Steve Morrison
Chair
Steve Morrison joined North West Vision as its Chairman in 2003 and remained as Chairman after its merger into Northwest Vision and Media. Steve’s career in broadcasting has spanned over 30 years. Having spent 28 years in Granada, both in Manchester and latterly in London, Steve left his position as Chief Executive Granada Plc in 2002 and formed All3Media in 2003, which is now the UK’s largest group of Independent Production Companies by turnover and audience.
Mike Davis
Vice Chair
Mike Davis has a long standing commitment to the development of enterprise in the Northwest. He was a partner with business advisers Ernst & Young in both the Manchester and Liverpool offices. For the past 10 years he has been non-executive chairman of several businesses in the region including an involvement with the media sector. He also worked with Granada for many years, both as a judge on their televised business competition Flying Start and on a major charity initiative.
Ian Hetherington
Ian has been a leading expert within the games industry over the past few decades and was instrumental in the success of the first Sony PlayStation. Ian founded Psygnosis Limited in 1985 and held the position of Managing Director. He pioneered the new 16 bit computer formats with considerable success. In 1991, Psygnosis released Lemmings, which is still a leading game in the PSP Chart, and a leading game on mobile phone 15 years on.
In 1998, Ian left Sony to pursue other interests and began to focus on those start ups that he helped to develop, Evolution Studios and Real Time Worlds.
Alex Connock
Chief Executive of UK factual media company Ten Alps, which produces TV, online and print. Alex established Cheshire-based Ten Alps with Bob Geldof in 1999 and its communications division is now Britain's largest business and public sector contract publisher, with over 700 publications on and offline. He has been several times shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year and is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Governor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Advisory Board member of Salford University Media School and a NESTA mentor to startup media companies.
Mark Dodson
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Guardian Media Group Regional Newspaper Division, Mark pioneered the launch of the Manchester Evening New’s ground breaking part paid, part free distribution strategy, which has effectively re-engineered the way the UK’s regional press is distributed.
Tony Foggett
Tony is Chief Executive of digital marketing and communications agency Code Computerlove. He co-founded the company in 1999 and it has since developed from three people working from Tony's back bedroom to one of the UK's most successful and highly regarded digital agencies.
Debra Hayward
Debra is Head of Film for British-based Working Title Films, who in conjunction with her U.S. counterpart, Liza Chasin, is creatively responsible for the company’s entire slate of motion pictures. Since joining the company in 1989, Executive Producer Hayward has built up an impressive list of credits on award-winning films including Frost/Nixon, Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Pride and Prejudice and State of Play.
Sean Marley
Sean Marley is Managing Director of Lime Pictures, the Liverpool-based independent production company. Before joining Lime Pictures, he spent 13 years in the commercial radio industry, culminating in the role of MD at Liverpool’s Radio City and a group role across EMAP's network of Northern Magic AM stations.
Robert Hough
Robert Hough is Chairman of the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA). Robert was previously Deputy Chairman of Peel Holdings and an Executive Director for over 13 years. He is also Non-Executive Director of a number of other companies, including Provident Financial plc and Styles & Wood Group PLC. He is a member of the Steering Group of the Northern Way, a member of the Learning and Skills National Council and also a board member of the University of Manchester and of Northwest Business Link. He was previously Chairman of the urban regeneration company New East Manchester Limited, a member of the North West Regional Assembly Executive Board, and Chairman of the North West Business Leadership Team.
Jonathan Shorrock
Jonathan Shorrock is a solicitor specialising in corporate finance. He is a partner at Kippax Beaumont Lewis of Bolton, and head of the corporate department. Jonathon qualified as a solicitor in 1985 with Addleshaw Sons & Latham (later Addleshaw Booth & Co and now Addleshaw Goddard) and was a corporate partner there from 1990 to 2002. He is president of the Bolton Chamber of Commerce, and director of the Greater Manchester Chamber.
Elizabeth Raper
Libby brings a breadth of business experience from the private as well as public sectors. She was VP Marketing for The Pierre Smirnoff Company, part of Diageo, and Chief Executive , Culture Northwest. Currently she combines senior NED roles in FE and the NHS with strategic consultancy in the Creative and Cultural Industries
Paul Atkinson
As National Official for BECTU, the independent union for those working in, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas, Paul represents members across all sectors of the industry, particularly those working in film and TV across the Northwest, Yorkshire and Humberside and the Northeast. Previously, Paul was on the board of Media Training North West.