Philip Bourchier O'Ferrall

Current

• Senior Vice President --- MTV Networks at MTVNE
• non-exec Director at Flix Ltd

Past

• Evening Standard Londons Most Influential People at Evening Standard Londons Most Influential People
• Board Director at TwoFour Television
• MD EMEA at Nokia Ventures/Oplayo

• GM Digital Media Division at Chyron Corp

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Philip Bourchier O'Ferrall’s Summary

Senior Vice President DM, MTV Networks UK & Ireland. MTV1, MTV2, MTVBase, MTVHits, MTVDance, VH1, Flux, Paramount Comedy, Nickelodeon.



Previously, Exec Director of Twofour Convergent & Mobile TV, Philip headed the division which understands the convergent market place, building communities around content and the production of content specifically for this market. He brings together traditional broadcasting with the emerging technologies and is forging strong relationships with all the key businesses.

Philip had a focus on exploiting media assets and the commissioning of convergent productions and brand funded programming

Previously, Vice President at Player One a Fleming Media Company.
Responsible for the distribution of mobile media assets from many leading brands including young James Bond, Mike Tyson, Manchester United, Davis Cup etc.

Previously MD of Nokia Ventures Oplayo - one of the leading mobile video companies where Philip took Oplayo to 'top 5' in mobile video. Philip also launched the 'worlds first' mobile video portal 'mobile media club' and launched the 'worlds first' mobile music video in partnership with Sony/BMG.

Prior to joining Oplayo, Philip served as GM of Chyron Digital Media Services one of the leading Enhanced TV and Rich Media agencies based in London and New York.

Philip is a broadcast industry veteran. Previously, he has headed a sales team closing multi-million dollar contracts including the likes of BBC, NBC, CNN, Pearson, BskyB, Tvi, Channel4, Channel5, Disney, Discovery and William Hill.

Philip is an active member of BAFTA, RTS & IOD

Philip is an advisory board member of Flix Ltd a mobile video entertainment provider to mobile networks.

Also, Snax Ltd a mobile content rights and IP business.

Philip Bourchier O'Ferrall’s Experience

• Senior Vice President --- MTV Networks

  MTVNE

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  TV Exec

• non-exec Director

  Flix Ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  February 2003 — Present (6 years 6 months)

  Board member of UK's leading mobile video aggregator. Flix provides a direct to consumer mobile video service and also a B2B aggregation solution to major networks including O2, T-Mobile and Turkcell.

• Evening Standard Londons Most Influential People

  Evening Standard Londons Most Influential People

  (Media Production industry)

  October 2008 — October 2008 (1 month)

  Philip Bourchier O'Ferrall Named as one of the 1000 most influential people in London - by Evening Standard Newspaper

• Board Director

  TwoFour Television

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  August 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  Board Director
  Set up Convergent TV business

• MD EMEA

  Nokia Ventures/Oplayo

  (Media Production industry)

  February 2001 — June 2005 (4 years 5 months)

  -Strategic growth
  -Sales
  -Marketing

• GM Digital Media Division

  Chyron Corp

  (Public Company; Media Production industry)

  January 1990 — January 2000 (10 years 1 month)