Dr Max Whitby, Founding Director
Max recently received a PhD in Chemistry at Imperial College London, where he studied for his doctorate with Professor Nick Quirke in the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Group. Previously in 2005 he completed with distinction a Research Masters in Nanomaterials also at Imperial. Prior to becoming a scientist, Max produced and directed over 100 broadcast television programmes and has also been responsible for over 100 interactive projects including websites, CD-ROMs, DVDs and museum installations. He spent ten years working at the BBC, mainly for the science department, where he directed the live Tomorrow’s World studio and made numerous films for the Horizon series. He also spent a year at Thames Television as director on its major series with WGBH about the Korean War which took him to North Korea. Back at the BBC, he was a director on the landmark series People’s Century and filmed and directed the BBC documentary An Island in Time. Max was closely involved in the BBC’s early multimedia activities and in 1990 he co-led a management buy-out of the BBC’s Interactive Television Unit. He was a founding director of the resulting Multimedia Corporation (MMC) which went on to float on the London stock exchange. MMC developed numerous award-winning interactive titles, including Sophie’s World and a series for the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Max has received two BAFTA awards and been nominated four times: the BirdGuides website won in the electronic magazine category in 1999 and RGB's DNA Interactive DVD won in the factual category in 2004.
email: max@rgbco.com

Dr Fiona Barclay, Business Development Manager
Fiona Barclay joined RGB Research in 2005. She studied chemistry at Stirling and Paisley Universities and went on to complete a Ph.D. in bioorganic chemistry at the University of St Andrews in 1994. She then pursued an academic career, working at the Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse and the University of Nottingham, before taking up her first commercial role selling scientific consumables for Crawford Scientific. Fiona moved to Sigma Aldrich in 2000, where she gained extensive experience in product and brand management, marketing, process improvement, lead management and the negotiation of high level sales and contracts. Fiona spends her spare time volunteering, birdwatching and playing petanque. At RGB Research she is responsible for marketing a growing range of educational resources based on the periodic table of elements. She is also closely involved in the strategic development of the business. Her primary focus is on BirdGuides, where she is in charge of company operations.
email: fiona@rgbco.com

Cathy Collis, Director
Cathy joined BBC Television on a graduate training scheme and subsequently joined the team that launched TV-am. She became a freelance documentary director in 1984 and has made many arts documentaries for the BBC, ITV, Central Television, HTV, Channel Four and the Arts Council, one of which Jacob Epstein: Rebel Angel, won the "Best Arts Film for Television" award at the International Festival of Arts Films in Montreal. Recently, she has been series producer and director on a 12 x 30’ series about computers for BBC Education, on Practical Parenting, a 30 part series for Living and on Pod’s Mission , two 8 x 15’ science series for children mixing animation and live action, for the BBC.
email: cathy@rgbco.com

Andrew Goodall, Project Manager
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email: andrew@element-collection.com