Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Video space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Charlotte Holloway
Government Relations Director, UK and Ireland of Zoom
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
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Renaud Di Francesco
Director – Europe Technology Standards of Sony
Renaud Di Francesco joined Sony in 1998 to develop its external R&D cooperation, then leading its first Digital Cinema project. He is now in charge of the standardisation activity for Europe, with projects involving R&D and committee contributions. His current interests include energy efficiency, network architectures, M2M, multimedia from large venue cinema to personal wrist-watch formats, Mobility, M2M, industrial Internet and real time systems, user interface and accessibility, AAL. In previous assignments, he has worked for the European Commission, coordinating the preparation of Telecom Councils of Ministers, and earlier he managed the portfolio of network management, security and e-commerce in the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services programme. He started his career as a researcher in real time detection and speech coding (PhD, patent) at France Telecom, where he then became department head for new satellite services. His next move was to develop the multi-operator projects of France Telecom in core network (SDH, IP over ATM), service (ACE2000) and R&D (Eurescom).
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About CEN and CENELEC, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Nick Rooke
Senior Director, Head of Global Partner Operations of Sony
Nick Rooke is the Senior Director, Head of Global Partner Operations at PlayStation
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About PlayStation, Sony: Sony develops and manufactures audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.
Ben McOwen Wilson
Director, Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa of YouTube
Ben is the Director of Partnerships for YouTube where he leads the development of content and business strategy across Northern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. His remit includes working with some of YouTube’s largest global News, sports and traditional media partners as well as many of the platform’s most-recognised endemic creators – our YouTubers. Ben has led YouTube’s growth in various roles in EMEA for 6 years. Prior to starting with YouTube, Ben was a Management Board Director at ITV Plc – the UK’s largest commercial broadcaster – for six years, where he oversaw the launch and growth of ITV’s digital and new media businesses. During his tenure, he co-created, launched and was Chairman of Project Kangaroo – the proposed VoD joint venture between BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. Previously a Partner in a strategy consulting firm, Ben has over twenty years experience in the field of media, entertainment, telecommunications and the internet. He has lived and worked on five continents. Ben is married with three children.
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Steve Armstrong
Incident Management Technical Director of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Ed Rumley
Senior Director, Business Development of Electronic Arts
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About Electronic Arts: Electronic Arts delivers games, content, and online services for internet-connected consoles, PCs, mobile phones, and tablets.
Christopher Spray
Director of Vidsy
Christopher Spray served as a Venture Partner at Atlas Venture L.P. Mr. Spray worked in the technology group of Atlas Venture and invested in software and services and Internet related businesses. Mr. Spray established firm’s Boston office in 1986 and was responsible for United States operations until 1998 when he moved to London office. Mr. Spray had moved to United States in 1985 as an Investment Director at CIN Investment Company. He started his venture capital career in 1983 with CINVen. Mr. Spray serves as Director of DoveBid, GoIndustry, Kalido, NTRglobal, Zinwave, picoChip, KDS, and MOO Print Ltd. He served as a Director at Kalido, Inc., Koodos, Corizon Ltd., and 3V Transaction Services Limited. He has been an investor and Board Member in number of successful companies, including OnDisplay and RightPoint Software. Mr. Spray also served on the Board of Business Objects from 1992 to 1994. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Oxford University.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Graeme Ankers
Managing Director of FireSprite
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About FireSprite: FireSprite is a video game development studio.
Lee Carus
Art Director and Co Founder of FireSprite
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About FireSprite: FireSprite is a video game development studio.
Arnaud Ginioux
Regional Director of 123RF
Regional Director at 123RF.
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About 123RF, Inmagine Group: 123RF is a royalty-free microstock photography library that hosts millions of stock photographs, vector illustrations, footages, and logos.
