Our Management Team

Ruxandra Obreja

DRM Consortium Chair and President DRM Association

Ruxandra Obreja has been the DRM Chair and President of the DRM Association since 2008, being last re-elected in May 2026. She was born in Romania where she worked as a teacher, author of plays and English teaching TV and radio programmes. She also studied in the UK where she arrived in 1982.

In 1985 she started her UK career at the BBC World Service, first as a radio producer and presenter. She was appointed Head of the BBC Romanian Service in 1990. In 1997 Ruxandra became Editor for the BBC European region language services and later became a Commissioning Editor with BBC English Networks and News. In her career as a radio and television journalist Ruxandra has produced high quality and acclaimed programmes, interviews and reports. She was the Controller of Business Development for the BBC World Service focusing on building special relationships with the FM radio stations around the globe. In 2009 she was elected vice-chair of the EBU international broadcasters’ group.

In March 2008 Ruxandra was first elected Chair of the DRM Consortium (representing the BBC) 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. Since then, Ruxandra has promoted and presented DRM and digital radio at all major specialised events across the world while her articles and blogs have been published in key publications devoted to radio and digital media in the US, India, Australia, and Europe.

On behalf of the DRM Consortium, she received an ITU-D award and was presented with a prestigious Romanian award for her media activities linked to digital radio.

Alexander Zink

Vice President DRM Association, Vice Chair and Treasurer DRM Consortium

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.

Matthew Phillips

DRM Vice-Chair and Member of the DRM Steering Board

Matthew Phillips is Product Director for Broadcast and Maritime at CML Micro, a company specializing in wireless IC design and also Vice-Chair of the DRM Consortium.

Before joining CML Matthew had leadership experience in various wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, and FM solutions for mobile devices. He has informed and brought to market several innovative wireless connectivity solutions which have achieved high market take-up.

His recent expertise has culminated in the development and launch of CML’s DRM1000 module. This groundbreaking product is known for being the smallest, lowest-cost, and lowest-power DRM receiver available, and has the potential to significantly improve the accessibility of DRM radios globally.

Johannes von Weyssenhoff

DRM Technical Committee Chair

DRM has been part of Johannes’ professional life for 23 years, primarily with his company STARWAVES, which has been developing several DRM receivers solutions such as the world’s first DRM-DAB multi-standard radio in 2004, the automotive aftermarket CarBox in 2006, or the recent DRM receiver with a built-in WiFi hotspot for streaming DRM audio and media content (as part of the DRM Consortium’s Distant Education project). And the work on new prototype receivers continues.

As DRM stands out as one of the few technologies capable of bridging the digital divide in underprivileged communities, Johannes was firsthand involved with Africa’s inaugural DRM trial in the FM Band, which he conducted with a community radio station in Johannesburg. This trial, along with its subsequent report listed by ITU, laid the groundwork for the South Africa’s broadcast regulations on digital radio, and the adoption of the full DRM standard, including in the FM-Band.

Johannes has broad technical know-how and hands-on experience with DRM and digital radio generally. He is known for his substantial work history within the broadcast technology sector, such as working for the South African public broadcaster SABC or the signal distributer in the country, Sentech, as well as implementing Digital Radio DRM for infotainment systems in the German automotive industry.

Radu P. Obreja

DRM Marketing Director

Radu P. Obreja is the Marketing Director of the DRM Consortium. He has extensive experience in Business Development, Marketing and PR having worked for large international companies in various industries, like Visa International and Visa Europe, where he also held the position of Vice-President. Radu Obreja is a member of the DRM Steering Board and is actively promoting the roll-out of the DRM standard in Asian, African, South American, as well as in some European countries.