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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 Principal operating in the Broadcasting space. If you think a Principal 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.
Bill Thompson
Principal Research Engineer (BBC R&D) of BBC
Bill Thompson is a well-known technology journalist and advisor to arts and cultural organisations on matters related to digital technologies.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Tatiana Al-Chueyr Martins
Principal Data Engineer of BBC
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Anthony Onumonu
Principal Software Engineer of BBC R&D
Anthony Onumonu is a principal software engineer in BBC R&D.
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About BBC R&D: BBC R&D have been at the forefront of developments in broadcast technology since the founding of public service broadcasting in the UK.
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
