Peter Schloss
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Peter Schloss, is one of the pioneers of satellite television in Asia and award winning corporate lawyer and interactive media executive in China. A founding member of the senior management team of Star TV
, he specializes in cross-border media and internet financing and legal/regulatory issues. In 2006 and 2007 he was named by Asia Law and Business as one of the top in-house lawyers in China and one of the top in-house lawyers in Asia. He was also named one of the ALB Hot 100 Lawyers in Asia in 2006.
, or APSN, and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2009. APSN is the largest provider of live and on-demand streaming of sports over the internet in Asia. APSN operates the MLB.cn and MLBKorea.com websites in an exclusive partnership with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. in China, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. APSN also operates websites and streams live soccer matches of the English Premier League, German Bundesliga and the Brasileiro Campeonato Serie A. In 2010 APSN also operated websites for the National Hockey League
("NHL") in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and provided live and on-demand streaming over the Internet of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Until November 2008 Mr. Schloss was chief executive officer
of Broadwebasia Inc., a company established by Brad Greenspan
, the founder of MySpace
. In that role, he operated the Major League Baseball focused Chinese language website in China in partnership with MLB Advanced Media.
of TOM Online
Inc. from December 17, 2003 and the chief legal officer of TOM Online from September 1, 2005. He was previously chief financial officer
and an executive director of TOM Online from December 17, 2003. Mr. Schloss is also a non-executive independent director of Giant Interactive Group. Giant Interactive is one of China's largest online game companies. Giant Interactive is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the ticker symbol GA. Mr. Schloss was general counsel of IBM China/Hong Kong from 1989 to 1991.
Asian Region Limited, or STAR TV
from 1991 to 1996. Star TV was established by Hong Kong media and internet tycoon Richard Li
and was later sold to Rupert Murdoch
. Mr. Schloss was a director of Star TV from 1993 to 1996 as well as director of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited ("Asiasat
") from November 1991 to June 1993. While at STAR TV Mr. Schloss was involved in the creation of MTV Asia, Channel V
, Star Sports
and STAR World
in addition to other satellite television channels in Asia. Mr. Schloss also played a prominent role in Star TV's efforts to assemble the largest Chinese language film library in the world, leading the negotiations, contract drafting and due diligence for the acquisition of Raymond Chow
's Golden Harvest
film library, the Golden Princess film library, the Mandarin Films film library and Dickson Poon
's D&B Films library. The Chinese language film library assembled by Star TV includes films by Bruce Lee
, Jacky Chan, Chow Yun-fat
, Michelle Yeoh
and director John Wu.
, head of Lippo Bank and Jim Guy Tucker
, the former Lieutenant Governor and then Governor of Arkansas. Mr. Schloss also represented American televangelist Pat Robertson
in his China internet projects. Mr. Schloss has also served as a director of Mediavest Limited.
and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the Tulane University Law School
. He has served as a director of various companies listed on the Nasdaq
, New York Stock Exchange
, the Over-the-Counter Market ("OTC") and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
He was a founder of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA)
in 1992 and has written extensively on the development of China's Copyright Law, especially as it pertains to software.
Since 2006 Mr. Schloss has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the International School of Beijing
.
STAR TV (Asia)
Satellite Television Asian Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.In 2009, News Corporation restructured STAR Asia into four units – STAR India, STAR Greater China, STAR Select and Fox International Channels....
, he specializes in cross-border media and internet financing and legal/regulatory issues. In 2006 and 2007 he was named by Asia Law and Business as one of the top in-house lawyers in China and one of the top in-house lawyers in Asia. He was also named one of the ALB Hot 100 Lawyers in Asia in 2006.
Major League Baseball, English Premier League, German Bundesliga Live Streaming in Asia
Mr. Schloss is a co-founder of Allied Pacific Sports NetworkAllied Pacific Sports Network
Allied Pacific Sports Network is an Internet and wireless provider of live on-demand sports throughout Asia and the operator of a number of officially-licensed sports-focused websites and mobile, wireless and interactive platforms...
, or APSN, and has been its Chief Executive Officer since 2009. APSN is the largest provider of live and on-demand streaming of sports over the internet in Asia. APSN operates the MLB.cn and MLBKorea.com websites in an exclusive partnership with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, L.P. in China, Korea, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. APSN also operates websites and streams live soccer matches of the English Premier League, German Bundesliga and the Brasileiro Campeonato Serie A. In 2010 APSN also operated websites for the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
("NHL") in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau and provided live and on-demand streaming over the Internet of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Until November 2008 Mr. Schloss was chief executive officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of Broadwebasia Inc., a company established by Brad Greenspan
Brad Greenspan
Brad Greenspan is an internet entrepreneur who has been involved in the founding and proliferation of web properties including MySpace. Greenspan founded eUniverse Inc. in 1998, which went public in 1999. The company survived the .com-bust of 2001 and was the incubator that launched MySpace.com in...
, the founder of MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
. In that role, he operated the Major League Baseball focused Chinese language website in China in partnership with MLB Advanced Media.
Tom Online
Prior to Broadwebasia, Peter Schloss was an executive directorExecutive director
Executive director is a term sometimes applied to the chief executive officer or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. It is widely used in North American non-profit organizations, though in recent decades many U.S. nonprofits have adopted the title "President/CEO"...
of TOM Online
TOM Online
TOM Online is a mobile Internet company in China, operating the popular Chinese-language Internet portal and offering a variety of online and mobile services, including wireless internet and online advertising. The TOM Group is the majority shareholder...
