SPORTS CONTENT MANAGEMENTFORUM SVGscm

SVG SPORTS CONTENT MANAGEMENT Committee Chair

* ANNE GRAHAM, WBD Sports, Manager of Strategy and Planning, Sports Media Services

Graham is the manager of strategy and planning for sports media services at Turner Sports & Bleacher Report, part of Warner Brothers Discovery. Joining Turner Sports in January 2017, she primarily focuses on media workflow analysis, documentation, and project planning.

Keynote Bios

REED KAUFMAN, Fox Sports, VP, Media Workflows

Kaufman is responsible for connecting the content library with production teams, using technology innovation and people collaboration. He has now managed several transformations for Fox Sports’ post-production supply chain, including tape to digital, SD to HD, 720 to 1080, SDR to HDR, while supervising live and post operations for day-to-day productions and jewel events.

* DUSTIN MYERS, Fox Sports, SVP, Production Operations

Myers is a seasoned media executive with a demonstrated history of working in the content and broadcast media industry. His responsibilities encompass post-production, media management, content acquisition, and the development and implementation of innovative technology initiatives.

Speaker Bios

MARK ANDERSON, Seagate Technology, Manager, Channel Systems and Solutions Sales Team

Anderson has been involved in the media and entertainment industry for over 20 years. He has helped numerous customers streamline their storage workflows. He also has helped drive M&E strategy with multiple major manufacturers of data storage, including Seagate, where he has been for the last five years.

BRENT ANGLE, CineSys, CTO

Angle helped form CineSys with the goal of focusing on strong engineering services and consulting to support broadcast, postproduction, VFX, animation, and film customers. Angle currently manages a team that includes engineering support staff and data system integrators, as well as custom engineering design and software development.

NICK ASHWIN, Imagen, Chief Revenue Officer — Americas

Ashwin has 15 years of experience consulting with sports, media, and enterprise organizations on their video management and distribution strategy. Having begun his career in the UK-based Imagen development team in 2008, Ashwin subsequently moved to the U.S. and began leading Imagen’s American expansion, growing the Imagen team and client base.

* PADRAIC BOYLE, MLB Advanced Media, Senior Director, Enterprise Media

Boyle joined Major League Baseball in February of 2008 as part of its information-technology transformation. Reaching into his rich media background, Boyle took on the role of technical lead for MLB and architected the league’s digital-asset-management system, the DIAMOND Platform.

ROY BURNS, IMT, SVP, Media Solutions

Burns has over 20 years of experience advising clients in the media and entertainment sector. Today, Burns is on the forefront of emerging media workflows and technologies. At IMT, Burns is a member of the Advanced Consulting Team with a primary focus on MAM and workflow orchestration.

* REX CANNING, WWE, Senior Director of Media Management Services

Canning and his team are responsible for fulfilling the company’s day to day media management needs and execution of migration projects. Canning works with producers, editors, and engineers to build workflows that support the company’s production staff and network delivery teams.

* BYRON CHAPMAN, PGA TOUR, Director of Media Asset Management & Media Workflows

Chapman has over 20 years of experience working in various areas of production and post-production. Currently, Chapman is busy planning and testing new post-production and MAM equipment and workflows for the new 165,000 sq ft. PGA TOUR Studios broadcast facility that the team will move into in January 2025.

CHRIS CRUZ, CBS Sports, Senior Director of Media Services

Cruz is responsible for the proper management of all digital asset management systems developed for CBS Sports studio and remote productions. He also oversees the personnel utilized for the acquisition, distribution, and archiving of all digital content.

MATT

GAEDE, Signiant, VP,

Global Customer Acquisition

Gaede started with Signiant when the first SaaS products for media and entertainment were pioneered. His focus continues to be making metricbased decisions to best position sales individuals and teams to increase revenue, grow market share, and increase efficiency.

HUGO GAGGIONI, Sony Electronics, CTO

Gaggioni, who joined Sony in 1988, holds several patents and has authored more than 40 technical publications in the areas of video compression, digital filter banks, HDTV, and UHDTV devices and systems. Prior to joining Sony, he worked at RCA Corporation and Bell Communications Research.

STEPHANE GUEZ, Dalet, Co-Founder and Principal

Guez has 30 years of experience in computer sciences, software design, and information technology applied to the media and broadcast industries. Drawing on his extensive experience, Guez has contributed to turning a technology vision into a successful business venture.

WHIT JACKSON, Wasabi Technologies, VP of Media & Entertainment

Jackson has worked at the forefront of innovation in television production and distribution for 25+ years. Today, Jackson is spearheading the adoption of Wasabi’s hot cloud storage service in the media and entertainment sector.

GREGG KATANO, Medici XD, SVP, Strategic Partnerships & Business Development; Virtual Burning Man, Former Senior Advisor

Katano is a 30+ year entertainment professional, international speaker, emerging media and tech strategist, and educator. Currently, he is SVP of strategic partnerships and business development of the Medici Media and Medici Interactive divisions of Medici XD.

ALEX KEIGHLEY, Telestream, VP, U.S. Sales

Keighley is an industry veteran who has worked for media owners, news agencies, and media technology companies for more than 30 years. Keighley currently leads the U.S. sales team for Telestream, working with media owners, sports leagues, rights holders, teams, and venues.

PAUL KELLY, IPTC, Sports Content Working Group Lead; The Canadian Press, Associate Director, Content Operations

Kelly is associate director, content operations at The Canadian Press and lead of the IPTC’s Sports Content Group. He co-founded sports data integration firm XML Team Solutions. Kelly has also worked on major sports data integrations for broadcast and web with clients that include BBC, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Univision, Google, and CBC.

Committee Member