Roger Bowley joined ES Broadcast as Senior Account Manager in May 2021. He is responsible for building and maintaining long-term relationships with key clients and helping to develop end-to-end solutions for their business from across the Group’s equipment sales and rental, systems integration, archiving and content services divisions.

Extensive experience across the broadcast spectrum

Roger Bowley boasts more than three decades’ experience working across a wide spectrum of the broadcast and creative technology industries. He began his career in telecoms and audio, before taking up European sales roles spanning more than a decade with broadcast manufacturers Quantel and Snell & Wilcox. Subsequent spells in workflow automation with Marquis Broadcast and Omnibus eventually led him Miranda/Grass Valley, where he headed up UK sales teams.

Immediately prior to joining ES Broadcast, Roger spent more than four years as Elemental principal sales specialist at cloud services provider AWS. Here he worked at the heart of innovative cloud-based content solutions including cloud content distribution and OTT, live streaming and VOD delivery, in parallel with AWS’ wider storage, AI and ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) and data analytics services.

Knowledge of state-of-the-art cloud solutions

Unsurprisingly Roger Bowley has amassed an almost unparalleled depth of knowledge of both traditional broadcast and cutting-edge cloud-based solutions during his career. He is well-versed in the entire content cycle from acquisition to delivery, with expertise in production, post production and publishing workflow solutions, including live production, edit, graphics, VFX, MAM, playout TX and OTT, VOD and live streaming technologies.

Over the last two decades he has helped clients navigate through multiple creative and technological innovations, including tape-to-file workflows, the introduction of OTT content delivery, and advancements from SD to HD to UHD, from baseband to IP and from on-premise to cloud.

Working with you to understand the needs and goals of your business, Roger Bowley is able to help you identify the precise broadcast solution that best fits your commercial and creative needs – including on-premise, software-as-a-service (SaaS), hybrid and cloud-based solutions, as well as capex/opex finance models. Similarly, he is experienced in managing wider client deliverables such as technical support, training, finance and professional services, thereby ensuring you continue to see the benefits of working with ES Broadcast in the long term.