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Meet Our Board

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 Chairman of South West Screen, a Senior Adviser to Everything Everywhere and a Director of the Radio Centre. He was appointed ‘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. Between 2003 and 2007, Kip was a Board member of 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.  He also ran the Content & Standards group in Ofcom and was heavily involved with the first and second Public Service Broadcasting Reviews. Before joining Ofcom, he was founder and Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consultants (Spectrum). Spectrum provided strategy consulting services to telecoms and media companies, from offices in London, Singapore, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro.


 

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 external affairs, working with private equity firm Actera to grow their media business in Turkey and is on the Board of innovative on-line music company, Slicethepie.

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 role 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.

Sian Bussy
Sian is an associate lawyer in Veale Wasbrough Vizards' Bristol office and specialises in advising on contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters. Sian worked for 6 years at London firms Linklaters and Bristows before moving south west. Since moving to Bristol, Sian has been involved with a range of creative businesses and regularly attends business entrepreneurial events. She is very involved with the Bristol hub of the business incubation partnership SETsquared and regularly advises hub ventures.

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 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.

Dan'l HewittDan'l Hewitt
Dan'l is European Director for DemandMedia, a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day. Through a portfolio of vertical web properties reaching more than 90 million monthly visitors, a global network of digital partners, and a breakthrough content studio, Demand Media publishes what the world wants to know and share. Named as one of Revolution's Future 50 Digital Leaders, Dan’l has more than 10 years of experience in digital media working with major online brands including Bebo, Yahoo! and VBS.tv.

Brian LeonardBrian Leonard
Brian is a Director of Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL) and chairs BISL's Tourism Working Group. 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 working at the DCMS, Brian 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.

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. O'Brien and Loach's latest film Looking for Ericwas written by regular collaborator Paul Laverty, and screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. O'Brien and Loach own the production company 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.

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. Chris's research interests include the adaptation of novels for the screen, and he regularly presents at national and international conferences.

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