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Kip Meek (born 18 April 1955), full name Kingsley John Neville Meek, is a British businessperson specialising in media and telecommunication.
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Career
Kip Meek held board level roles at Ofcom from 2003 until 2007. He joined Ofcom as senior partner for content and competition.
He assisted Ofcom's first Chief Executive Stephen Carter integrating existing telecoms and media regulators into a single organisation.
In 2005 he became Ofcom's Chief Policy Officer and Chairman of the European Regulators' Group (ERG), handling Ofcom's relationship with European and International political institutions. He also had responsibility for Ofcom's Content & Standards Group, and Ofcom's Legal Group.
Kip Meek was a founder and Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consulting, incorporated in 1993 (a consultancy specialising in media, telecommunications, and information technology).
Previous positions include leading Coopers & Lybrand's media and telecoms strategy practice in London, and positions at the Boston Consulting Group, McKinsey & Co and British Telecom.
On 23 July 2010, Kip Meek was announced as non-executive chairman of Project Canvas (now YouView). Meek leads the Board of the venture and oversaw the appointment of Chief Executive Officer, Richard Halton. He stepped down from his role as Director of Ingenious Media. He also left his positions as Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group and a director of the RadioCentre and Phorm. Meek left YouView on 7 March 2011 and was replaced by Alan Sugar.
As of March 2011 he is employed at EE as an adviser and is part of Communications Chambers.
Controversy
His role as a member of Phorm's board was claimed to conflict with his work as a taxpayer-funded advisor on UK internet policy for BERR during the publication of the Digital Britain strategy.
As the same time, the UK Government faced European Commission infraction proceedings, following the covert trials of Phorm's technology by British Telecom in 2006 and 2007.