Amy Le Coz

Director

Amy, a US national, arrived in London 10 years ago after serving a 10-year sentence for bad behaviour in Paris, France.  She is honoured that her BA in International Relations from a top US university, an MBA from the Imperial College, being voted runner up UK Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 and of course having founded DMS with partner Bob Thomson 8 years ago means that she is qualified to live, work and pay tax in Her Majesty's Kingdom as a Highly Skilled Migrant. 

When Amy is not at DMS, running her 2 teenage children around Hertfordshire or trying to get in her 30 minutes of cardio exercise 3-4 times a week, she is involved in supporting the efforts the microfinance charity Five Talents, particularly the women-only project in Tanzania.

Bob Thomson

Director

Bob has worked in the Film business for more years than he will admit. He worked for CIC (Paramount & Universal) for 12 years, Castle Rock, the media production company Cinram and more recently was MD for Panasonic Europe. Bob formed DMS with Amy Le Coz in 2002. Bob holds an MBA from the University of Westminster.

In an earlier life Bob trained as an actor and still performs on a regular basis having taken lead roles in many non-professional productions. Bob is currently Chairman of the Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City. Other hobbies include singing and polishing his ever growing collection of ridiculously fast motorcycles.

Neil Botrill

Manager of Digital Operations

Neil is responsible for the management of the Panther Digital Post Production and Lynx Digital Creative departments. Neil has worked in the Film Industry for over 20 years, holding senior positions at Technicolor where he launched their first world wide compression and authoring facility, and Sony DADC where he headed up their London Studio.

Most of Neil's spare time is now spent on the playing fields of Surrey watching his son play football or on the banks of the River Thames at his daughter's Rowing Club.

Nick Lane

Manager of Creative Ops

Nick has refined his editing skills over the last 4 years at DMS and heads up Lynx, DMS' creative department.

John Fleming

Panther Technical Manager

Responsible for overseeing all technical production, John has a passion for quality control and is an encyclopaedia of encoding knowledge.

Rahul Shah

Financial Controller / General Manager:
Hawk Media Monitoring

Rahul came to the UK from India in December 2002 to pursue a professional accountancy course, which he completed whilst working for a firm of Chartered Accountants. He also holds an MBA. Rahul joined DMS as the Financial Controller in October 2009, taking over all the financial and accounting responsibilities of the company, and in 2011 was named General Manager of the Hawk Media Monitoring department.