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 Manchester based Product operating in the Media and Entertainment space. If you think a Product 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.
Jasmine Cox
Product Designer of BBC
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Tim Sargeant
Head of Product, Systems & Services of BBC
Tim is a Chartered Engineer with significant experience in the broadcast and media industry. In his current role he leads a team of engineers to plan, develop and deliver production systems used by BBC teams at MediaCityUK, including Sport and Children’s. Big focus areas for him at the moment are the tools and technologies used for the production of low-cost Live and Short-form content for the BBC’s digital platforms. He is passionate about developing new talent and sponsors the BBC’s broadcast engineering apprenticeship and trainee schemes, accredited by the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Tim has Masters degree in Electronic Engineering & Music Technology, and started out his career in working in Research & Development writing software for AR and VR for broadcast television.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Neil Hall
Head of Product, BBC iPlayer of BBC
A senior product leader with over 15 years’ experience creating and managing digital services, Neil is currently Head of Product for BBC Sport, leading the product development of the UK’s biggest and best digital sport offering.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Natalie Bolton
Production Manager of ITV
Natalie has been working in Production Management now for over 18 years, working at Broadcasters and Independents in London and Manchester including Discovery, Endemol, Zig Zag Productions, ITV and BBC. Natalie joined BBC Children’s in 2012 and whilst looking after the CBeebies development team one of the first projects to develop was the Sesame Workshop Co-Production The Furchester Hotel which Natalie took through the development and production as Line Producer. Natalie was instrumental in shaping the series and achieving the high ambition of the show, she has also Line Produced a new CBBC Comedy Drama – Class Dismissed and The Cbeebies Ugly Duckling annual ballet in conjunction with the Northern Ballet.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Richard Wormwell
Head of Production Innovation of dock10
Richard Wormwell Now based at dock10 MediaCityUK, (the UK’s largest independent studio facilities) where he heads up their VR Studio, Richard Wormwell has 20 years’ experience in broadcast television, gained working in numerous leading roles in a global marketplace. With a wealth of experience as a multi-camera studio director and a passion for disruptive technologies, Richard captured his first immersive content when he brought two 360 camera arrays to a pilot music show he was producing in early 2015. Pitching the 360 music show lead to him delivering five immersive videos for The Voice UK. Since then, Richard has continued to produce content for the BBC including the horror series iScream and a behind the scenes tour of Wembley; the first piece of content to be uploaded to the BBC Sport YouTube Channel. Richard was the technical lead for Samsung’s first UK commercial shoot with the Gear 360 and is now collaborating with Sesame Street on his latest project; The Furchester Hotel – Hide & Seek Game. Throughout the last two years, dock10 have continually developed their technical abilities in capture and post production techniques, integrating broadcast quality VFX and games engine technologies to enhance their VR experiences. Dock10 are now taking the high production values associated with television industry to the fast developing commercial market.
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About dock10: dock10 operates as a digital media service provider.
