Board of Trustees

Wildscreen is governed by a board of independent trustees which guides the implementation of our mission.

Dick Emery OBE, Chairman
Former CEO of UKTV

Following several years in sales at Ulster Television and Anglia Television Dick was appointed to the Board of Central Television as Director of Sales in 1983. Whilst at Central Television he developed the practice of using programme research to plan individual advertising campaigns for programmes.  He also undertook the research project Adlab.

During his chairmanship of the ITA’s Marketing Committee (1986-8), he was instrumental in removing formalised share schemes and increasing the permitted amount of peak time commercial minutes.

In 1989 he was the co-founder of Television Sales and Marketing Services (TSMS), Britain’s first independent sales house. He left in 1991 to join the Board of ITN as its first Commercial Director, and in 1993 joined the ITV Network Centre as Director of Market Strategy.

In 1994 he joined BBC Worldwide as Director of Strategy and was appointed Managing Director of BBC Worldwide Television in September establishing significant joint ventures with Discovery Communications Inc. on a global basis, and with Flextech in the UK creating UKTV in November 1997, Dick joined UKTV the following year.

Dick has been a member of the Advisory committee for Advertising for the Cabinet Office since 1995. He became Chairman for the ACA in 2003.

Other members of the board

Con Alexander
Partner, Veale Wasbrough Solicitors

Winnie De’Ath
Director of Communications, WWF-UK

Professor Jon Drori
Director, Changing Media

Helen Gilks
Managing Director, Nature Picture Library

Andrew Jackson
Head of BBC Natural History Unit

Kenn Lamb
Chief Executive, Cyan

Brian Leith
Freelance Producer / Executive Producer, BBC Natural History Unit

Professor Angela McFarlane
Director of Content and Learning, RBG Kew

Paula Newport
Head of HR, Aardman

Larry O'Reilly
Trustee, Wildscreen USA

Professor Ron Ritchie
Assistant Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the School of Education, University of the West of England

Dr Keith Scholey
Director, Big Cat Productions

Kimberly Stewart
Kimberly C. Louis Stewart Foundation

Dr Simon Stuart
Chair of the IUCN/SSC Biodiversity Assessments Sub-Committee

Fiona Westwood
Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Ellen Windemuth
Managing Director, Off the Fence Distribution