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AIME Executive Board

AIME Chair

Ed Boddington ("Bod"), CEO and Founder, Harvest Media Group

Ed Boddington Bod founded Harvest Media Group in 2004 after selling his UK business, Telescope UK to iTouch PLC in 2002. Telescope was founded in 1998 and grew rapidly to become a world record breaker with its voting management platform for the “Pop Idol” TV series in 2002 on behalf of FremantleMedia and ITV.
Bod serves as the Group CEO of Harvest, which owns two subsidiaries, Harvest UK and Telescope Inc in the United States. Harvest UK, based in London provides interactive services for a number of leading TV brands including The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent, as well as programmes for the BBC and various other media and production companies. Telescope in the US pioneered voting on the world’s biggest entertainment format ‘American Idol’. The group is owned by the founding shareholders and backed by Fleming Family and Partners.
In his role as chairman Ed will oversee and steer AIME through its various core functions including representing AIME members’ interests to industry regulatory bodies such as Ofcom, PhonePayPlus (‘Bod’ sat on the board of the premium rate regulator between 2005-8) and the ASA, and also help members to connect with each other through various initiatives to advance all forms of Interactive Media business.

Jeremy Flynn, Non-Executive Director, Orca

Jeremy Flynn has been an industry leader in the UK mobile content market, with 6 years experience in a variety of roles in the content value chain.
Jeremy is Non-Executive Director of Orca, a Technical Service Provider specializing in delivering and monetising video to mobile for content IP owners and publishers.
Previously he was Head of Commercial Partnerships at Vodafone UK, where he was responsible for the Off Portal Direct-to-Consumer business. In this role for 4 years he drove the UK successful free-market approach to facilitating the off portal mobile content market. Prior to this, he was at Motorola responsible for EMEA business in mobile application platforms and services. Jeremy was awarded Greatest Individual contribution to New Media in the NMA Effectiveness Awards 2006. Jeremy is AIME's representative for the PhonepayPlus Industry Liaison Panel (ILP) and the PRS Industry Group.

Rory Maguire, Head of Payment Services, 3 UK

Rory Maguire is Head of Payment Services in 3 responsible amongst other things for Third Party interfaces for both the 3 UK and 3 Ireland networks. Rory is a champion for creating environments for Content and Service Providers to be able to flourish with their consumer services while ensuring consumers are protected from the unsavoury practises of a minority of individuals.
Rory has worked in mobile telecommunications since 1992 with the exception of two short breaks to gain experience in the premium rate telephony service area and in Internet service provision. In the large corporate environment of Orange (1995-2000), he created the content services division, pioneering shortcode text messaging services, IVR menu based voice services, WAP services and mobile ISP content services.

Paul Lynch, Head of Operations, ITV Interactive

Paul Lynch is Head of Operations for ITV Interactive and Interactive Telephony Limited, ITV’s internal IVR service provider and data aggregator.

Paul joined ITV in May 2007 from BSkyB where he spent 7 years with Sky Interactive managing the day to day operations of Sky’s Red Button services and return path platform. At ITV, Paul is responsible for the operational and technical performance of ITV’s PRS activities and was influential in the establishment of ITL and ITV’s process review to implement a robust procedural framework to deliver compliant and engaging Interactive customer propositions.

His experience covers Red Button, SMS, IVR, WAP and Web delivery platforms as well as regulatory compliance and operational work flow.

Graham Pottie, COO, BT-agilemedia

Graham_Pottie I am the COO of BT Agilemedia responsible for the finance, regulation, product and operations and have a history of launching and managing successful web and mobile based businesses. These include the BT online Shop, Mobile Sense and in 2000, while running talk21 free web email, I successfully lobbied the 4 mobile companies to launch a PRS SMS to offer email text alerts profitably.
I have many years of experience in online commerce and payment and working in regulated businesses.
I am married with three children and am a keen (but flawed) golfer, cyclist and London Scottish RFC fan.

