Associates of DIS Consulting Corporation

The DIS works with many organizations and individuals to provide a full array of services to its clients. We have a very wide range of colleagues, partners, associates and friends who between them embody an extraordinarily wide base of competence and experience. We follow a management philosophy that matches up individual projects with people who are the most appropriate and available to do the job.


 

 

Charles Bebert

Charles Bebert was born in 1950 (he is French and speaks French English, German). 

He is engineer of the "Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris" in France, and has a Masters in Physics from the University of Paris.

He became a specialist in IT strategy and project management and has since then worked as a consultant in 16 countries around the world, including USA, Canada, Japan and Europe.

 

He founded Kane in 1986, based in Brussels and in Paris. In 1992, he started to work for the media sector: television, cinema (Babelsberg Studios in Germany), audiovisual service providers, audiovisual attractions in theme parks.

He became a specialist in IT strategy and project management and has since then worked as a consultant in 16 countries around the world, including USA, Canada, Japan and Europe.

In 1992, he started to work for the media sector: television, cinema (Babelsberg Studios in Germany), audiovisual service providers, audiovisual attractions in theme parks.

He is a specialist in project management (news production, Media Asset Management, playout centres) and in benchmark studies regarding the media business.

Kane produces and updates several studies such as Newsroom, Media Asset Management, Location Based Entertainment, Digital Cinema ...

 

Adrian Scott

Text Box: Bakewell House

Phil Rutter

Phil Rutter started work in the Television Industry in the late ‘60s, work in Technical Operations for BBC Television. It was probably one of the best groundings to be had at the time – lots of technology training in the fundamentals of video and audio, coupled to the support of the creative process of program making. Helping to get sound and pictures just right on classic drama such as “Elizabeth R” results in a real understanding of what makes television “tick”.

Adrian SCOTT has spent his entire career in the field of broadcast journalism and its technology.

He majored in journalism at the University of North Carolina, and then returned to his native Scotland to join Radio Clyde as a reporter and presenter. He subsequently worked as a producer and presenter at LBC and IRN, before becoming part of the launch team at TV-am where he was Head of Planning, News Editor and Editor-of-the-Day (executive producer).

 

Having used an early version of the BASYS newsroom system at TV-am, he was recruited by ITN (who had recently acquired the BASYS company) as European Operations Director with primary responsibility for Sales and Marketing of the BASYS system. He was instrumental in increasing BASYS’s turnover from zero to £6m in five years and the customer base from 2 to over 100.

When BASYS was eventually acquired by Avid, Adrian became Avid’s European Broadcast Market Manager, and then when BASYS was spun off as iNews, VP of EMEA Marketing. In 2000 he joined Autocue as Director of Marketing, and presided over the rebranding of Autocue’s newsroom products.

In mid-2002 he founded the Bakewell House Consultancy, and now advises a variety of broadcasters, manufacturers and other industry players on technology, journalism and workflow issues, especially news automation and Media Asset Management.

He is a member of the IBC Exhibitions and Conference Committees, and is a long-term consultant to the International Association of Broadcasting Manufacturers, for whom he directed the first annual Business Conference in January 2005. He is European chairman of the Global Society for Asset Management.

He moved on in the late ‘70s to set up a production company, primarily involved in the area of “corporate communications”. This company was actually a subsidiary of a major international construction company, so, as Managing Director, Phil was given extensive training in the business of running a company – accounts, personnel, marketing, sales and general administration.

The ‘80s saw Phil working for a variety of Broadcast Equipment Manufacturers, mainly in Sales & Marketing roles. A major part of this activity involved buying marketing services – print, advertising, exhibitions, which helps explain why Phil has a reputation for solving marketing communications problems – he’s seen (and done) it all.

From 1990, Phil worked for Vistek Electronics Ltd. Vistek was well known for a variety of products, and Phil was responsible for the Automation and Control systems, where some innovative developments that are today considered “standard” were originated. When the company decided to concentrate their efforts into modular interface products, Phil became responsible for all the marketing activity. In 2005, Vistek was bought by Pro-Bel, and in early 2006, Phil decided that the time was right to establish Absolute Advantage Ltd.

Phil is a well-known figure within the Broadcast Industry, is an active SMPTE member, and is on the council of the BKSTS, of which Society he is a Fellow. He brings both operational technical expertise and a deep understanding of creative marketing to all the projects he is involved with.