Paul Dale

Current

Non-Executive Director at Digital Five
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (Astro)

Past

Controller of Worldwide Partnerships at BBC
Controller Future Media and Technology - BBC Television at BBC
Sky Networked, Media Technology Director at BSkyB

Sky Networked Media, Development And Operations Director at BSkyB
Sky Interactive, Head Of Development at BSkyB
Head Of Development at Open.... Interactive
Head Of Development at British Interactive Broadcasting
Senior Consultant at Southbank Consulting
Project Manager at NDS Ltd (News Digital Systems)
Project Manager at Lab Impex Systems Ltd
Sponsored Undergraduate at British Nuclear Fuels Plc
Director at Bailrigg FM
Instrumentation Mechanic at British Nuclear Fuels Plc
Apprentice Technician / Electrician at British Nuclear Fuels Limited

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Education

Lancaster University
Lancaster University
West Cumbria College

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Industry

Broadcast Media

Paul Dale’s Summary

Since my first involvement in the media industry back in 1991 I have been always been focused on the convergence between traditional broadcast media and the online industry.

My expertise is equally at home delivering studios, broadcast infrastructure and set top boxes as it is working with CDN's and Digital Agencies. My hands on experiences throughout my career allows me to get in to the detail where necessary but my specialization is in the formation of long terms technology strategies. I have a strong conviction that technology strategies should deliver growth and business opportunities. My personal drive is in the belief that all technology dependent companies have opportunity in technology, the difficulty, and my strength, is in identifying them and delivering.

In my current role as CTO of Astro, one of Asia's leading PayTV operators, I am responsible for glass to glass delivery of TV content, from the Studio to the TV screen. Astro has over 100 channels of TV and 17 Radio Stations, these channels vary from 100% Astro originated and live content to content aggregation and playout. The CTO role is also responsible for the delivery of all projects and new businesses, from conception to business case to live operations.

Additionally, I now sit as an executive director on the ExCo of Digital Five, one of Asia's leading digital agencies responsible for delivery of both mobile and online content.

I am contracted in Malaysia until November 2010.

Paul Dale’s Specialties:

Highly Technical, Creative, Business Focused, Strategy planning and analysis, over 17 years experience in broadcast, interactive, consumer device, online and digital content delivery.

Paul Dale’s Experience

Non-Executive Director

Digital Five

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

June 2009 — Present (8 months)

Digital Five Sdn Bhd is a digital entity that publishes content across mobile, interactive TV, online services and new emerging platforms.

As an Non-Executive Committee member I firstly ensure that Digital Five are aligned with Astro's new and future media plans. Secondly I bring an unbiased and educated view on Digital Five's overall direction particularly in the mobile and online space.

Digital Five are the primary content and content delivery partner for Maxis Communications, Malaysia's largest mobile phone operator.

(Contracted until November 2010)
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd (Astro)

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

December 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

The role of CTO is responsible for delivery technology, technology strategy, project delivery and new businesses in the delivery of Pay TV in Malaysia to the customer. (http://www.astro.com.my).

The key remit of the two year role is the transformation of Astro in to an innovative 2010 platform; internally the initiative was termed “Astro 2.0”. In 2008 Astro was a MPEG 2, Standard Definition platform running on 15 year old consumer technology. Within the fist 12 months of the role Astro, under the CTO’s Astro 2.0 initiative, was transformed in to a High Definition, MPEG 4 platform with a full 3 year technology roadmap that fully embraces on demand and IP delivery. By the end of 2010, Astro aims to launch HD, IPTV, VOD and advanced interactive services to almost 1m homes.

The Astro HD platform was end to end delivered in less than 6 months, consisting of entirely new infrastructure all the way to the consumer, including a new satellite and redundant uplink facility. The aggressive delivery timescales of the Astro 2.0 initiative were only achievable by working with all suppliers and sub vendors, such as NDS and Broadcom, to form a “Roadmap of Roadmaps”.

In addition to the Consumer Technology Team and the Broadcast Delivery Team the CTO is also fully responsible for the Corporate Project Management Office, Project Operations, the New Media Business Unit and the Regional Playout Business. Under the New Media Business Unit the CTO is fully responsible for all Marketing and P&L of Internet, VOD, Mobile and all emerging platforms.

The role of CTO for Astro also covers a technical advisory function for the parent company, Astro All Asia Networks Plc (http://www.astroplc.com). This extended remit covers many businesses, including IPTV platforms in Saudi Arabia, Australia and India and DTH platforms in India and Brunei.

(Contracted until November 2010)
Controller of Worldwide Partnerships

BBC

(Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

April 2008 — October 2008 (7 months)

The Controller of Worldwide Partnerships is a newly created role that sits in between the BBC’s £3.5bn public service content groups and the £810m global business of BBC Worldwide (http://www.bbcworldwide.com). The role spans all UK BBC output, Journalism, Audio and Music (Radio) and Vision (TV), and is responsible for the technology and business delivery of that content to BBC Worldwide.

The role was created in order meet the growing demands of BBC Worldwide, delivering 25% profit growth year on year, and the increased need by the BBC to receive additional revenue beyond the traditional licence fee. Until the creation of the Controller role all global relationships were formed in an ad-hoc manner. The first remit of the new role was to formally shape the future technology relationship and to turn it in to a productised, sustainable, expandable and functioning technology business model.

The Controller of Worldwide Partnerships is also responsible for all legal, corporate governance and fair trading issues that exist between BBC Public Service and BBC Worldwide.

In the six month remit of the role the end to end delivery cycle was fully defined and structured such that it permitted new concepts from an innovation funnel to be taken to full delivery, all fully accountable and accurately tracked.

