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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the Broadcasting space. If you think a Manager 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.
Jian Li
Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Manager of Sky UK
Jian Li is Principal Data Scientist in Sky. He leads a data science team with a main focus on machine learning research for Sky’s content discovery products and services including search and recommendation. His research covers various topics including deep learning, natural language processing, ranking, metadata enrichment and semantic knowledge inference. Before joining Sky, Jian was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he developed the personalised email classification product for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services. This product has been used by 50 million customers globally by the end of 2015. Jian holds a Ph.D in computer vision and experimental psychology from University of Bristol.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Katie Roberts
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
Katie is the Software Engineering Manager for Content Discovery at the BBC. In this role she manages the development teams who are responsible for the BBC Homepage and Search and Navigation across the whole of the BBC’s digital online presence. She has over 15 years of Software Development experience, working in diverse sectors from games development to advertising. During her last 7 years at the BBC she has worked on projects including the Connected TV Sport App for the 2012 Olympics, BBC Food, the Bitesize App and BBC Bitesize. She loves solving problems and is passionate about working collaboratively, which has led to her becoming interested in InnerSource and how it can help with software development.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
David Buckhurst
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
David Buckhurst is the Software Engineering Manager at BBC.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Stephanie May
Executive Product Manager of BBC
Stephanie is a product management expert who was included in Product Management Festival’s 50 Women in Product in Europe List in 2018. Having gained an MEng from the University of Cambridge, she spent the next two years volunteering as a Biomedical Engineer on the MV Africa Mercy, the world’s largest charity hospital ship, before moving into software development. She’s passionate about collaboration and design thinking and has a range of product management experience across FinTech, B2B and consumer products. Stephanie now leads the Content Discovery product team at the BBC, looking at the strategy and delivery of products such as the BBC Homepage, Discovery Engine and Search.
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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.
Yasmeen Cappuccini
Project Manager of Channel 4
Yasmeen leads multiple teams delivering strategic, commercial and legislative projects across the breadth of business at Channel 4. Having worked for Channel 4 since 2006, Yasmeen is now a subject matter expert in a number of areas within the company. Channel 4 is a British, public service, free-to-air television network delivering innovative ground-breaking content to the public. This includes, as a top priority, diversity in TV and the media both in the content they commission and within every level of the organisation. Yasmeen is part of the Channel 4 ‘Women in Tech’ working group, currently focussed on retaining, recruiting and development. Prior to working at Channel 4, Yasmeen worked at Atos Origin within Systems Integration in a variety of roles on a wide range of Public Sector projects. With a BSc in Computer-Aided Chemistry from the University of Surrey, Yasmeen has always enjoyed applying computation solutions to practical problems. Coupled with a comprehensive background in systems analysis and solutions architecture, Yasmeen is passionate about technology and advocates smart, pragmatic solutions.
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About Channel 4: Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.
Jason Pantelis
Senior Product Manager, My VM App of Virgin Media
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About Virgin Media: Virgin Media is a UK-based company offering TV, broadband, landline phone and cellular services.
Jason Pantelis
Senior Product Manager, My VM App of Virgin Media
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About Virgin Media: Virgin Media is a UK-based company offering TV, broadband, landline phone and cellular services.
Laura Trythall
Social Media Manager of BFBS
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About BFBS: FBS is a military charity and broadcaster that informs, entertains, connects, and champions the armed forces.
Abdul Miah
Technical Support Manager of StreamAMG
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About StreamAMG: OTT Solutions Provider
Lawrence Galkoff
General Manager of UK Radioplayer limited
Lawrence Galkoff has been the General Manager of Radioplayer Worldwide since the beginning of the year. With a solid background in technology which began in the BBC Radio Central Control Room in the mid-eighties, he brings with him over thirty years of experience across all sectors of the broadcast industry. In the intervening years, Lawrence has managed the technical planning for many key radio and TV programmes and so has always worked hard to be at the forefront of new technology. Having closely followed the transformation from analogue to digital and as an early adopter of IP for programme delivery, Lawrence is fully aware of the opportunities that the digital world brings to broadcasters and is determined that broadcasters make the most of these opportunities to enhance the services they already provide to their audiences and to make sure that they stay one step ahead of the new forms of entertainment that are competing for that audience. As an avid radio consumer, Lawrence wants to make sure that radio stays the first choice for the majority and that access remains simple and obvious on all platforms.
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About UK Radioplayer limited: UK Radioplayer limited is a radio streaming service for customers in the UK.
Chris Eyles
Operations Manager of Presteigne Broadcast Hire
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About Presteigne Broadcast Hire: Presteigne Broadcast Hire
Nadia Kelsey
PR / Bookings Manager of Xzero Entertainment
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About Xzero Entertainment: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Andrew Simmonds
Engineering Manager of Grass Valley
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About Grass Valley: Grass Valley is a comprehensive manufacturer of broadcasting and video-related equipment.
Neil Maycock
Chief Marketing Officer & General Manager Playout of Grass Valley
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About Grass Valley: Grass Valley is a comprehensive manufacturer of broadcasting and video-related equipment.
Peter McVerry
Station Manager and Executive Director of U105
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About U105: Radio station in the greater Belfast area.
Roy Gaterell
Senior Account Manager of ES Broadcast
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About ES Broadcast: ES Broadcast specializes in providing broadcast equipment sales, broadcast equipment hires and broadcast systems integration services.
Dan Tookey
Business Strategy Manager of NewsFixed
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About NewsFixed: NewsFixed is a international journalism marketplace allowing media organisations and information-heavy businesses to commission content far
