Social TV Forum - Asia

Benjamin Schwarz has over 20 years of international experience in consulting and Telco & Media organisations.

He spent 8 years with Orange, whom he joined in 2001. Benjamin started with Orange Labs focusing on video technology, QoE and new business models to take advantage of the few-to-few broadcasting that DSL was enabling. These premise to social TV were trialled in 2002 as various community based services.

In 2004 he joined the Content division running international music download then TVoDSL deployments in Europe and Africa.

Previously he spent 10 years with Logica-CMG and in 2000 Benjamin was CTO of Net4Music, a digital sheet music Internet start-up.

In September 2008 Benjamin created CTO innovation Consulting and is now involved in many operator projects including business modelling, hybrid services and over-the-top content delivery and social media.

Benjamin has a BSc from King’s College London in Computer science and completed an executive MBA within INSEAD.