Phil Wilton and Chris Whittock join Oxygen DCT management team
Published: ASIA
WORLD: Broadcast products solutions provider Oxygen DCT has welcomed two new recruits to its UK-based management team. Phil Wilton joins as director of technical solutions, following the recent appointment of Chris Whittock to the role of director of business development. Both roles include a global remit, and were created in line with the company’s plan for worldwide expansion.
Mr Wilton, who has written magazine articles, event presentations and two professional papers, has more than 25 years of experience in the broadcast industry, beginning his career at the UK-based Independent Broadcast Authority working on operations and maintenance of TV and radio transmitters. He later moved to Sony Broadcast where he worked within the professional audio service group, then as a product manager, and lastly as head of one of the project management groups covering the Sony EMEA region. His most recent position was as product manager for the Snell group, where he was responsible for playout automation and media asset management products.
Mr Wilton described himself as ‘delighted’ to be joining the organisation, ‘particularly at a time when it is accelerating towards its ambition to become a dominant force in the broadcast TV industry’, he explained. ‘To have developed a portfolio of nearly 3,000 products in just five years is unprecedented and it’s nice to have such supportive and happy customers’, he concluded.
Mr Whittock’s most recent position was as project engineering manager for BSkyB. He began his career in broadcast television as a maintenance engineer for the Inner London Education Authority educational television service. He then spent 30 years at Sony in roles in engineering, sales, product engineering and in the UK projects department.
‘Both of these appointments have enabled us to significantly grow our management team’, commented managing director Steve Hathaway. ‘We now have in place a team with more than 75 years combined experience of the broadcast and post production industries. The expertise that Phil and Chris bring to the company will better enable us to manage Oxygen DCT’s ongoing expansion and meet the increasing client-led demands attributed to the expansion of our products and services’, he stated.