London—Oct 16, 2006
Dave Monk Appointed as EDCF CEO
EDCF –The European Digital Cinema Forum - has appointed Dave Monk as Chief Executive Officer. For 38 years Dave worked for Texas Instruments being one of the enabling companies of Digital Cinema with its DLP Cinema™ technology. He was Vice President of TI Europe and MD of TI’s UK and Ireland Subsidiaries until his retirement in 2004. For the last two years he has been the producer for IBC ‘s D Cinema Theme Day, he is a technology advisor to the UK’s Film and Television Academy – BAFTA, a BKSTS Council Member and an advisor to the UK National Film Theatre’s Digital Test Bed Project.
Welcoming the opportunity to work with EDCF, Dave Monk said that “EDCF has provided a valuable forum for sharing ideas, issues and requirements in the field of standards and needs. It now needs to ensure that its membership constituency is wholly representative of the cinema business and culture. EDCF needs to carry forward its collective opinions so that it is a valuable and important voice in effecting changes for the benefit of its membership and the cinema going public”.
