About Us
Management
Ruxandra Obreja, DRM Consortium Chairman
Ruxandra Obreja is nominally the Controller of Business Development for the BBC World Service. In this role she has provided leadership to the business development teams encouraging them to build special relationships with the business communities around the globe. Currently she is concentrating most of her efforts on pushing digital radio as head of digital radio developments for World Service and DRM chair.
In March 2008 Ruxandra was elected Chairman of the DRM Consortium with the avowed aim of ensuring that the various stakeholders work towards the same goal: the global and mass scale take up of the DRM standard.
Alexander Zink, DRM Consortium Vice Chairman
Since 2000, Dipl.-Ing. Alexander Zink, MBA, works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (Erlangen, Germany, www.iis.fraunhofer.de/drm) as vice group leader for the work group 'Broadcast Applications'. In 2001 he started as project manager for the professional broadcast encoder "Fraunhofer DRM, DAB ContentServer™". Since 2002 he is project director of Journaline, an interactive text based information system for digital radio. In addition he works in the fields of AudioServers, software defined radio, and transmission protocols.
Lindsay Cornell, DRM TC Chairman
Lindsay Cornell has worked for the BBC for more than 20 years, and has concentrated on radio since 1993, working with FM-RDS, DAB and DRM. He is currently leading the work on The Future of Radio which aims to provide technical leadership to the development of radio technologies that will maintain and extend the reach of the BBC's radio services, both in the UK and across the globe. The work is highly collaborative with emphasis on leveraging the BBC's reputation for technical excellence and diversity of content distribution.
Lindsay represents the BBC in various national and international fora and is chairman of both the Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) Technical Committee and the World DMB Technical Committee. Lindsay is special rapporteur for digital radio at the EBU/ETSI/CENELEC JTC Broadcast and is an authority on digital radio standardisation.
Michel Penneroux, DRM CC Chairman
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Jochen Huber, DRM Executive Chair
As CEO of TRANSRADIO since 2000 Jochen was guiding TRANSRADIO to a leading manufacturer of modern DRM transmitter systems. Under his leadership TRANSRADIO became the market leader in DRM technology and has installed daily operating LF, MF and HF DRM transmitter Systems world wide.
In the DRM Consortium he is responsible for the strategy followed up by the Executive Board. As a steering board member of the DRM consortium Jochen is actively influencing the world wide DRM development and strategy.
Jochen has an engineering degree, a business and strategic focus and has worked in the industry since 1984.
Vineeta Dwivedi, DRM Project Director
Vineeta Dwivedi is the Project Director of Digital Radio Mondiale – the international non-profit organisation working for adoption of the DRM global standard. She is a media industry professional with experience in print journalism, radio broadcasting and business development.
Vineeta was BBC World Service’s Business Development Manager for India responsible for distribution, marketing and developing BBC’s radio and online business. In this role she worked on both commercial as well non-profit making models with focus on brand promotion and new business development and has worked on a variety of distribution platforms.