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 Founder operating in the Broadcasting space. If you think a Founder 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.
Nick Gatfield
Co-Founder of Synchronized
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About Synchronized: Synchronized transforms linear videos into Smart-Video, making them fully interactive and as powerful as hypertext!
Michael Maximilian Moss
Co-Founder & CEO of PromoMii
Co-Founder & CEO at PromoMii.
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About Gazoom, PromoMii: A.I. powered video content creation SaaS platform used by the likes of Disney, NENT, VRT and more
Phil Goldsmith
CRO & Founder of Verizon Digital Media Services
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About Openpath, Verizon Digital Media Services: Verizon Digital Media Services offers a next generation platform for all of your online video streaming and content delivery network needs.
David Sproxton
Co-Founder of Aardman Animations
David Sproxton is Co-Founder at Aardman Animations.
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About Aardman Animations: Aardman has a deserved reputation as a world leader in model animation. Peter Lord and David Sproxton began their animating partnership at
Ross Westgate
CEO and Co-Founder of Infinity Creative Media
Ross has over 22 years in the global broadcast business, helping to launch the European TV operations of Dow Jones and CNBC. He developed the world’s first tri-anchored, transcontinental daily live newscast programme Worldwide Exchange, a show he hosted from inception in 2006 until leaving to help build Infinity, where he is also Executive Producer across the IFTV series. Whilst at CNBC Ross additionally became the face of the channel’s media coverage, presenting ‘Media Talk’ as well as hosting panels and broadcasting from MIPCOM, the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival and Mobile World Congress. Ross is a regular business commentator and has been a frequent moderator at the annual meetings of The World Economic Forum in Davos, The Ambrosetti Forum in Lake Como, the CBI and many one off events including The Future of Digital Media at BAFTA.
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About Infinity Creative Media: Infinity Creative Media creates quality media content designed for global commercial exploitation across multi-platform outlets.
Russ Lindsay
Founder of Infinity Creative Media
Russ co-founded James Grant Media and over the last 30 years has managed many of the UK’s top media and sports personalities including Phillip Schofield, Ant & Dec, Simon Cowell, Piers Morgan, Clare Balding, Holly Willoughby, Davina McCall, Richard & Judy, Fearne Cotton and England Rugby Captain Lawrence Dallaglio. During his time at James Grant, Russ was the Creative Director of the Group and produced the majority of its productions in music, theatre & TV. Since leaving James Grant in April 2013, Russ set up Infinity Creative Media Ltd, where he is the Executive Producer for each of the investor funded television strands as well as The Celebrity Cup. Russ sits on the committee of the British Inspiration Awards and chairs the media sector of Debretts People of Today.
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About Infinity Creative Media: Infinity Creative Media creates quality media content designed for global commercial exploitation across multi-platform outlets.
James Mulvany
Founder/CEO of Radio.co
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About Igniso, matchmaker, Podcast.co, Radio.co: Radio.co is an all-in-one platform that lets one run radio station.
Clare Stewart Munn
Chief Executive Office, Founder of Box Media
Media Executive and entrepreneur passionate about communication, Ai and equal pay. Focused on disrupting how information is digested and expressed in the workforce. In 94 Munn’s script and animation treatment to entertain and educate children about Africa and the environment was licensed by Paramount/Simon & Schuster Interactive . In parallel she co-founded Penga Partners with a vision to disrupt communication and training in the workplace. This became Employment Law Training Inc. owned by Littler Mendleson. ELT-Inc.com became the first multidimensional, online site for compliance story based training. Instrumental in raising $15 million from Lazard and selling for multiple X 10 years later. After ELT, Munn became EVP of Global BD & Partnerships instrumental in raising Series B $22 million for Playback Media, a $28M venture back software and media company founded in 1998 in Silicon Valley to deliver cutting edge e- Learning videos to Global 50 companies. Even though both companies had successes, Munn realized broadband was not quite there to create her vision of streaming mixed media short format engaging episodic videos in the workplace and after founding an award winning boutique agency, The Communication Group, Munn concentrated on creating brand and digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients including Hitachi, Maxtor, Cisco, McKesson, AMD, ebay, Danskin, Eddie Bauer etc. This became the 1st 50 Green Certified agency in SF. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient: Expressive & Receptive Intelligence, and H2H, Human 2 Human. And soon after being an Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film with Netflix, Munn knew it was finally time to realize her vision of 20 years ago and Boxspring Entertainment was founded in 2016. Boxspring was the 1st 100 to sign the Equal Pay Pledge.
