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 Jon was appointed as Director of Technology, Production and Innovation in 2021. He first joined ITN as a trainee in 2000 and has since held a number of senior production and technology roles, including technical director, programme director and Head of Studio Technology. He is currently ITN’s Head of Studio Operations. Jon is also a vastly experienced programme director having worked on every General Election results programme since 2005, directing the BAFTA-nominated 2017 and 2019 productions, as well as directing the relaunch of News at Ten, the Brexit referendum results special, the IAAF World Championships from Doha, the Queen’s Christmas Broadcast and many others.


Jon Roberts

Alexandra Standfast returned to ITN in January 2019 and is responsible for leading the HR function as well as providing strategic and operational direction to the ITN Senior Leadership Team, ensuring it actively contributes to business goals. She previously worked at the media giant, Viacom, where she held a number of senior HR roles integrating [Channel 5](/org/channel5) into the Viacom business and subsequently heading up the UK HR team as Group HR Director. Prior to that Alexandra spent five years at ITN partnering with the newsrooms to help deliver all components of people related strategy. Alexandra started her career at Hewlett Packard where she held a variety of varied roles across the portfolio.

 

Alexandra Standfast

Ian Rumsey has worked in the media industry for over 25 years. Ian started their career as a journalist with Plus Public Relations before moving into television news production. Ian spent nine years with Meridian News, rising to the position of Producer, before moving to London Tonight as Deputy Head of News. In 2005, they returned to their former employer ITN as Head of Output. Ian remained with ITN for five years, before taking on the role of Chief Executive with Exclusive Media in 2012. Rumsey returned to ITN in 2013 and is currently Director, Television.

Ian Rumsey attended Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford.

Ian Rumsey works with Jon Roberts - Director, Technology, Production & Innovation, Lucile Kamar - Head, Diversity & Inclusion, and Alastair Waddington - Director, Sport. Ian Rumsey reports to Rachel Corp, CEO.

Ian Rumsey

Geert is [Reuters](/org/reuters) News & Media Limited’s representative on the Board. Geert was Editor-in-Chief of [Reuters](/org/reuters) from 2000 to 2006, and [Reuters](/org/reuters) Global Head of Content from 2002 to 2006. He joined [Reuters](/org/reuters) as a correspondent covering European Union affairs in Brussels in 1983. Previously, Geert was a correspondent for AP-Dow Jones.

Geert Linnebank

Richard Lawson is the Director of Commercial Production at ITN. Richard has over 20 years of experience in the advertising and marketing industry, having held senior positions at FCB Inferno, Anomaly, and BBH London.

Lawson began their career as a grad trainee at Havas London in 1999. Richard quickly rose through the ranks, becoming an account manager within a few years. Richard then moved to Euro RSCG Wnek Gosper (now known as Havas London), where they managed accounts for Cadbury, Grolsch, Hooch, Ken Livingstone's Mayoral Election campaign, and the [Greater London Authority](/org/greater-london-authority).

In 2002, Lawson joined BBH London as an account manager. Richard quickly rose through the ranks to become business director and partner, and eventually managing partner and head of account management. During their time at BBH, they managed accounts for Axe/Lynx, [Barclays](/org/barclays), [British Airways](/org/british-airways), [Diageo](/org/diageo) (Johnnie Walker, Baileys), KFC, Old El Paso, and [Perfetti Van Melle](/org/perfetti-van-melle) (Mentos, [Chupa Chups](/org/chupa-chups)).

In 2015, Lawson left BBH to join Anomaly as managing director. At Anomaly, they oversaw accounts for the BBC, Beats by Dre, Budweiser, and [Diageo](/org/diageo). Richard left Anomaly in 2017 to join FCB Inferno as managing director. At FCB Inferno, they oversaw accounts for [Huawei](/org/huawei) and Kimberly Clark. Richard left FCB Inferno in 2019 to join ITN as director of commercial production.

Richard Lawson's educational career began at the [University of Oxford](/org/university-of-oxford), where they studied English Language & Literature and earned a 2:1. Richard then went on to Warwick School to continue their education.

Richard Lawson reports to Rachel Corp, CEO. Richard Lawson works with Ian Rumsey - Director, Television, James Scorer - General Counsel & Company Secretary, and David Conway - Chief Financial & Operations Officer.

