Ben Hookway — CEO

• Ben Hookway has 15 years experience in technology businesses. He was CEO and co-founder of Next Device, a mobile phone UI technology company, which he sold to Mentor Graphics in 2006. His last role was as Director of Business Development for Mentor Graphic’s embedded software division, promoting Mentor’s OS products to network operators, semiconductor companies, and device manufacturers, where is ships on 300m + units annually.
  

Ken Tindell — CTO

• Ken Tindell joined Vidiactive as the CTO in 2008 prior to EV’s investment. Previously Ken was the founder and a former CEO of LiveDevices, a 3i and TecCapital funded company selling embedded internet and real-time operating system tools (acquired by Robert Bosch GmbH in 2003) and a co-founder of Volcano Communications Technologies, a real-time embedded communications company (acquired by  Mentor Graphics Corporation in 2005). He has also been a non-executive director for several technology companies.
  

Iolo Jones — Chairman

• Iolo Jones is widely regarded as a leading pioneer of the multimedia, internet technology and internet television industries. He has strong technical and marketing skills and has built three successful multi-million pound companies from scratch, selling two companies and taking the third public. As founder and CEO of Narrowstep Inc he architected telvOS, the leading internet TV platform; major clients included corporations such as Ford and Unilever, leading broadcasters such as ITV and Virgin Media and telcos such as Telefonica. Iolo has recently consulted with Ofcom, contributes to a wide range of publications and regularly speaks at major industry events all over the world. His blog, IPTV Times (www.iptvtimes.net) is well-regarded in the industry.

Jerry Ennis — Non-executive Director

• Jerry has been a venture capital investor since January 2001 when he joined Doughty Hanson as one of the five founding partners of a ~$275M technology fund. Previously Jerry worked in various roles in the telecommunications industry, where he gained significant international experience. He is an entrepreneur and his last venture-capital backed business was sold to Telcordia Technologies, a major US telecoms business. Jerry also sits of the Board of Adaptive Mobile and is an advisor on the board of Handmade Mobile, where he is also acting as the interim COO.