A one stop shop of technical expertise and leadership
We’re a team of professionals with expert capabilities in technical and operational delivery, across broadcast and media, from ‘glass to glass’. Every one of our partners is handpicked for their professionalism, knowledge and experience.
This provides our customers with easy access to a uniquely skilled team of industry practitioners. With a total accumulated experience of over 300 years and 25 specialisms across the team, our capabilities are second to none.
I founded The Hawk Media Partnership to meet the needs of broadcast and media companies looking for a one stop shop in technical consultancy.
Broadcast & media is undergoing extraordinary change. Conventional linear TV is giving way to radical new models of media delivery. New players like Netflix, Amazon and Apple are pumping millions into production and rights acquisition. DAZN is on the warpath. Will BBC Match of the Day, which began in 1964, still have an audience in 2024?
These monumental changes, coupled with intense competition for eyeballs, mean that broadcasters and their suppliers need to be able to deliver media to consumers better than ever before – faultlessly, seamlessly and efficiently.
As Managing Director, I spend my time helping companies and teams perform at their best. I work with leading broadcast and media companies, helping them solve business and technical challenges. I’m also an auditor for the World Teleport Association, which involves assessing, certifying and advising satellite teleports on best practice. In addition, I provide technical advice covering due diligence, acquisitions and consolidation of broadcast and media companies.
Previously, I led engineering and operations teams at director-level positions for over 20 years. At Arqiva, I ran the teams providing all broadcast services across the UK, including terrestrial TV and radio, as well as satellite and OTT services. In my earlier career, I enjoyed working in various engineering positions at the European Space Agency, Airbus, Vega Telespazio and WorldSpace.
I’m a chartered engineer with a degree in engineering from Aberdeen University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.
I am a leading creative visionary and technical innovator. I led the development of the BBC’s first interactive services, including the BAFTA-winning Wimbledon Red Button service. I also have a strong track record in building successful companies from scratch, creating and developing innovative technical solutions and achieving successful exits. I founded Connect TV to build the first hybrid TV service enabling content providers to gain access to the Freeview audience in a cost-effective way. Connect TV was acquired by Arqiva plc in 2012.
With 10+ years of experience managing programmes and projects within Broadcasting, events management roles in the Creative industries and a degree in Broadcast Production, I have an unique set of skills that helps me bridge the gap between technical and creative teams.
Specialising in senior stakeholder management, communication and the ability to positively manage change within an organisation I have spent the past 4 years managing programmes within business transformational change. This has included mergers, acquisitions, organisation restructures and continuous improvement projects to help companies achieve their future targets.
Previous companies I have worked with include Arqiva, Turner Broadcasting, Narrative Entertainment and Formula E.
I bring a wealth of experience within the IT and cyber delivery sphere. I have, for a number of years, operated at board level and as a senior operations management and IT and cyber transformational specialist. I have a track record of over 30 years delivering operational improvements within the broad IT and Cyber services and manufacturing sectors across a number of blue-chip organisations.
I have broad technical and business knowledge and skills with expertise in infrastructure, ERP, cyber and bespoke applications as well as public and private sector knowledge having delivered business critical projects to defence, education (central & local government), training, security, broadcast and commerce focused clients.
My roles include permanent and consultancy experience into governmental, retail, online solutions as well as the manufacturing sectors.
I am a specialist in technology security who has been creating new and innovative solutions for securing technology assets in finance, Internet of Things and secure government. I am also a forensics expert called by the Court of Session (the highest court in Scotland) to perform forensics collections and provide expert witness statements for civil cases.
I was lead security architect at a FTSE 10 UK insurance company and went on to engineer brand new “security at devops speed” philosophy (with Gerard Magennis) that involved a complete cultural and technological change to the organisation including building a specialist Security Operations Centre. I have had various roles over the years including designing Royal Bank of Scotland’s new Digital banking security and in the past have designed and built systems for clients ranging from Abbey National, FT.com, Reuters and many investment banks. Designing a fraud detection system for Orange Mobile in the early 2000’s led me into a career of building core enterprise security capabilities.
