Kip Meek (born 18 April 1955[1]), full name Kingsley John Neville Meek, is a British businessperson specialising in media and telecommunication.
Kip Meek held board level roles at Ofcom from 2003 until 2007.[2] He joined Ofcom as senior partner for content and competition.[3]
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.[3] 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.[4]
On 23 July 2010, Kip Meek was announced as non-executive chairman of Project Canvas (now YouView).[5] 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.[6] He also left his positions as Chairman of the Broadband Stakeholder Group and as director of the RadioCentre and Phorm.[2][4] Meek left YouView on 7 March 2011 and was replaced by Alan Sugar.[7]
As of March 2011, he is employed at EE as an adviser and is part of Communications Chambers.
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.[8]
At the same time, the UK Government faced European Commission infraction proceedings,[9] following the covert trials of Phorm's technology by British Telecom in 2006 and 2007.[10][11]