South East Media Network Board

Nigel Hartnell (Chairman), FFastfill
Andrew Brook-Holmes, Microsoft
John Hazell, Jack Brand
Karl Schneider, New Scientist, Reed Elsiver
Linda James, Sly Fox Films
Gina Fegan, (Chief Executive)
Lindsay Charlton, ITV Local

Ian Baverstock, Kuju 

John Worth, Worth Media

Nigel Hartnell

Nigel Hartnell has over 35 years experience in the IT industry. He is
currently a Director of FFastFill plc, a City-based Software as a
Service (SaaS) company. Prior to this he had a wide-ranging career in
ICL (now Fujitsu Services), holding a number of senior posts including
Director of Services and subsequently of Corporate Development.

Nigel is currently non - executive Chairman of the South East Media
Network, the Digital Content Sector Group for the South East England
Development Agency. Nigel is also a Director of Intellect (the trade
association for the high-tech industries) and was previously President
of the CSSA (a predecessor organisation); he is currently Chairman of
Intellect's software group. Additionally he is a non-executive director
of Screen South. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of
Information Technologists and has an MA in Mathematics from Trinity
College, Dublin.

Andrew Brook-Holmes

Andrew Brook-Holmes has over two decades experience working in Information Technology. Andrew combines strategic technical thinking with the pragmatic application of technology for the UK's leading media and telecommunications corporations. In his 10 years at Microsoft, Andrew has managed the architecture and successful launch of many of Microsoft's cutting edge software development projects in the Public and Private sector including high profile systems such as the UK's Government Gateway.

Andrew is also a director of the South East Media Network. A role which brings his unique insight into media technology and strategy within Microsoft to new media enterprises in the UK's south east.

John Hazell

John Hazell is Jack Brand's Commercial Director and a founding shareholder. He is absolutely positively the biggest single consumer of music on the planet! Unable to write or perform anything John came up with the idea for Jack Brand. John previously worked for Unilever and Johnson & Johnson, but he always had the music bug. The beginning of the '90s saw John's passion for music secure him a senior role with EMI Records. Then in a three-year tenure as Managing Director of HMV Australia he sold over 20 million CDs. Keen to find new ways of bringing music to the masses John upped sticks and returned to the UK to create Jack Brand.

Gina Fegan

Gina took on the role of setting up South East Media Network following three years as the founding Chief Executive of the lottery backed regional screen agency Screen South.

Prior to Screen South she spent two years as Director of the Kent International Film Festival (October 2000 and 2001) and Manager of Cinema 3 in Canterbury. During this time she also set up Kent Hothouse - a media development agency. With a background in construction, structural engineering and project management Gina has produced low budget drama, was the co-ordinator of the first LA Shorts Fest and subsequently spent a year in Los Angeles developing two feature films. Her production experience and six years in the North of France led her to be instrumental in forming the Nord-Pas de Calais Film Commission based in Lille. She also has experience in education as Head of Languages for SUPTERCOM in Arras, and examiner for the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce, Lille.

Gina is a trustee of the arts based regeneration programme the Creative Foundation in Folkestone is on the artistic advisory board of TAPS (Television Arts Performance Showcase) and is a member of BAFTA and Women in Film and Television.

Karl Schneider

Karl Schneider is Editorial Development Director of RBI-UK, the UK's largest
business publishing/information company with more than 100 market-leading
brands. RBI has magazines, directories, websites and events in more than 20
vertical markets, and Karl is responsible for ensuring that these products
have the editorial strategies, teams, processes and tools required to
succeed.

Karl has worked for RBI-UK for more than 20 years, in various editorial
roles including Executive Editor of New Scientist and Editor-in-Chief of
Computer Weekly.

Before he became a journalist Karl was a research physicist, working on
nuclear fusion at the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory in
Oxfordshire.

Linda James

Linda was only 23 when she co-founded Red Rooster Film and Television Entertainment with film-maker, Stephen Bayly. She headed up the company from 1982 to 1998, during which time Red Rooster became one of the most prolific and respected independent drama producers in the UK. After the company was acquired by Chrysalis Plc., Linda went on to co-found and float Alibi Communications on AIM (the Alternative Investment Market) with lawyer Roger Holmes. She headed up the company's television production division, Alibi Productions, until March 2003, and remains a non-executive director of the parent company, Coolabi Plc.  Since 2007 she has also been a non-executive director of Boomerang Plc, a major UK independent  production company that is listed on AIM.

A producer of over 20 award-winning drama series, 5 TV movies and 10 feature films, Linda has also undertaken a number of industry and public appointments. These have included being Honorary Chair of the Edinburgh International Television Festival, a Governor of the BFI (British Film Institute), a Governor of the NFTS (National Film and Television School), a member of BSAC (the British Screen Advisory Council), sitting on the IPTF (Independent Production Training (IPTF) for PACT (the Producer's Alliance for Cinema and Television) and being a member of BAFTA Council (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) and Chairing BAFTA'S Kids Committee.  She is currently Chair of the CFTF (Children's Film and Television Foundation), a Trustee of the NFTS and sits on the board of Screen South for The UK Film Council, The Wales Creative IP Fund Investment Committee and the board of SEMN South East Media Network.

In September 2004 Linda re-united with Stephen Bayly to set up a new consultancy and production company, Sly Fox Films. Since 2005 Linda has been consultant fund manager for the Wales Creative IP Fund which has been responsible for £10m of investments into Wales' Creative Industries, predominantly into feature films and television series.  Other consultancy projects have been undertaken for The Federation of Industries in Malta, the British Council and the National Film School in South Africa. The company has a slate of feature film projects at various stages of development.

Ian Baverstock

Ian studied Aeronautical Engineering and initially worked in an
aerospace software research team before founding his first company,
Simis, in 1989. Ian has subsequently led various businesses at the
intersection of technology and entertainment.

Ian sold Simis to Eidos in 1995, then co-led an MBO and subsequent
floatation of its successor Kuju. Ian has grown Kuju into one of the
world's largest independent game developers with multiple studios in the
UK, Europe, the US and Asia. Kuju is now part of the German-listed media
services group Catalis.

Ian is a Chartered Engineer and was also Chairman of TIGA, the UK trade
body for game development businesses, for 4 years until early 2009.