ZetaCast

   
  ZetaCast's Directors and Senior Consultants are all well-recognised figures within the broadcasting and telecommunications industries. One of the Directors personally leads each of our major projects, drawing on a pool of additional resource as required.
     
 

Ken McCann
Director
Tel: +44 (0) 1962 625347
Email: ken@zetacast.com

  Ken has over 20 years of international experience in working at the leading edge of the digital revolution:
  Previously Technology Director at NTL Broadcast (now Arqiva)
  Led development team for the world's first MPEG-2 encoder
  Helped define architecture of world's first commercial digital terrestrial system
  Head of Design Authority for largest UK digital cable system
  Chairs the DVB group responsible for defining standards on audio and video compression
  Published numerous papers and filed several patents
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Adriana Mattei
Director
Tel: +44 (0) 1962 625347
Email: adriana@zetacast.com
  Adriana has over a decade of experience of developing the new services emerging from the convergence of digital broadcasting, IT and telecommunication technologies:
  Previously Head of Market Development at Arqiva
  Organised trials of mobile TV technologies and white spaces
  Integrated cable development lab and led verification team to facilitate UK digital cable rollout
  Investigated delivery of content over IP and broadcast networks to convergence devices
  Developed product strategy for the Sky broadband CPE
  Expertise on EU regulatory and policy issues
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Ian Brown
Senior Consultant
Tel: +44 (0) 1225 466983
Email: ian@zetacast.com

  Ian has a wealth of practical experience of systems engineering and project management with major broadcast projects throughout the world, including:
 

Project Engineering of the ORF-Zentrum in Vienna
  Project Management of the design and technical facilities of TVNZ Network Centre, Auckland
  Project Management of digitisation of Star TV transmission
  Project Management of the UK's largest digital cable system
  Project Management, Design and Delivery of broadcast systems in UK, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Egypt
   
 
Sheila Cassells
Senior Consultant
Tel: +44 (0) 7500 243136
Email: sheila@zetacast.com
  Sheila has over 20 years of experience in UK and EU media policy and regulation:
  Previously responsible for EU policy and public affairs in BSkyB, influencing and negotiating key outcomes across a broad range of issues
  Established and delivered the Independent Television Commission’s economic regulation function
  Represented the cable and satellite industry as Deputy Chair of the UK’s Digital TV Switchover Plan
  Established, chaired and directs the Digital Interoperability Forum (DIF)
  Co-chairs the European High Definition Forum
   
 
Guy Hirson
Senior Consultant
Tel: +44 (0) 1635 269333
Email: guy@zetacast.com
Guy has over 15 years of experience in delivering digital TV solutions, with a particular focus on IPTV technologies, Home Networks and Content Protection:
  Previously Strategic Technologist for the UK's largest digital cable TV deployment
 

System design of the world's first standards-based digital TV systems in Australia, Thailand and South Africa

  Experienced with IPTV and Connected TV systems
  Expertise on Conditional Access and Content security systems
  Chairman of the DVB Commercial Security (CM-SEC) working group
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