I am a co-owner (with Jonathan Marshall) of Connect Devices and have engineered a novel home network scanning capability from a mobile phone and have built a distributed ETSI 303 645 testing system in partnership with DTG, DCMS and the NCSC.
I’ve worked in the broadcast sector for over twenty seven years in a variety of management roles including commercial, business development and managing regulated business. I am currently working with Encompass advising on a major investment in the broadcast sector. Prior to that I worked with various clients including Eurovision, 4M and Comux UK and also advised on the 700MHz clearance programme. As the Regulatory and Compliance Director, I led the regulated business of Arqiva which included responsibility for managing the company’s regulatory business for TV and radio. I was also responsible for compliance and managing relations with the UK industry regulators Ofcom and the Office of the Adjudicator – Broadcast Transmission. I was a member of the Arqiva senior management team overseeing a £750m infrastructure programme to enable Digital Terrestrial Television Digital Switch over in the UK. In 2002, I represented Crown Castle as one of the three partners in the launch of ‘Freeview’ and led negotiations with customers such as MTV, BSkyB, emap, Channel 4.
I have a broad range of experience covering commercial strategy, negotiation, operational management and engineering design for broadcasters and service providers. Most recently I managed the engineering team that successfully completed the facility build and migration of all broadcast services from Babcock Media Services to Encompass. I have also recently advised broadcasters on technology, distribution and operational workflows. In 2013 I was awarded the Royal Television Society “Young Technologist of the Year”.
I’m a multi-skilled, experienced broadcast engineer with thirteen years in broadcast and media on challenging and exciting engineering projects and in support roles.
At QVC, I had responsibility for supporting all elements of their in-house broadcast chain, as well as, playing an active role in their Chiswick Park relocation project.
I held a key engineering role at ITV supporting all the Daytime programming and other high profile entertainment shows such as Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and The Graham Norton Show. I was a Technical Director for “Good Morning Britain”, and supported the GMB team on elections and referendums.
I supported the ITV Projects team on the installation of four different Calrec sound desks serving the ITV daytime shows, and larger-scale live entertainment shows.
I’ve held key roles in sport contribution for Tata Communications supporting productions for Formula One Management and DORNA at F1 & MotoGP races across the world.
I also successfully completed a Calrec sound desk and Riedel tailback installation for Maidstone Studios, both used extensively for live productions. Most recently I took a lead role in a demanding programme to build a completely new MCR for Encompass Digital Media in Chiswick.
I am a focused, innovative and dependable broadcast engineer who relishes opportunities to work in challenging, live environments and diverse groups of people. My biggest love is bridging that gap between creativity and technology which is often forgotten.
I have a successful track record in the leadership and delivery of complex high value critical national infrastructure broadcast projects.
Recognised for establishing good relationships at team and senior levels with all stakeholders, delivering value-added solutions and shaping the strategic direction for implementation of innovative technologies and technological development programmes that support critical Broadcast, Petrochemical and Nuclear infrastructures.
I have recently led world class project management and engineering teams that have, without exception, met every deliverable for digital broadcast platforms on time and within budget. These were all delivered under significant time and service provision pressures. I have been commended on numerous occasions for exceptional delivery and leadership
I’ve worked at the ‘hard end’ of broadcast for over a decade, involved in major tactical and strategic projects. A big fan of cloud, DevOps and agile methods, I have a solid technical grounding and balance this capability with working and communicating with people at all levels.
I’ve worked with broadcasters such as Channel 4, Discovery, ViaSat and alongside NBCUniversal and Turner. I’ve also worked for service providers such as Encompass, Ericsson and Arqiva, meeting their expectations in their programmes of work providing consulting on business requirements and contract services in linear, non-linear, cloud & on-prem systems.
With more than 25 years’ experience in broadcast television operations and programme-making, I offer unique leadership for hard-working teams, provide structure to complicated activities and solve knotty problems in pressured and dynamic environments to deliver efficiencies and clever solutions.
A hybrid background leading operational and technical teams for large and small businesses in the television industry together with experience writing, directing and editing programmes for ITV and BBC helps me bridge gaps of understanding between creative and operational parts of businesses.
