Team

Dr Alex Connock

Managing Director

Alex is Fellow in Management Practice (Marketing) at Oxford University's Said Business School, teaching undergraduate, graduate and executive education in marketing and management, with a PhD in video optimisation for e-commerce. He is also a Lecturer in Management at St Hugh's College, Oxford and Senior Tutor at the National Film and Television School of the Creative Entrepreneurship Masters.

Commercially, Alex has created and grown multiple media companies, founding Missile after leading a team which substantially grew Endemol Shine North (now Workerbee) 2012-17. In 1998-2011 he co-founded media group Ten Alps (now Zinc Media) with Bob Geldof, as CEO. In the 1990s he was head of development, and managing director of the radio business at indie Planet 24. He has been six times shortlisted as Entrepreneur of the Year.

As a non-executive he is Vice Chair at UNICEF UK and director of The Halle Orchestra. 

John Cleasby

John Cleasby - CTO

John is a Technical Lead and Solutions Architect with advanced full-stack development skills across mobile, web, 3D and virtual reality.  He has experience leading the development of scalable enterprise platforms and commercial projects commissioned by global companies, managing rapidly shifting priorities in high-pressure, time- critical environments.  He has a degree in Engineering and Computer Science from Oxford University 

His programming skills include C#, Unity 3D, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, Angular, WPF. HTML, Javascript, C++, Pascal, Python, PHP. Machine Learning, AI, TensorFlow, Keras. Visual Studio, Git, Mercurial, Subversion, JIRA, FogBugz, MS Office, Visio, SQLite and MySQL. 

Tim Cunningham

Executive Producer

Tim is an International Emmy, BAFTA and RTS award winning content expert. whilst at Princess Productions, he developed branded content and digital strategies for Mazda, Ocado, Westfield, Global Brewers' Initiative and Associated British Foods amongst many others. A ‘reformed journalist,’ he also worked for ITN, Sky News and helped to set up Al-Jazeera’s English language channel. He also spent nearly ten years as a senior Executive at Princess Productions, working on The Wright Stuff (Channel 5), Sunday Brunch (Channel 4) and Something for the Weekend (BBC2)

Simran Samra

Account director

Simran Samra has 14 years of experience of standout social content and client services, having project managed successful campaigns, such as the award-winning relaunch of ‘Britain’s Next Top Model’ across Sky and successful marketing activations across Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Studio Canal & Paramount Pictures. She started out in commercial radio at Kiss FM and Magic FM and was Bauer Media’s ‘One to Watch’.