Cable Guys Form Consulting Firm

Jerry Kern is a Partner and Founder of Enki Strategic Advisors, where he provides strategic planning consultation to media and telecommunications companies. Most recently he was the founder and CEO of Symphony Media Systems. Prior to that, Kern was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of On Command Corporation. An acknowledged mega-deal maker in complicated, multi-party transactions, Kern served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI). He was the architect of the AT&T/TCI merger, and TCI's representative in a number of other high-profile mergers and acquisitions, including the Time Warner/Turner Broadcasting merger. Prior to TCI, Kern was a senior partner of Baker & Botts, L.L.P., where he was the senior corporate lawyer in the New York office. For over twenty years, he was the principal outside legal counsel to TCI and Liberty Media.

Izzy Abbass is currently a consultant in the mobile media sector and has over fifteen-years experience in the wireless, Internet and television sectors. His experience includes advertising sales, marketing, operations and creating convergence strategies for media companies. He is co-author of a pending patent covering personal shopping services on the Internet. Abbass was President for North America for U-Turn Media Group. In this position he expanded the company’s North American operations, developed an ad supported business model for local stations and was responsible for the first launch of a mobile video service by a local television station. Prior to his role in launching U-Turn’s three-screen approach to advertising sales , Abbass spent 13 years in cable and broadcast television, where he launched channels in Central Europe, Australia and Asia. He started Australia's first two premium movie channels, Showtime and Encore, served as the General Manager for MGM Gold in Asia and as COO of TV3 in the Czech Republic.

Brad Anderson has spent the last twenty years of his career turning around under-performing telecommunications businesses and developing new communications technologies through early stage and start-up companies. He is also a leading analyst of new technologies and has written extensively on the topic. Previously, Anderson operated cable television systems for Viacom, Cable Co-op, TCI, AT&T Broadband and Comcast. While working in the cable television industry, he led early trials of pay per view, rights management protection, home shopping and cable modem technology; partnering with such companies as Showtime, Terayon, Ericsson, and DEC. In addition to his cable industry experiences, Anderson has held executive positions internationally in the Internet hosting and data center businesses, including senior management posts at GlobalCrossing’s EMEA operations and Exodus. He also served as CEO of AdExact, a software development company.