Richard Lawson

Lucile Kamar is the current head of diversity and inclusion at ITN. Lucile has held this position since April 2021. Prior to that, they were the diversity and inclusion manager for [Norton Rose Fulbright](/org/norton-rose-fulbright) from June 2019 to April 2021. Before that, they were the European diversity and inclusion manager for Lendlease from May 2017 to June 2019. Kamar has also worked as the equality lead for [RICS](/org/rics), the diversity and outreach officer for the [Liberal Democrats](/org/the-liberal-democrats-limited), and the education officer for The English-Speaking Union.

Lucile Kamar has a Master of Arts in Human Rights Law from [SOAS University of London](/org/soas-university-of-london), a Master of Arts in Politics and International Relations from [Sciences Po Lille](/org/sciences-po-lille), and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics and International Relations from the [University of Kent](/org/university-of-kent). Lucile also has Hypokhagne certification in Literature, Philosophy, Theirtory, and Additional Training from Jean Jaures. Additionally, they have certification from [LinkedIn](/org/linkedin) in Decision-Making Strategies, Developing Executive Presence, Executive Decision Making, and Leading with Emotional Intelligence.

Lucile Kamar works with Ian Rumsey - Director, Television, David Conway - Chief Financial & Operations Officer, and Alexandra Standfast - Director, Human Resources. Lucile Kamar reports to Rachel Corp, CEO.

Lucile Kamar

Esme is the Editor of Channel 4 News, produced by ITN for Channel 4. Esme was appointed to the role in January 2022, joining from the BBC where she led Newsnight for three years, delivering a raft of major exclusives and investigations, most notably the Prince Andrew interview which drove headlines around the globe and won multiple industry awards. Prior to being made editor of BBC Newsnight, Esme spent 12 years at Sky where she held a number of senior editorial roles culminating in being made Sky News head of politics, business and specialist journalism. Esme started her career in journalism at Newsnight as a producer in 1999 before moving to Sky News in 2005

Esme Wren

Cait was appointed editor of 5 News in February 2018, having held the post of deputy editor for four years. Previously Cait was part of the Sky News team that won a Bafta for its coverage of the Soham murders in 2002,  and was a programme editor at ITV News for the relaunch of News at Ten in 2008, where she also worked on ITV’s Election 2010 programme and its Royal Wedding coverage in 2011.

Cait Fitzsimons

Beatrice Veerasingham

Lisa began her career in journalism at Time Out Amsterdam, going on to work in reporting and editing roles on a range of specialist media titles spanning PR, music, marketing and advertising. After working as a freelance writer for national newspapers and magazines, Lisa joined UK TV industry bible Broadcast magazine where she enjoyed a ten year career in a variety of roles, including editor, a post she held for 7 years. Lisa was then appointed as Festival Director for the Edinburgh Television Festival, boosting the Festival’s global profile, attendees and reputation as the biggest and most prestigious media event in the UK. She joined ITN in January 2020 and is responsible for internal and external communications, alongside public affairs.

Lisa Campbell

Solicitor James Scorer joined ITN in 1996 in the dual roles of Director of Business Affairs and Company Secretary. As such he is involved in all aspects of ITN’s business.

Previously James was a partner at media lawyers, Olswang.

James Scorer

Alastair joined ITN in 2016 after a long career in broadcasting and independent production. He is Director of Sport at ITN and Managing Director of [World Athletics](/org/world-athletics) Productions, ITN’s joint venture with [World Athletics](/org/world-athletics). An early career as a producer at BBC News & Current Affairs, BBC Sport and Sky News was followed by 15 years at IMG where he rose to be Executive Vice President of IMG and Chief Operating Officer of IMG Media worldwide. He launched SNTV and his programming credits include BAFTA, RTS, Emmy and Peabody award winning shows in factual, sports and entertainment.

Alastair Waddington

Chris Shaw is the Editorial Director of ITN. He has been in television and radio for more than 25 years, starting as a news reporter and producer. He has held senior positions on every commercial news programme in the UK.

Most of his early journalistic career was spent at ITN where he was in turn the Home and Foreign news editor on [Channel 4](/org/channel-4) News, Editor of News at Ten and the launch Editor of Channel Five News. He also devised and launched Big Breakfast News for [Channel 4](/org/channel-4). In 1990 he became the first executive producer of ITN Factual which is the programme making arm of the news supplier. Chris has also done extensive field work in hostile environments such as Bosnia, Croatia, Iraq, Iran and Ethiopia.

Chris Shaw

David was appointed as the ITN CFOO in 2019 to oversee the finance function as well as several other business areas.

