Stories written by Ben Schwarz and Nicolas Bry
Ben Schwarz Benjamin Schwarz has over 20 years of international experience in consulting and Telco & Media organisations. He is recognized as a world-class industry expert in converging media, especially IPTV and innovation. In August 2008 Benjamin created “CTO innovation Consulting” bringing his unique expertise to Content owners, Technology companies and network Operators and is now involved in many projects including TV business modelling and deployment, advertising, hybrid and “Over-the-top” content delivery and quality of experience management. He spent 8 years with Orange, whom he joined in 2001. Benjamin started as a manager within Orange Labs focusing on video, search and other technologies. In 2004 he joined the Content division running international music download then IPTV deployments in Europe (France, Poland, Spain, UK), Africa (Senegal) & Mauritius. In that role he was often spokesman for Orange. In 2000 Benjamin was CTO of Net4Music, a digital sheet music Internet start-up. Previously he spent 10 years in IT with Logica-CMG and fresh out of university he joined the ‘World Press Centre’ in 1989. Benjamin is a regular speaker at major events and blogs on several industry leading sites as well as his on own site at www.ctoic.net. He is Paris based and has a BSc from King’s College London in Computer science and completed an executive MBA within INSEAD. bs@ctoic.net Nicolas Bry Nicolas is a senior VP at Orange Vallée, an Orange entity dedicated to rapid innovation. Forward thinker, he created international digital BU, at executive committee level, with a focus on interactive and social TV. Graduate from Engineering School Supélec, he completed an Executive Master at HEC Business School, and a professional thesis on "rapid innovation" in 2010. He bloggs on nbry.wordpress.com and has been named #26 innovation blogger of 2011 by InnovationExcellence.