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About Box Media, Unreasonable: Reinventing Learning. An EdTech company producing short form media and technology tools focused on the Future of Work
Mark Hain
Founder and CEO of DingIt.tv
Mark Hain is the founder and CEO of DingIt.tv.
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About DingIt.tv: DingIt is a leading destination for premium eSports and Gaming content
Nic Hatch
Co-Founder & CEO of NCam
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About NCam: Ncam develops augmented reality technology for the entertainment industries.
Jefferson Hack
Co-Founder of Dazed Media
Jefferson Hack is the CEO and co-founder of Dazed Media, an independent media company that produces stories across its print, digital and video brands.
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About AnOther Magazine, Dazed Media: Dazed Media is the world’s leading independent fashion and culture media brand.
Nicholas Minter-Green
CEO & Founder of Parable Works
An expert in content creation, public relations and integrated marketing, Nicholas was president of Economist Films, steering the team responsible for creating content that reflected the newspaper’s heritage as a world leader in reporting, analysis and investigation. Before that he was managing director at TVC group, building the agency into a leading brand content-communications business and top-10 UK PR agency.
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About Parable Works: A Virtual Reality and Television Studio & Agency.
Pierre Figeat
CEO and Co-Founder of Admo.tv
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About Admo.tv: Admo.tv is the best TV analytics platform that helps TV & radio advertisers to measure and optimise the online impact.
Mark Rock
Founder of Best Before Media
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About Best Before Media: Best Before Media develops audio and video toolsets that enable the creation of content for mobile, web, and television broadcasting.
Michal Marcinik
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AdTonos
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About AdTonos, E2E: Creating innovative technologies for voice commerce, enabling voice transactions. Bringing the power like Adwords has to audio advertising.
Andrew Sheldon
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
ndrew is an award winning journalist and film maker who leads the Documentaries and Current Affairs departments at True North. Having started his career in newspapers, he’s been telling stories that matter ever since. Andrew is constantly breaking new ground, often in the world of the police and crime. His genre-bending Big Sting brand took the best of Candid Camera and Crimewatch, working with police forces to catch up with criminals on the run. His eye for a story often takes him inside the stories that everyone is talking about – like One Man and His Canoe for ITV, which told the story of fraudster John Darwin as the police investigation unfolded. With a reputation for negotiating exclusive access and years of investigative experience, Andrew’s Executive Producer credits include the inside story of the disappearance of schoolgirl Shannon Matthews in Panorama: The Mother of All Lies, the UK’s first ever hand transplant in My New Hand and the expose of the UK’s biggest funeral company in Dispatches: Undercover Undertaker.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Jess Fowle
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
Jess started in television as a TV-am trainee and during her time in ITV’s factual department was behind some of the channel’s highest ever factual ratings with the shocking expose Nannies from Hell. In a twenty-year career in factual television, Jess has made everything from long running, multi-episode features series to immersive one-off docs. At True North Jess leads the Features and Children’s departments – creating returning brands like Building the Dream and Junior Vets and has also been responsible for delivering some of the company’s most talked-about pop docs including Addicted to Surrogacy, My Mums Used to Be Men, The Twins who Share a Body and My Fake Baby. Working collaboratively with contributors, Jess has been at the forefront of forging True North’s reputation for telling sensitive stories with integrity and humanity.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Jess Fowle
Creative Director & Founder of True North Productions
Jess started in television as a TV-am trainee and during her time in ITV’s factual department was behind some of the channel’s highest ever factual ratings with the shocking expose Nannies from Hell. In a twenty-year career in factual television, Jess has made everything from long running, multi-episode features series to immersive one-off docs. At True North Jess leads the Features and Children’s departments – creating returning brands like Building the Dream and Junior Vets and has also been responsible for delivering some of the company’s most talked-about pop docs including Addicted to Surrogacy, My Mums Used to Be Men, The Twins who Share a Body and My Fake Baby. Working collaboratively with contributors, Jess has been at the forefront of forging True North’s reputation for telling sensitive stories with integrity and humanity.
