Aferian PLC
AFRN:LN
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Company Profile
We create the media and broadcast technology that delivers traditional and modern viewing to all audiences’ screens.
Viewers want live TV and video streaming on any screen, anytime, anywhere. Our technology makes it possible for the people who deliver TV – Pay TV operators, broadcasters and media owners – to stay ahead of these viewer demands, enabling greater audience engagement and profitable growth.
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Board of Directors
Keith Todd
CBE Non-executive Chairman and Director
Keith joined Amino in January 2007 as Chairman. He is also executive Chairman and CEO of KRM22 Ltd, a software and services company focused on the capital markets, and non-executive Chairman of Magic Lantern, a new media company. Keith served as Executive Chairman of FFastFill plc and Ion Agency Trading from 2002 to 2017, as well as non-executive Chairman of the UK Broadband Stakeholder Group for three years from February 2002. The Group included key stakeholders, both from the public sector and industry, and is focused on identifying actions that will accelerate the adoption of broadband services in the UK. He was also non-executive Chairman of Easynet PLC, a broadband services company, until January 2006 when it was sold to BSkyB and of E C Soft which was sold to Cyber Inc. in January 2003. He was previously Chief Executive of ICL PLC from 1996 to 2000 (now Fujitsu Services). He held a number of other senior executive positions in ICL and GEC Marconi defence businesses.
Donald McGarva
Chief Executive Officer
Donald joined Amino as a non-executive director in April 2010, becoming Chief Operating Officer in September of the same year and subsequently Chief Executive Officer in December 2011. Previously, he was Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific, for DHL, the global market leader in the logistics industry. He is an internationally-minded Executive who has spent the majority of his career in Asia and the US, holding a variety of senior management positions in high growth technology, outsourcing and services companies including Fujitsu, BG Group and Celestica. He is an engineering graduate from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and commenced his career in the UK with ICL. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Chain (MCIPS).
Mark Carlisle
Chief Financial Officer
Mark joined Amino in August 2016 and has significant experience in the leadership of public company finance teams. Prior to joining Amino Mark was Chief Financial Officer at Crossrider Plc where he formed a key part of the team which successfully raised $75 million as part of its IPO on AIM in September 2014. Prior to this, he served as Chief Financial Officer of FFastFill plc, a provider of technology solutions to the financial derivatives trading industry. In addition, Mark has ten years of audit experience, gained within the Technology Media and Telecommunications practice of Deloitte, where he served from 2000 to 2010.
Karen Bach
Non-executive Director
Karen is an entrepreneur and non-executive with strong international technology and transactional expertise. Currently, she is Chief Operating Officer of KRM22, a risk management business in capital markets. In 2012, Karen founded and was Chief Executive Officer of KalliKids and grew it to encompass 1,400 business customers and 180,000 consumers. Prior to this, she was Chief Financial Officer at growing technology businesses IX Europe Plc, ACS Plc and Kewill Plc. At the start of her career, Karen gained international experience in finance with blue chip multi-nationals including EDS France, MCI WorldCom, General Motors and Ernst & Young. Karen is also non-executive of IXcellerate, a Russian datacentre business, and of Escape Hunt Plc, an entertainment business based on an ”escape rooms” concept. She was also a trustee of the eLearning Foundation, which supports technology in education, and non-executive of Belvoir Lettings Plc. She is Chairperson of the Audit and Remuneration Committees.
Steve McKay
Non-executive Director
Steve joined Amino as a non-executive director in February 2018, after serving as the Company’s President of Sales since 2015. His career has been focused on Internet Media for nearly 20 years and prior to its sale to Amino in 2015, Steve led Entone to become a leading provider of IPTV and connected home solutions, supporting hundreds of service providers with sales in more than 30 countries. Prior to Entone, Steve was CEO of Ion Global, a pan-Asian systems integrator. Steve received his MBA with distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Michael Clegg
Non-executive Director
Michael joined Amino as a non-executive director in February 2018. Previously, he was employed by Amino during 2016 as EVP Cloud Solutions and Services completing merger and acquisition integration following the Company’s purchase of Entone Inc and Booxmedia. Currently he is Chief Operating Officer for Morro Systems, a provider of cloud storage-as-a-service based in Silicon Valley. A successful operating executive, Michael has secured market leadership in product categories covering cloud SaaS, fixed and mobile broadband products, video and the Internet of Things (IOT). Michael is also an advisor to startups in the mobile SIM and home networking space. Before that he was SVP and GM for Netgear’s Service Provider business unit with a global customer base across mobile, cable, telco and home monitoring. Previously he held executive director roles in companies pioneering and commercializing broadband internet.