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

  With over 20 years of experience in working at the leading edge of the digital revolution, Ken's career highlights include:
  Leading the development of the world's first broadcast quality MPEG-1 decoder
  Managing the development team responsible for the world's first MPEG-2 encoder
  Defining the world's first comprehensive MPEG test system
  Working on the world's first commercial digital terrestrial system
  Heading the Design Authority for the UK's largest digital cable system
  Chairing the DVB group responsible for defining audio and video compression formats
  Publishing numerous papers and filing several patents
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Adriana Mattei
Director
Tel: +44 (0) 1962 625347
Email: adriana@zetacast.com
  Adriana has over a decade of international experience on developing the new services emerging from the convergence of digital broadcasting, IT and telecommunication technologies, including:
 
Developing and implementing the product strategy for the Sky broadband Customer Premises Equipment in the UK
 
Head of Market Development at Arqiva, including working on the first mobile broadcast TV trials in the UK
 
Working on investigating delivery of content over IP and broadcast networks to convergence devices
 
Developing the digital cable development lab and leading verification team to aid first UK Digital cable rollout
 
DVB Standardisation
 
European Energy Regulations and Policy
   
 

Ian Brown
Director
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 launch of Star TV in Hong Kong
  Project Management of digitisation of Star TV transmission
  Project Management of the implementation of the UK's largest digital cable system
  Project Management of the TV Studio facilities in BBC Stage 6
  Project Management, Design and Delivery of systems in UK, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Egypt
   
 
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:
  System design of the world's first standards-based digital TV systems in Australia, Thailand and South Africa
  Strategic Technologist for the UK's largest digital cable TV deployment
  Management of  UK government's first research programme on Pervasive Computing technologies
  Chairman of the DVB Commercial Security (CM-SEC) working group
   
 
Stuart Savage
Senior Consultant
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 823708
Email: stuart@zetacast.com
Stuart has consistently designed and delivered high quality innovative services, solutions and projects at the forefront of the digital TV industry:
  Chief Engineer and systems architect at UK's largest digital cable operator
 

Project and Programme Management of Satellite and Cable Network Systems

  ITU , ETSI, DVB, EuroCableLabs Technical Specification generation
  Technical Expertise includes DTV Headends, Content Security Systems, IPTV, VOD, Metadata and BSS Integration
  Management of Regulatory Affairs relating to Digital Television
  Strategic Technical Advisor and Technical Due Diligence
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