Introducing our management team

• Lee Perryman
  Deputy Director of AP's Broadcast Division and Director of Broadcast Technology

  Since 1989, Lee's primary focus has been technology projects, including developing and launching ENPS, and its predecessor, AP NewsCenter.

  Lee joined The Associated Press in 1980 as a Broadcast Executive, working in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. He has extensive experience in AP’s Broadcast division, including strategic planning and development/implementation of news and weather relay systems. He also served as Assistant Secretary of AP until 1995.

  Lee started his career in local radio station management, sales, programming and engineering and is a graduate of the University of Alabama.

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• Mike Palmer
  Director of Broadcast Digital Distribution Systems and Strategy

  Since joining The Associated Press in 1998, Mike has played a leadership role in key areas within the organization and the industry.

  He has been a driving force and a spokesman for the MOS protocol, a newsroom integration tool recognized by much of the industry as the gold standard for machine communication in the newsroom. As a result in 2001, Mike was awarded the prestigious Oliver Gramling Award for Achievement by AP. Mike has also been a key architect of ENPS and other products.

  Prior to 1998, he worked in local news and engineering operations in positions ranging from field photographer to news operations manager. Mike also held management positions in satellite operations at Conus and USSB, both pioneers in the satellite industry. Palmer is a Mass Communications (Journalism) graduate of the University of Southern Colorado and studied electrical engineering at Texas A&M University.

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• Randall Meston
  Director of Sales Support & Integration

  Previously, Randall established AP's ENPS operations team in London, managing the BBC's ENPS team. Randall has also been Technology Development Manager for AP's broadcast division, responsible for development, design, testing and deployment of news technology products.

  Randall was Senior Broadcast Engineer and News Systems Manager at KVOA-TV, Tucson, Arizona. Randall was also Field Service Engineer, satellite and microwave services, for a Dallas, Texas, company and a Signals Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Marine Corps.

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• David Gwizdowski
  Director of U.S. and Latin America Broadcast Markets

  David is responsible for all of AP's sales to broadcasters in the U.S., Canada and Central and South America. David has also been the Director of Network Sales and a Regional Television Executive covering the Southwest.

  Prior to joining AP, David worked in television news for 18 years. He was an Assistant News Director at KTRK-TV in Houston and WLVI-TV in Boston. He also was News Director at WPRI-TV in Providence, RI and WLBZ-TV in Bangor, Maine. He was also a Producer and Executive Producer at WCVB-TV in Boston. David won two Emmys and two RTNDA awards while working in Providence and Boston.

  David is a Communications graduate of Emerson College in Boston.

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• Paddy Payne
  Director, International Business Development

  Prior to joining The Associated Press, Paddy was Regional Sales Director for Encoda Systems' Media Management Division, responsible for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

  Previously, Paddy was Business Development Manager with Expocentric PLC, a pioneer in interactive on-line media, conference and exhibition services. Paddy was also Director of Conferences for Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc and he was Conference Director for Baltic Publishing Ltd.

  Fluent in English, French, German, Paddy is experienced in presenting complex technology and service solutions to international organizations and government agencies. He earned a BA (Hons.) in Theology from Cambridge University.

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• Andy Wormser
  Technology Development Operations Manager

  Andy also helped launch AP’s Online Video Network, serving as its first Executive Producer. Prior to joining AP in 2005, he was news director at Hearst-Argyle's WPTZ-TV/WNNE-TV, Burlington, Vermont, with additional responsibility for ENPS implementation and training for Hearst-Argyle's television station group since 2002.

  Andy began his television news career at KCAU-TV, Sioux City, Iowa, then joined WPTZ-TV, holding positions as reporter, bureau chief, assignment editor and assistant news director. He also was an an assignment editor for WGME-TV, Portland, Maine. He served as president of two state AP broadcast organizations.

  Andy earned undergraduate and masters degrees from Northwestern University.

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• Jason Smith
  Project Manager

  Jason joined AP in 2000, holding positions as Training Coordinator and Operations Manager.

  Previously, he had been Executive Producer of San Francisco-based Zatso, responsible for running its 30-person Internet newsroom, and as a news writer and producer at ZDTV. Smith has also been Supervising Producer at KSNW-TV, Wichita, Kansas, and has writing and production experience at WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, and WIS-TV, Columbia. South Carolina.

  Jason earned a B.S. in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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• Paul Owens
  BBC ENPS Project Manager

  Prior to joining AP, Paul had been Computer Services Manager with the New Zealand Totalisator Agency Board, where he managed computer operations for a real-time transactional system incorporating 550 retail outlets, 79 racetracks, five call centres, a television network and a nationwide PC network.

  Earlier, Paul was Senior Support Engineer with Macroset NZ Ltd., a national computer maintenance organisation in New Zealand.

  He is a graduate of Regional Technical College, Cork.
   

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