George Jeffrey Joins Playcast as Chairman of Board of AdvisorsTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 AT 01:56PM LONDON, September 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- George Jeffrey, ex-President of National Geographic Channels Europe, joins Playcast Media as Chairman of the board of advisors. Jeffrey served for over a decade as one of News Corp's senior executives in Europe and led the highly successful expansion of the National Geographic channels in the region. As Chairman of Playcast Media's board of advisors, Mr. Jeffrey will head the company's long term planning and strategic expansion. George Jeffrey comments:
Guy de Beer, Founder and CEO of Playcast:
About Playcast Playcast Media enables next generation IP owners to access millions of connected households. Its games-on-demand proprietary technology system delivers video games to ordinary cable and telco set-top on-demand systems. The technology uses ultra high-speed processing to handle off-the-shelf games and distribute games' audio/ visual output as a regular video stream. Playcast Media was founded by Guy De Beer, previously head of Harmonic's VOD product lines and Dr. Nathan Peterfreund, previously Harmonic's chief scientist. Alon Shtruzman is Playcast's COO and President of Media, and Russell Barash, Managing Director, Europe. Playcast's United States representative is United Talent Agency. George Jeffrey headed up National Geographic Channels' operations in UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa as well as global development opportunities for Nat Geo and Fox International. Previously Jeffrey was Director of Television Networks for National Geographic Channels Europe responsible for business development, legal affairs and distribution in Europe, Israel and Africa. He was responsible for the Channel's rapid growth reaching 134 million homes in less than 5 years, making it the world's fastest growing television network. Previously Jeffrey was Vice President Legal and Business Affairs, Universal Studios Networks, responsible for USN's television networks business and legal affairs in the UK, including Sci-Fi Channel. From 1994-1996 he headed Legal Affairs for Globecast Europe - France Telecom's satellite transponder and uplink provider Older NewsFormer Chairman and CEO of Vivendi Universal Publishing Agnès Touraine Joins Playcast's Board
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