Media and entertainment company Discovery Communications, the parent company of international sports broadcaster Eurosport, has strengthened its Olympic Games technology team with two senior appointments.
Dominic Baillie has been appointed to the newly created role of chief technology officer, Olympics and sports, while Simon Farnsworth has been named as senior vice-president, Olympic technical distribution.
Baillie, who is due to join the company later this month, will assume responsibility for developing the Olympic Games and sports technology strategy, which covers the 2018 winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Farnsworth has already stepped into his new role with Discovery and has been made responsible for strategic oversight of content aggregation and signal distribution, as well as managing the transport of content from Olympic Games venue sites to Discovery.
John Honeycutt, chief technology officer at Discovery and the senior member of staff Baillie and Farnsworth will report to, said: “Both men are global players who will push the boundaries of innovation as we continue to develop our technical operations.”
In June last year, Discovery and its pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport acquired television and multi-platform rights in various European markets for four editions of the Olympic Games, from 2018 to 2024.