The
Directors
Charles Wace, Chief Executive
Twofour Group
Charles is responsible for the
overall growth and creative vision of the Twofour Group chairing
the boards of Twofour's five companies - Broadcast, Communications,
Digital, HMC Interactive and Digital Bridge. He founded Twofour in
1988 spearheading its growth to become one of the UK's largest
regional independent and number one interactive agency.
Charles started his career in
newspapers before moving to BBC Radio and Television where he
worked as a reporter and producer. He is executive producer of
several of Twofour programmes and has a special interest in
convergent television projects.
Charles chaired the UK independent trade body Pact
(Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television) for two years. A
long-standing member of Pact he has also chaired its Nations and
Regions Policy Group and this year he is member of the Pact Patrons
Group. Charles was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of
The Year Award for Technology & Communication South Region in
2007 and has recently been presented with the 2010 Royal Television
Society Devon and Cornwall Centre Award for Outstanding
Achievement. The company was voted the UK's Best Independent
Production Company at the Broadcast Awards 2010 and it also won a
place in the 2009 Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track Top 100
companies, which ranks Britain's fastest growing private sector
technology companies.
Paul Tarplee, Managing Director
Twofour Digital
Paul leads Twofour's non-broadcast
business activities for brands, private sector and public sector
organisations. He joined Twofour in 2001 as Chief Technology
Officer, and was appointed as Managing Director in 2006. He has a
unique understanding of the opportunities that online technologies
present to brands and organisations and is a regular speaker on the
digital media landscape.
Before joining Twofour Paul was CTO
for Multimedia Television, developers of Interactive TV
applications for satellite and cable operators. He started his
career in aerospace engineering at Smiths Industries, and moved to
FMCG drinks company Bulmers in 1994 where he oversaw international
expansion and ecommerce strategy.
Projects &
Experience
Overseeing the development of European Parliament's web TV
solution, Europarl TV
Consulting with GlaxoSmithKline on a global digital media
strategy
Leading the creation of the UK's first social networking site for
young people, myCBBC for BBC Childrens
Product development of Twofour's unique MEDIAFREEDOM™ webTV
platform
Developing webcasting solutions for clients such as British
Telecom, the UK parliament and 10 Downing St
Shireen Abbott, Director of
Operations
Shireen joined the Twofour Group in
1997 from Pearson Television where she worked on situation comedy
programmes including 'Birds of a Feather' and 'Goodnight
Sweetheart'. She began her time at Twofour managing 300 programmes
of 'Collectors' Lot' before moving on to the live coverage of the
RHS Flower Shows from Chelsea, Hampton Court and Tatton
Park.
Shireen was appointed as Director
of Production responsible for overseeing the production of all the
broadcast and corporate output of the company and is now Director
of Operations of Twofour Digital.
Mark Hawkins, Managing Director of
Twofour Group
Mark oversees the day-to-day operations of the Twofour
Group. He is also responsible for driving Twofour's strategy into
new markets (particularly Middle East, India and Latin America) and
acquisitions; and for building strategic partnerships and alliances
to ensure Twofour is at the forefront of convergent media. He
joined the company in 2000 as COO of twofourtv which he soon
established as one of the leading authorities on delivering video
based communication across digital platforms.
Mark began his career at Unilever moving to become Marketing
Director of Jewson with sales of over £1billion, and Group Business
Development Director of Meyer International; responsible for
investing $1bn in acquisitions, and establishing new retail stores
and e-commerce and mail order operations.
Anthony Hughes, Financial Director
Twofour Group
Anthony is responsible for
financial management, business affairs, human resources and
investor relations for the whole Twofour Group. He also plays a
central role, with the rest of the management team, in developing
strategic partnership arrangements to support the group's continued
growth.
Anthony is also the Commercial
Director for Twofour Broadcast looking after international
programme distribution, secondary rights exploitation,
advertiser-funded programming and Twofour's home video/dvd
business. Anthony's work allows Twofour to respond effectively to
the changing market place that requires independents to be flexible
and proactive in developing new streams of revenue.
Before Twofour Anthony worked for
DMGT, where he spent five years as a Financial Controller in the
East Midlands. He also has extensive financial management
experience in retail banking, publishing and
manufacturing.
