Michael started his career in 1976 in the food industry working for his family’s business, Creamery Fare. In 1988, after jointly orchestrating the sale of his family’s business to the publicly listed Hazlewood Foods PLC, he joined the music industry. He worked on the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s largest recording project as the executive producer for over 140 classical albums recorded at CTS studios in London.

In 1995 Michael co-founded Air Music & Media Group PLC (now MBL Plc), which was admitted to trading on the OFEX market (the former name of PLUS) in 2000 and subsequently moved to AIM in 2001. Recognising the emerging digital market in 2005, Michael founded the Company.

Michael oversees the Company’s acquisition programme having introduced an acquisition policy for nostalgic audio/visual content and has made over 80 acquisitions to date of small music and TV content catalogues.

Michael served as a Justice of the Peace for the West London Local Justice Area for 20 years until June 2023.

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Steve began his career with Barclays Bank plc, where he gained an extensive knowledge of the banking environment, both personal and corporate followed by a move to Dixons Group plc, working in the Finance department.

His career then took him to Share plc, an independent retail stockbroker, and to the position of Chief Accountant. After 8 years with Share plc he took a position as the company accountant for Kings Oak Homes Ltd (a subsidiary of Barratt Developments plc) responsible for group reporting.

In 2007 he joined e-Financial Management Ltd, managing a portfolio of clients providing outsourced finance solutions and expertise to SME’s, before starting his own company in 2012 and now provides strategic and financial support to a diverse set of clients in the manufacturing, property, retail, media and education sectors.

An Accountant with over 20 years experience in the finance industry, both managing the finance function for a wide range of companies and being part of the senior management team. He has a CIMA Diploma in Management Accounting and is a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians.

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Claire Blunt is a business leader & board director with a career spanning media, digital and retail sectors in fast-paced, challenging and complex environments. Claire was most recently the Chief Operating Officer of Future plc, a FTSE 250 global platform for specialist media business, most notably delivering a significant cost-rationalisation programme to mitigate revenue pressures. Prior to that she was the Chief Advertising Officer and CEO, International for the Guardian Media Group delivering exceptional performance in the profitable growth of the global businesses and the advertising and jobs revenues having worked previously for almost 6 years in Hearst Corporation’s UK & European business latterly as Chief Financial Operations and Data Officer.

Claire was appointed a non-executive director of Digitalbox plc, in October 2024. She joined the Audit and Nomination Committees and became Chair of the Remuneration Committee.

She is currently a member of the investment committee for NewstrAid, and a trustee for The Archangel Trust. Claire is also a qualified barrister and chartered accountant.

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Independent Non-Executive Director Brian Berg is Chairman of Eclipse Global Entertainment. He also holds senior media and music consultancy roles for various major companies and is Executive Producer on the hit musical Dreamboats and Petticoats. Prior to this Brian was the President of Universal Music Enterprises and a director of Universal Music, which is the biggest record company in the world. Brian has been chairman of fundraising for the leading music industry charity Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy, as well as a governor of the school and is still very involved with the charity.

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Mark joined One Media in October 2022, bringing a wealth of relevant experience and expertise to the Board, including significant time as a main Board director of publicly listed companies. His most recent role was as Group Finance Director at Marlowe plc, a UK leader in business critical services and software which assure safety and regulatory compliance. Prior to Marlowe, Mark has held senior financial and board level roles at Stobart Group, Pets at Home Group plc, easyJet plc and a number of other businesses.

Mark is currently a Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair at Venture Life Group plc and Development Media International CIC.

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