Contributors

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Publisher

Richard Kastelein is the co-founder of Appmarket.tv and MD of Agora Media Innovation Ltd. A Canadian expatriate living in The Netherlands, he was winner of 2010 Deloitte Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions for Entrepreneurs in the Netherlands for futurist views on Social TV and Media Convergence (Tech Visionary). He is an occasional guest Lecturer at Hanze University in Groningen, Netherlands and has been building social TV since 2007. He is also a consultant and speaker on future TV. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Editor-in-Chief

Adriana Hamacher is an award winning writer (IPC Feature Writer of the Year) with over 20 years experience at the BBC as a producer and editor who has worked both online and in print. She has also worked with Travel Channel International as a Producer, was a Researcher and Co-Presenter for BBC Radio 5 Schools, Children and Youth Programmes, a Co-Producer/Director at BBC Arts, London, a Producer -  Features & Events for the BBC World Service and is now heading the editorial team at Appmarket.tv.

Co-Editors

Gianluigi Cuccureddu SMP is the co-founder of Appmarket.tv and an associate at Agora Media Innovation Ltd. He is also Managing Partner for the London-based 90:10 Group, a pioneering global business consultancy focused on using social media, its technologies and data to improve efficiency and innovation through action-oriented insights for its clients across their supply chains, with existing offices in UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and The Middle East. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Paul Johnson is a writer for Appmarket.tv and founding Director at Montgomery Aston and has been specialising in making sense and acting upon the convergent areas of Media, Communications and Consumer Management for the past 15 years. He has worked with some of the biggest names in media and has been responsible for innovation across many of the areas that now make up the digital convergence market including: marketing; advertising; digital devices & platforms, user experience, broadcast, on demand, publishing, social media and mobile. He specialized in product development; delivery; simplifying the complicated; solving problems; lateral thinking; and creating the win win between profit/cost and consumer value. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Contributors 

Arnold Waldstein is a business advisor, marketing consultant, blogger and executive coach living in New York City. Arnold works at the intersection of technology, entertainment and new markets and has been turning great ideas and new technology into global brands, consumer and enterprise products and services for 25 years. By his count, he has two successful IPOs, over a dozen acquisitions, and innumerable fund raisings. He works in the tech, VC and media communities in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Europe. Arnold consults with clients, blogs and speaks on social media and commerce, Facebook and social platforms for businesses and brands, and the intersection of the real-time web, video and the TV marketplace. He is an avid wine aficionado and blogs on natural wines @ http://arnoldwaldstein.com/wine. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Tom McDonnall is a former games developer, and now focused on re-inventing the TV business model and monetizing active audiences as Commercial Director for leading Social TV production company, Monterosa in the UK. He also maintains a creative steering role, innovating how the company integrates connected users with 'traditional' content. Tom speaks regularly at conferences in the UK and internationally – recently he spoke at MIPTV, IBC, Edinburgh Interactive and Facebook Garage events. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Jeroen Elfferich studied Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and, aged 20, co-founded web developer NetlinQ in 1995. As CTO he helped to grow the company to over 200 employees when it was acquired by Framfab (now LBi Group) in 2000. A year later, he co-founded Ex Machina, where he currently serves as CEO. Jeroen has been working on online gaming technology since 1998 and mobile since 2001. His interest is in synchronous, social and interactive entertainment across mobile, web and TV. Ex Machina is headquartered in Amsterdam and has small offices in London and San Francisco. Ex Machina works with media and games companies such as Fremantle, Talpa, RTL, ProSiebenSat.1, Microsoft Xbox, EA, VRT, VPRO, MTV3 and Bonnier. Its platform for large scale, real time and synchronous interaction around TV and events is called PlayToTV. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Ben Schwarz created “CTO innovation Consulting” in 2008 bringing his unique expertise to Content owners, Technology companies and network Operators around the world. He gets involved with Strategy & Business Modelling, Deployment and Quality of Experience. At Orange he ran R&D programs and int’l IPTV deployments . He was often spokesman for Orange. Ben was CTO of an Internet music start-up during the bubble. Previously he spent 10 years in IT with Logica-CMG. You can bump into him at conferences where he is often speaker or chairman. Hook up with him in Paris where he lives or on LinkedIn, twitter @nebul2 or by email (bs AT ctoic.net).