Hywel Sloman
IT Director of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Ken Friar
Club Secretary & Managing Director of Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal Football Club’s longest-serving director, Ken Friar OBE has been a mainstay of the Club for more than 60 years. During this time, Mr Friar, as he is affectionately known by all, has done just about every job at the Club including working as Club Secretary and Managing Director. He was a driving force behind the Gunners’ move from Highbury to Emirates Stadium and continues to lead the Club’s activities in the property sector.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Stan Kroenke
Board of Directors of Arsenal Football Club
Stan Kroenke became the majority shareholder of Arsenal Football Club in April 2011, having previously been appointed to the board of directors in 2008. As the head of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, he owns a number of American sports properties; the Denver Nuggets basketball team, Colorado Rapids Major League Soccer team, St. Louis Rams of the NFL and the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey team in the NHL. He is a real estate developer and also owns the Outdoor Channel and Altitude Sports & Entertainment.
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About Kroenke Sports & Entertainment: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
John Bayer
Technical Director of Arsenal Football Club
His main roles at Arsenal Ladies involve directing operations at the Arsenal Ladies Centre of Excellence and implementing the Technical and Physical Programme for the COE.
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Lord Harris
Board of Directors of Arsenal Football Club
Lord Harris of Peckham was appointed to the Arsenal board in November 2005. One of Britain’s longest-serving retailers, Lord Harris took over his family run carpet business aged 15. He went on to found Carpetright in 1988, where he played a central role until announcing his retirement in 2014. Lord Harris is a keen philanthropist, supporting a number of charities and projects that help young people to fulfil their potential.
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About : Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Gavin Harrison
Finance Director of LVP
Gavin is an ACA qualified accountant with 20 years’ experience scaling and financially managing high growth enterprises. Previously founder of an award-winning VC firm raising £120m in equity funding for gaming & television companies. In his career, Gavin has structured over £1.2bn in project finance with Disney, Universal & TWC.
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About Daedalus Partners, LVP: London Venture Partners is a seed fund that focuses on the game ecosystem.
Lili Ibrahim
Art Director of Chucklefish Limited
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About Chucklefish Limited: Computer games developer and publisher
Cyril Duprat
Director of Business Development of Mux
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About Mux: Mux is a video platform designed to make video streaming and analytics possible for every development team.
Will Stewart
Creative Director of Bidstack
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About Bidstack: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
Kris Brown
Co-Managing Director of Piksel
As joint Managing Director of Piksel’s Media & Entertainment business, Kris holds primary responsibility for the growth of the company’s products, operations and architectural direction. During almost two decades in enterprise software, Kris has worked on architecture, design and delivery for clients spanning healthcare, financial services, the public sector and, of course, media and entertainment. Having initially joined Piksel in 2010, he returned to the company in 2014 following a period spent in-house at a major media technology company. Prior to his appointment as joint managing director, he served as the company’s Head of Product. Kris is focused on organisational culture, business transformation, metadata management and highly available data intensive systems. Kris studied at the University of Durham, where he attained a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Gerry O’Sullivan
Board of Directors of Piksel
An International Media Executive with extensive experience in broadcasting, Pay TV and Media sectors including the executive management of commercial, editorial, creative, marketing, operational and technical teams for leading broadcasters and MSO’s across three continents. Gerry has worked with the most senior people in entertainment, news and sports worldwide and offers a unique perspective on how digital content and new technologies can support and create new revenue streams for the business. After a career starting at the BBC, he launched Australia’s first 24 hour news channel, a Business and Sports channel in New York and then was asked to lead the engineering and operational teams for Fox News, New York. Returning to the UK, Gerry managed the strategy and execution of BSKYB’s TV user proposition, where he was responsible for launching Sky + HD, Sky Broadband, Sky VOD, Sky + EPG, Sky 3D and Sky’s online and mobile innovations. After 10 years at Sky, he was asked to lead Deutsche Telecom’s Global TV and Entertainment businesses where he launched a multichannel offering including IPTV, Satellite, hybrid and a range of video and media OTT and 2nd screen platforms across Europe. As Interim CEO for Digicel’s TV group, he launched a number of next generation cloud based IPTV and quad play services throughout the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific. Gerry was recently invited to join the board of Piksel and is an independent consultant to the pay tv and technology industries.
