AES New York 2017 Presenter or Author
Paul Jessop
Primary Affiliation: County Analytics Ltd - Dunstable, Bedfordshire, UK
Paul Jessop is founder and director of County Analytics Ltd, an independent consulting firm named for his 400 year old home and office in rural England – County Cottage.
County Analytics has a diverse range of clients in the media, entertainment and electronics industries, where it gives advice on strategy, market positioning, and the creation and exploitation of industry standards. Paul is known for facilitation and consensus building and has a tight drafting style widely exploited in specification writing.
After a career in engineering and strategy with British Telecom, Paul was for 13 years CTO at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and subsequently at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). He continues his work as Executive Director of the US Registration Agency for the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) under contract to RIAA and represents the recording industry’s interests in ISRC and other identifiers at the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
Paul is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Institution of Great Britain. He is a Member of the Audio Engineering Society. He obtained a degree in Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge and a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies at Oxford.
Paul enjoys travelling with his wife and two sons, who are all qualified scuba divers. Paul is a divemaster and has held an amateur radio licence since 1975. He is a US commercial pilot and flight instructor for gliders. In the UK he holds instructor ratings for gliders and motor-gliders and also flies light aircraft. He volunteers with the scouting movement teaching young people to fly and with the British Gliding Association on national political and lobbying activities.
More Info: https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/paul-jessop/1/7a/a70
Session List
Oct 21:
AR10: Tales of Asset Management: The Good, the Bad, and "v2_final_mix_master_VOX UP_FINAL.wav.aiff" (Panelist)
Oct 21:
AR13: New Developments in Studio Metadata (Presenter)