Gerry O’Sullivan

O’Sullivan is in charge of Deutsche Telekom’s growing existing IPTV business both in Germany, Europe’s largest TV market, and beyond as well as its online video, music, games and gaming businesses.

Deutsche Telekom has launched IPTV services, some in partnerships, in more than ten countries, selling more than 1.6mn subscriptions to its IPTV service ‘T-Home Entertain’ by the end of 2010. O’Sullivan started his career at BBC News and Current Affairs in London, going on to direct all the main BBC news programmes during an 11 year stint at the publically funded broadcaster.

After the BBC O’Sullivan joined Australia’s first 24-hour news channel as Head of Production before moving to New York in 1993 where he was responsible for the launch of the New York broadcast channel WBIS+ as Director of Operations and Engineering.

In 1997 he joined Fox News Channel as CTO before returning to the UK to join British Sky Broadcasting as their Director of Strategic Product Development. Here he was responsible for the innovation and delivery of Sky’s products and services on the DSAT and Online platforms. This included the launch of Sky+ HD and for pioneering 3DTV in the UK until he left last year after a decade at the company.


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