Home
Media Networks was founded in February 2000 by Colin Tinto, Michael
Tortolano, Berrie Bloem and Richie McBride. The four founders, who
had met whilst working at a large networking company, noticed that
the rapid improvements in PC processor speeds would allow even mid-range
PCs to achieve PVR (Personal Video Recorder) capabilities.
At the time this was something that was only available as a separate
and costly hardware solution, but because PCs had so much more functionality
to offer ShowShifter was developed to incorporate all aspects of
home entertainment in a single distanced-based, remote-enabled interface
that would allow the PC to be as convenient to use as conventional
home entertainment products such as TVs and VCRs.
Home Media Networks' development lab is based in Edinburgh, Scotland
whilst the commercial centre is based near Gatwick, South of London.
Dr
Jim Adamson
Chairman (non-executive)
Jim is currently Chairman of AMF Insight, a company established
to provide business and marketing consultancy services to SME
businesses. Jim is a former Vice Chairman of NCR Financial Systems
Ltd and has recently served as a non-executive Director on the
Board of Bank of Scotland PLC (East Board)
John
Croft
Chief Executive Officer
John was previously Chairman and Chief Executive of Streets
Online ltd. a start up online retailer of entertainment products,
which was sold to the Kingfisher Group in December 2000. Prior
to that, John held director level positions at Retix Inc and
Racal Datacom following a ten-year career in senior sales &
marketing roles at NCR Corp.
Colin
Tinto
Chief Technical Officer
Colin has extensive experience in the IT sector, and was one
of the founders of The Internet Movie Database, sold to Amazon.com
in 1998. The Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com)
is the largest collection of movie information on the internet.
It was developed from a small PC-based database into a web site
attracting over 5 million visitors a day. Colin is still a consultant
for Amazon.com
Andrew
Davis
Investor Director
Andrew has been closely involved in the computer industry throughout
his career. He was a founder of Spider Systems Limited in 1983
and held the post of Chief Technology Officer there for twelve
years. He left Spider when it was sold to Shiva Corporation
in 1995. Since then he has been an investor and/or Director
in a number of private companies, and is a Director of Orbital
Software, a UK listed company.
