Kip Meek

Kip Meek (born 18 April 1955[1]), full name Kingsley John Neville Meek, is a British businessperson specialising in media and telecommunication.

Kip Meek held board level roles at Ofcom from 2003 until 2007.[2] He joined Ofcom as senior partner for content and competition.[3]

He assisted Ofcom's first Chief Executive Stephen Carter integrating existing telecoms and media regulators into a single organisation.

In 2005 he became Ofcom's Chief Policy Officer and Chairman of the European Regulators' Group (ERG), handling Ofcom's relationship with European and International political institutions.[3] He also had responsibility for Ofcom's Content & Standards Group, and Ofcom's Legal Group.

Kip Meek was a founder and Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consulting, incorporated in 1993 (a consultancy specialising in media, telecommunications, and information technology).

Previous positions include leading Coopers & Lybrand's media and telecoms strategy practice in London, and positions at the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co and British Telecom.[4]

On 23 July 2010, Kip Meek was announced as non-executive chairman of Project Canvas (now YouView).[5] Meek leads the Board of the venture and oversaw the appointment of Chief Executive Officer, Richard Halton. He stepped down from his role as Director of Ingenious Media.[6] He also left his positions as Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group and a director of the RadioCentre and Phorm.[2][4] Meek left YouView on 7 March 2011 and was replaced by Alan Sugar.[7]
As of March 2011 he is employed at Everything Everywhere as an adviser and is part of Communications Chambers.

Contents

Controversy

His role as a member of Phorm's board was claimed to conflict with his work as a taxpayer-funded advisor on UK internet policy for BERR during the publication of the Digital Britain strategy.[8]

As the same time, the UK Government faced European Commission infraction proceedings,[9] following the covert trials of Phorm's technology by British Telecom in 2006 and 2007.[10][11]

Education

Career

Directorships

See also

"Response to Ovum’s report “Telstra ULLS Undertaking – ULLS International Benchmarking”". Ingenious Consulting Network. December 2008. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/item.phtml?itemId=869043&nodeId=a36e9346aba5404465e06376c468865c&fn=Kip%20meek%20report.pdf. Retrieved 4 August 2009.  (includes full CV).

References

  1. ^ Gibson, Owen (31 March 2008). "Interview: Kip Meek, 'A 2+2=5 situation'". The Guardian (London: The Guardian). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/31/ofcom?gusrc=rss&feed=media. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
  2. ^ a b Biography at Phorm
  3. ^ a b Kip Meek joins RadioCentre as non-exec
  4. ^ a b Biography at Broadband Stakeholder Group
  5. ^ "Kip Meek to become chairman of Project Canvas". Project Canvas. 2010-07-23. http://www.projectcanvas.info/index.cfm/news/?mode=alias&alias=Kip-Meek-to-become-chairman-of-Project-Canvas. 
  6. ^ Biography at Ingenious Media
  7. ^ "Kip Meek leaves role as YouView Non-Executive Chairman". YouView. 2011-03-07. http://www.youview.com/2011/03/07/kip-meek-leaves-role-as-youview-non-executive-chairman/. 
  8. ^ Williams, Chris (15 April 2009). "Phorm director advises UK.gov broadband minister, Conflicts denied as Amazon opts out". The Register (London: The Register). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/15/kip_meek_berr/. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
  9. ^ Commission launches case against UK over privacy and personal data protection
  10. ^ Williams, Chris (1 April 2008). "BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006". The Register (London: The Register). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/bt_phorm_2006_trial/. Retrieved 4 August 2009. 
  11. ^ Williams, Chris (14 April 2008). "BT's 'illegal' 2007 Phorm trial profiled tens of thousands". The Register (London: The Register). http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/14/bt_phorm_2007/. Retrieved 4 August 2009.