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About : Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Gerry O’Sullivan
Board of Directors of Piksel
An International Media Executive with extensive experience in broadcasting, Pay TV and Media sectors including the executive management of commercial, editorial, creative, marketing, operational and technical teams for leading broadcasters and MSO’s across three continents. Gerry has worked with the most senior people in entertainment, news and sports worldwide and offers a unique perspective on how digital content and new technologies can support and create new revenue streams for the business. After a career starting at the BBC, he launched Australia’s first 24 hour news channel, a Business and Sports channel in New York and then was asked to lead the engineering and operational teams for Fox News, New York. Returning to the UK, Gerry managed the strategy and execution of BSKYB’s TV user proposition, where he was responsible for launching Sky + HD, Sky Broadband, Sky VOD, Sky + EPG, Sky 3D and Sky’s online and mobile innovations. After 10 years at Sky, he was asked to lead Deutsche Telecom’s Global TV and Entertainment businesses where he launched a multichannel offering including IPTV, Satellite, hybrid and a range of video and media OTT and 2nd screen platforms across Europe. As Interim CEO for Digicel’s TV group, he launched a number of next generation cloud based IPTV and quad play services throughout the Caribbean, South America and the Pacific. Gerry was recently invited to join the board of Piksel and is an independent consultant to the pay tv and technology industries.
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About : Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Anna Mostyn-Williams
Director of Publishing Partnerships of Jagex
Anna Mostyn Williams is the Director of Publishing Partnerships at Jagex and an Associate Partner of QO Collective. She was the Co-Founder and Marketing Lead at Curve before that.
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About Jagex: Jagex is an independent developer and publisher of online games.
Phil Hooker
Director of Technology of Rockstar North
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About Rockstar North: Rockstar North creates and publishes video game franchises such as the Grand Theft Auto Series.
Guy Flintham
Director of OnSerro
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About : OnSerro provides community management software for companies to engage with customers and clients.
Harry Hardisty
Commercial Director of OnSerro
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About OnSerro: OnSerro provides community management software for companies to engage with customers and clients.
Peter Seldon
Director of OnSerro
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About OnSerro: OnSerro provides community management software for companies to engage with customers and clients.
John Rankin
Commercial Director (Consultant) of Stakester
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About Stakester: Stakester is a mobile first skill-based competition platform that enables competitors to compete with each other for prizes.
Roberta Lucca
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer / Brand Chief, Board Director of Bossa Studios
Unconventional Entrepreneur. BAFTA winner.Obsessive Learner. Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Bossa Studios.Previously founded WonderLuk and BOLDR. Created and launched over 20 products and brands in the last 15 years across multiple industries — Tech, Games, TV Broadcasting, Luxury and Mobile. I love challenging myself and others to be bolder every day and do things differently. BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Management Today, Financial Times, Disney Channel, Venture Beat, Telegraph and Wired are some of the publications my companies, products and I have been featured. Top 35 women under 35 by Management Today. Top 30 Women in Games. Everywoman’s Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About BOLDR Effect, Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Andy Davidson
Founder & Commercial Director of Lucid Games
Andy Davidson is a serial tech entrepreneur having co-founded more than 100 tech businesses either directly or through Nova throughout his career. Andy started as a software engineer before his entrepreneurial career where he has spent the past 12 years creating and managing growth-focused EIS & SEIS investment portfolios.
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About Lucid Games, Nova Growth Capital, We Are Nova: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Mark Craig
Founder & Programming Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games, Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Jeff Lewis
Game Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Craig Howard
Founder and Creative Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Chad Wright
Founder & Technical Director of Lucid Games
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About Lucid Games: An independent videogame developer in Liverpool, UK.
Dominic Grounsell
Managing Director – UK & Eire Sports Brands of Entain
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Matt Saunders
Director UA of N3TWORK
Matt Saunders is the director of user acquisition at N3TWORK.
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About N3TWORK: Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.