I am an experienced business manager with a background in procurement, logistics and event management. My role at Hawk Media Partnership involves admin, bookkeeping, finance and marketing communications. I’m also an accomplished teacher and trainer, having spent 20 years in the education industry supporting both adult and child learning.
I’ve over 25 years experience working with Media, Retail and Investment Banking, Insurance and Public Sector clients in senior technical security roles.
I’ve delivered projects ranging from creating an Executive in assembly language for the PLC systems used by Sydney Water Board, installing one of the first Firewalls in the NHS, developing an Encrypted Password Store (US Patent Award) for JPMorgan use across their global Fixed Income trading environments to delivering key ISO27001 controls for the UK government’s £1.7bn securitisation of the UK student loan portfolio.
I’ve been a Developer, Systems Integrator, Security Designer, Security Architect and most recently DevSecOps Practitioner (together with Callum Wilson). I hold a degree in Engineering from UCD.
I have considerable experience leading teams and large customer-facing operations in broadcast and media, including production, content management and distribution, and studio facilities. My experience includes 17 years at BSkyB as Operations Manager and then Director of Sky Operations, then progressing to Head of Playout for Arqiva.
I’m a versatile broadcast engineer with comprehensive support and build engineering experience across the broadcast value chain, including media asset management, playout, media processing, live and post production.
During 20+ years in the broadcast industry I have worked for vendors, system integrators, service providers and content owners. This mixture has enabled me to gain a wide and deep understanding of the industry and the role technical solutions plays across it; insight that has allowed me to clearly understand the outcomes required from my projects that enables me to deliver the solutions to match.
My most recent projects include working for Al Jazeera on the largest digital transformation of live studios, newsroom, archive and teleport in the Middle East. In addition I have played key roles in designing and building platforms to migrate high profile media management and playout services for NBCUniversal, Turner, Disney, Sony, BT Sport and Amazon.
I have over 25 years’ media sector experience gained with Channel 4, the BBC and in media post-production working as the Director of Operations & Technology supplying services to UK and other European broadcasters. More recently I have advised media companies on operational efficiencies, service delivery planning and proposal preparation.
I am a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and I have an honours degree in engineering. My earlier career included positions in systems consultancy at Honeywell Bull. I am a Development Mentor and Professional Interviewer for the IET.
I founded The Hawk Media Partnership to meet the needs of broadcast and media companies looking for a one stop shop in technical consultancy.
Broadcast & media is undergoing extraordinary change. Conventional linear TV is giving way to radical new models of media delivery. New players like Netflix, Amazon and Apple are pumping millions into production and rights acquisition. DAZN is on the warpath. Will BBC Match of the Day, which began in 1964, still have an audience in 2024?
These monumental changes, coupled with intense competition for eyeballs, mean that broadcasters and their suppliers need to be able to deliver media to consumers better than ever before – faultlessly, seamlessly and efficiently.
As Managing Director, I spend my time helping companies and teams perform at their best. I work with leading broadcast and media companies, helping them solve business and technical challenges. I’m also an auditor for the World Teleport Association, which involves assessing, certifying and advising satellite teleports on best practice. In addition, I provide technical advice covering due diligence, acquisitions and consolidation of broadcast and media companies.
Previously, I led engineering and operations teams at director-level positions for over 20 years. At Arqiva, I ran the teams providing all broadcast services across the UK, including terrestrial TV and radio, as well as satellite and OTT services. In my earlier career, I enjoyed working in various engineering positions at the European Space Agency, Airbus, Vega Telespazio and WorldSpace.
I’m a chartered engineer with a degree in engineering from Aberdeen University and an MBA from Warwick Business School.
I am a leading creative visionary and technical innovator. I led the development of the BBC’s first interactive services, including the BAFTA-winning Wimbledon Red Button service. I also have a strong track record in building successful companies from scratch, creating and developing innovative technical solutions and achieving successful exits. I founded Connect TV to build the first hybrid TV service enabling content providers to gain access to the Freeview audience in a cost-effective way. Connect TV was acquired by Arqiva plc in 2012.
With 10+ years of experience managing programmes and projects within Broadcasting, events management roles in the Creative industries and a degree in Broadcast Production, I have an unique set of skills that helps me bridge the gap between technical and creative teams.
