MAC associates

Our associates are a key part of our organisation and we are proud to work with the following people:

John Perry	An independent broadcast consultant with more than thirty years of experience and extensive knowledge of newsroom technology, operations and disciplines. A specialist in capturing and designing ‘end to end’ workflows for news operations with the unique ability to easily move between the creative and technical processes.. Huge practical experience in the design, planning, implementation and delivery of the necessary training for the implementation of new technology and business processes in the Newsroom Completely familiar with shared storage solutions, the associated applications and systems database design.
Adrian Scott	Adrian is the founder of the Bakewell House consultancy, and has long experience both as a broadcaster and as a technology specialist. In the early part of his career he was a journalist in both radio and television, notably at TV-am and ITN, and became involved in the marketing and sale of broadcast technology when ITN acquired the BASYS newsroom computer company and engaged him as European Operations Manager. Adrian stayed with the company when it was acquired by Avid Technology in 1996. He ultimately became VP of Marketing for Avid’s newsroom systems business, before joining Autocue as Director of Marketing and eventually founding the Bakewell House Consultancy in 2002. His consultancy practice covers a wide range of activity in the area of broadcasting and electronic media technology sales, marketing and implementation. In addition to his activity with Bakewell House, Adrian is also a partner in Kane, a Paris-based market research and benchmarking consultancy which tracks broadcast technology developments, especially in the areas of Media Asset Management. He is European Chairman of the Global Society for Asset Management.
Charles Bebert	Charles BEBERT is born in 1950 (he is French and speaks French English, German). He is engineer of the “Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris” in France, and has a Masters in Physics from the University of Paris. He became a specialist in IT strategy and project management and has since then worked as a consultant in 16 countries around the world, including USA, Canada, Japan and Europe. He founded Kane in 1986, based in Brussels and in Paris. In 1992, he started to work for the media sector: television, cinema (Babelsberg Studios in Germany), audiovisual service providers, audiovisual attractions in theme parks. He is a specialist in project management (news production, Media Asset Management, playout centres) and in benchmark studies regarding the media business. Kane produces and updates several studies such as Newsroom, Media Asset Management, Location Based Entertainment, Digital Cinema …He is currently working on consulting projects in project management, newsroom organisation and technical architecture.
Graeme Thomson	Graeme was Technical Director of Reuters Media, a division of the global news and information provider that provides TV and online video, pictures, and text products to the Media sector (turnover £200M). He has a strong technology background, established over 24 years in the global news agency business, covering television newsgathering, production and distribution, picture and text editing and production, and multimedia news packaging and delivery. Since 2002, Graeme has concentrated on project-based consulting and management assignments – enjoying the challenges of evaluating and implementing new technology solutions. These include providing technical strategy to the world’s first IPTV operator to deploy MPEG-4 AVC, disaster recovery planning for a major European satellite broadcaster, and project leadership on a system deployment for Eurovision News in Geneva and the launch of a 24-hour news channel for Sky Italia in Rome.
Jonathan Higgins	Jonathan Higgins is the Managing Director of BeaconSeek Ltd. He founded the company in 2000 after a twenty year career with the BBC, where he worked both as a broadcast engineer and broadcast engineering manager. Between 1992 and 2000, Jonathan was Manager of the BBC News Location Facilities Unit, which became the world – leading newsgathering engineering unit of BBC News, operating fast-response terrestrial microwave links and Ku/C band SNG uplinks in the UK and around the world. He led the way in the development of both truck-based and ‘flyaway’ SNG uplinks for BBC News – in particular, digital SNG uplinks. He oversaw the specification, construction and introduction into service of the first (analogue) SNG truck for BBC News in 1992, followed in 1994 by the first broadcast DSNG truck in Europe, and then a further five DSNG trucks for BBC News. Jonathan is also the author of Satellite Newsgathering, the seminal book on the subject published by Focal Press. An experienced presenter, Jonathan has given numerous seminars and lectures around the world on the technical aspects of newsgathering and has had a number of papers published on satellite newsgathering. He is widely regarded as an authority on all aspects of satellite newsgathering and his second book, Introduction to SNG and ENG Microwave, was published by Focal Press in Autumn 2003.
Neil Dormand	40 years in the business has provided Neil with a wide range of experience in the media industry. Indeed even before that he was managing editor of a self funded school magazine. He has worked as a cameraman, trainer and senior executive manager for the BBC as well as holding executive and non executive directorships in commercial companies. He has extensive experience in strategy formulation, organisational structure and management and change management especially related to the introduction of new technology and techniques. He has consultancy experience not only in the UK but throughout the world.