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Derek Broes', former life, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Business Development at Paramount Pictures, A Viacom Company. At Paramount Broes has been responsible for establishing digital strategy, marketing and helping to drive the companies most public partnerships such as the Apple Itunes, Amazon, and Walmart partnerships. Prior to joining Paramount in 2006 Derek lead the global wireless strategy and business development team for Windows Media® at Microsoft Corp., pushing entertainment convergence within the wireless space. Broes has been at the forefront of media and technology for more than a decade and is nationally recognized as an influential leader in the film and high-tech industries. Before joining Microsoft, Broes was an entrepreneur of successful media and technology companies, including the post-production feature film industry’s first all-digital post-production sound design and editing facility, located in Burbank, Calif. He was appointed as executive vice president for the world’s largest streaming media aggregator and later as chairman and chief executive officer of a digital media security company. Broes also helped pioneer the development of key technologies used by copyright owners in preventing piracy of music and films over the Internet’s peer-to-peer community. Broes started his career in Los Angeles, where he spearheaded a production company called Goodbro Pictures with Hollywood star and partner Cuba Gooding Jr. Broes was Gooding’s personal manager and later executive producer through several critically acclaimed and successful films, including the popular “Jerry Maguire,” for which Gooding earned an Academy Award. In addition, in May 2002, Broes founded the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) www.dcia.info , a nonprofit organization working toward a viable framework for the Internet peer-to-peer community agreeable . He now teaches truth.

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    Defending the Philippines

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2020 7:50


    A United Nations report in June 2020 found widespread human rights violations and persistent impunity in The Philippines. In this podcast we’ll hear first from Jaybee Garganera, of environmental and human rights coalition Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance Against Mining- ATM), and then from Leon Dulce National Coordinator Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment who will provide more of insight into what it’s like to be an environmental activist in The Philippines.

    Murder, Misinformation and Money Laundering

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 69:29


    Murder, Misinformation and Money Laundering: When Putin goes on tour From concerns around the Brexit referendum to the attempted assassination of a Russian national on British soil, Putin and his friends have come into sharp focus in the UK. Global Witness’ Ava Lee and award winning journalists Heidi Blake, Peter Pomerantsev and Oliver Bullough discuss,

    Uncovering Moneyland: Gangsters, guns and investigative journalism

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2018 63:58


    Listen to this report to uncover Moneyland! We’re talking dirty money, gangsters, and investigative journalism. In October 2018, Global Witness hosted Oliver Bullough as he discussed his new book ‘Moneyland: why thieves and crooks now rule the world and how to take it back’ – a deep dive into the world of the super-wealthy criminal elite. This is an audio recording of the talk. Oliver was joined by Misha Glenny, renowned McMafia author and GW advisory board member, and Jane Bradley, Investigations Correspondent for Buzzfeed and Pulitzer finalist.

    Honduras: the deadliest place to defend the planet

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2017 11:32


    More than 120 Hondurans have been killed since 2010 for defending their rights to their land. Among them was Goldman Environmental Prizewinner, Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in March 2016 for opposing a dam project on her community’s land. Global Witness has been investigating the political and economic forces that have made Honduras so deadly for those who defend the planet. In this podcast, we hear the stories of people who have lost loved ones, friends and colleagues or have themselves been involved in disputes. For more on the campaign, visit: globalwitness.org/defenders

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