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

Chris Hunt (Chief Executive, Director)

Chris Hunt has been Chief Executive of DCD Media plc since its inception in 1999, and supervised its transformation from dot-com to strongly-based media super-indie  producing and trading intellectual property rights in the audio-visual factual, entertainment, drama, music and arts  sector. In 2000 , he oversaw the acquisition of the blue riband independent television production company Iambic Productions Limited (over forty international awards, including four Emmys). In 2001 he led the exploitation rights to the large and prestigious NVC programme catalogue as well as other smaller libraries. In 2004 he was instrumental in the acquisition of the market-leading arts distribution company RM Associates and subsequently launched the Digital Classics Download & DVD label.  In 2005 Chris led the Company to its next significant phase of growth with the takeover of the 3 high-profile media businesses Done & Dusted, Box TV, and NBD Television. A further trio of acquisitions followed in 2007 with the takeover of producers September Films, Prospect Pictures and West Park Pictures, propelling the group into the top ten super-indie league in the UK television sector. More

John McIntosh (Finance Director, Chief Finance Officer)

John McIntosh qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Deloitte & Touche and has since held financial and operational positions in international media and advertising businesses including Sony, International Masters Publishers, the BBC, and D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. His early professional experience allowed him to live and work in various European countries but during the latter years, John McIntosh has concentrated on working for private equity investors while based in London. Before joining DCD Media as Chief Financial Officer in August 2006, McIntosh worked as a consultant within the Thomson Media Group in Rome. More

David Green (Director, Chief Creative Officer)

David Green is the Founder and former Chairman of September Films, the London and LA-based television and film production company specialising in primetime factual entertainment, documentaries and features, reality programming and entertainment formats. September Films became a division of DCD Media in 2007 and David was appointed DCD Chief Creative Officer with the task of driving creative synergies within the group. Having worked in Hollywood for five years, David Green is now a leading figure in the British and American film and television industries where he has successfully built his career since graduating from Oxford in 1971.

He 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). David is also a Director of Chinese media giant XF Media. 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

Jim Hytner (non-executive Director)

Jim Hytner has extensive commercial experience across the media sector having previously been the Commercial and Marketing Director of ITV, the Marketing and Communications Director of Channel 5 and Marketing Director of BSkyB. He was also previously the Group Marketing Director of Barclays Bank and is presently the Commercial Director of the new media platform Top Up TV. Jim began his career at Coca-Cola where he went on to become Head of Marketing. He studied and subsequently lectured on marketing strategy at Wharton Business School and is a Trustee of Comic Relief. More

Michael Barton (non-executive Director)

Michael Barton BSc,FCA, MIoD, has over 20 years experience in small and growing businesses and is most at home in an entrepreneurial action environment. He specialises in fund raising, business planning, business purchases and business sales. He is a Past President of the North West Society of Chartered Accountants and Deputy Chairman of the Audit Registration Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. 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

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