The Controller of Worldwide Partnership was also the chairman for the Kangaroo Steering Committee. Kangaroo was BBC Worldwide’s IPTV joint venture with Channel 4 and ITV.
Controller Future Media and Technology - BBC Television

BBC

(Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

The Controller for Vision was a new dual reporting role that sat on the executive board of both the newly formed BBC Vision (TV) and BBC Future Media and Technology divisions. The role was responsible for all interfaces between traditional TV and Technology, with a combined annual budget of over £2.6bn. The Controller Vision was required to define, specify and implement the technology delivery for the entire Vision Content Group across all traditional, new and emerging media platforms. The role was initially tasked with bringing together 6 separate work teams and building a consolidated delivery plan. The consolidation was completed within 12 months without impact to a delivery schedule of over 260 technology projects.

The Controller Vision role was one of the primary customers in the delivery of BBC iPlayer, one of the world’s most successful IPTV platforms. A key part of the project was to ensure the iPlayer impacted the BBC in the right way, from a positive viewing experience that minimised the impact on the TV Licence and existing businesses.
Sky Networked, Media Technology Director

BSkyB

(Public Company; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2006 — April 2007 (1 year )

The role of Technology Director is responsible for all technical delivery, strategy, operation and future vision for non-linear content for all BSkyB non sport channels. This includes, interactive, broadband, mobile, IPTV, VOD and emerging platforms for channels such as Sky One and Sky Movies. The role demands knowledge of all traditional and new TV production and delivery technologies to steer BSkyB’s overall technology strategy.
Sky Networked Media, Development And Operations Director

BSkyB

(Public Company; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year )

The Development And Operations Director for Sky Interactive is responsible for the complete delivery and operational lifecycle of all interactivity on the BSkyB platform. This includes short duration projects such as TV events and IA to major technical channel launches such as Sky Vegas and Sky News Active.

Sky Network Media, under the Development And Operations Director, was responsible for operating advanced TV playout services for internal BSkyB clients and third party clients such as Channel 4 and Disney.

The role reported to the Chief Marketing Officer of BSkyB and was run as a separate business unit.

Sky Networked Media was formed by the full integration of Sky Interactive and the Sky Online Business Unit.
Sky Interactive, Head Of Development

BSkyB

(Public Company; BSY; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2002 — April 2005 (3 years )

Manager of the Sky Interactive TV Development team in the generation of interactive TV applications for the Sky Digital Platform. Clients include BSkyB, BBC, ITV, Disney, Cartoon Network, Channel 4, Channel 5, UKTV, Flextech and The Community Channel. Management of R&D Projects, Interactive TV Development strategy and ownership of platform wide Interactive TV Architecture.

Sky Interactive was formed when BSkyB bought 100% ownership of British Interactive Broadcasting joint venture from the other partners (BT, HSBC and Panasonic).
Head Of Development

Open.... Interactive

(Broadcast Media industry)

October 1998 — April 2002 (3 years 7 months)

Manager of the Interactive Television development team. Specifying, developing and launching the first interactive TV channel on the Sky Digital platform. This included STB specification, iTV playout and distribution, iTV content development and overall strategy. The launch of t-betting, t-commerce, t-infomation, t-banking t-gaming, t-mail and enhanced TV for Sky Channels. Open.... was the consumer facing brand of British Interactive Broadcasting a joint venture between BSkyB, HSBC, Panasonic and BT.
Head Of Development

British Interactive Broadcasting

(Broadcast Media industry)

May 1998 — April 2000 (2 years )

British Interactive Broadcasting was a joint venture between BSkyB, HSBC, Panasonic and BT with the aim of delivering a stand alone interactive and digital media business for the BSkyB digital platform.

British Interactive Broadcasting operated "Open...." as their consumer facing brand.
Senior Consultant

Southbank Consulting

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

January 1998 — May 1998 (5 months)

The delivery of consulting services, project management, reports and analysis on new media to broadcasters. Clients included BBC, ITV and Flextech.
Project Manager

NDS Ltd (News Digital Systems)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

May 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 8 months)

NDS are the digital TV division of News Corporation. Supplying digital TV systems, Set Top Box technology, Conditional Access and interactive TV solutions.
Managing the delivery of End to End digital broadcast systems to international broadcasters. Delivered systems facilitated the broadcasting of digital video, audio, data and interactive services.
Project Manager

Lab Impex Systems Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

August 1994 — May 1995 (10 months)

Suppliers of distributed instrumentation, monitoring and communications systems.
The management of projects to ensure delivery on time, to cost and to specification.
Sponsored Undergraduate

British Nuclear Fuels Plc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)

September 1991 — September 1994 (3 years 1 month)
Director

Bailrigg FM

(Broadcast Media industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years )
Instrumentation Mechanic

British Nuclear Fuels Plc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)

August 1990 — September 1991 (1 year 2 months)
Apprentice Technician / Electrician

British Nuclear Fuels Limited

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Chemicals industry)

August 1986 — August 1990 (4 years 1 month)

Additional Information

Paul Dale’s Groups:

IEEE
Astro representative on the Asian Broadcasting Union
Astro representative for the Centre for Content Protection Asia-Pacific
Only non News Corporation member of the News Corporation Engineering and Technology Forum

Lancaster University Alumni
International Television Expert Group (www.itve.org)
CDN Industry
HDTV Group
iptv
ThoseinMedia
Media Professionals Worldwide
Media & Entertainment Professionals
Television Broadcast Technologies
TV International
BSkyB Alumni
STB / DVB Professionals
BBC alumni
Miniweb partners and supporters
ECOM Recruitment London - Digital Specialists
Social TV - next generation media (Web 2.0, mobile, digital video broadcast, DTV, STB, MHEG, IPTV)
Greenroom from JWB Associates
AFDESI International iTV Awards
BroadcastAsia