Mark Pascoe Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for the company’s technical output, including specifications, recommendations and input to standards organisations. The DPP looks at technical problems through a business lens, always ensuring that work is of value to the membership; so understanding the business drivers of stakeholders in the technical work is of paramount importance.Projects included:Business-to-Business Metadata Exchange: formalising and recommending an interchange format and protocol for the exchange of metadata describing finished content between partners in the media supply chain.Live Production Exchange: specifying IP streaming and media profiles for the exchange of live content between event organisers, syndicators and distributors, to replace incumbent, expensive satellite contribution / distribution. Taking the opportunity to specify APIs to exchange metadata describing the events between the parties, and to enable automated management and setup of content relay / transcoding nodes.QC Metadata for IMF: investigate, scope and specify methodology for the carriage of finished content and event-based metadata for IMF content. The project has partners from broadcast, other content providers and QC vendors, along with leveraging support from SMPTE for necessary standardisation work.UK Broadcaster Delivery Requirements: brining together UK broadcasters to specify a single set of requirements for delivery of file-based packages from their content suppliers. Specifically, adding support for UHD content in IMF.

London, England, United Kingdom

Development of strategy and execution of the same to drive business growth, and protect against margin erosion, in primary market of professional audio equipment sales in broadcast and post-production sectors.Re-organisation and management of two sales teams, building of a marketing function, and management and marketing of technical support resource.Lightweight change management, and process and policy development, leading to significant business efficiencies, setting up the company for future success and continuing, double-digit growth.Business development, leading to diversification into adjacent sectors and geographical markets, and re-tasking of existing resource to support these new businesses.

London, England, United Kingdom

Global responsibility for understanding how Dolby audio formats address industry pain points, and addressing the technical practicalities of deploying new features and usage models in the ecosystem. Supporting local sales teams in their efforts to have Dolby technologies adopted in their local markets, including mandatory requirements in local receiver specifications across the globe, more specifically in India, SE Asia, Southern and Western Africa and across Europe from Spain to Finland and Turkey.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibility for relationships with all broadcast operators in the UK and across Scandinavia. Specifically, building a strategic partnership with BSkyB, as well as relationships with the DTG, BBC and all other free-to-air broadcasters in the UK, together with SVT, NRK, YLE, DR and relevant operators in Scandinavia.

London, England, United Kingdom

Manage a team of sales managers promoting Dolby products and technologies to broadcast operators, online service providers, mobile telcos and other, key system providers. Reports based in the UK, France and Germany.

London, England, United Kingdom

Working with broadcasters and operators to promote and coordinate the adoption of Dolby technologies. Focus on building relationships with major, UK- based playout facility companies, and helping to drive adoption of Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus and aacPlus formats via inclusion of requirement for Dolby deliverable in local receiver specifications.

London, England, United Kingdom

Assist customers with their audio equipment purchasing decisions, from both technical and fiscal perspectives. Starting in October 2000, I focussed on customers in the broadcast sector including television and radio broadcasters, and systems integrators. Also, having concentrated on products and issues surrounding multichannel audio production and delivery, in March 2007 I became a Dolby Approved Trainer, qualified to educate customers about the products and technologies employed in Dolby's professional audio products portfolio.Using a combination of technologies and software, including SQL Server, Active Server Pages, web and proxy servers and HTML programming, designed and implemented the company intranet to help all members of the company find and organise information.