Xavier Llerena
Senior Director DSP Partnerships of FreeWheel
Xavier Llerena is Sr Director DSP Partnerships at [FreeWheel](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/freewheel#/entity), a provider of comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, the company is revolutionizing the way publishers and marketers transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. Xavier holds a master’s degree a from Imperial College London as well as a master’s degree from Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
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About FreeWheel: FreeWheel provides enterprise level solutions to enable the premium video industry to thrive in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Peter Bazalgette
Non-Executive Director of Base79
Peter Bazalgette is Non-Executive Director at Base79. Peter Bazalgette is the great-great-grandson of Victorian civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. A third cousin is Edward Bazalgette who directed and produced the 2003 documentary The Sewer King which charted Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s design and engineering of the London sewers. Peter Bazalgette presented a later television show for Five, called The Great Stink, and chaired the Crossness Engines Trust raising £4.5 million to restore the magnificent Victorian pumping station built by his ancestor. An old joke is that where Joseph Bazalgette was responsible for removing ordure from London’s homes, his grandson has reversed the process. For the first 12 years of his life Peter Bazalgette’s parents did not have a television. He attended Dulwich College, and gained a third class degree in Law from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University while also becoming the president of the Cambridge Union Society. He is married to intellectual property rights lawyer Hilary Newiss, with whom he has two children. The family lives in Notting Hill.
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About Base79: Base79 is an online media company creating global audiences for video content and manages hundreds of YouTube channels.
Simon Gauntlett
Director of Imaging Standards and Technology of Dolby Laboratories
In his role as Technology Director of the DTG, Simon is responsible for setting the organisation’s strategic technical vision, supporting DTG Technical Council, Chairing DTG Testing’s Advisory Board, directing the group’s technical programme and managing the DTG’s technology team. Since joining the DTG in 2006, Simon has edited and published an updated version of the D-Book – the technical specification for digital terrestrial television in the UK, and has established working groups for IPTV and the forthcoming HD D-Book. In early 2008 he supported the launch of the UK’s free-to-air satellite platform, Freesat, with a test and conformance project, and is currently working with the Group’s membership to facilitate the introduction of HD on the DTT platform using the new DVB-T2 standard. Prior to working for the DTG, Simon spent seven years at the BBC’s Research and Development (R&D) department, where he specialised in compression technologies for High Definition video and the delivery of HDTV, working on the BBC’s HD trial on the satellite, cable and terrestrial platforms.
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About Dolby Laboratories, SMPTE: Dolby creates surround sound, imaging, and voice technologies for cinemas, home theaters, PCs, mobile devices, games, and more.
Stacey Edwards
COO, CFO & Director of Ad-Lib.io
Stacey Edwards is the COO, CFO and Director at Ad-Lib.io.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Mehrad Noori
Director, Global Programming of Comcast NBCUniversal
Mehrad Noori is Director, Global Programming, NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN), based at the company’s international headquarters in London. In this position, Noori acquires and produces scripted content for NBCUIN’s portfolio of channels (including Universal TV, SYFY and 13th Street). He is also responsible for creating original immersive content for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Noori most recently served as creator and executive producer on NBCUIN’s groundbre
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About Comcast NBCUniversal: A media and entertainment company.
Gregory Barker
Board Director of GlassView
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About GlassView: GlassView’s mission is to ensure clients’ videos appear on top-tier sites reaching the most engaged influential audiences.
Steven Dorning
Director of Software of Cubic Motion
Director of Software at Cubic Motion.
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About Cubic Motion: Cubic Motion is the world leader in real-time model-based computer vision and digital animation technology.
Doug Tate
Director of Hardware of Cubic Motion
Doug Tate is a highly experienced software developer with extensive knowledge of animation and a long track record supervising production on extremely high-volume projects. Particular expertise in capture and recording solutions for optimal data acquisition.
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About Cubic Motion: Cubic Motion is the world leader in real-time model-based computer vision and digital animation technology.
Mike Jones
Director of Production of Cubic Motion
Mike Jones is the director of production at Cubic Motion. He used to be the program manager of Image Metrics. He earned his master’s degree at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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About Cubic Motion: Cubic Motion is the world leader in real-time model-based computer vision and digital animation technology.
Fiona McAnena
Non-Exec Director & Investor of LivingLens
Strategic marketing consultant and NED providing customer value propositions and marketing strategies that drive growth.Fiona specialises in helping businesses to develop, define and strengthen their market propositions. She has held senior roles at Unilever, PepsiCo and Bupa and provided extensive consulting experience as the European CEO of Added Value and UK Chief Executive at MEC.She is a Partner at Clearhound, an active board member and Fellow of the Marketing Society of GB and coaches the senior team as part of Collider13.
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About : LivingLens offers video-based insight tools that enable companies to turn consumer insight films into market research.
