Jeff Nathenson has more than thirty years of international experience in media extending from production and operations through to business development and sales. He currently is the managing director for the international division of Whistle, the digital entertainment media company for Gen-Z. Launching the international business of Whistle in 2014, he has worked on strategy, programming, channel management, marketing and monetization on behalf of the Premier League, the Olympics, FIFA, World Rugby, Major League Baseball and many others.

Prior to Whistle Sports, Jeff helped launch the partnership programme on YouTube, bringing BBC, C4, ITV, Fremantle, Endemol and many others onto the platform. He ended his time at YouTube as its head of football. Jeff also has worked at Turner International, IMG, and Dow Jones.

Ruth joined Sky Media as Investment Director in April 2021 and leads the UK sales team, driving revenue across Sky’s innovative advertising products, propositions, and capabilities.

 Ruth’s career in media started over 20 years ago, with a large part of her experience in major agencies including GroupM, Publicis and Dentsu. Working across all key category sectors, she’s helped bring a wealth of experience to a wide range of clients. Ruth has traded media for over a decade and continues to work with agencies and clients to help deliver market-leading impactful and effective campaigns.

Magnus is Director of Strategy, Policy and Regulation at ITV plc and sits on the ITV plc Management Board. Magnus has responsibility for ITV’s strategy, policy and regulatory teams, which includes overseeing ITV’s corporate strategy development and leading on interaction with UK and European regulators, government and parliamentary committees.  Magnus is a non-executive director of a number of ITV subsidiaries and JVs and from 2019-22 was a non-Executive director of ITN the news and TV programme producer.  From 2014-19 Magnus was Chairman of the Board of the Brussels based Association of Commercial Television in Europe which represents Europe’s commercial broadcasters to the EU institutions.

Prior to joining ITV he was Head of the BBC Director General’s Office for both Greg Dyke and Mark Thompson. He began his career as a lawyer specialising in regulatory and competition law at City of London law firm Ashursts, where he also trained.

Alex Kann is the Chief Executive of Together TV, the TV channel inspiring positive change. Together TV reaches millions of viewers each month through its TV channel, streaming service and engagement platform that encourages people to take up new interests and activities.

Together TV improves viewers’ mental health, connection to their community and participation in local life – and 85% of viewers report they’ve started something new as a result of watching Together TV (Opinium Research, 2k base, Nov 2022)

Together TV is the world’s only cooperatively-owned charitable national broadcaster, and is underpinned by support from 20 leading media companies including the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Paramount, Sky, Virgin Media, Meta and Salesforce. Its themed Challenges engage tens of thousands of people to help build new habits and share their successes. Together TV also runs the BAFTA-winning Diverse Film Fund, providing funding, training and mentoring to new filmmaking talent from underrepresented social groups.

Prior to Together TV and its previous incarnation Community Channel, Alex was at the BBC and BBC Studios for several years, on BBC iPlayer’s launch team, Project Kangaroo, global VOD projects, commissioning, the soaps and in BBC technology and broadcast outsourcing deals.

Alex is the chair of charity My Life Films which runs the dementia-friendly SVOD My Life TV, is chair of the TV On Demand Industry Forum and was a director of the VOD regulator ATVOD.

Lynette is Director of Commercial & Propositions (Streaming) at ITV where she is responsible for the overall consumer proposition and business plan for the recently launched  ITVX streaming service.  Lynette joined ITV in 2020 as Director of Strategic Partnerships, focused on driving a holistic and joined up approach to partnerships across ITV PLC including driving the initial strategy for the distribution of ITVX and board membership at YouView.

With over 20 years’ experience building partnerships, delivering strong financial performance and leading consumer products in businesses such as Google, Yahoo! and Virgin Media Lynette’s experience spans the full TV/Broadcast/Platforms and Digital Video ecosystems from distribution of one of the largest video-sharing platforms in the world  (YouTube) to full P&L accountability and product management of one of the UK’s leading Pay TV services (Virgin Media) and includes advertising and ad technology (Videology).  Lynette has led large diverse teams and particularly enjoys mentoring colleagues giving people confidence in themself and helping them to grow personally and professionally.