Richard Bron: Chief Executive Officer
   Rohini Sackmann: Head of Strategy
   Sinclair Stockman: Chief Technology Officer
   James Woodward: Head of Technology

Richard Bron, Chief Executive Officer

Richard has a lifetime's experience in the music industry, having been directly involved in virtually all aspects of the business. After leaving school he joined the family music business and became President of Bronze Records Inc, a multi-million dollar record company joint venture between Bronze Records and Island Records. Having learned the lessons of the business working with major artists (such as Uriah Heep and Metallica), he moved on to the touring side of the business as a director of one of the major US concert promoters, where he had responsibility for over 1,000 major concerts annually. On return to the UK after over a decade in the US, Richard broke with family tradition and established a software company in 1994, developing bespoke software systems for blue chip organizations including Cable and Wireless and GlaxoSmithKline. Combining these two decades of experience across the technology and music industries Richard embarked on an ambitious research and development project to develop a new digital supply chain platform for the content industries. In addition to his work with the Open Media Gateway, Richard is the CEO of Blueprint Digital, the digital media consulting company that works to create digital media strategies for customers around the globe. Richard is a successful entrepreneur who combines his technology skills with a strategic insight into how the constituent parts of the entertainment value chain can be best served by digital technology.

Rohini Sackmann, Head of Strategy

Rohini is an innovative marketing and business development veteran with more than twenty years’ experience in the information technology, retail and entertainment industries. Prior to joining Blueprint Digital, Rohini held a variety of executive positions in the areas of global strategic marketing, program management and product development. She has developed and deployed numerous customer acquisition programs in companies ranging from start-up businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. Her experience includes developing core and adjacent business strategies, successfully designing and launching new digital entertainment services, building and managing sales operations, developing strategic channel alliances, and developing corporate/product positioning and sales programs for both B2B and B2C companies. Rohini has served as a guest lecturer at university graduate programs as well as many industry conferences and seminars. She attended the University of Minnesota and has a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.

Sinclair Stockman, Chief Technology Officer

Sinclair has an extensive career in telecommunications and software engineering and has played a leading role in a number of ground breaking initiatives throughout the years. His early career encompassed early work on digital communication platforms, such as the world beating Keyboard Business trading platform, development of the very early web based applications and the development of software engineering management and quality processes and tools which led to the development of the first ISO certified environment for software development worldwide. He has been responsible for the creation of highly successful research programmes at BT’s research laboratories , and moved on to create two world leading software engineering centres in Ipswich and Glasgow, which were responsible for the early work on intelligent networks and distruibuted object orientated systems platforms. He then took on responsibility for BT’s major systems programmes, including the Customer Services System, for which he was awarded the Martlesham Medal, in recognition of his contribution to significant technology progress to telecommunications. In 1997, he joined Cegetel as the Director General of Cegetel Information Systems, a separate entity within the Group, and led the development and operation of system platforms for what became one of Europe’s most successful operations, encompassing mobile (SFR), long distant service (Telecom Development) and retail and business services (Cegetel). From there he moved to take on responsibility for all of BT’s information systems in the UK, and subsequently became Group CIO, BT, developing and steering the systems activity through the radical changes in the marketplace from 2000 to 2004, including leading the transformation of BT’s systems capabilities for Broadband, enabling the company to become a leader in this area. Following this, he took on responsibility for BT Global systems and subsequently President, Systems and Networks BT Global Services, leading the deployment of their global MPLS network, systems integration of several major acquisitions worldwide and managing a number of complex global customer projects. Currently Sinclair works as an independent executive technology and transformation advisor, working with a number of innovative web service based companies, providing executive advice and also working on a number of innovative projects with global NGOs and in developing countries. Sinclair earned his BA in Maths from Oxford University in Oxford, United Kingdom, and a PhD in Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics from Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Sinclair was a Thouron Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

James Woodward, Head of Technology

James has been working for Blueprint Digital for the past 10 years, where he heads up the Technology side of the business. With over 15 years experience in the IT industry, James leads a dynamic and highly motivated team of experienced agile software engineers. He has lead the creation and execution of the Open Media Gateway, Blueprint's digital supply chain platform for the content industries. He oversaw the deployment of innovative online music and video delivery services to the likes of Sanity, Circuit City and Best Buy. Having deployed the Open Media Gateway digital supply chain for media delivery (from studio to retailer’s customers), James is looking forward to the next challenge of building domain specific digital rights management using PlayReady, OMA and Marlin. James studied at Greenwich University in the UK where he earned his MSc in Computer Science. He is also a member of a content industry consortium where he contributes his deep technical expertise.