Faisal Galaria
Board Member & Non Executive Director of Green Man Gaming
Faisal Galaria is the CEO of Blippar the Augmented Reality company. He previously served as Global Head of Business Development at Spotify Limited, as Managing Director of Europe and Asia at Kayak and was early member of the Skype team. At Skype as Director of Europe, he was responsible for key partnerships across the US, Europe the Middle East, with companies such as Sony, Bebo, British Telecom, Dixons and HP. Prior to joining Skype, he was a member of the Policy Executive of the UK’s telecom and media regulator Ofcom. At Ofcom, he played a senior role in the high-profile negotiation and valuation of distribution rights for Premier League Football and co-authored the Telecoms Strategy Review. He started his career in wireless and Internet consulting and was a senior member of Cluster Consulting, which was acquired by Diamond Technology Partners (NASDAQ: DTPI) for $930 million in 2000. He has been educated across Europe and graduated with honors from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) with a Bachelor’s in Management Sciences in the UK. He also holds an MBA from IESE in Spain.
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About Blippar, Gocompare.com, Green Man Gaming, Superdry: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Ian Monaghan
Development Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Neil Hutchinson
Technical Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Janis Thomas
Marketing Director of deltatre
Janis joined Deltatre, a global leader in the sport business, at the beginning of 2019. She is an expert in using digital marketing to deliver sales and revenue growth in subscription and ecommerce businesses. She has grown diverse brands from Birchbox to Playboy. She has held senior consumer marketing roles at digital media and entertainment businesses across film, TV and publishing. Janis will be responsible for leading Deltatre’s B2C marketing. This function will help Deltatre’s sport and entertainment clients grow their direct-to-consumer streaming subscription services.
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About deltatre: deltatre is a sports media services company that provides consulting services for videos, webs, graphics, and sports businesses.
Matteo Cuellar
Director of Product Design and UX of iROKO Partners
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About iROKO Partners: iROKO Partners is an online Nigerian entertainment media distribution company that offers online media products.
Alistair Norman
Marketing Director of Tomorrow People
Alistair Norman Alistair is the Marketing Director at Tomorrow People, a UK-based inbound marketing agency. He has over than 15 years’ experience of accelerating growth through the use of organic investment, acquisition and marketing innovation for businesses in the UK, and specializes in B2B modern marketing practices.
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About Tomorrow People: Tomorrow People is an award winning content marketing agency based in Birmingham, UK.
Paul Holden
Operations Director of BrightTALK
Paul joined BrightTALK in 2005, establishing their live broadcast team and production formats. Using this experience and a desire to automate where possible he has influenced the evolution of the BrightTALK SaaS platform. He now provides leadership of their Technical Operations and Information Security teams. Prior to BrightTALK, Paul project managed complex large display, camera and IT systems at global product launches, conferences and concerts.
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Andrew Munden
Live Operations Director of Space Ape
Andrew Munden serves as a live operations director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Amanda Brearley
Operations Director of Space Ape
Amanda Brearley serves as an operations director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Simon Watmough
Technical Director of Space Ape
Simon Watmough is a technical director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
John Knottenbelt
Technical Director of Introversion Software
Also known as “Johnny Programmer,” John manages technical aspects of game development, business intelligence, public-facing, and internal infrastructure.
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About Introversion Software: Introversion Software is an independent game developer and publisher.
Mark Morris
Managing Director of Introversion Software
Mark has oversight of all of Introversion’s activities and acts as the arbiter between the Creative and Sales-driven ideologies of Chris and Tom.
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About Introversion Software: Introversion Software is an independent game developer and publisher.
Gareth Edmondson
Studio Director of Creative Assembly
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About Creative Assembly: UK’s premier video game developers.
Matt Down
Technical Director & Co-Founder of Pocket Burger Games
Matt Down is a Technical Director and Co-Founder at Pocket Burger Games.
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About Pocket Burger Games: Pocket Burger is dedicated to discovering, creating and building new genres in the mobile games space.
Emily Shelley
Managing Director of Alamy
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About Alamy: Alamy is the world’s largest online photo agency for stock, video and live news.
