Simon Bishop MIBS
Director

Simon began working in the sound department for a corporate film company. He spent the majority of his career working freelance, mainly on TV dramas, feature films, documentaries, commercials and corporates. He's worked for both the BBC and ITV with credits including : 'Auf Wiedershen Pet', 'Life Begins', and some UK shooting on 'Star Wars' Ep. 2

Bob Conduct MIBS
Director, EC Secretary

Bob joined the BBC as a Technical Operator. He has worked as a Sound Balancer specialising in sessions - working with John Peel he has engineered many top bands. He later worked on studio re-furbs, with Neve on the development of the DSP, and was instrumental in the design of the first BBC direct-to-air studios. Bob became a freelance Consultant in 1996

Gary Clarke MIBS
Director

Gary Clarke is a Sound Supervisor in BBC Resources, specialising in programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing, Sport Relief and other Saturday night programmes. His 28 years in the industry have also included music/LE programmes for many independent and broadcasters and large scale events for BBC Sport and others, including the Winter Olympics in Turin, the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and the Olympics and Paralympics in Athens and most recently Beijing.
Gary spent many years acquiring and dubbing EastEnders, is part of a team that specifies desks and comms systems for BBC Resources, and was nominated at the RTS and BAFTA in 2007 for Strictly Come Dancing.

Mike Felton MIBS
Director

Mike is a founding member of the IBS. He had a thorough grounding in drama and LE shows and moved to specialise in music shows. Mike has now worked on over 150 "Later... with Jools" and still counting. Mike retired from the BBC after 42 years and now works freelance on Later... and location events e.g. Union Chapel, with the LSO, Mercury music prize and Glastonbury festivals. Mike's current interest is surround for HD.

Pete Freshney MIBS
Director

Pete's background is with the BBC Transcription Recording Unit, where he spent 25 years mixing all sorts of music and the odd quiz show.
10 years ago he built a small multitrack mobile (As the Crow Flies) and has been precariously, but happily, freelance ever since.

Keith Graham BSc MIBS
Director, Membership Secretary

Keith is a senior studio manager at the BBC, currently working in Radio Drama. For over 25 years he has worked on numerous L.E .shows, Drama, Sport, News and Current Affairs programmmes. Along the way he has beeen awarded a Bafta for "The Dark House", Sony Gold for Drama and a few Pria Italia's awards for his sound recordings and mixes.

Oliver Machin MIBS
Director

Chris Maclean MIBS
Director

Chris joined the BBC in 1988 as a Studio Manager working in Broadcasting House. He specialised in music recording and documentaries, producing many sessions for John Peel, Andy Kershaw, The Evening Session etc. as well as mixing many award winning docs.
In 1998 Chris started working for The Jungle Group mixing commercials for radio, TV and cinema. He also mixes full length TV programs in stereo but loves mixing in 5.1!

Richard Merrick MIBS
Director

Richard started with the BBC’s Film Dept moving freelance in 2000 and now tends to specialise in those projects that are too big for single-camera and too small for OB or studio, a talent that has seen him in many unusual and far-flung places. His specialities are “hidden-camera” and multi-camera reality-format television and high turn-round drama/comedy.

Richard Sillito MIBS
Director

John Sullivan MIBS
Director, Chairman
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John started his career as a BBC Trainee Engineer in the Bush House control room, working his way through maintenance and operations, before leaving the BBC in 1996 as Chief Engineer at BBC Essex. John is now responsible for  the management of technical support for all GCap’s London operations. John became Chairman of the Institute of Broadcast Sound in 2007 and also serves on the Radio Academy’s Technical Advisory Committee. He was a Sony Silver Award winner in 2004 for his co-production of Classic FM's Masterprize 2003 broadcast.

John Willett MIBS
Director

Chris Woolf MIBS
EC Member

Chris's background involves a conventional BBC Tech Ops training followed by 30 years of much less conventional experience including sound supervision, location sound, and studio engineering and design. He currently runs Broadcast Engineering Systems Ltd. and provides many customers, including Rycote Microphone Windshields, with technical support, design and consultancy.

John Grove MIBS
IBSNET Administrator

Starting in Hospital Radio John began his career in 1975 with BBC Radio and later with Granada on "Coronation Street". He turned freelance in 1987 and now the majority of his work is documentaries, ranging from Rhino poaching in East Africa, a series on Sicilian Mafia, and the BAFTA-winning "Summer on the Estate". Most notably he worked with the famous photographer Terence Donovan for 12 years on nearly a hundred commercials, and the Robert Palmer videos.
His skills range from fast-action documentary sound, live TV and mixing 70-piece orchestras.

Simon Jones MIBS
Training Coordinator
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Malcolm Nelson MIBS
Publisher
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Malcolm has been involved in the technical side of radio and television all of his working life. He began as an engineer/operator in the BBC, in commercial radio and in a facilities company, then as a technical trainer in Higher Education and finally at the BBC again, where he became Head of Operational Training. He now works as a freelance trainer and is also responsible for managing and coordinating the production of Line Up, the Institute’s highly regarded journal which is published five times a year.

John Andrews BSc MIBS
Vice President

Starting his career as a BBC Studio Manager, John moved into management with 4 years at EMIson and then 9 years at Alice (Stancoil Ltd.), followed by 4 years as Sales & Marketing Director at Neve, several years as a freelance consultant and 3 years as Marketing Director at SSL. He has served on the EC of the IABM and on the IBC Conference Committee and was Chairman of the IBS from 1998 to 2007