Market leaders support launch of Females in the Broadcast Industry


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| 16 January 2016




Females in the Broadcast Industry (FBI), a group supporting women throughout the technical broadcast sector, has announced its launch, bringing together the broadcast industry's top women and associations.



Set up to create panel discussions and networking events, the group is aimed at women working in non-craft roles in the broadcast industry such as sales, operations, marketing, engineering and business.

The FBI’s advisory panel includes renowned industry figures such as Sadie Groom, managing director, Bubble & Squeak; Lesley Johnson, operations director, BBC Worldwide; David Dowling, vice president of sales for EMEA and APAC, Ross Video; Nicki Fisher, EMEA sales director, Clear-Com; Samantha Arlow, area sales manager, Five Arrows Media Finance; Charlotte Wheeler, event director, Media Business Insight; Anne-Louise Buick, head of TV compression Portfolio Marketing, Ericsson; Molly Connolly, WW strategist for media and entertainment, Dell; Stephanie Genin, vice president of global field marketing technology, Avid.

“After the great success of the two events that we have already held at IBC and the discussion and coverage that this generated we decided to formalise the group and open up membership,” explained Sadie Groom, founder of the FBI initiative and managing director of Bubble & Squeak. “We hope that women, and men, will join us to start a real discussion on the issues involved and come to our events with ideas for what the broadcast industry can be doing better to encourage women to come into this sector. In addition, we hope this will result in more women holding senior positions across the industry.”

After its panels at IBC and BVE in 2015, the initiative, open to men and women in the industry, plans to host another roster of events in 2016 such as CABSAT and NAB