Tim Jackman, Legal & Business
Affairs Director
As a qualified solicitor Tim is responsible for legal and
business affairs for the whole Twofour Group.
Tim's work embraces all of the
legal arrangements the Twofour Group enters into and includes the
commercial exploitation of the IP rights developed across the
Group.
Until September 2007,when he joined
Twofour , Tim was a partner with Bond Pearce LLP, at the time a 750
plus employee commercial law firm where he led the firm's top rated
corporate finance team in the South West featuring regularly in the
Chambers and Legal 500 independent legal guides.
Andrew Mackenzie, Group
Creative Director
As Twofour's Group Creative
Director, Andrew is responsible for growing the company's
portfolio of factual, features and entertainment programming as
well as being the creative lead for delivering online content for
its expanding international multiplatform business.
He joins Twofour from Channel 4
where he was Head of Factual Entertainment since May 2007,
responsible for commissions including Boys and Girls Alone and
Tower Block of Commons, the Grierson award-winning Thriller in
Manila, as well as a range of presenter led series from Jamie
Oliver to Jo Frost and Mark Dolan. Prior to that he was a
commissioning editor at Channel 4 and an award-winning producer and
director for the BBC and Channel 4.
Phil Haggar, Director Twofour
Digital
Phil Haggar merged his webcasting and digital rights company
Makeni with Twofour Digital in April 2007. A broadcast engineer by
training, Phil has managed major sports OBs such as Wimbledon
Tennis, Champions League football and PGA (golf) and spent several
years in Zambia launching their first independent radio station on
shortwave and FM.
He has worked as broadcast
consultant for three National Assemblies and for the last ten years
has focused on the convergence of broadcast and the Internet,
carrying out hundreds of webcasts for clients from Number 10
Downing Street to the Glastonbury and Reading music
Festivals.
Jennifer Hills, Head of Branded
Content
Jennifer brings to Twofour over ten year's experience
in creating Branded Content solutions for many international
blue chip clients. With her background in broadcast, sponsorship
and event production, combined with her experience of global
brands crossing the media and entertainment industries, she is
responsible for the continuing development of Twofour's offering to
channels and brands. Before joining Twofour, Jennifer worked for
Endemol where she was Head of Broadcast in its branded content
division, New State, and prior to that she spent three years as
Head of Branded Content at Mediacom.
During her career Jennifer has delivered a number of high
profile brand funded TV series including: 4 series of Transmission
with T-Mobile - C4's flagship music show, ITV1s Pedigree Dog Rescue
and Nokia Green Room; as well as securing a range of digital and
experiential partnerships for clients including Nokia, LG, GSK,
Audi, Carling, Bacardi and Wrigley's. Before joining Mediacom she
was an account director at Cake working on Brand Strategy,
Marketing, Brand Funded Content, PR, Creative and Media Planning
for clients including: Orange, Budweiser, V Festival and Virgin
Retail.
Rob Brown, Non-executive Director
Twofour Group
Rob Brown represents the interests of Eureka Partners, the
venture capital investor in Twofour, on the Twofour Group Board.
Rob is currently finance director of a large independent fund
management group and previously held a range of management
positions at SG Warburg and UBS. He is a qualified accountant and
corporate treasurer.
Juliet Williams, Non-Executive Director Twofour
Group
Former chair of the South West
Regional Development Agency Juliet Williams is the first non
executive director to be appointed by the Twofour Group. Juliet, a
specialist in the management of change in organisational behaviour
and the matching of business culture to customer expectation, is
helping Twofour achieve its aim of tripling turnover over the next
five years and believes there is huge potential to deliver ever
more added value services to clients using digital media.
While Chairman of the South West of
England Regional Development Agency for 7 years Juliet masterminded
the development of the South West's Regional Employment and Skills
Partnership into a national exemplar; was the catalyst to the birth
of Visit England through re-engineering the management and
marketing of England's tourism; played a major part in formulating
the national Creative Economy Programme; was a member of the Boards
of the Academy for Sustainable Communities and of Visit Britain, of
the Government's Industrial Development Advisory Board and of the
Nations and Regions Group for London 2012. Juliet spent 17 years as
Chief Executive of high growth companies in the creative industries
where she grew 'one of the 100 best companies to work for in the
UK'.