Farrel Miller – Founder & CEO

Mr. Miller is the Founder and CEO of SportTV.com, an internet distributor of live world class sport events from around the world.  SportTV.com is a closely held company with extensive experience in the field of live streaming media.  Mr. Miller has assembled a top level Management and Directors team in anticipation of the company’s launch in fall 2007.

Over the past fifteen years, Mr. Miller has been focused primarily on founding, operating, financing, advising and investing in early-stage technology companies. He has extensive startup operating experience and has personally driven and executed virtually all the phases of company building. He has a track record in raising venture capital, angel and strategic financing, strategic planning and positioning, management team building, new product development and launch, marketing and public relations, negotiating strategic partnerships, building and managing an internationally-distributed organization, and executing exit strategies.

From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Miller founded and served as CEO and Chairman of JumpTV Inc., the world’s largest online distributor of international TV channels, and a public company (London AIM & TSE markets) with a market capitalization of US$100M.  JumpTV developed into a high growth media distribution company with a strong subscriber base and defensible market position. Mr. Miller served on the Board of Directors of JumpTV until 2006. Mr. Miller was honored in 2005 as a Finalist for the "Promie" Entrepreneur of the Year award in connection with the development and growth of JumpTV.

From 1999 to 2000, he co-founded, was co-chairman and served at various times as CEO of Giftworld.com, an ebusiness services and e-commerce startup. Giftworld.com was the third highest-rated gift site on the Internet by Gomez Advisors, a leading internet analyst firm. Giftworld.com was ultimately sold to Museum Company, a leading specialty retailer, in 2000.

Earlier in his career Mr. Miller was a venture capitalist at the Castle Group, focusing on very early-stage investments in the biotech, healthcare, media and information technology spaces, where he gained valuable experience identifying, sourcing and negotiating private equity and venture stage investments. During this tenure Mr. Miller introduced the first distribution of western companies' television advertising on Russian TV, which took place during the 1992 Winter and Summer Olympic Games telecasts.

Mr. Miller began his career as a corporate attorney with Rogers & Wells in New York City, currently merged as Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP.

Mr. Miller has served as a regular guest lecturer at McGill University Faculty of Law and he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on the application of copyright law to the internet and media related matters. He also serves as co-chairman of the annual Lila Sigal Marathon Hockey Tournament, an annual fundraiser for cancer research development.

Mr. Miller received a LL.B. Law degree and MBA Finance from McGill University, and a B.A. Economics from Brandeis University.

Mr. Miller resides in Montreal with his wife and two children.

Gerald Chr. Smith - President & COO

Gerald Smith is an entrepreneur and new media & sports specialist. Over the past 10 years, he has been involved in numerous initiatives for web, e-commerce and mobile.

Gerald is currently President of SportTV.com Asia and he is based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In 1998 he founded Sportdreams. Serving as its CEO he grew the company into a leading developer of online sports content and fantasy sports games in Europe. With fantasy products for numerous international sporting events and competitions, games are both published under its own brand and through media partners. Providing games and services to online entertainment groups, Sportdreams is well-positioned to drive growth in a global market that IDC forecasts will reach US$9.8 billion by 2008.

Since 2005 Mr.Smith has lead the expansion of the business into the Asian region, working out of it's office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From 2004 to 2006 he has served as an advisor to Million-2-1 Ltd, a mobile entertainment business from the UK. The company has a wide product portfolio of mobile games. Its flagship product How Lo? is operated by over 50 partners around the globe. Mr.Smith has been advising on the rapidly expansion overseas, in particular in Asia.

In 2000 Mr Smith helped launching Sportus.com, a pan-European sports e-retailer. At the same time he was co-founder of IPAN (Interactive Professionals Association Netherlands) and served as its first chairman, during which they brought First Tuesday to Amsterdam.

He started his career as an investment manager at Mahoney Engineering Netherlands, a privately owned Japanese investment company. Where he gained first-hand experience in identifying new business opportunities and advising on strategic investments.

Mr Smith is a native from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Being half-Japanese, he is fluent in Dutch, English and Japanese. He is married with three children, an avid rugby player, and holds a masters degree from VU University Amsterdam.

Tan Soamboonsrup - CTO

Tan Soamboonsrup is Chief Technical Officer of SportsTV, a position to which he is ideally suited.

Tan is founder, president and CEO of Openface Internet Inc. The company is a successful internet service, internet phone and internet software provider. Established in 1995, today Openface is one of Canada’s largest independent internet service providers. The company operates the network data operations centre and R&D facility in Montreal as well as a service centre in Toronto. The company’s programming operation is based in Montreal and Bangkok, where the company also has a sales office.

In addition to his responsibilities at Openface, Tan sits on the boards of  IBC Today, a successful Internet world news organization and E-Space Connexions, an application service provider focused on internet-based real estate management and marketing tools.

Tan was responsible for conceiving the architecture and developing the initial infrastructure for JumpTV.