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 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 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 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.