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Bob Raikes - Meko's Principal "one of the industry's most influential specialists" BBC Bob Raikes is an experienced sales and marketing specialist in distribution and in the PC displays business in particular. Pursuing a keen interest in micro-computers, he joined the PC industry in 1982 at Data Efficiency. Following a spell to establish the distribution company DDL, he helped to set-up Taxan UK as the UK Sales Manager. From there he spent seven years with Japanese monitor and graphic board maker Eizo, initially as Sales Director and later as Managing Director of the company's UK subsidiary. He established Meko Ltd in 1994. As well as being Managing Editor of Display Monitor, Bob was for several years the Displays Editor for The Peddie Report and a regular contributor to Computer Shopper and other titles. Bob long ago decided that if Moore can have a law, he can have one too. Bob's First Law, first developed in the mid-1980s, states: "Everyone that buys a computer, always buys another". Bob's Second Law states: "Anything that increases the visual bandwidth wins in the end". This observation dates from slightly later, after years of hearing the questions: "Who needs graphics?", "Who needs colour?", "Why does anyone need more than 256 colours/a 15" screen/VGA resolution?". The law predicts that there will be a continuous development of electronic displays until they match the capabilities of human visual perception. This means that high dot density/improved colour and 3D displays will inevitably be developed.

Andy Barker - Analyst Director Andy Barker joined Meko in October 2009, bringing with him a wealth of industry experience having been head of digital displays and TVs for ViewSonic Europe and prior to this head of all PCs, workstations and monitor products at Fujitsu Siemens. He is the former head of e-Business for Xerox Europe where he created the strategy and implemented the Xerox 'charge' for e-Business. As part of this he set-up the Xerox TeleWeb channels to sell copiers, printers, monitors and supplies direct to the end-user. In 1999 Andy was head of channel strategy for Compaq Computers EMEA based in Munich. There he oversaw Compaq's main strategic project reviewing their approach to channels in the internet age. He started at Compaq in 1994 by helping to set up its consumer PC business selling the Compaq Presario range of home desktop and mobile PCs and monitors. He then moved on to become head of European distribution for Compaq in 1996 - controlling the selling and marketing of all the Compaq and Digital ranges of computers through two-tier distribution. Andy is the former marketing director of Virgin Retail and re-drew their strategy and store look to become the Mega Music, Mega Video and Mega Game stores that you see today. He also created the strategy for the Virgin Game Stores and went on to found GAME Ltd (the specialist computer and game stores).

Azhar Mohd-Hashim - Warranty Service Manager Azhar Mohd-Hashim joined Meko in December 2009, bringing with him a wealth of industry experience having been involved in the IT industry for 24 years, primarily in the display sector. Prior to joining Meko, Azhar was European quality manager at Viewsonic, where he managed the quality management system, service and parts processes and reverse logistics. He has been working in regulatory compliance throughout his career and has implemented several product standards and EU directives at Viewsonic, Capetronic and IBM. This included the introduction of the WEEE, RoHs, REACH, EMC and TCO inititiatives. Azhar was part of an IT industry action group on recycling long before WEEE had been thought of. He was also a member of the MPR-II standards committee on low-emission monitors - the pre-cursor of TCO standards.

Goksen Sertler - Senior Research Analyst, Advanced TV Brought up and educated in Turkey, Goksen completed an executive MBA while a production engineer at Beko, where she was responsible for the project management of new products. Since moving to the UK, she has worked for Access Devices, working on several projects involving liaison work with several TV companies. Goksen joined Meko at the beginning of 2007.

Sue Kempton - Office Manager Sue joined Meko in January 2000. Sue distributes all of the DisplayCast deliverables. She heads the data collection section and is responsible for the quality of the data. She is also responsible for the first stage of analysis and the preparation of report graphics. In addition Sue is responsible for Display Monitor sales. Sue started in retail management but then moved on to quality control and reporting. She has also worked on databases and was involved in marketing immediately prior to joining Meko. She is based in the UK office and speaks French and German.

Doug Drinkwater - Journalist Doug joined Meko in November 2009 as journalist responsible for reporting and writing much of the news in Display Monitor. After completing a PTC diploma in Magazine Journalism at Highbury College, Doug worked as a content editor for a leading healthcare website and head of PR for a popular football website. He has written articles as a freelance writer for football magazines Four Four Two and Calcio Italia and sports newspaper The Non League Paper. In addition he has written several articles for a number of business magazines and weekly newspapers.

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