Barbara Lippe
Founder, Creative Director of entreZ VR
Barbara Lippe PhD is a unique combination of video-game-art-director-turned actor. Having designed characters for games companies in Tokyo including Nintendo, Sega, Sony and Namco Bandai and creating art for social games years before the rise of the genre and researching what works for a female target audience she has reached a turning point: it’s not enough to DRAW characters, one must BECOME characters. To that end, she has recently graduated from a renowned London acting school. With that new toolkit onboard she’s moving on from designing virtual worlds to creating drama-enriched content for the virtual reality. Bridging the two worlds, she marries the lessons learned on stage & screen with her knowledge of video games and innovates the principles of character development, status and staging for VR.
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About entreZ VR, Snafflz, Spree Interactive: entreZ VR is an experienced team of industry players passionate about storytelling on real and virtual stages.
Martin Zapletal
Director of Disney Streaming Services
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About Disney Streaming Services: Disney Streaming Services offers streaming entertainment and services for sports and stories.
Simon Iwaniszak
Studio Director of Red Kite Games
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About Red Kite Games: Red Kite Games is a video games development studio.
John Ribbins
Creative Director of Roll7
John Ribbins is the Co-Founder at Roll7.
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About Roll7: Roll7 make games that are Simple to Play.
Thomas Hegarty
Director of Roll7
Thomas Hegarty is the Co-Founder at Roll7.
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About Roll7: Roll7 make games that are Simple to Play.
Damian Hamp-Adams
Executive Director, EMEA of Undertone
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About Rocketseed, Undertone: Undertone develops high impact, cross-screen digital advertising experiences for brands.
Richard McBride
Managing Director of Edesix
Richard McBride is Managing Director at Edesix.
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About Edesix: Edesix provides professional body worn video camera solutions.
Bengu Atamer
Co-Founder & Director of BuzzMyVideos
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About BuzzMyVideos: BuzzMyVideos is leading martech company that drives hyper-growth & new revenue from and on YouTube.
Steve Tyrrell
Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet
Steve Tyrrell is the Co-Founder and Sales Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Richard Pennington
Managing Director and Co-Founder of FourNet
Richard Pennington is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of FourNet.
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About 4NET Information Technologies, FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Francis Jennings
Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet
Francis Jennings is the Co-Founder and Operations Director of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
David Jones
Design Director and Co-Founder of Bulkhead Interactive
David Jones is Design Director and co-founder of Bulkhead Interactive where he worked on The Turing Test and Battalion 1944. His games industry career began releasing independent games in 2013. David has been part of the team growing Bulkhead Interactive from a small 4 person independent developer to a 30 person studio creating ambitious multiplayer FPS games.
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About Bulkhead Interactive: Bulkhead Interactive is a game development studios.
Lesley Marr
Director Of Operations of Molinare
Lesley Marr is Director of Operations at Molinare; Molinare is the UK’s leading supplier of post production for episodic drama, feature film, factual and 4K, UHD & HDR productions. Prior to joining Molinare Lesley was COO for Deluxe Media Europe, overseeing the day to day operation delivering to UK Broadcasters and global platforms. During her acreer Lesley has managed transformation programmes, senior client relationships, operational excellence projects developing media logistics, scheduling and MAM tools and managed teams across multi-site UK operations. Lesley has also held several senior management positions in Broadcast Operations at Sky & Technicolor. Her career path, however, started in the creative post production world working as an editor before learning the skills of a VFX artist where she worked for leading global facilities before moving into the world of Operations Management. In addition to her day job Lesley has, for several years, sat on the board of the UK Screen Association and is also a member of the IBC conference committee business stream, chairing and producing conference sessions.
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About Molinare: High-end broadcast and feature post production
Glen Gathard
Creative Director of Molinare
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About Molinare: High-end broadcast and feature post production
Gary Dring
Sales Director of Kinesense
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About Kinesense: Kinesense is computer vision and video analytics company based in Dublin, Ireland.
Caroline Marchal
Founder and Creative Director of Interior Night
Caroline is a narrative game designer with over 15 years of experience in the industry. She was lead Game Designer on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls and has founded a narrative game studio called Interior Night, working on an unannounced new IP.
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About Interior Night: Interior Night is an independent game studio of Quantic Dream and Sony veterans based in London.