David initially trained and qualified as a Chartered Financial Analyst within the Corporate Finance function of PwC, which led to senior finance and investments roles with the Mergers and Acquisitions team of Bacardi Martini and the position of Head of Investment and Major Projects for the BBC.

He progressed to become the Chief Executive of one of the BBC’s main commercial subsidiaries, BBC Studioworks Ltd, a production facilities company which sells studio and post production services to all the major broadcasters and production companies including the likes of ITV, [Channel 4](/org/channel-4), Sky, the BBC and Endemol Shine. Under David’s five year tenure, the company grew substantially in revenues and profit and became dividend paying for the first time.

David Conway

Rachel was appointed as Chief Executive ITN in September 2022, overseeing one of the largest independent television production companies in the UK and the producer of live network news programming for ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5.

Rachel Corp

Angela is Director of Non Scripted for ITV Studios in the UK. Responsible for the combined P and L of a huge variety of independent television labels producing global, award-winning hits in multiple genres. Angela has previously worked in Commissioning running ITV2 and before that E4 as well as stints as a Commissioning Editor at [Channel 4](/org/channel-4) and [Channel 5](/org/channel5), winning multiple Awards. Her career started in freelance Independent Production.

Her NED work has seen her previously sit on the Boards of Creative Access, Edinburgh TV Festival and Film London. Angela sits on the Board of London First. An Economics Graduate, in her spare time she likes eating, travelling and culture, preferably all at the same time.

Angela Jain

Kyla is ITV’s Company Secretary and Group General Counsel. Before joining ITV, she held senior legal positions in the media, entertainment and strategic outsourcing sectors. Kyla was General Counsel and Company Secretary at easyJet plc and Mitie Group plc, Global General Counsel of EMI Music, and Group Legal Director at ITV plc and Granada Media.

Kyla Mullins

Andrew joined Informa PLC in September 2014, becoming CEO of its newly-formed Knowledge and Networking Division (KNect365). After graduating from Bristol University in 1986, Andrew has worked at Lever Brothers (Unilever), United Distillers, News International and Associated Newspapers.

Andrew was MD at the London Evening Standard, and in May 2010 also became MD of The Independent, therefore heading up all of Alexander Lebedev’s UK newspaper operations. Andrew remains on the Boards of ESL and London Live as a Non-Executive Director, a role he also held at Which? Limited, from 2011 to 2016.

Andrew Mullins

Charlie Cox is [DMGT](/org/daily-mail-and-general-trust-p-l-c)’s representative on the ITN Board. Charlie has been a senior media executive in the UK and internationally for more than 30 years. His current role is as an advisor to DMG. He has more than 25 years of involvement with the [DMGT](/org/daily-mail-and-general-trust-p-l-c) group, as an executive and consultant, in sectors including print, digital publishing and broadcasting. Most recently Charlie  was CEO of Metro, and previously led the restructure of the US digital publisher Elite Daily after it was acquired by DMG media.

Starting his career in Australia as a journalist in Sydney, he advanced quickly to become manager of Sydney’s leading radio news station – 2GB – in parallel with his role as National News Director of the Fairfax owned Macquarie Radio Network.

Charlie was invited to take over London radio company LBC in 1990. He relaunched its radio stations, returning them to profitability. A major shareholder of LBC was Associated Newspapers, which Charlie joined in 1993 to establish a broadcasting arm of [DMGT](/org/daily-mail-and-general-trust-p-l-c). The division – DMG Radio – became an international operation with more than 70 radio stations in the UK, Scandinavia, Hungary and Australia, as well as a large portfolio of minority broadcast company holdings.

In 2000 Charlie orchestrated the amalgamation of DMG Radio with the UK’s GWR Group, in which [DMGT](/org/daily-mail-and-general-trust-p-l-c) held a significant stake, before joining friend and business associate Sir Charles Dunstone for the IPO of Carphone Warehouse. As head of M&A, Charlie streamlined international operations, as well as completing a series of acquisitions in a range of telco sectors. He continues to represent [Dixons Carphone](/org/dixons-carphone) with its investments in digital radio.

In parallel with his commercial career, Charlie has enjoyed a successful history as racing driver with three British class Championships to his name. As well, he spent 17 years as a motorsports presenter and commentator for BBC Television and was the lead presenter in the pilot series of Australian Top Gear. At the same time, he spent several years as a motor sport columnist for the UK’s Times newspaper.

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