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Creative Tank Group

James Wilkinson,
Head of Foot in the Door

James Wilkinson graduated at the University of the West of England, Bristol with a degree in Business Studies. He started his career at IMG, where he worked with a number of clients, including Rolex, Robinsons and Nike. He was working as a research analyst for the sports sponsorship side of the European Tour. He later moved on to Mediacom, in TV buying.

He assisted with European media buying campaigns for clients such as EMI and Polydor records. He joined Smoking Toad in 2003 and launched Creative Tank with Chris Dabbs. He has been working in the client services & business development team for the last three and half years.
james.wilkinson@streamingtank.com

Chris Dabbs,
Group Account Director

Chris studied Computer Studies and SSADM in Birmingham before moving into media and magazine publishing. After working in both the Business to Business and consumer arenas, Chris joined and help managed the media division of Boosey & Hawkes for four years. This involved publishing rights to the world’s largest classical music catalogue, media rights to non classical catalogues, controlling multiple labels and 42 offices.

In 2001 he started Smoking Toad with Dave Vout (one of the guys behind Tomb Raider) and then became co-founder of Creative Tank two years later. Smoking Toad was pulled under the Creative Tank Group umbrella in 2009.
chris.dabbs@streamingtank.com

Ed Boost,
Account Executive

Ed is a major part of the new business and account management team. He has won a number of clients for the company ranging from The Royal Opera House to the student company UCAS. He left Newcastle university in the summer 07 and has settled in extremely well at Streaming Tank.
ed.boost@streamingtank.com

Chris Toplis,
Chief Technical Designer

With over fifteen years of experience in building databases for NatWest, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Experian UK on a variety of accounting, database and Management Information systems.

Chris has specialist knowledge in using multiple platforms and languages on award-winning IT projects, he is a conscientious goal-driven individual with a flexible and creative approach in developing and delivering large-scale, robust systems to high quality standards.
chris.toplis@streamingtank.com

James Marsden,
Flash & Games Developer

James graduated with a 1st class degree in Fine Art and Digital Media, and went on to study an MSc in Computer Science. Fuelled by a healthy obsession with all things technological, James founded a Flash game studio in 2003 and is now focused on realising innovative ideas that push Flash gaming into new territory.
james.marsden@streamingtank.com

Nazenin Khajenouri,
3D animation and FX

Naz heads up the 3D animation and CGI elements on Streaming Tank productions. Her legendry background includes work within advertising, film, and corporate productions. From working alongside Terry Jones to fully immersive 3D Domes at the UK space centre, the breadth of our knowledge has made her an essential part of the Streaming Tank team.
nazenin.khajenouri@streamingtank.com

Duane Codrington,
Video Production Director

Duane joined the team in December 2006. He has over 8 years of full time experience in filming and production. He has worked with clients across all fields from corporate to record labels.

He looks after the filming and production for our property client ProLogis - www.prologis.tv
duane.codrington@streamingtank.com

George Blunden,
European Client Services Director

George joined Creative Tank in 2005. He now oversees all aspects of project management, coordinating and liaising between clients and technical teams on a range of projects.

George's first task was to coordinate Sandi Thom's heavily publicised '21 Nights from Tooting' webcast tour in 2005. Sandi signed a £1million record contract with Sony RCA as result of the project, and subsequently sold over 300,000 records worldwide. Since then, George has project managed everything from viral marketing campaigns and promotional videos shoots, right through to satellite broadcast live video streams from Belgium.
george.blunden@streamingtank.com

Mark Carter,
Finance Director

A qualified accountant for over 10 years. He is responsible for overseeing the budget and for producing monthly and annual figures for the board of Creative Tank Group. He will monitors cash flow forecasts, balance sheets and other company financial accounts.
mark.carter@streamingtank.com

Louise Gardiner,
Creative Director

Following fourteen years in the graphic design industry working on projects for Marks & Spencer, The Kingfisher Group, Courthaulds and Psion. Louise has extensive knowledge and experience of website design.

Her independent graphic design skills allow Streaming Tank to provide innovative and effective design solutions to a diverse client base. As creative director, she manages a team of designers.
louise.gardiner@streamingtank.com

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