Dick Rempt is a serial entrepreneur & company builder with a back ground in New Media and Venture Capital. He loves to discover and develop potential in people and businesses. Dick's specialty is building companies with business models creating competitive advantage. He's thrilled by the potential power of social media for brands to interact with their environment or 'brand community' Dick: 'We are just beginning to understand the potential power of social media for brands and media companies to really engage people long term. Companies and brands unable to master these new media are very likely to face tough times.' Dick is married, has 4 kids and lives in The Netherlands. Beware of his terrible jokes LinkedIn

James Grant Hay is CEO of InShot, a digital branded entertainment agency blurring the lines between content and commerce in today's transmedia multiverse. With over a decade of experience in content monetisation, James has worked on a number of online interactive Web series dramas for Belo Interactive in New York with Mindshare Interaction and more recently as Integrations Producer on OzGirl, the 2010 Streamy Award Winner for Best Foreign Web series. An early entrant in the Australian market, James successfully pioneered a series of integrated marketing campaigns for Hyundai in the feature film Little Fish, starring Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett. His practice has grown to include Social TV campaign work for Skype as well as building the digital content business for Adconion Media Group and participating in the UK Government's 2010 consultation process to legalise paid product placement in commercial broadcast television in Britain. James lives in Australia and works regularly in audio-visual markets as diverse as China, India, Italy and France.  He is an avid blogger, writer and speaker in the Social TV space and brings a new unique voice to his readership as the founder of social entertainment studio Pixel8. Hook up with him at Linkedin

Natan Edelsburg is the founder of Natan.TV a team of student experts at New York University and UC-Irvine that offer social marketing, design and video services with a focus on entertainment and television. He writes entertainment articles for the blog, NYU Local and is President of the NYU Communications Club. Natan has had marketing experience at several companies including 360i and Bain & Company. Additionally, he has executed several university marketing programs at NYU for JetBlue and P&G's ReadyU brand. Hook up with him at LinkedIn.

Emma Wells is marketing executive and blogger at TV Genius (www.tvgenius.net/blog/), a TV recommendations and search software company. Having worked in the tech industry since 2008, she is new to the TV industry, and enjoying learning the ropes- while taking her blog readers along for the ride.  Hook up with her Linkedin.

Pooky Amsterdam is the founder of Pooky Media and works in Video and product development promoting brand entertainment in the virtual web. She is an originator and visionary on the virtual plane par excellence, a producer, Director, and Writer - and is host of The 1st Question and The Dating Casino in Second Life.  Her company, Pooky Media is a well-recognised Second Life Solution Provider offering branding, sponsorship and advertising opportunities through affiliation with her programming and she uses Machinima to create compelling video which creates persistent advertising for delivering excellent ROI... where edge-of-your-seat marketing happens in an emerging area where the intimate nature of one2one sales, education and edification flourishes. Hook up with her at LinkedIn.

Vijay Kailas is co-founder of Numote, a socially-enabled platform for adding an interactive layer to television content. Vijay's research on the disruption of the television Industry at Havard Graduate School of Design lead to the formation of Numote. At Numote, he has worked with multiple service operators (MSOs), television networks, and television manufactures to re-envision television viewing as a personal and social experience. The Numote platform has won several honors including the Samsung Free the TV Challenge People's Choice Award and Honorable Mention and is used by TV networks in South America and Europe. Hook up with him at Linkedin.

Sarah Louise DeLuca is a 2010 graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. She is a millennial seeking to revolutionize broadcast TV with interactive programming. Sarah Louise recently launched her own website (www.ScreenHarmony.com) where she writes about social TV and the synchronization of content with fragmented devices. She has experience in television production and has worked on the set of a soap opera, assisted in non-fiction series proposals to networks and engaged in psychological research studies to improve narrative resonance for a pre-school animated program. She closely follows interactive services that complement linear TV by promoting discovery, encouraging emotional connections and satisfying curiosity. Hook up with her on Linkedin.

Want to play a part in dissemination of ideas in the future of TV, share market intelligence, wit, insight and analysis with peers in this emerging industry? We are looking for contributors and contributions to Appmarket.tv. Email richard @ agoramedia DOT co DOT uk