Specialising in senior stakeholder management, communication and the ability to positively manage change within an organisation I have spent the past 4 years managing programmes within business transformational change. This has included mergers, acquisitions, organisation restructures and continuous improvement projects to help companies achieve their future targets.
Previous companies I have worked with include Arqiva, Turner Broadcasting, Narrative Entertainment and Formula E.
I bring a wealth of experience within the IT and cyber delivery sphere. I have, for a number of years, operated at board level and as a senior operations management and IT and cyber transformational specialist. I have a track record of over 30 years delivering operational improvements within the broad IT and Cyber services and manufacturing sectors across a number of blue-chip organisations.
I have broad technical and business knowledge and skills with expertise in infrastructure, ERP, cyber and bespoke applications as well as public and private sector knowledge having delivered business critical projects to defence, education (central & local government), training, security, broadcast and commerce focused clients.
My roles include permanent and consultancy experience into governmental, retail, online solutions as well as the manufacturing sectors.
I am a specialist in technology security who has been creating new and innovative solutions for securing technology assets in finance, Internet of Things and secure government. I am also a forensics expert called by the Court of Session (the highest court in Scotland) to perform forensics collections and provide expert witness statements for civil cases.
I was lead security architect at a FTSE 10 UK insurance company and went on to engineer brand new “security at devops speed” philosophy (with Gerard Magennis) that involved a complete cultural and technological change to the organisation including building a specialist Security Operations Centre. I have had various roles over the years including designing Royal Bank of Scotland’s new Digital banking security and in the past have designed and built systems for clients ranging from Abbey National, FT.com, Reuters and many investment banks. Designing a fraud detection system for Orange Mobile in the early 2000’s led me into a career of building core enterprise security capabilities.
I am a co-owner (with Jonathan Marshall) of Connect Devices and have engineered a novel home network scanning capability from a mobile phone and have built a distributed ETSI 303 645 testing system in partnership with DTG, DCMS and the NCSC.
I’ve worked in the broadcast sector for over twenty seven years in a variety of management roles including commercial, business development and managing regulated business. I am currently working with Encompass advising on a major investment in the broadcast sector. Prior to that I worked with various clients including Eurovision, 4M and Comux UK and also advised on the 700MHz clearance programme. As the Regulatory and Compliance Director, I led the regulated business of Arqiva which included responsibility for managing the company’s regulatory business for TV and radio. I was also responsible for compliance and managing relations with the UK industry regulators Ofcom and the Office of the Adjudicator – Broadcast Transmission. I was a member of the Arqiva senior management team overseeing a £750m infrastructure programme to enable Digital Terrestrial Television Digital Switch over in the UK. In 2002, I represented Crown Castle as one of the three partners in the launch of ‘Freeview’ and led negotiations with customers such as MTV, BSkyB, emap, Channel 4.
I have a broad range of experience covering commercial strategy, negotiation, operational management and engineering design for broadcasters and service providers. Most recently I managed the engineering team that successfully completed the facility build and migration of all broadcast services from Babcock Media Services to Encompass. I have also recently advised broadcasters on technology, distribution and operational workflows. In 2013 I was awarded the Royal Television Society “Young Technologist of the Year”.
I’m a multi-skilled, experienced broadcast engineer with thirteen years in broadcast and media on challenging and exciting engineering projects and in support roles.
At QVC, I had responsibility for supporting all elements of their in-house broadcast chain, as well as, playing an active role in their Chiswick Park relocation project.
I held a key engineering role at ITV supporting all the Daytime programming and other high profile entertainment shows such as Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and The Graham Norton Show. I was a Technical Director for “Good Morning Britain”, and supported the GMB team on elections and referendums.
I supported the ITV Projects team on the installation of four different Calrec sound desks serving the ITV daytime shows, and larger-scale live entertainment shows.
I’ve held key roles in sport contribution for Tata Communications supporting productions for Formula One Management and DORNA at F1 & MotoGP races across the world.