Farhad Divecha
Managing Director of AccuraCast
Farhad Divecha is the managing director of AccuraCast. He oversees all search engine marketing, advertising and technical development work. A recognised authority in the field of search engine marketing and mobile search marketing, Farhad is a regular speaker at industry conferences and is quoted in numerous popular publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and CNet.
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About AccuraCast: AccuraCast is a digital marketing agency based in London, UK.
Jerome Bergerou
Director of AccuraCast
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About AccuraCast: AccuraCast is a digital marketing agency based in London, UK.
Michael Boniface
European Managing Director of Reloaded Games, Inc.
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About Reloaded Games, Inc.: Reloaded Games is a publisher of massively multiplayer online games, including War Rock, Sword of the World, and Knight Online.
Jason Perkins
Managing Director of Curve Digital
Jason Perkins currently works as the Managing Director for Curve Digital. He previously worked at blue52 limited as the Director.
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About Curve Digital: Indie developer & publisher of fine video games.
Francis Turner
Co-Founder, CRO & UK Managing Director at Adyoulike , BIMA Hot 100 2015 of ADYOULIKE
Francis Turner is the Co-Founder & CRO at ADYOULIKE.
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About ADYOULIKE, ADYOULIKE, Content Amp: Advertising, Reinvented.
Dale Lovell
UK Managing Director & Co-Founder of ADYOULIKE
Chief Digital Officer at Adyoulike – the European leader in native advertising. Successful track record in online start-ups and one of BIMA’s Hot 100 2015. Prior to Adyoulike Dale was co-founder of Content Amp, a content marketing service that merged with Adyoulike in March 2014. Proven at building creative content businesses, nurturing start-up teams, content development, developing brand content strategy and promoting the benefits of online content to all businesses and brands. An experienced content marketer, online editor, publisher and media professional. Experienced across the entire spectrum of online media with direct hands-on experience in numerous internet start-ups.
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About ADYOULIKE, Content Amp: Advertising, Reinvented.
Sefton Hill
Game Director, Co-Owner & Co-Founder of Rocksteady Studios
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About Rocksteady Studios: Rocksteady Studios is a multi-award winning videogame developer based in London, England. Located in a spacious, purpose built converted.
Tim Hanagan
Game Code Director of Rocksteady Studios
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About Rocksteady Studios: Rocksteady Studios is a multi-award winning videogame developer based in London, England. Located in a spacious, purpose built converted.
Pierdavide Marcolongo
COO & Board Director of V-Nova
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Avril Furness
Director/VR Filmmaker of Black Dog Films
Avril Furness is an Independent Writer Director based in London. Always having a passion for the arts, Avril graduated from University College London with a History of Art BA Hons degree before working at Sotheby’s Auction House, The Institute of Contemporary Art, M+C Saatchi, and Wieden + Kennedy. Avril is an idea driven creative filmmaker with a love of telling insightful stories, and exploring new ways of working with the medium of film.
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About Black Dog Films: Black Dog Films currently represents some of the most creative and established directors in both the UK and the USA.
James Kaye
Director of Big Games Machine
I’m lucky enough to have worked with some great games and tech products in the last 25 years. I like to think that with my experience (ahem, or we can call it age!) comes the ability to handle a range of challenges – from creativity around consumer game launches, albeit PC, mobile or console, through to complex strategies for our B2B clients that want to talk to the games industry. I can talk B2B or consumer for games at the drop of a hat. It’s like two sides of my brain working in tandem. I love helping people as well as giving honest, BS-free advice. I may run an agency now, but I’ve been on the other side for a lot longer. What’s usually called ‘client-side’. I’ve developed a community for BT’s first online gaming service Wireplay I’ve launched a commercial games channel for Tiscali TV. I’ve managed app launches for one of Britain’s most prominent newspapers I’ve worked for some huge companies as well as start-ups I’ve been a Product Manager, Marketing Manager and PR bod, so I understand the marketing mix I’ve driven new customer growth and increased retention I’ve had to justify the spend on content, marketing and PR. I know the frustration of fluffy results, and I know that clients are unimpressed when you have no ROI proof. Which is where my next passion was born. PR that delivers business results. Inbound leads, increased sales, market share growth. When things happen like a global pandemic or a tough competitor comes along… You need great content. You need to stand out. So you need an idea. John and I – and our loyal and hardworking, fun-loving team, come up with IDEAS. Not tiny ideas, either, whopping great big ones. So for anything PR related to the games industry – consumer or B2B then get in touch as I’m sure that we can cook up some fantastic ideas for you.
