Board Members

Northwest Vision and Media's board is made up of influential media, arts and cultural representatives, who are passionate about and committed to the development and growth of the television and film industry in England's Northwest.

Steve Morrison (CHAIR)

Steve Morrison joined North West Vision as its Chairman in 2003 and remained as Chairman after its merger into Northwest Vision and Media. Steve’s career in broadcasting has spanned over 30 years. Having spent 28 years in Granada, both in Manchester and latterly in London, Steve left his position as Chief Executive Granada Plc in 2002 and formed All3Media in 2003, which is now the UK’s largest group of Independent Production Companies by turnover and audience.

Mike Davies (VICE- CHAIR)

Mike Davis has a long standing commitment to the development of enterprise in the Northwest. He was a partner with business advisers Ernst & Young in both the Manchester and Liverpool offices. For the past 10 years he has been non-executive chairman of several businesses in the region including an involvement with the media sector. He also worked with Granada for many years, both as a judge on their televised business competition Flying Start and on a major charity initiative.

Ian Hetherington

Ian has been a leading expert within the games industry over the past few decades and was instrumental in the success of the first Sony PlayStation. Ian founded Psygnosis Limited in 1985 and held the position of Managing Director. He pioneered the new 16 bit computer formats with considerable success. In 1991, Psygnosis released Lemmings, which is still a leading game in the PSP Chart, and a leading game on mobile phone 15 years on.

In 1998, Ian left Sony to pursue other interests and began to focus on those start ups that he helped to develop, Evolution Studios and Real Time Worlds.

Alex Connock

Chief Executive of UK factual media company Ten Alps, which produces TV, online and print. Alex established Cheshire-based Ten Alps with Bob Geldof in 1999 and its communications division is now Britain's largest business and public sector contract publisher, with over 700 publications on and offline.
He has been several times shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year and is currently Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), Governor of Manchester Metropolitan University, Advisory Board member of Salford University Media School and a NESTA mentor to startup media companies.

Mark Dodson

Is the Chief Executive Officer of Guardian Media Group Regional Newspaper Division, who has taken the company through a complete product and brand overhaul.

He pioneered the launch of the M.E.N’s ground breaking part paid, part free distribution strategy, which has effectively re-engineered the way the UK’s regional press is distributed.

Tony Foggett

Tony is Chief Executive of digital marketing and communications agency Code Computerlove. He co-founded the company in 1999 and it has since developed from three people working from Tony's back bedroom to one of the UK's most successful and highly regarded digital agencies.

Debra Hayward

Debra is Head of Film for British-based Working Title Films, who in conjunction with her U.S. counterpart, Liza Chasin, is creatively responsible for the company’s entire slate of motion pictures.

Since joining the company in 1989, Executive Producer Hayward has built up an impressive list of credits on award-winning films including Frost/Nixon, Atonement, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Pride and Prejudice and State of Play.

Sean Marley

Sean Marley is Managing Director of Lime Pictures, the Liverpool-based independent production company. Before joining Lime Pictures, he spent 13 years in the commercial radio industry, culminating in the role of MD at Liverpool’s Radio City and a group role across EMAP's network of Northern Magic AM stations.

Peter Mearns

Peter Mearns has spent his career in marketing and communications, with an emphasis on economic development, creative industries, skills, business services, arts, tourism and sport. He is Executive Director of Marketing at the Northwest Development Agency (NWDA) and is also a board member of the Arts Council England, North West; Sport England, Northwest; and England's North Country; a trustee of the Ariel Trust, a member of Culture Northwest and a member of Tate Liverpool Council.

Jonathan Shorrock

Jonathan Shorrock is a solicitor specialising in corporate finance. He is a partner at Kippax Beaumont Lewis of Bolton, and head of the corporate department. Jonathon qualified as a solicitor in 1985 with Addleshaw Sons & Latham (later Addleshaw Booth & Co and now Addleshaw Goddard) and was a corporate partner there from 1990 to 2002. He is president of the Bolton Chamber of Commerce, and director of the Greater Manchester Chamber.

Elizabeth Rapper

Libby brings a breadth of business experience from the private as well as public sectors. She was VP Marketing for The Pierre Smirnoff Company, part of Diageo, and Chief Executive , Culture Northwest.
Currently she combines senior NED roles in FE and the NHS with strategic consultancy in the Creative and Cultural Industries

Paul Atkinson

As National Official for BECTU, the independent union for those working in, film, theatre, entertainment, leisure, interactive media and allied areas, Paul represents members across all sectors of the industry, particularly those working in film and TV across the Northwest, Yorkshire and Humberside and the Northeast. Previously, Paul was on the board of Media Training North West.