The current President of Sony Media Cloud Services, Naomi Climer will become the next and the first woman President of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). The news was declared by IET on Friday. The institution supports technology innovation and aims at inspiring, informing and influencing the global engineering community. Naomi will replace the current President William Webb and will head the IET from Oct.1, 2015.
Naomi Climer
Climer is an Imperial College London graduate and started her career in 1987 as a broadcast Engineer for BBC. During her years with BBC, she handled many software projects of IT companies, Radio stations and broadcasters. In 2006, she was selected as the vice president of Sony Professional Solutions Europe and worked for the expansion of Sony’s European Media and Broadcast.
At Sony Media Cloud Services in USA, she heads a team that works on harnessing the power and opportunity of the cloud for professional video content production. Naomi also takes interest in diversity issues and works as an activist to motivate women in the engineering profession in UK.
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