Kip Meek

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

Career

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 as 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 EE as an adviser and is part of Communications Chambers.

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]

At 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

• 1979-81 London Business School, MSc with Distinction
• 1973-76 Magdalen College, Oxford, First Class Honours, Modern History

Roles

• 1977 Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
• 1981 Consultant, McKinsey & Co
• 1984 Deputy director of marketing, BT
• 1986 Managing director, Octagon Services
• 1988 Partner, Coopers & Lybrand
• 1993 Founder, Spectrum Strategy Consultants
• 2003 Senior partner, Ofcom
• 2005 Chief policy officer, Ofcom
• 2007 MD, Ingenious Consulting; chairman, BSG; director, RadioCentre
• 2008 Director, Phorm
• 2010 Non-Executive Chairman, YouView

Directorships

• Ingenious Media Consulting Limited
• Ingenious Media Limited
• Perspective Associates Limited
• RadioCentre Limited

See also

"Response to Ovum's report "Telstra ULLS Undertaking – ULLS International Benchmarking"" (PDF). Ingenious Consulting Network. December 2008. Retrieved 4 August 2009. (includes full CV).