Sylvia Sheridan OBE
(Chairman and Chief Executive)
Sylvia founded IMS in 1989 after twenty years in ITV educational and social action broadcasting at Thames, Granada, Anglia, IBA, and TV-am. She was a pioneer in raising sponsorship for charity programming including the first two ITV Telethons in the 1980s, and in 1999 was the first female member to be appointed to The Council of the British Board of Film Classification.
Under Sylvia’s leadership, IMS introduced the subtitling of television commercials to the UK in 1991.
Sylvia was one of just four recipients who received awards for services to broadcasting in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in December 2001.
Melvyn Angell
(Chief Operating Officer)
Paul William Woods (Non-executive Director)
Paul has experience in insurance and telecommunications businesses and now runs a private family property company.
Jock Rumgay ACA
(Finance Director and Company Secretary)
Jock qualified with Nyman Libson Paul as a Chartered Accountant before joining The Sanctuary Group as Financial Controller of its Screen Division. He joined IMS as Financial Controller in 2001 and was appointed Finance Director in 2008. He has overall responsibility for all financial and legal aspects of the company.
James Gardner
(Operations Director)
James has worked in the subtitling industry for 12 years. He was one of the first subtitlers to produce live subtitling on GMTV news, developed multilingual subtitling for MGM's first DVD releases and has managed a subtitling company in Paris.
Jeff Malina - C.ENG MIEE
(Technology Director)
Worked at Channel 4 for 12 years as Senior Project Manager delivering and supporting broadcast business and playout systems. More recently as Director with The Hampermill Consultancy providing project and programme management and business consultancy to media companies.
Sylvia Huebner
(Head of Translation and New Media)
Sylvia has been managing the IMS Translation Department since August 2000. From a linguistic and IT background, her previous experience in the translation industry includes three years at Wordbank Ltd and one year at SDL International.
Naz Zoberi
(Commercials Operations Manager)
Naz has been with IMS since 1995 and has over ten years’ experience in commercials subtitling. She is responsible for the overall running of the commercials department.
Veronika Hyks
(Head of Audio Description)
Veronika is a TV and radio broadcaster and journalist with 12 years’ experience in the field of audio description. She compiled the ITC Guidelines for Audio Description and is now a nationally accredited A/D trainer.
Martin Herclik
(Director of Operations)
Martin Herclik has worked in the subtitling and localisation industry for over a decade and has successfully set up and managed subtitling companies in Europe. Martin joined IMS after 5 years at Broadcast Text International.