Launch for Females in the Broadcast Industry initiative

Females in the Broadcast industry (FBI) has announced its launch, bringing together the broadcast industry’s top women and associations to create thought-provoking 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.

“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,” said 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.”

The advisory panel includes; 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 & Entertainment, Dell; Stephanie Genin, Vice President of Global Field Marketing Technology, Avid; and Jessica Hawkes, Account Manager, Bubble & Squeak.

After successful panels at industry events throughout the year in 2015 including IBC and BVE, the initiative plans on hosting another roster of events in 2016 such as CABSAT and NAB.