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Chief Operating Officer
Richard FreudensteinContact Information
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120
Recent Events
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Broadband Content Bits: XBox-Sky; Sony-Vidzone; Sky IPTV; Radio Website
—XBox-Sky: BSkyB’s Sky Player service has finally gone live on Microsoft’s XBox 360 console offering Sky channels on a live and on-demand basis. You don’t need a satellite dish—but you do need a gold XBox Live membership worth £40 a year in order to buy Sky subscription packages. Via...
BSkyB and Universal prep for download store launch
BSkyB and Universal are moving nearer to the launch of their joint music streaming and download service, with talks underway with the remaining major labels and a number of independents, Sky confirms. The news comes amid new reports over the price structure and corporate branding for the stand-alone subscription-based...
German TV network Premiere adopts Sky brand
German pay-TV company Premiere is adopting the Sky brand and will become Sky Deutschland. The decision was taken after Rupert Murdoch, who owns 30.5% stake in Premiere, exerted his influence to expand the Sky brand over Europe. Sky Deutschland will join BSkyB in July, along with...
Blinkx puts video search in set-top boxes
Blinkx aims to make its video search engine available on TV through a partnership with Miniweb, a firm that makes interactive services for set-top boxes. The deal promises to make Blinkx's 35m hours of indexed videos available to TV viewers and will establish Blinkx's technology as a default search...
Sky partners with 3 on mobile TV
Sky has signed a mobile TV deal with UK operator 3. The agreement adds to similar deals with Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile and leaves O2 as the only major UK operator not to distribute Sky TV content. Through the deal,...
Sky in web video deal with The Times
Sky is partnering with The Times to produce co-branded video news to be published on Times Online and skynews.com. Videos will focus on business as well as home and foreign news and will combine analysis by The Times and Sunday Times commentators with Sky News footage. ...
BSkyB TV Comes To 3 UK, Data Tariff Required
BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) is adding its channel lineup to 3's mobile TV offering in the UK. The satcaster's channels were already available through services offered by Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and in O2's now-finished mobile TV trial since 2005. Now the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) unit is bringing the channels...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Richard Freudenstein | Chief Operating Officer |
| Dev Raval | Group Head |
| Judith Strange | Head of Operational Training |
| Julie Arkell | Presenter |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Allan L. Leighton | Board of Directors |
| Gail Rebuck | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Rts-Always-On | Coo, Bskyb | Current |
| Bskyb Ltd | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| Rea Group | Board of Directors | Current |
| Foxtel | Former | |
| English National Ballet | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Hr Directors Business | Group Head of Reward at Bskyb | Current |
| Bskyb Ltd | Group Head | Current |
Judith has extensive senior corporate experience in HR, Development and OD. She has run large-scale strategic change projects in-house, as a consultant and as an interim Learning and Development Director at Energis and Head of Operational Training at BskyB. She has extensive knowledge of the Financial Sector having worked for Friends Provident, Scottish Amicable and Prudential. At Prudential she was one of the original HR Business Partner team when they implemented a Business Partner model in 2000. Starting off in Sales and having had a period in Corporate Projects Judith brings a highly commercial focus to partnering and is passionate about developing HR teams to increase their credibility with the business areas and be a truly influential Business Partner. Judith has been involved in HR Business Partnering for 5 years and many organisations have found her insights and support invaluable when implementing Partnering, reviewing their HR strategy and developing their Partnering teams. She has spearheaded develop uk's work in developing Partners' influencing ability, bringing in key skills from her sales background.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Energis LLC | Interim Learning and Development Director | Current |
| Energis LLC | Consultant | Current |
| Bskyb Ltd | Head of Operational Training | Current |
| Hr Business Partnering | Director | Current |
Julie is a regular presenter for BskyB in particular The Great Grape Show, A Question of Taste, The Weekend Wine Show, Getaway and Gourmet Guides and has appeared on BBC1 (The Great Escape), BBC2 (Gluck! Gluck! Gluck!), Open House With Gloria Hunniford (Channel 5), BBC News 24 and BBC World Service Television News. She has also guested on BBC Radio 2 with Paul Heiney and John Dunn, BBC Radio 4 s You and Yours and on Radio Five Live in addition to stints on local radio. A regular wine speaker for Sainsbury s and Sainsbury s Magazine s Gourmet Club, Julie adopts a no-nonsense, fun approach to wine tastings favourite topics include Best Buys From the Supermarket and the High Street... this, after all, is what most people want to learn more about in Julie's wide experience. However, she is quite willing and able to tackle any wine subject, tailoring her presentation to suit any audience. Instrumental in designing the Passport To Wine & Food weekends for CenterParcs, Julie is available as an expert consultant. She also offers a popular, specialized wine tasting package for corporate bodies who are looking for something different to entertain clients or employees. In her spare time Julie is studying for the Master of Wine exams she was awarded a Brown Brothers scholarship and helps her husband run The White Hart Inn in Cross, Somerset. Speakers-uk.com are the UK?s pre-eminent source for motivational speakers for all occasions. On engaging a motivational speaker, or business speaker or keynote speakers, you will receive a full briefing pack with some key information and advice on making sure your occasion really is memorable. Just some of the refreshing differences about Speakers-UK.com that causes our clients to return to us for all their speaking needs and thus allows us to deliver an even better service to them year in year out.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bskyb Ltd | Presenter | Current |
| Speakers Uk | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Share Report | Current | |
| Noble Khan Limited | Current | |
| Royal Mail Group Ltd | Chairman | Current |
| George Weston Limited | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Svp Alliance Members and Associates | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Bskyb Ltd | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sky Broadcasting Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Asda | Chief Executive | Former |
| Asda | Group Marketing Director | Former |
| Asda Stores Limited | Group Marketing Director | Former |
| Bhs Ltd. | Chairman | Former |
Gail Rebuck was appointed as a Director of the Company on 8 November 2002. Ms Rebuck is Chairman and Chief Executive of The Random House Group Limited (''Random House''), one of the UK's leading trade publishing companies. In 1982, Ms Rebuck became a founder Director of Century Publishing (''Century''). Century merged with Hutchinson in 1985 and in 1989 Century Hutchinson was acquired by Random House Inc. In 1991, Ms Rebuck was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive of Random House. Ms Rebuck was a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1993 to 2003 and was for three years a member of the Government's Creative Industries Task Force. Ms Rebuck is on the Board of The Work Foundation, a member of the Court of the University of Sussex, on the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Judge Institute, and the Council of the Royal College of Art. Ms Rebuck was awarded a CBE in the 2000 New Year's Honours List.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Random House Group, Ltd. | Chief Executive | Current |
| The Campaign for Leadership | Chairman and Chief Executive of the Random House Group | Current |
| The Random House Group, Ltd. | Chairman | Current |
| Bskyb Ltd | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Work Foundation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Financial Share Report | Board of Directors | Current |
| British Sky Broadcasting Group plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Svp Alliance Members and Associates | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sky Broadcasting Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Rafferty Co | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Work Foundation | Chairman and Chief Executive of the Random House Group | Former |
| Century Publishing Company | Director | Former |
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