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Made up of industry experts, the Board of South West Screen is our main executive decision making body, guiding and approving our strategy and direction. Board meetings are held quarterly. We are indebted to all our Board members – past and present – for their support and guidance.

Kip Meek (Chair)
Kip is a board member of Ingenious Media and Chair of the Ingenious Consulting Network. Kip is also Chair of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, a group set up to advise the UK government on broadband issues.  In addition to the above, Kip is a director of the RadioCentre, the body representing commercial radio in the UK and of Phorm.  Kip was asked to be the ‘Independent Spectrum Broker’ by the UK government in February 2009 with the objective of facilitating the highly contentious ‘refarming’ process, associated with the 900 MHz spectrum band.
Prior to joining Ingenious, he was at Ofcom where he held a variety of responsibilities, including chairing the European Regulators Group.  Kip led the negotiations with British Telecom (BT) that lead to the establishment of Openreach, the functionally-separated division of BT.  Before joining Ofcom, he was Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consultants

Peter Ellis
Peter has worked as an actor with the Old Vic Company, the RSC and on television and film. He spent 16 years playing Inspector Brownlow on The Bill as well as being a semi regular in Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Les Dawson shows and Victoria Wood's Acorn Antiques. Peter started out in the industry as an assistant film editor and then went on to direct drama and documentaries. He has taught film at the London Film School, and in China and Australia. Peter has also undertaken a number of community film projects in London, Leeds, Sheffield, Brighton and Derbyshire. His main interest has been to try to encourage young people to get involved in film making and to give them a voice. He is also a board member of Four Corners Film Workshop in the East End and Phoenix Arts in Exeter.


Helen BrunsdonHelen Brunsdon
With seventeen years experience, Helen has worked extensively in the animation industry, firstly joining the BBC as a production co-ordinator and then as an assistant for the Cardiff International Animation Festival. Joining Aardman in 1993, she established herself within production and was approached by S4C to produce two World Faith animated films. She then worked as a production manager on Wife of Bath directed by Joanna Quinn and produced by Les Mills, which received an Academy Award nomination and a host of other awards at major International Animation Festivals.
In 1999 Helen, returned to Aardman Animations where she played an important part in developing new projects for Aardman's Broadcast production slate and heading up the short film content. She now works as a freelance animation producer and consultant.

In addition to her busy work schedule she finds time to programme animation for festivals and is a visiting lecturer in animation. She has been on the advisory board for Animated Encounters and was a special jury member for SICAF, Seoul Animation festival in 2004 and Trickfilm festival, Stuttgart in 2007.

Terry CorbyTerry Corby
Terry Corby is Chairman of Cornwall Media and the Global Head of Marketing for Strategy & Thought Leadership at Accenture, the world’s largest Management Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing company. Before joining Accenture, Terry held senior management and marketing roles at American Express and at Sainsbury's where he was Head of Communications and Events. Terry was a founding director of The Talent Foundation (a not-for-profit organisation) and is an Advisory Board Director of Critical Eye (Europe's Centre for Business Leadership). Before taking on senior management positions in business, Terry spent many years in media production as a producer of corporate television programmes, TV commercials, theatre productions and large-scale business events.


Rebecca O'BrienRebecca O'Brien

Rebecca has been an independent film producer for twenty years. She has produced ten feature films with Ken Loach, including Land and Freedom, Sweet Sixteen and My Name is Joe. In 2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley, set during the Irish War of Independence, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes. Their latest film Looking for Eric, written by regular collaborator Paul Laverty, has just finished shooting and will be launched in 2009. O'Brien and Loach have a production company called Sixteen Films Ltd and have recently released a DVD boxed set of sixteen of Ken's Films. Rebecca is also a board member of the UK Film Council.

 

Travis Baxter

Travis Baxter

Travis is one of the UK's leading experts in radio and the media. His career spans 30 years and he has enjoyed (nearly!) every minute of it.
Travis started in radio "on air" with the BBC before moving to production with Radio 2 and then into broadcast business management with RTL group. Since then he has worked at board level in the UK and overseas for a number of different companies, including Scottish Radio Holdings, EMAP and Bauer Media and for private equity groups Advent International and 3i.
He has successfully launched new businesses and overseen the development of large complex media companies. He combines a comprehensive understanding of the media sector with the skills to lead, grow and manage creative businesses through changing times.
He is currently advising Bauer Radio on their broadcast content and also external affairs, working with private equity firm Actera to grow their media business in Turkey and is on the board of an innovative on-line music company called Slicethepie.


Dan'l HewittDan'l Hewitt
As Director of Digital Content at Bebo, Dan'l works closely with global media broadcasters, producers and rights owners to help them reach an audience increasingly hard to find. By developing groundbreaking partnerships between one of the world’s largest social networks and many well known traditional media companies, Dan'l is helping shape the future of media broadcast and consumption.
With close to 10 years in the digital space, including time in digital agencies and Yahoo!, Dan'l has evaluated mutually beneficial partnerships from an exposure, engagement and revenue perspective. Dan'ls role at Bebo looks to forward thinking partnerships that will dramatically transform the way in which people perceive and consume content online. From social networking, online content sharing and discovery and content syndication, Bebo is looking at the creation of entirely new business and advertising models to support existing and new talent.



Brian LeonardBrian Leonard
Brian is a Director of Business in Sport and Leisure and chairs their Tourism Working Group, and he is chairman of Storylines Ltd, a company exploring the use of stories with web-base technology to improve engagement in social issues. He is also the chairman of the Video Games Working Group of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety. Until April 2008 he was a civil servant at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and his responsibilities there included the Creative Economy Programme. Before DCMS he held a range of other posts including Director of Environment Protection (at what was then DETR) and Regional Director of the Government Office for the South West.



Charles WaceCharles Wace
Charles founded Twofour in l988 spearheading its growth to become the UK's largest regional independent and number one interactive agency. As Chief Executive, he is responsible for the overall growth and creative vision of the Twofour Group, chairing the boards of its five companies - Broadcast, Communications, Digital, HMC Interactive and Digital Bridge. Charles started his career in newspapers before moving to BBC Radio and Television where he worked as a reporter and producer. He is executive producer of several of Twofour's major long-running series and has a special interest in convergent television projects.
Charles was elected as council chair of the UK independent trade body Pact (Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television), taking up the appointment in January 2008. A long standing member of Pact he had chaired its Nations and Regions policy group for the previous two years. Charles was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for Technology & Communication South Region 2007.

Chris WensleyChris Wensley
Chris has extensive experience as a teacher and senior manager in higher education, and was until recently Director of the HEFCE-funded Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University. He is currently a freelance educational media consultant, working principally as a lead evaluator for Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for Creative Media, as it establishes its network of Screen and Media Academies to develop new talent in film and media. His research interests include the adaptation of novels for the screen, and he regularly presents at national and international conferences.

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