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John Cusins (Non-Executive Chairman)

John Cusins has had a distinguished career in Finance. He has held a variety of senior posts in the Investment Banking, Insurance and Asset Management sectors. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG before moving to UBS, then took the role of Managing Director at Dresdner Bank, London. He was part of the private equity group that acquired Pearl Group Limited in December 2004 and held a number of senior directorial posts in that business. Whilst at Pearl Group John founded Axial Investment Management Limited and held the positions of CEO, CIO and CFO within Axial. John is an Executive Director of Strathdon Investments PLC and a Non-Executive Director of AMG Systems Ltd. More

David Green (CEO and Vice Chairman)

David Green was appointed Chief Executive Officer of DCD Media plc in December 2009. He joined the Group in 2007 when London and LA-based television and film production company September Films, of which he was Chairman and Founder, was acquired by DCD Media. He originally took on the role of DCD Chief Creative Officer with the task of driving creative synergies across all Group production and distribution companies. He now merges his corporate CEO role with special responsibility for spearheading DCD Media's surge into the booming American production market.

A veteran of the British and American Film and television industries where he has successfully built his career since graduating from Oxford in 1972, David has produced and/or directed over a thousand hours of primetime television including the landmark 'Hollywood Women' series and September's flagship show 'Bridezillas' - both of which he created. His four feature film directing credits notably include the Oscar-nominated 'Buster' (4 awards) one of the biggest grossing British films of all time, and the $22m Disney action adventure 'Wings of the Apache', starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones. He was also the Executive Producer of two September movies: Oscar-nominated 'Solomon and Gaenor' (7 awards) and 'House of America' (6 awards).
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Sammy Nourmand (Executive Director)

Sammy Nourmand brings with him 18 years experience in the independent television sector. Financially trained at Silver Levene & Co, he joined September Films in March 1998 as Head of Finance, before becoming Director of Finance and then Deputy CEO in November 2003. He took over as CEO in April 2005 and was instrumental in the sale of September Films to DCD Media in August 2007. Under his stewardship September Films has enjoyed its longest period of growth and stability. Sammy oversees September Films in both the UK and the US. More

Tarik Wildman (Non-Executive Director)

Tarik WildmanTarik Wildman has been involved in the financial industry for over 20 years. He was a Director at Credit Suisse First Boston and Dillon Read and remains an adviser at UBS. He is also a partner in the Madrid-based firm Forest Asset Management, and runs his own enterprise Wildman & Company Limited, which finds financial solutions for a wide variety of corporate clients. Tarik is currently Managing Director of PJ Investments and sits on the board of Red Letter Days and other companies associated with Peter Jones. More

Other Key Management

Richard Price MBE (President Emeritus)

Richard PriceRichard Price who was group Chairman from 2000 to 2004 and member of the Board of Directors until June 2008 was awarded the emeritus title of President of the DCD Media in recognition of his outstanding services to the group. From 1968 to 1998, Richard Price was Chairman of what became the Primetime plc group which included Britain's largest independent television distributor, Primetime Television Associates; its catalogue contained over 7,500 hours of programming. His television productions have won several BAFTAs and Emmys. He is a past Chairman of BAFTA and a Fellow of the Royal Television Society. Richard is currently Vice-Chairman of the national learning disability charity, the Home Farm Trust, Chairman of the Watermill Theatre, Newbury and is vice chairman of the television writers' charity TAPS and of the Charities Tax Reform Group. More