Tom Goddard

Non-Executive Chairman

A seasoned industry veteran, Tom is a former CEO of several major international out of home media companies including CBS Outdoor’s International division, Viacom, Metro Advertising and Maiden Outdoor. He is also President of FEPE International, the global trade association for OOH operators and on the Board of several other TMT businesses including MarketingForce, Atlantic Media (AGAMA) and Buzzbike.

Aryeh B. Bourkoff

Non-Executive Director

Aryeh is the Founder and CEO of LionTree LLC, an international investment and merchant banking firm, with a focus on the TMT sector. Since 2012, under Aryeh’s leadership, LionTree has advised clients on over $350 billion of transactions by enterprise value, with volume across all subsectors of TMT.

Prior to launching LionTree, Aryeh served as Vice Chairman and Head of Americas Investment Banking at UBS and on the UBS Investment Banking Executive Committee. During his 13-year tenure at UBS, Aryeh held a number of senior positions including Joint Global Head of Telecom, Media and Technology Investment Banking; and Head of the Media and Communications Research Group.

Aryeh is a director on the boards of a number of private companies. He serves as a trustee of the Foundation for Fighting Blindness and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, Mr Bourkoff is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Paley Center for Media, the New York Regional Board of UNICEF, the Royal Academy of Arts America Board, and Lincoln Center’s Business Advisory Council as well as the Lincoln Center Media & Entertainment Council.

Andrew Barron

Non-Executive Director

Andrew has over 24 years of experience in European media and telecoms and has led substantial businesses in PayTV, free-to-air, broadband, mobile, fixed line, satellite, and cable with operations in many European countries under both public and private ownership.

Andrew was previously the Chairman of Com Hem, one of the largest cable companies in Sweden and serves on the Board of Arris. Prior to this, Andrew has also served as Chairman of Primacom, the fourth largest cable company in Germany and held key senior management positions at Virgin Media as well as at MTG, chello media (a division of UPC, now part of Liberty Global) and The Walt Disney Company.

Robert D. Marcus

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Robert is a seasoned media and telecommunications executive. He previously served a number of management positions within Time Warner Cable including as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer as well as President,  Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to this Robert held various positions at Time Warner Inc.

Currently, Robert serves on the Board of directors of Equifax Inc and several non-profit organisations. Previously, he served on the boards of directors of TW Telecom Inc., Canoe Ventures LLC, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, C-SPAN, CableLabs, Change the Equation and the Museum of the Moving Image.

Thomas Ebeling

Independent Non-Executive Director

Thomas served as CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE from 2009 until 2018. He has been a member of the supervisory board of Bayer AG since 2012, and in 2017 joined the boards of GfK SE, Cullinan Oncology, LLC and Clear VAT AG. Between 1997 and 2008, Thomas held various positions within the Novartis Group, including CEO of Novartis Consumer Health from October 2007 to October 2008, and CEO of the Pharmaceuticals Division of Novartis AG from 2000 to 2007.

Sangeeta Desai

Independent Non-Executive Director

Sangeeta was FremantleMedia’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Executive Officer of Emerging Markets until September 2018. As COO, she was responsible for FremantleMedia’s operations across the 29 territories in which FremantleMedia operates and oversaw all investment activity across the group.

Previously Sangeeta held the position of COO at HIT Entertainment and as a Principal at Apax Partners, a private equity firm, where she had responsibility for sourcing, evaluating and executing investments, working with management teams in the media sector globally. Sangeeta has also held positions in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs and with J.P. Morgan.

Martin HP Söderström

Independent Non-Executive Director

Martin is an investment executive with a background in private banking, corporate finance and the hospitality industries. Martin currently serves as a partner at HMP, a single-family office which is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and is also the Chairman of DIG Investment, an alternative investment firm and has served in this role since January 1994.

Martin serves as Chairman on the Board of Holm Henning & Partners, a consulting company providing advice on operational and strategic human resources issues.

Andrew Miller

Independent Non-Executive Director

Andrew is highly experienced in leading and managing change through technology disruption in the media and consumer sectors. Previously he has held the roles of Chief Executive of the Guardian Media Group from 2010 to 2015 and Chief Financial Officer at Autotrader from 2002 to 2014.  Andrew has also worked with Founders Forum from 2015 to 2017 and held senior finance roles at PepsiCo Europe, Procter and Gamble and Bass.

Andrew is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, qualifying in 1991. He is on the Advisory Board for Sarah Brown’s Theirworld Charity and a Governor at the Benjamin Franklin House Museum. He has served as a managing partner at Terra Firma since 2016 where he is responsible for several investments such as the McDonald’s franchise in Scandinavia, the Welcome hotel group in Germany and CPC in Australia.

Tim Bleakley

Chief Executive Officer

Tim has been Chief Executive Officer of Ocean since 2010 and specialises in Media Brand building and turnarounds, with experience of leading businesses through private equity consolidation and exit. He led the Ocean Group through an MBO backed by LDC and LDC’s equity sale in 2014 to Searchlight Capital and the subsequent bolt on acquisitions of Signature and MediaCo Outdoor.

Tim has held senior Director level leadership roles across commercial TV, Radio and Outdoor spanning some of the most high-profile Media businesses in the UK including ITV, talkSPORT, Emap Advertising (now Bauer) and CBS & Viacom Outdoor.