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TIME Europe Home   Europe   Middle East   Africa   World   Digital Europe   Business   Travel & Arts   Photo Essays   TIME Trails   Magazine   Archive   Fast Forward Special Features   Fast Forward   Forecast 2001   E-Europe Search TIME Europe   Subscribe to TIME Subscriber Services About Us TIME Daily TIME Asia TIME Canada TIME Pacific TIME Digital Latest CNN News FREE NEWSLETTER! Sign up now for TIME's WorldWatch email newsletter. [ preview ]   Check the New 2000 FORTUNE 500 Today! FORTUNE.com Sivy On Stocks, By E-Mail MONEY.com The 'X-Men' Cometh And EW's Got 'Em! ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY			12. Mark Schneider UPC Job description: Chairman and CEO Age, Nationality: 45, American Web address: www.upccorp.com UPC isn't waiting for its planned merger with Excite@Home's international division to press forward with plans to bring interactive services to European customers. In October it announced what it calls a set top computer, a souped-up set-top box that will bring digital radio and television and later e-mail, Internet access and interactive television into European homes. The announcement follows the unveiling last July by Schneider of a merger involving UPC's chello broadband subsidiary and Excite@Home's international portal and media ventures. The two companies plan to combine Excite@Home's set-top platform expertise with chello's rights to roll out set-top services to its customers. UPC already provides cable television, telephony, high speed Internet access and programming services via broadband. The vision thing: "We have a triple play strategy to offer voice telephony, Internet access and digital television across Europe." Forward spin: The nightmarish task of integrating all of its recent acquisitions could cause some quality of service issues, but this is likely to be a temporary teething problem. UPC is expected to float two companies in 2001, its residential unit and Priority Telecom, a competitive local exchange carrier that targets business customers. The A-List TIME Digital table of contents TIME Europe home E-mail us at mail@timeatlantic.com PHOTO: David Levenson The A-List 1. PHILIPPE BRAWERMAN Reef 2. JORMA OLLILA Nokia 3. KEIJI TACHIKAWA NTT DoCoMo 4. ANDREAS SCHMIDT Bertelsmann 5. CHRIS GENT Vodafone Airtouch 6. STEPHAN SCHAMBACH Intershop 7. COLLY MYERS Symbian 8. ROBIN SAXBY ARM Holdings 9. LARS RAMQVIST Ericsson 10. HJALMAR WINBLADH Microsoft 11. STEFAN ROEVER Brokat 12. MARK SCHNEIDER UPC 13. LYNN FORESTER FirstMark Communications 14. HANS SNOOK Orange 15. ALEX VIEUX Dasar 16. ANTOINE SCHWARTZ Goldman Sachs 17. JEAN-PASCAL TRANIÉ Viventures 18. HERMANN HAUSER Amadeus Capital Partners 19. JULIE MEYER First Tuesday 20. JUAN ROURE IESE 21. MIKE LYNCH Autonomy 22. BRIAN LONG Parthus Technologies 23. PAUL ZWILLENBERG KPE 24. OLLI MARTIKAINEN Necsom 25. JOHN HODGSON Cambridge Silicon Radio WHAT DO YOU THINK? E-mail us at mail@timeatlantic.com Copyright © 2001 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. E-mail us:  Letter to the Editor | Customer Service Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Press Releases