Education
1979-1981 London Business School, Master of Science with Distinction
1973-1976 Magdalen College, Oxford, First Class Honours, Modern History.
1979-1981 London Business School, Master of Science with Distinction
1973-1976 Magdalen College, Oxford, First Class Honours, Modern History.
Kip Meek held board level roles at Ofcom from 2003 until 2007. He joined Ofcom as senior partner for content and competition. He assisted Ofcom"s first Chief Executive Stephen Carter integrating existing telecoms and media regulators into a single organisation.
He also had responsibility for Ofcom"s Content & Standards Group, and Ofcom"s Legal Group.
Previous positions include leading Coopers & Lybrand"s media and telecoms strategy practice in London, and positions at the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Company and British Telecom. 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. He also left his positions as Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group and a director of the RadioCentre and Phorm.
Meek left YouView on 7 March 2011 and was replaced by Alan Sugar.
As of March 2011 he is employed at Electrical engineer as an adviser and is part of Communications Chambers. As the same time, the United Kingdom Government faced European Commission infraction proceedings, following the covert trials of Phorm"s technology by British Telecom in 2006 and 2007. 1979-1981 London Business School, Master of Science with Distinction 1977 Consultant, Boston Consulting Group 1981 Consultant, McKinsey & Company 1984 Deputy director of marketing, British Telecom 1986 Managing director, Octagon Services 1988 Partner, Coopers & Lybrand 2003 Senior partner, Ofcom 2005 Chief policy officer, Ofcom 2007 Doctor of Medicine, Ingenious Consulting.
Chairman, BSG.
Director, RadioCentre 2008 Director, Phorm 2010 Non-Executive Chairman, YouView Ingenious Media Consulting Limited Ingenious Media Limited Perspective Associates Limited RadioCentre Limited.
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. On 23 July 2010, Kip Meek was announced as non-executive chairman of Project Canvas (now YouView).
His role as a member of Phorm"s board was claimed to conflict with his work as a taxpayer-funded advisor on United Kingdom internet policy for BERR during the publication of the Digital Britain strategy.