David Elstein (Chairman)

David Elstein whose latest venture Sparrowhawk Media was recently acquired by NBC Universal for £175m has spent over forty years in the media industry. David spent four years as Producer of ITV's "This Week", six years as Director of Programmes at Thames TV, four years as Head of Programming at BSkyB and four years as CEO of Channel 5, which he launched and led to a valuation on his departure of over £1 billion. As well as chairing DCD Media plc, David also chairs Sports Network Group plc, Screen Digest, Luther Pendragon Holdings, the British Screen Advisory Council and the Broadcasting Policy Group (which wrote a seminal report on the future of the BBC for the Conservative Party). He is also a board member of NTL Inc (US), Escaline S.a.r.l (Luxembourg) and Hardt Group UK. He is a visiting professor at Stirling University, and was previously a visiting professor at Westminster University and Oxford University. More

David Green (CEO)

David Green was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DCD Media plc in December 2009. He joined the Group in 2007 when London and LA-based television and film production company September Films, of which he was Chairman and Founder, was acquired by DCD Media. He originally took on the role of DCD Chief Creative Officer with the task of driving creative synergies across all nine Group companies: DCD Drama, Done and Dusted, Matchlight, Prospect Pictures, September Films, West Park Pictures, DCD Rights, DCD Publishing and Digital Classics. He now merges his corporate CEO role with special responsibility for spearheading DCD Media’s surge into the booming American production market.

A veteran of the British and American Film and television industries where he has successfully built his career since graduating from Oxford in 1972, David has produced and/or directed over a thousand hours of primetime television including the landmark 'Hollywood Women' series and September's flagship show 'Bridezillas' - both of which he created. His four feature film directing credits notably include the Oscar-nominated 'Buster' (4 awards) one of the biggest grossing British films of all time, and the $22m Disney action adventure 'Wings of the Apache', starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones. He was also the Executive Producer of two September movies: Oscar-nominated 'Solomon and Gaenor' (7 awards) and 'House of America' (6 awards). In 2008, David became a Director of Chinese media giant, Xinhua Sports and Entertainment Limited. More

John McIntosh (Finance Director, Chief Financal Officer)

John McIntosh qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte & Touche in 1994 and has held Director roles in AIM listed companies since 2003. His early professional career allowed him to live in various European countries, working with international distribution, advertising and media corporations including Sony, D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles and BBC?s corporate finance. During the latter years, John has concentrated on working for private equity investors in London and as a consultant for the Thomson Media Group. John joined DCD Media in August 2006 holding the joint positions of Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer, and became the group?s Finance Director in June 2008. More

Simon Pizey (Director)

Simon Pizey started his television career in the post production area and joined the BBC in 1995 as a production manager with the specific brief of re-vamping the post production process of the Youth and Entertainment Department. In the subsequent years Simon went on to manage a variety of programmes from The Travel Show to Standing Room Only. In 1997 Pizey left the BBC to join Ian Stewart and Hamish Hamilton at MTV Europe, where they worked together on many MTV projects. When Hamilton and Stewart left MTV and eventually found Done and Dusted, Simon stayed on at MTV to take up the role of Head of Production MTV Networks Europe. In this role he oversaw the production of 3 of MTV's annual awards and many of their other shows. He joined Done and Dusted in 2000. More

Tarik Wildman (Non-Executive Director)

Tarik Wildman has been involved in the financial industry for over 20 years. He was a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and Dillon Read and remains an adviser at UBS. He is also a partner in the Madrid-based firm Forest Asset Management, and runs his own enterprise Wildman & Company Limited, which finds financial solutions for a wide variety of corporate clients. Tarik is currently Managing Director of PJ Investments and sits on the board of Red Letter Days and other companies associated with Peter Jones. More

Other Key Management

Sammy Nourmand (Chief Operational Officer)

Financially trained at Silver Levene & Co, Sammy Nourmand brings with him 16 years experience in the independent television sector. He joined September Films in March 1998 as Head of Finance, before becoming Director of Finance and then Deputy CEO in November 2003. He took over as CEO in April 2005 and was instrumental in the recent sale of the company to DCD Media in August 2007. Sammy was appointed DCD Chief Operations Officer in June 2008 to help drive the effective integration of the business units within the group. More

Richard Price MBE (President Emeritus)

Richard Price who was group Chairman from 2000 to 2004 and member of the Board of Directors until June 2008 was awarded the emeritus title of President of the DCD Media in recognition of his outstanding services to the group. From 1968 to 1998, Richard Price was Chairman of what became the Primetime plc group which included Britain 's largest independent television distributor, Primetime Television Associates; its catalogue contained  over 7,500 hours of programming.  His television productions have won several  BAFTAs and Emmys.  He is a past Chairman of BAFTA and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.  Richard is currently Vice-Chairman of the national learning disability charity, the Home Farm Trust, Chairman of the Watermill Theatre, Newbury  and is vice chairman of the television writers' charity TAPS and of the Charities Tax Reform Group. More