I also successfully completed a Calrec sound desk and Riedel tailback installation for Maidstone Studios, both used extensively for live productions. Most recently I took a lead role in a demanding programme to build a completely new MCR for Encompass Digital Media in Chiswick.
I am a focused, innovative and dependable broadcast engineer who relishes opportunities to work in challenging, live environments and diverse groups of people. My biggest love is bridging that gap between creativity and technology which is often forgotten.
I have a successful track record in the leadership and delivery of complex high value critical national infrastructure broadcast projects.
Recognised for establishing good relationships at team and senior levels with all stakeholders, delivering value-added solutions and shaping the strategic direction for implementation of innovative technologies and technological development programmes that support critical Broadcast, Petrochemical and Nuclear infrastructures.
I have recently led world class project management and engineering teams that have, without exception, met every deliverable for digital broadcast platforms on time and within budget. These were all delivered under significant time and service provision pressures. I have been commended on numerous occasions for exceptional delivery and leadership
I’ve worked at the ‘hard end’ of broadcast for over a decade, involved in major tactical and strategic projects. A big fan of cloud, DevOps and agile methods, I have a solid technical grounding and balance this capability with working and communicating with people at all levels.
I’ve worked with broadcasters such as Channel 4, Discovery, ViaSat and alongside NBCUniversal and Turner. I’ve also worked for service providers such as Encompass, Ericsson and Arqiva, meeting their expectations in their programmes of work providing consulting on business requirements and contract services in linear, non-linear, cloud & on-prem systems.
With more than 25 years’ experience in broadcast television operations and programme-making, I offer unique leadership for hard-working teams, provide structure to complicated activities and solve knotty problems in pressured and dynamic environments to deliver efficiencies and clever solutions.
A hybrid background leading operational and technical teams for large and small businesses in the television industry together with experience writing, directing and editing programmes for ITV and BBC helps me bridge gaps of understanding between creative and operational parts of businesses.
I am an experienced business manager with a background in procurement, logistics and event management. My role at Hawk Media Partnership involves admin, bookkeeping, finance and marketing communications. I’m also an accomplished teacher and trainer, having spent 20 years in the education industry supporting both adult and child learning.
I’ve over 25 years experience working with Media, Retail and Investment Banking, Insurance and Public Sector clients in senior technical security roles.
I’ve delivered projects ranging from creating an Executive in assembly language for the PLC systems used by Sydney Water Board, installing one of the first Firewalls in the NHS, developing an Encrypted Password Store (US Patent Award) for JPMorgan use across their global Fixed Income trading environments to delivering key ISO27001 controls for the UK government’s £1.7bn securitisation of the UK student loan portfolio.
I’ve been a Developer, Systems Integrator, Security Designer, Security Architect and most recently DevSecOps Practitioner (together with Callum Wilson). I hold a degree in Engineering from UCD.
I have considerable experience leading teams and large customer-facing operations in broadcast and media, including production, content management and distribution, and studio facilities. My experience includes 17 years at BSkyB as Operations Manager and then Director of Sky Operations, then progressing to Head of Playout for Arqiva.
I’m a versatile broadcast engineer with comprehensive support and build engineering experience across the broadcast value chain, including media asset management, playout, media processing, live and post production.
During 20+ years in the broadcast industry I have worked for vendors, system integrators, service providers and content owners. This mixture has enabled me to gain a wide and deep understanding of the industry and the role technical solutions plays across it; insight that has allowed me to clearly understand the outcomes required from my projects that enables me to deliver the solutions to match.
My most recent projects include working for Al Jazeera on the largest digital transformation of live studios, newsroom, archive and teleport in the Middle East. In addition I have played key roles in designing and building platforms to migrate high profile media management and playout services for NBCUniversal, Turner, Disney, Sony, BT Sport and Amazon.
I have over 25 years’ media sector experience gained with Channel 4, the BBC and in media post-production working as the Director of Operations & Technology supplying services to UK and other European broadcasters. More recently I have advised media companies on operational efficiencies, service delivery planning and proposal preparation.
I am a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and I have an honours degree in engineering. My earlier career included positions in systems consultancy at Honeywell Bull. I am a Development Mentor and Professional Interviewer for the IET.
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