "World Business Today." Two editions of this fast paced programme round up the day's business and financial market news and include keynote interviews with major business players and updates on Wall Street and the European markets.
During his time with CNN's news team in London, Hodson has interviewed some of the most powerful men in European government, including the European Commission President, Romano Prodi, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. In addition, Hodson has interviewed some of the most influential people in business including heads of leading European banking institutions and CEOs of a wide number of industries.
Hodson joined CNN's "World Business Today" team in January 1995 as financial news correspondent reporting on business and financial activity in Europe for the network. In 1997, he anchored CNN's "Pinnacle Europe" from its inception, a series of 50 programmes profiling corporate leaders. He subsequently moved in 1999 to launch the morning business show "World Business This Morning," a key component of CNN's ongoing regionalisation strategy to bring locally produced programming to the European market place.
Before joining CNN, Hodson was Europe correspondent for ITN's 'Channel Four Daily'. He began his career as a BBC News Trainee and worked for BBC Radio in Brussels. In 1982 he joined ITN to set up Channel 4 news and spent 10 years with the channel as domestic and then European reporter, helping ITN earn two Royal Television Society team awards for its coverage of the 1984-85 UK miners' strike and 1985 Tottenham riots. Hodson then moved to Berlin and presented Deutsche Welle TV's English-language programme 'Journal.'
Hodson is a native of the United Kingdom. He was a scholar at both Eton College and Oxford University and holds a bachelor degree in politics and economics. He is fluent in German, Italian and French.
Vanni Treves
Chairman of London Business School, Former Chairman of Channel Four Television
Vanni Treves is a consultant and former senior partner at Macfarlanes. He graduated from University College, Oxford in 1961 and then completed an LLM at the University of Illinois. He joined Macfarlanes in 1963 and in 1968-69 he was seconded to a major firm of Wall Street lawyers. He became a partner in 1970 and was senior partner from 1987 to 1999.
Vanni Treves has always specialised in company and commercial law, dealing particularly with corporate finance, securities law and practice, takeover bids, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance, on which he has written and lectured widely.
He is Chairman of BBA Group PLC and McKechnie PLC, which are listed on the London Stock Exchange. He was Chairman of Channel Four Television Corporation until 2003, and also remains Chairman of London Business School. Vanni Treves is a Trustee of the J Paul Getty Jr Charitable Trust and of several other major trusts and pension funds. He is Chairman of the NSPCC's Justice for Children Appeal and on the Development Board of the National Art Collections Fund.
Michael J. Wolf
Director and Global Leader of McKinsey & Company's Media
& Entertainment Practice
Michael
J. Wolf is the leading strategist to the world's top media and entertainment
companies. He is a Director and
Global Leader of McKinsey & Company's Media & Entertainment Practice,
the largest and most influential practice for these industries.
Mr. Wolfís focus is on helping senior management solve their most important and complex business problems, which will define the future of their companies and their industries. His clients have included many of the top global media conglomerates which are the leaders in such segments as: filmed entertainment, broadcasting, music, cable television, magazines, home video, newspapers, educational publishing, sports, interactive, video games, on-line, DBS, theatrical, theme parks and book publishing. He also advises companies in related areas such as merchandising, direct marketing, themed retail, toys and consumer electronics.
His experience includes working with senior management to:
He is the author of The Entertainment Economy: How Mega Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives (Random House). He has also written a number of articles including: "Convergence" Forbes, August 2000, "The Triumph of Broadband," The Wall Street Journal, January, 2000, "In TV Land, Bigger is Better, "The Wall Street Journal, August 2000, "Media or Die", Worth, March 2001, "Here Comes Another Wave of Media Mergers," The Wall Street Journal, February 2002, "No Dark Ages for the Media's Brightest Lights", The Wall Street Journal, July 2002, ìThe Music Industry Is Getting Its Act Together at Lastî, The Wall Street Journal, November 2003, ìMedia Mutinyî, The Wall Street Journal, December 2003, ìDigitizing MGMís Roadî, The Wall Street Journal, April 2004.
A graduate of
We will also host panel contributors from over 20
different companies.ÝMore details can be
found under the Panels section, but the companies include:
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