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Turner Announces New SE Asia Organisation and GM TURNER ASIA PACIFIC has announced the establishment of a new Southeast Asia organisation and appointment of a new regional lead to be based in Singapore. Vishal Dembla has been named Vice President and General Manager of Turner Southeast Asia. In this new role, he has been tasked with growing all Turner’s commercial and channel operations within this increasingly important region, as well as the day-to-day management of its kids and entertainment businesses in Southeast Asia. “For the first time, we have aligned all our Southeast Asia efforts under one executive and these changes will enable Turner to better develop its growing business in this region,” commented Phil Nelson, Turner’s Managing Director of Southeast Asia Pacific and North Asia. “Vishal has been an integral member of our senior management team – forging new initiatives and driving growth – and is well-positioned for this new role.”
New East Asia MD for Radio Free Asia RADIO FREE ASIA (RFA) has hired veteran journalist, Min Lee Mitchell, as its new Managing Director for East Asia. Mitchell will oversee RFA’s four language services for Chinese audiences (Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, and Uyghur) and its Korean Service, broadcasting into North Korea.
In addition to overseeing all commercial lines including ad-sales and content sales, Mr. Dembla will lead the region’s programming, creative services and marketing departments for all of Turner’s kids and entertainment brands. The team will also handle the network distribution side of the business – focusing on further expanding the reach of brands including CNN International, Warner TV, Oh!K, Cartoon Network and Boomerang in Southeast Asia.
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In his previous capacity, Mr. Dembla was responsible for Turner’s distribution and content sales in Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines. His expanded geographical remit now also includes Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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TMD Adds T Vimalanathan to Strengthen SE Asia Ops TRANSMEDIA DYNAMICS (TMD) has announced that it has appointed T Vimalanathan as Regional Manager to its growing Asia Pacific operation.
“Min brings a great range of broadcasting expertise from her well-respected career as a reporter with Phoenix Television and Taiwanese media,” said Libby Liu, President of RFA. “She’ll be a strong addition to RFA’s news team, leading our China and North Korea services. We are thrilled to have Min on board.”
Nathan is a highly respected and accomplished industry veteran with solid
“I’m proud to join Radio Free Asia’s talented team of journalists, who do great work in some of the world’s most challenging media environments,” Mitchell said. “I look forward to working for an organisation with such a critical mandate of bringing free press to closed societies across Asia.”
He will lead the local sales and support effort to identify, implement and
As Managing Director for East Asia, Mitchell will work closely with the directors of five language services to manage the daily and long-term operations of RFA Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, and Korean. She will focus on expanding the operations of these services to meet audience needs. Min reports to RFA’s Vice President of Programming, Parameswaran Ponnudurai.
ties to Asia Pacific’s broadcast and archive communities. In his new position, Nathan will serve TMD’s existing customers, including the Asian Film Archive in Singapore and broadcaster Astro in Malaysia. maintain asset and workflow management systems in the region to drive forward the company’s growing position as a leading provider of digital asset management solutions in the region. Prior to joining TMD, Nathan was CTO of Orange County Sdn Bhd, where he was responsible for the technical implementation and workflow of a system to photo-realistically create a digital representation of a deceased actor. He has also been a sought-after technical consultant to a number of businesses, and this brought him into contact with TMD.
Prior to becoming RFA’s Managing Director, Mitchell covered U.S. politics and global affairs as the Washington- and New York-based correspondent and news anchor for several major Chinese-language news organisations, including Hong Kong’s Phoenix Satellite Television and Taiwan Television, where she served as the organisation’s D.C. Bureau Chief, and as a stringer for BBC Chinese News. In Taiwan, Mitchell also worked for Ming Sheng Daily News and as RFA’s Taipei stringer, providing daily headline coverage of news events. A native of Taiwan, Mitchell received a BA in Russian language and literature from National Chengchi University in Taipei. Mitchell holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas in Austin.
According to TMD’s CEO, Carlton Smith, who is also based in APAC, “We
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first came into contact with Nathan when he was working on a major audiovisual archive project in the region. It was clear from the start that he really understood the issues, and had a passion to get the absolute best solution for the end client.” Nathan holds a Diploma in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore. He resides in Malaysia and can be reached at vimal@tmd.tv.
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ChyronHego Appoints Dae Yung Choe
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CHYRONHEGO HAS ANNOUNCED the appointment of Dae Yung Choe as Vice President of Sales, Asia Pacific. Dae will manage the company’s APAC team and take responsibility for all of ChyronHego’s sales, marketing, and business operations initiatives in the region. He reports to Kathy Power, ChyronHego’s President, Americas and Asia Pacific.
Director of Product Marketing for both Avid’s
“We are very honoured to welcome Dae to our team. With more than two decades of management and vice-president-level experience, he’s an accomplished and highly regarded veteran of the APAC broadcast industry,” said Power. “We look forward to working with Dae to build the ChyronHego brand in the region, measured by progressive sales growth and a truly superior customer experience.”
the San Francisco Bay Area.
Prior to joining ChyronHego, Dae served for more than nine years as Vice President, Asia Pacific/Oceania at Ross Video Ltd. He also previously served as
awareness and market share for these solutions in the Asia Pacific region.”
APAC division and for Pinnacle Systems Asia. Earlier in his career, Dae was a senior systems engineer for SONY Broadcast and a field engineer for Alamar Automation, with both positions in “I am thrilled to be joining the dynamic team at ChyronHego, which is producing some really cool and innovative technologies to help broadcast customers make a smooth and cost-effective transition to IP-based workflows,” Dae said. “It will be a pleasure to help our team expand
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