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About Big Games Machine: Specialist PR agency for the global games industry, covering consumer & B2B/corporate.
Abi Hemingway
Partner, Producer, and Director of jackshoot
Having produced live online content since 2001, Abi Hemingway has become a leading online live broadcast producer. Working with industry leaders Jackshoot TV, she has produced complex online broadcasts for leading brands including BAFTA, the Royal Opera House, British Fashion Council, the BRIT Awards, the FA, Harrods and MTV – covering fashion, gaming, sports, corporate and cultural events. With the team at Jackshoot, they are the go-to team for awards ceremonies. Abi has also worked extensively in live music broadcasts with well over a hundred live recordings with artists including Kings of Leon, Muse and Madonna. Abi has exec-produced a multi-platform live music TV series (Live at indigo2), a global live-stream for Michael Jackson and large online multi-site events including World Ballet Day for four years. Her expertise and experience runs the gamut from technical to creative and editorial through to commercial – and she prides herself on creating strong teams who can always deliver high quality work with a smile, even when under pressure.
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About jackshoot: jackshoot is a highly skilled & experienced team that capture & deliver their clients content to any digital platform,offers reliable price
Darren Mills
Co-Founder and Studio Director of Sumo Digital
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About Sumo Digital: Sumo Digital Ltd is an independent game development studio.
David Mathewson
Non-Executive Director of Brave Bison
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About : Rightster, the cloud-based video distribution and monetisation network.
Jack Barnett
Non-Executive Director of Brave Bison
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About : Rightster, the cloud-based video distribution and monetisation network.
Colin Gray
Managing Director and Founder of The Podcast Host ltd.
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About The Podcast Host ltd.: The Podcast Host aims to help any business get their word, their personality & their brand out to a larger audience, all through podcasting.
Dane Streeter
Managing Director of SharpStream
Dane Streeter is co-founder and Managing Director of SharpStream, one of the worlds leading audio streaming service and technology companies. For over a decade, Dane has provided media enterprises with service for the largest, era-defining audio streaming technologies and is responsible for the delivery of over 15 billion annual hours of digital audio content to over 35 million individuals throughout the world. Dane’s passion for audio streaming came in 2004, at the age of 16, listening to early internet broadcasts of live gigs from popular locations such as Ministry of Sound London, and A State of Trance in Holland.
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About SharpStream: SharpStream is the leading streaming platform for smart streamers…
Shawn Harding
Director of CoHost
Founder of CoHost, a social platform designed to help video creators collaborate and grow. A digital marketer, specialising in video optimisation. Other skills include PPC optimisation and SEO. Founding member of a YouTube channel with over 1 million subscribers and has years of experience optimising video content, corporate websites and online advertising campaigns.
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About CoHost: A social media platform for video creators designed to educate users and facilitate easier collaborations.
Andy Etches
Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil
Andy Etches is the Co-Founder and Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience ,performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Adam Dickinson
Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil
Adam Dickinson is the Co-Founder and Development Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Gareth Thatcher
Technical Director of Rezzil
Gareth Thatcher is the Technical Director of Rezzil.
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About Rezzil: Rezzil improves resilience, performance and reaction times across a wide range of sports, from beginner to Elite level.
Alan Yeats
Technical Director and Co-Founder of Pocket Sized Hands
Experienced VR/AR and games developer. Co-Founding Pocked Sized Hands in 2017 where I work as the Chief Technical Officer leading our development team alongside working on business development and client outreach. With Pocket Sized Hands we have gone on to win the student award at Herald Digital Business Awards 2017 and reaching the world finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2017 while also nominated for a game design award at the DC Thompson Game Design awards 2017.
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About Pocket Sized Hands: We specialise in creating bespoke applications and games using the latest XR technologies.
Tom Bateson
Co-Founder & Operations Director of Toll
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About Toll: Empowering creators to earn from their media wherever it is published.
