Key Personnel

Stuart Arnott - Head of Production

Stuart has been producing high-quality and award-winning productions for eleven years, with experience in broadcast television, commercials, pop promos, drama, documentary and all forms of multimedia. Specialising in the completely unconnected areas of science and fashion-based productions, Stuart has a particular flair for logistically complex and post-production heavy projects. With a critical eye for detail, Stuart meticulously ensures that every production exceeds client's expectations, while meeting the brief on time and on budget. Stuart is a geek and proud of it. He owns an Apple Mac. Don't get him started.

Keir Husband - Director

Keir has been producing training and communications programmes for 15 years, specialising in the highly regulated financial and governmental sectors. Combining the skills of a scriptwriter, director and editor, Keir brings experience and creative flair to complex subjects. Working closely with Stuart Arnott, Keir also supervises Red Planet's two edit suites. Keir is a member of the famously friendly Scottish football supporters, the "Tartan Army". Ask him about when he lost his sporran in Germany.

Catherine Armstrong - Production Manager

Catherine is the newest addition to Red Planet having just kicked off New Year 2007 with us. Catherine has 6 years of production and account management experience in new media and film production having worked for Openplay, MMT Digital and Hiltongrove Multimedia prior to joining Red Planet. She guides projects through the process from initial brief to delivery and ensures that everything runs smoothly. With Catherine managing our main office and edit suites, we will be able to respond quicker and more efficiently to our clients needs. Apart from an aversion to lemon peel, we're yet to discover Catherine's foibles, but we'll be quick to report them when we find them...

Lucy Lee - Multimedia Designer

A graduate of the National Film School, Lucy is a multi-award-winning animator whose work is showcased in festivals throughout the world. Having embraced digital technology to broaden her creative range, Lucy has for seven years been using her design skills to produce distinctive and intuitive designs for CD-ROM and Web-based programmes. Lucy collects Koi carp, and they often appear in her films in animated form.

CONSULTANTS

Bianca Anton - Retail Marketing and Training Consultant

Bianca has an enviable career in fashion retail. After studying at London College of Fashion she joined Cosmopolitan Magazine, then via senior positions at Harvey Nichols, London Fashion Week and the Cosmopolitan Show joined Dorothy Perkins where she became the Head of Creative and Marketing, the youngest person ever in such a position. Two years ago, Bianca formed 24 Productions to provide a photographic production and event management service. Stuart and Bianca have collaborated on numerous retail projects over the years, and Bianca acts as a consultant and sounding board for Red Planet's retail projects, providing invaluable market intelligence. Bianca has a cheesecake and Cherry Coke addiction.

Dr Sunny Bains - Technology Consultant

Dr Bains is a respected science writer, specialising in optics and optoelectronics, robotics and machine perception, and emerging computing technologies. Her interests range from holographic associative memories and analogue neural networks to nanotech-based sensors and artificial muscles. Based at Imperial College London, she writes for both the mainstream and technical press, edits a number of publications in her special interest areas, lectures on writing, and pursues her own research. An extensive, searchable web site of Dr Bains' work can be found at www.sunnybains.com. Dr Bains acts as a consultant on our technology projects, and also keeps us on the ball with emerging technologies that will have an effect on communication in the future. Sunny's cousin created Star Trek Voyager and DS9, so yes, she's also a Trekkie.