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About True North Productions: True North Productions is one of the biggest most dynamic TV production companies in the UK – a beacon for talent in the north of England.
Chris Kelly
Founder and Managing Director of Z Studios
Chris Kelly is a Co-Founder at Bigballs Media.
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About Z Studios: Z Studios is a creative studio.
Matt Auckland
Founder & Broadcaster of Sumo Radio
Founder of digital media startups Sumo Radio & The DJ Book, and proprietor of The Laughing Buddha IT Solutions. Matt is a talented freelance Full Stack Web developer, IT Consultant, Broadcaster, Producer, DJ, and Blogger. Head of Broadcast IT at Unity 101 Community Radio, and Voice FM (Southampton), Matt has been featured in the book “Make it Happen: The Prince’s Trust Guide to Starting your own Business”. Matt is producer and co-host of the weekly Global House Party, a globally syndicated radio show and podcast, co-hosted by international DJ/Producer Ridney. The show is available weekly around the world on 16 stations in 6 countries including UK, Spain, Canada, and USA. As well as over 9,000 podcast listeners per month. Matt also works with renowned multi award winning music producer Artful (Mark Hill, formerly of Artful Dodger). As a DJ, Matt has been spinning for over 25yrs. His passion for dance music has taken him into clubs, radio and beyond. In the last two years his Deep House mixes on YouTube have notched up over 166,025 views, an achievement he is extremely proud of. A self-confessed geek and keen amateur photographer, Matt has a passion for broadcasting, radio, music, and tech. He enjoys new challenges, and creating solutions.
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About After Partie, Sumo Radio: Love Dance Music? Love Sumo. Live streaming only the very best in dance music.
Chris Gould
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of All In Media
Chris is a technology professional with over 20 years’ experience in radio and digital platforms. He has been involved the development of DAB data applications since 2000, and headed up the development of the international DAB Electronic Programme Guide standard. He founded All In Media in 2007.
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About All In Media: All In Media is a supplier of smartphone apps and broadcast systems for the radio industry.
Bob Haynes
Founder & CEO of Ad Venture
Bob has acquired 15 years’ experience working with the world’s leading content owners, advertisers and technology providers [names]. In 2010 Bob worked with Nat West & Mediacom on the UK’s first addressable TV advertising campaign, winning the Thinkbox “Most Innovative Use of TV” award.
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About Ad Venture: Ad Venture is a firm that provide web influenced ad services to television.
Chris Wright
Co-Founder of Chrysalis Vision
Chris founded Chrysalis Music Group that, alongside other pioneering labels like Island and Virgin, spearheaded a revolution in rock that left music changed forever. Suddenly bands found themselves treated seriously both as musicians and business people. Chris also oversaw the development of Chrysalis TV and the launch of the classic detective series, Midsomer Murders, still one of the best selling dramas internationally. Chrysalis TV was sold to become the starting point for All 3 Media and Chris became the founder Chairman of the Digital Rights Group. Chris has also created, owned and run a myriad of other British businesses spanning music, media and sports.
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About Chrysalis Vision: Chrysalis Vision is working with writers to develop and produce ambitious and authored drama.
Sam Hartnell
CEO / Founder of Xzero Entertainment
Sam Hartnell – YouTube Network Entrepreneur, Founder of Xzero Entertainment Xzero Entertainment Network (XEN) is a media & technology company that brings together content owners, network operators and advertisers to create economically sustainable online and mobile video business models. XEN specializes in the aggregation, optimization, protection and monetization of video content. We create compelling distribution opportunities for its content partners and income generation opportunities for its network and advertising partners.