Julian Lowrie, Head of Media Solutions, Kcom

Julian Lowrie Lowrie has been in the Telecoms Industry since 1997, holding various senior posts including 7 years at PNC Telecom (where he helped to pioneer revenue share across the 0870 code in the late 90’s), followed by being appointed Head of Premium Rate sales for the wholesale division of Your Communications, then a stint as Media Sales Director at OITG and currently Head of Media Solutions at KCOM. He holds specialist knowledge of the inbound market of ‘07’,’08’ and ‘09’ and is very experienced in the Telemedia space with over a decade of serving customers across the whole value chain. Lowrie possesses a strong knowledge of the regulatory and compliance intricacies of the PRS market and through his role at OITG, acted as compliance advisor to Emap’s Radio and Magazine businesses prior to the sale to Bauer. Also recently joined the AIME Fixed Line forum to help push for higher rate tariffs on fixed line PRS.

Rob Ellis, Managing Director, Telecom Express

Rob Ellis Rob joined Telecom Express in August 2010 with extensive experience successfully leading and managing companies in the areas of mobile, technology, internet, digital, social networking and social media. Rob was previously European CEO of mobile software company Datasquirt and owner of mobile and strategy consulting company Black Note. Over the past 10 years Rob has also been COO of Amplefuture Group, a London-based technology, mobile and internet group of companies, as well as Managing Director of mobile content and services company iTouch where he was responsible for growing the company into one of the UK’s leading premium interactive voice and mobile data companies. Before moving to the UK in 2001, Rob was Managing Director of Telstra New Zealand.

Richard Mann, COO, Mobile Interactive Group

Richard Mann Richard joined Mobile Interactive Group ("MIG") in 2005 and has managed its growth from start-up to an integrated communications group serving the entire mobile services value chain.
Richard qualified as a chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers advising corporate and private equity clients in the Telecoms and IT sectors on M&A activities. Since leaving PwC in 2000, Richard has worked in senior management positions spanning financial, operational and commercial roles for high growth businesses in the internet and telecoms sector including E-Pay's payment solutions business for mobile top-up.
Richard is on the board of Mobile Interactive Group and its subsidiary companies, 4th Screen Advertising and Jigsaw, and is responsible for the financial and operational strategy across the group including legal and regulatory matters.

Phil Davies, Director of Commercial Development, OpenMarket

David Sheridan Phil Davies is Director of Commercial Development at OpenMarket. Since joining MX Telecom (now OpenMarket) in 2003, Phil has held positions covering product management, industry relations and finance. He has responsibility for strategic policy positions and heads up the MNO relations and Regulatory & Compliance teams. Phil has extensive knowledge and experience of the commercial and regulatory climate surrounding messaging and mobile payment products, and has been heavily involved in the evolution of SMS, MMS, Premium SMS, Payforit, VAT-free mobile payment transactions for the charity and gambling verticals and Location Based Services. Phil holds an MA from the University of Oxford.

Board Legal Advisor

Sally Weatherall, Managing Director, Strategic Brief Limited

Sally Weatherall, founder and Managing Director of Strategic Brief Limited has over fifteen years experience working in senior roles in the technology and new media industry, including internet service providers, interactive mobile services, software developers and media content providers. She was previously Managing Director of WIN plc’s New Media division managing premium rate services and broadcast media clients. International experience includes International Director of Regulatory Affairs at UUNET Technologies (formerly PIPEX), and Group Commercial Director of e2v Technologies plc. She is a current Board member (and former Chair) of AIME, a founding director of the Internet Watch Foundation and has participated in the work of various regulatory bodies including PhonepayPlus, OFCOM, ASA, European Commission and UK government departments. Strategic Brief Limited provides technology companies with commercial management services regarding business development opportunities and regulatory compliance, in the UK and overseas. A solicitor with an MBA from London Business School, and exclusive industry experience ensures Sally has a solid understanding of both regulatory requirements and commercial imperatives.