Inc. from December 17, 2003 and the chief legal officer of TOM Online from September 1, 2005. He was previously chief financial officer
Chief financial officer
The chief financial officer or Chief financial and operating officer is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the financial risks of the corporation. This officer is also responsible for financial planning and record-keeping, as well as financial reporting to higher management...
and an executive director of TOM Online from December 17, 2003. Mr. Schloss is also a non-executive independent director of Giant Interactive Group. Giant Interactive is one of China's largest online game companies. Giant Interactive is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the ticker symbol GA. Mr. Schloss was general counsel of IBM China/Hong Kong from 1989 to 1991.
Founding member of STAR TV
Mr. Schloss was a founding member of the senior management team and served as general counsel of Satellite TelevisionSatellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
Asian Region Limited, or STAR TV
STAR TV
Satellite Television Asia Region is an Asian TV service owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. It is headquartered in Hong Kong, with regional offices in mainland China, Taiwan....
from 1991 to 1996. Star TV was established by Hong Kong media and internet tycoon Richard Li
Richard Li
Richard Li Tzar Kai is the younger son of successful entrepreneur Li Ka-Shing and brother of Victor Li.Li was 26th in the Forbes List of Hong Kong’s 40 Richest people for 2010...
and was later sold to Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG is an Australian-American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of , the world's second-largest media conglomerate....
. Mr. Schloss was a director of Star TV from 1993 to 1996 as well as director of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited ("Asiasat
AsiaSat
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. is a commercial operator of communication spacecraft. AsiaSat is based in Hong Kong with two major shareholders, CITIC and General Electric.-Satellites:...
") from November 1991 to June 1993. While at STAR TV Mr. Schloss was involved in the creation of MTV Asia, Channel V
Channel V
Channel [V] is the brand name for multiple international music television networks owned by STAR TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation.-Channel [V] International:...
, Star Sports
STAR Sports
STAR Sports is a cable sports network owned by STAR TV and ESPN. It shows sports programs. In partnership with ESPN, its corporate name is ESPN STAR Sports. They are the official Asian station of the Barclays Premier League...
and STAR World
STAR World
STAR World is an Asian English language cable and satellite television network owned by Star TV and Fox International Channels, fully owned subsidiaries of News Corporation. The channel is the successor of STAR Plus, a subsidiary of News Corporation...
in addition to other satellite television channels in Asia. Mr. Schloss also played a prominent role in Star TV's efforts to assemble the largest Chinese language film library in the world, leading the negotiations, contract drafting and due diligence for the acquisition of Raymond Chow
Raymond Chow
Raymond Chow Man-Wai is a Hong Kong film producer, and presenter and was responsible for successfully launching martial arts and the Hong Kong cinema onto the international stage...
's Golden Harvest
Golden Harvest
Golden Harvest is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong. It played a major role in becoming the first Chinese film company to successfully enter the western market for an extended period of time, especially with the films of Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan...
film library, the Golden Princess film library, the Mandarin Films film library and Dickson Poon
Dickson Poon
Dickson Poon, SBS is a Hong Kong businessman in the luxury goods retailing sector. Poon is the executive chairman of his Hong Kong listed vehicle Dickson Concepts , which owns companies including Harvey Nichols and S. T. Dupont...
's D&B Films library. The Chinese language film library assembled by Star TV includes films by Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee was a Chinese American, Hong Kong actor, martial arts instructor, philosopher, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts movement...
, Jacky Chan, Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
, Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....
and director John Wu.
Investment Banking
Following Star TV, Mr. Schloss was managing director of ING Barings and head of its Asia Media, Internet and Technology Group from 1999 to 2001. His clients included a diverse and colorful group of characters including Clinton cronies James RiadyJames Riady
James Riady is the deputy chairman of the Lippo Group, a major Indonesian conglomerate. He is a Chinese Indonesian, and also the son of Mochtar Riady, founder of the group. The group has recently signed an agreement with Khazanah of Malaysia to relinquish its majority stake in Lippo Bank...
, head of Lippo Bank and Jim Guy Tucker
Jim Guy Tucker
James "Jim" Guy Tucker, Jr. is an Arkansas political figure. He served as the 43rd Governor of Arkansas, the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas, Arkansas Attorney General, and U.S. Representative...
, the former Lieutenant Governor and then Governor of Arkansas. Mr. Schloss also represented American televangelist Pat Robertson
Pat Robertson
Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a media mogul, television evangelist, ex-Baptist minister and businessman who is politically aligned with the Christian Right in the United States....
in his China internet projects. Mr. Schloss has also served as a director of Mediavest Limited.
Education and Professional Information
Mr. Schloss holds a B.A. in Political Science from Tulane UniversityTulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
and a Juris Doctorate Degree from the Tulane University Law School
Tulane University Law School
Tulane University Law School is the law school of Tulane University. It is located on Tulane's Uptown campus in New Orleans, Louisiana. Established in 1847, it is the 12th oldest law school in the United States....
. He has served as a director of various companies listed on the Nasdaq
NASDAQ
The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
, New York Stock Exchange
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
, the Over-the-Counter Market ("OTC") and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.
He was a founder of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA)
Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia
CASBAA is the association for digital multichannel television, content, platforms, advertising and video delivery across Asia.-Mission:The CASBAA mission is to promote the growth of mulitchannel TV and video content across Asia through industry information, networking exchanges and events while...
in 1992 and has written extensively on the development of China's Copyright Law, especially as it pertains to software.
Since 2006 Mr. Schloss has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the International School of Beijing
International School of Beijing
The International School of Beijing, also known as "ISB", is a non-profit private school in Shunyi province in Beijing, China. It is registered in China as an "independent school for foreign children." It is situated on a property, with facilities constructed specifically for the campus...
.