Chairman of the Board of Directors
Yves Caillaud
Senior Vice President, EMEA, Warner Home Video and Digital Distribution

Yves Caillaud is Senior Vice President, EMEA, Warner Home Video and Digital Distribution, part of the Warner Home Entertainment Group. A home entertainment industry veteran of seventeen years, Caillaud has oversight of the European home video and digital distribution operations for Warner Bros., responsible for making Warner Bros.' filmed entertainment content available to audiences through as many channels, platforms and devices as possible across EMEA.

Prior to this role, he held a range of senior management and sales and marketing roles across Warner Home Video, beginning as Marketing Director for France and rising through the organization, as MD for WHV France, VP Europe, supervising Nordic, Spain, Italy, Eastern Affiliates and Israel and SVP, EMEA.

Before joining Warner Home Video in 1992, Yves Caillaud held a number of marketing roles in international companies, as a Marketing Director for CPC Best Foods and previously, with American Tobacco France and Gerber Baby Foods. He was President of France Video Association between 2001 and 2003 and has been Chairman and Board Director of DEGE since 2007. He holds an MBA from HEC Business School, Paris.

Don Hunton
Executive Vice President, EMEA, Paramount Home Entertainment

Don Hunton is Executive Vice President for Europe, Middle East and Africa for Paramount Home Entertainment, a position he has held since July 2007. Prior to that Don was responsible for the UK and Asia Pacific region, based out of Australia. Before joining Paramount, Don held senior management positions in both the UK and Australia with MGM and Disney, having joined the industry in 1993 from GSK Consumer Products.

Cecilia Tosting
Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, EMEA

Cecilia Tosting is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of The Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, EMEA, and is a member of the European Management Board of The Walt Disney Company.

In her role, Tosting oversees all sales, marketing, operations and finance functions of the studio’s Disney Animated and Live-Action, Disney Channel, Preschool, Baby Einstein, Disney ABC International TV product, Miramax and Touchstone home entertainment properties for EMEA. This includes wholly owned subsidiaries and licensees’ relationships in Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.

Tosting joined Disney in 1992, and has held a variety of roles within the organization, most recently she held the role of Senior Vice President and Managing Director for Italy and Spain, where she led her teams to become marketplace leaders in both countries, overseeing launches of some landmark releases, including High School Musical, the #1 selling TV on DVD release, the Pirates of the Caribbean films, the top selling live-action DVD franchise and building top 10 results on both the Disney Platinum collection and Direct to Video titles.

Born in Sweden, Cecilia Tosting received a University degree in Finance and Marketing from the School of Business of the University of Stockholm. Tosting currently divides her time between the UK and Italy.

Johnny Fewings
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Universal Pictures International Entertainment

Johnny is a record and film industry veteran of 33 years and is currently the VP for Strategic Initiatives at Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE), the home entertainment arm of Universal Pictures.

Starting behind the counter at Virgin Records in 1976, Johnny rose to become the first manager of the famed London Megastore in 1979 and became MD of Virgin Retail in 1981. He held this position until 1988, during which time he oversaw the expansion of the chain into Europe and Australia, as well as establishing the Virgin Megastore brand. Leaving retail to move into video publishing, Johnny held posts with Parkfield Entertainment and Pearson before becoming deputy MD of Vision Video Ltd (VVL), a video publishing imprint of Polygram Records UK.

VVL specialised in non-film entertainment, particularly comedy, and was largely responsible for creating the comedy-on-video market for which the UK is a field leader, representing artists such as Billy Connolly, Lee Evans, Peter Kay, Ricky Gervais and Eddie Izzard.

Following Polygram’s acquisition by Universal, Johnny became Joint MD of UPIE in 2002, holding this position until 2007 when he took up his current role.

John McMahon
Managing Director, Europe, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

John McMahon is Managing Director, Europe, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE). McMahon oversees SPHE’s European division and is responsible for its DVD, Blu-ray and digital distribution businesses. He also serves as the liaison for all European home entertainment activities with other Sony divisions, including Sony Electronics, PlayStation, Sony Ericsson and Sony Music Entertainment.

Prior to joining SPHE, McMahon was President and Managing Director, Europe, Sony Pictures Television (SPT) with oversight of all television businesses in Europe. During his 12 years managing the European television group the distribution, production and networks businesses achieved significant revenue growth and geographic expansion.

McMahon joined Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) in Los Angeles in 1990, serving initially in the legal division, and moved to the international television division in 1995. He relocated to London in late 1997. McMahon received a JD degree and an MBA degree from the University of Southern California and he earned a BS degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley.

Marc Caux
Senior Vice President, Southern Europe, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Marc Caux is Senior Vice President, Southern Europe at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and has been in his current role since 2007. Prior to joining Fox, Caux was Managing Director at Warner Home Video in Brazil and later in Canada. He began his home entertainment career at Warner in 1991 as Head of its Key Accounts team in France tasked with building its sell-through business. Caux temporarily left Warner in 1996 to join Disneyland Paris as head of Sales and Marketing for the theme park’s French business and came back in 2000. Caux has a deep Sales and Marketing background beginning in the food sector. He holds degrees in Biology and Business from the University of Paris XIII and ISCM, respectively.

Simon Staines
Vice President, International, arvato

Staines has over 10 years experience in the home entertainment industry and has been supporting the major Hollywood and independent studios across international territories throughout this time. With a number of senior positions to his name, he now manages the physical and digital supply chain services that arvato provides to the major studios in international territories.

Jonathan Beardsworth
Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Europe, Technicolor

Jonathan Beardsworth is Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Europe, Technicolor and has been with the company since 2006. Beardsworth is responsible for every aspect of sales and marketing for Technicolor’s European businesses in replication and distribution across all sectors, including video, games, software, promotional and retail activities. Prior to his current role, Beardsworth spent the previous five years as Senior Vice President, European Commercial Operations for EMI.

Beardsworth is also the leader of the New and Emerging Technologies Taskforce.

Jonathan Beddows
Vice President, Commercial and Business Affairs, Cinram Europe

Jonathan Beddows is Vice President Commercial and Business Affairs for Cinram Europe. Beddows oversees some of the key studio contractual and supply chain relationships for Cinram in Europe covering its DVD, Blu-ray and distribution businesses. Beddows is also responsible for Cinram’s European business development strategy which in addition to Cinram’s core logistical functions encompasses Cinram’s retail distribution, games, digital distribution and new business channel strategies.

During his 12 years with Cinram Beddows has fulfilled a variety of commercial roles both nationally and internationally during which time Cinram has established itself as a key player in the provision in the Entertainment Supply Chain Services.

Prior to joining Cinram in 1997, Beddows worked for VideoPrint in the UK and for Intervisual Advertising in London and the United States. Beddows has a BA (Hons 2.1) in Economics and Geography and an MSc (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.