Kip Meek

Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG)

Kip is Non-Executive Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group. The BSG is the industry-government forum for tackling strategic issues across the converging broadband value chain. As of 1st May, he is a full-time Board member of Ingenious Media Plc and he is also a Non-Executive Board member of the RadioCentre.

Kip was previously a board member at Ofcom, where he took a leading role in developing Ofcom’s international strategy. He was also Chairman of the European Regulators’ Group (ERG) and oversaw Ofcom’s engagement with key European and international decision-making bodies. This included Ofcom’s participation in the review of the EU Television Without Frontiers Directive, the review of the EU Telecommunications Framework and the international Regional Radio Conference in 2006. He was also responsible for the Ofcom Content & Standards Group and for Ofcom’s Legal Group. 

Before joining Ofcom, Kip Meek was Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consulting, and one of its two founders. His consulting career focused on major decisions in the communications industry, particularly those that involved integration of the media, telecommunications and information sectors. Kip worked regularly in Europe, Asia, North America and South America. 

Prior to setting up Spectrum, he led the media and telecoms strategy practice at Coopers & Lybrand in London and worked previously for the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co and British Telecom.

02 March 2007

Interview with Kip Meek, Media Guardian, 31 March 2008