Meet the Jury Part 2!

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Meet Steve Burton, Executive Vice President HBO Asia. Steve will join us as the second member of our panel for the AAYFF Gala Screening event on 24 March.

“The TV/movie business in Asia is at an incredibly exciting stage, with a significant increase in investment in the region leading to a rapidly expanding eco-system.  The opportunities for people who are passionate about story-telling are better than ever.”
— Steve Burton, Executive Vice President, HBO Asia

Steve Burton leads the financial management and information systems teams in his role as Executive Vice President of HBO Asia.

Wholly owned by HBO (a Time Warner company), HBO Asia reaches 23 territories across Asia with six 24-hour commercial-free subscription movie channels: HBO, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Hits, Cinemax and Red by HBO. The network also has an internet streaming platform, HBO GO, and a subscription video on demand service, HBO On Demand.

HBO Asia has proprietary and award-winning HBO and HBO Asia Original programmes produced exclusively for HBO viewers. HBO Asia is also the exclusive distributor of BabyFirst and the DreamWorks channel in the region.

Burton joined Singapore-based HBO Asia in 2005 and has been involved in the Pay Television industry for over 25 years, having previously held senior finance roles at Jupiter Telecommunications in Japan, and Telewest Communications in the United Kingdom.