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About Xzero Entertainment, YouTube: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Jamie Gorman
Co-Founder of Xzero Entertainment
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About Xzero Entertainment: DigiYouTube MCN Network – Business Development & Music Distribution
Rob Beynon
Chief Executive Officer and Founder of DMA Media
DMA’s founder Rob Beynon is an experienced TV executive who has overseen dozens of news and factual channel start-ups. He is an expert at broadcast and digital strategy, building and managing teams, and has an unrivalled knowledge of international markets. Rob has managed news channels and programmes for the BBC, ITN, Sky, Star TV, Bloomberg, Dow Jones and CNBC. As DMA’s chief executive he has been personally involved in all the company’s major launches. He oversaw the team behind Rudaw TV, the news and multimedia service in Iraqi Kurdistan, where DMA has been the media partner after five years. He sourced and managed a 30-strong team to launch and produce news output for Arise TV, owned by a Nigerian company and with offices in New York, London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi. He also ran a recent project with Thomson Reuters to launch an English language news channel for the state broadcaster TRT.
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About DMA Media: DMA Media is a global media services company, launching, making and managing digital content for broadcast and corporate clients.
Jan Zastera
Founder of CEDAR Audio
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About CEDAR Audio: CEDAR Audio is the world in noise suppression and audio restoration.
Ian Nock
Founder and Principal Consultant of Fairmile West
Ian Nock is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Fairmile West Consulting and has over 25 years of experience in high technology research, development, and operations. Since entering the TV industry in the late 1990s, he has worked in the setup and launch of many Satellite, Cable, IPTV, and OTT video platforms across Europe in diverse roles that encompass technology and operations from production to consumption. Ian moved into consulting in 2004, working with some of the most innovative vendor and operator companies in the industry. He founded Fairmile West Consulting (www.fairmilewest.com) in 2012 as a multi-national, high expertise Digital TV and Media consulting and professional services company, working with large/small operators and technology vendors on product/technology strategy, architecture, and delivery. Taking an early interest in the development of Ultra HD, Fairmile West has been a member of the Ultra HD Forum since 2015 and has been an active participant in their efforts around Interoperability, taking a leading part in those efforts with member companies and organizations. Ian graduated with a First Class Bachelors Degree in Engineering Technology in 1992 from Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), undertaking research into medical automation, flexible packaging dynamics, and post-graduate research into artificial intelligence-based control systems with a number of published papers in those areas. He quickly jumped out of academia into the nascent Internet and Networking industry before moving into TV. He is a member of the IET, IEEE, RTS, and Fellow of the SCTE: The Society for Broadband Professionals.
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About Fairmile West: Fairmile West is the specialist TV & Media Technology and Business Consultancy
Colin Williams
Managing Director and Founder of Sixteen South
Colin Williams is Managing Director at Sixteen South.
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About Sixteen South: We are dedicated to the development, creation and production of original premium children’s television for national and international
Javed Khan
Founder of Riffly
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About Riffly, Schmoooze: RIFFLY is a music and entertainment channel, broadcasting content that features emerging and established artists via Facebook live.
Monty Halls
Founder & Managing Director & Executive Producer of Seadog Television and Film Productions
Monty is a well known BBC presenter, having fronted three series of BBC 2’s ‘Great Escapes’, as well as ‘Great Barrier Reef’ and ‘The Fisherman’s Apprentice.’ He has also presented films and series’ for Discovery, The History Channel, Channel 5, National Geographic, and Channel 4. More recently he has created several series concepts, including ‘Dive Mysteries’ and ‘The Great Shark Chase’, and has worked more actively as a producer and originator of new content.
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About Seadog Television and Film Productions: Seadog is an independent television and commercial production company founded by Monty Halls.
Rus Turner
Founder & Owner of Cloudbase Aerial Art
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About Cloudbase Aerial Art: Cloudbase Aerial Art produce a range of aerial media for many different applications.
