David Bird

Tom Swan

Gareth Evans

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Directors
David Bird
Managing Director
david.bird@dbbroadcast.co.uk

David’s experience in the broadcast industry spans over 25 years, covering manufacturing, planning and installation, project engineering and general project management.

On leaving school, David joined Pye TVT as an engineering apprentice and during this period gained a BSc Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Central Lancashire. He then gained practical experience working on planning and installation for two years back at Pye TVT, including work on television projects at Central Television and Bristol University studios and on an OB van for the Kuwait Ministry of Information.

Following the wide experience gained through his early training and project responsibilities, David formed dB Broadcast in 1989 and soon won the respect of the engineering management of the major broadcasters for the quality of services provided. David’s company has made steady progress and has carried out work for most of Britain’s major broadcast companies. Strong, experienced management, in-depth knowledge of the broadcast industry’s needs and a strict adherence to quality form the bedrock of David’s business disciplines.

Tom Swan
Sales and Marketing Director
tom.swan@dbbroadcast.co.uk

Tom has been in sales and marketing within the broadcast industry for more than 30 years. He began his career as an apprentice at Pye TVT and in 1981 gained an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Coventry University. He stayed a further 5 years at Pye TVT working in studio engineering and later in the systems proposals and product management departments.

Since then Tom has been a Product Manager at both Cambridge Instruments and Pesa International being directly responsible for the character generator and routing switcher product ranges. More recently he has been UK Sales Manager at Pesa, and International Sales Manager at both Cambridge Animation and Pixel Power.

Tom joined dB Broadcast in 2000 and was appointed to the board in 2002.

Martyn Wheatley
Finance Director
martyn.wheatley@dbbroadcast.co.uk

Martyn has worked in the broadcast industry since 1990 and was formerly Finance Director of Independent Television News (ITN). Following qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1987, Martyn joined Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte in the City of London, where he worked in its audit, consultancy and corporate finance divisions for two and a half years.

Martyn joined ITN in 1990 and was appointed Finance Director in 1994, a position he held for five and a half years. In 1999 he became Managing Director of EuroNews, a pan-European news channel, then part-owned and run by ITN - a position he held until 2003.

Since 2003, Martyn has been, among other things, an independent business consultant in the TV sector, working in the UK and Middle East. He joined dB Broadcast in 2007.

Gareth Evans
Engineering Director
gareth.evans@dbbroadcast.co.uk

Gareth has been in the broadcast engineering field for all his working life. He left school to join BBC Wales as Technical Assistant progressing to be an electronic services engineer and later specialising in projects. After 10 years he joined Television South West based in Plymouth as a project engineer and was instrumental in major system upgrades which involved the introduction of new technologies and working practices.

In 1992 Gareth joined Megahertz Communications as a Senior Project Engineer. During his time here he successfully managed a wide range of studio based and OB vehicles projects in the UK, Europe, Middle East and Russia.

Gareth joined dB Broadcast in 2001 as Project Manager and has been responsible for leading prestigious projects for major clients including BBC, Siemens, MTV and QVC. In 2006 Gareth was promoted to Engineering Manager in charge of the whole engineering team, and in 2009 appointed to the dB board as Engineering Director.