Globalcom Limited is a London-based communications consultancy and publishing company. The people who have established it are recognised experts in their own field and bring with them over 40 years of experience.

Globalcom has built a closely-knit international network of Associated and correspondents who bring their unique skills and complementarity of expertise, and who are able to carry out a wide range of assignments. They include work dealing with business planning, market entry strategy, technology and standards, policy and regulation covering most facets of the home entertainment and communication industry such as packaged media, new digital video delivery systems, multimedia, mobile video, telecommunications, broadcasting, cable and satellite.

Globalcom carries out assignment for European and international clients. The company has extensive experience in the design and conduct of data collection and research programmes to provide both quantitative and qualitative outputs.

Globalcom’s separate Publishing division runs the international industry website www.dvd-intelligence.com and produces the annual executive-level magazine DVD and Beyond, now in its 11th edition. Globalcom also organises conferences and seminars such as Film-to-DVD, DVD and Beyond as well as the 2007 DVD Forum Europe, on behalf of the DVD Forum.

Globalcom Ltd founder and managing director is Swiss-born Dr Jean-Luc Renaud. He has been involved in various aspects of the new media industry for over 25 years. After graduate studies at the universities of Lausanne and Geneva, he went to the United States where he spent seven years, earning a PhD in media economics from Michigan State University, teaching at the University of Minnesota and pursuing consulting activities.

Jean-Luc spent a year at the European Institute for the Media in Manchester where he co-authored The Future of the European Audiovisual Industry. He then joined Logica, the UK's largest independent IT company. There he worked on broadcast/media technology assignments and took an active part in Europe’s debate on advanced TV standard, MAC, digital television and video delivery over telecom networks. In 1991, he set up Globalcom Ltd, where he continues to carry out consultancy assignments and develop the company's publishing activities.

Tokyo-born Dr Megumi Komiya has been carrying out work in the areas of telecommunications, multimedia industries, IT and media policy for the past 20 years – in Japan and Europe as well as in the United States where she spent eight years, earning a doctorate, lecturing and consulting.

Megumi worked with international research and strategy company such as Kalba Bowen in the US and Putnam Hayes and Bartlett in the UK. Before joining Globalcom to oversee the research programme, she was Director of Strategy Research for six years at Nomura Research Institute Europe – the London-base subsidiary of Japan’s largest securities house.

Megumi has detailed knowledge of telecommunication technology, markets, regulation and finance, and recently carried out projects involving mobile contents, mobile TV, mobile advertising and mobile social networking.

• BBC Enterprises
• Chase Investment Bank
• The Australian Department of Transport and Communications
• Fuji-Sankei Communications International
• Viacom International
• The Mirror Group
• Nickelodeon
• Hyundai Electronics America
• Irdeto
• M-Net
• Warner Home Entertainment
• Nomura Research Institute
• Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
• Pacific Telesis
• Société Européenne des Satellites

• Teracom
• The World Bank
• Retevision
• The European Union
• McCann-Erickson International
• International Federation of Phonographic Industries
• NEC
• NTT
• Taiko Denki Electronics
• Fluke
• South Africa’s Department of Communications
• Part of the team retained by a group of European companies (TDF, NOS, Deutche Telekom, Retevision, BBC), to produce a report on the introduction of Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe.

• Market potential for Specialty DVD titles
• Non-traditional DVD distribution channels
• Video assets valuation
• Corporate applications of Web 2.0 technologies
• Mobile video and TV
• VOD and video-over-the-Internet
• Regulation on IPTV and IP telephony in Europe
• Digital terrestrial broadcasting
• EU regulatory framework on electronic communications
• Interactive TV
• Broadband and mobile technologies and their applications in Japan and South Korea
• Corporate IPR (intellectual property rights) strategy in Europe
• Patent licensing

So, if you need a comprehensive large-scale research or a simple brainstorming session, call a fiercely independent-minded, no-nonsense, reasonably priced team of highly qualified consultants.

Globalcom Ltd, 26 Windridge Close, St Albans AL3 4JP, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1727 851761, Email: enquiry@globalcom-consultancy.com