Neil Hatton, the CEO of the UK Screen Alliance, is an experienced and well-known figure in post-production and broadcast in the UK having worked in the sector since 1979. He started with a stint in the BBC VT department in the basement of Television Centre.


For more than 20 years, he worked at MD/CEO or owner level within post production houses in Soho like Frontier Post and Azimuth. In 1992, he pioneered non-linear editing and became the first person to cut a long-form documentary on an NLE in the UK. Over the years, he gained many primetime editing credits on all the mainstream channels.


Neil has produced conferences and training events around the UK for the BBC Academy; "Sound Matters" about audibility and loudness in TV sound and

"File Delivery Made Real" about the introduction of delivery of broadcast TV programmes as AS-11 DPP files rather than on videotape. 


He was a prime mover in the setting up of facilities trade body, UK Screen Association for which he was an elected board member for many years before being appointed as CEO in 2016. Most recently he has amalgamed UK Screen with Animation UK to form the UK Screen Alliance, which represents the interests of studios, post-production, VFX and animation. Neil spends much of his time lobbying government and their agencies to improve the business climate for UK Screen member companies.


Meet Neil at this year's JLB Lecture titled Disruptive Technology in the Media Field on the 11th May 2017 at IET London: Savoy Place.