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Dr Stephen Castell is one of the UK's leading professional consultants, and business builders, in the increasingly convergent areas of IT, telecommunications, broadcasting and the media and has for the past twenty years been Chairman of CASTELL, his own consultancy company. He specialises in the active strategising, planning, management and development of systems and businesses in information and communications technologies, broadcasting and the media, and in analysing and influencing the financial, market, economic, regulatory and legal factors which affect them. He has established a special reputation in developing businesses in voice telephony and in satellite communications, databroadcasting and strategic value-added services; and in being amongst those leading the discussion of the 'legal reliability' of information systems and technologies.

As an Expert Witness in software litigation and computer criminal prosecutions he has been involved in a wide range of cases including what is thought to be the largest civil action over a software development contract to come to trial in the English High Court. He is also a (CEDR-trained) Mediator and (ICC) Arbitrator.

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A noted business and financial innovator, with an earlier background in mathematics, industrial research and merchant banking, Dr Castell has established a reputation for initiating, leading or assisting in the building of multimillion pound businesses in voice and data communications and broadcasting, information and software services. He was one of the pioneers of the Over The Counter Market in the UK where he was responsible for identifying and assessing several hundred high-technology and telecommunications companies over a 5-year period, participating in the preparation of flotation prospectuses and serving as Non-Executive Director on various Company Boards. In 1982, he was the founder Technical Director of the venture capital funded International Communications Technology Holdings SA, based in Luxembourg and listed in London, and was Chairman of its UK subsidiary Telephone Broadcasting Systems plc.

Dr Castell has presented papers at many International Conferences, for example, SATELCOM '91, Bucharest, Romania, which was the first pan-European satellite communications conference to be co-sponsored by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the European Space Agency (ESA) and Eutelsat. Another example was the First World Congress Multimedia, Barcelona, October 1993, where he contributed a presentation "Channel 5 - A national digital broadband communications highway". He is a prolific author on business, technology, legal, regulatory and financial matters and a correspondent for The Computer Law and Security Report. He is the author of the best-selling Computer Bluff (1983), and The APPEAL Report (1990) on the admissibility of computer evidence in court, and a contributor to Sweet and Maxwell's Encyclopedia of Information Technology Law. In 1980, in a letter to the Financial Times, he coined the term Business Television.

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