who we are

Jon studied Computer Graphics at university, gaining experience in web design & software development. Specialising in C++ & OpenGL, he created numerous interactive applications in both 2D and 3D. Delving into Augmented Reality, Jonathan created an application which allowed the user to interact with virtual objects in the real world space, using head mounted displays & optical tracking. Jon works at Rockabox as a developer. He has keen interests in all things music, art & technology related.

June was born in Leytonstone in East London in May 1977 - her parents are both Ghanaian. She attended Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone and loved it - "I was the kid everyone got on with," she says. "I could be mates with the cool gang and also with the nerds!" At the age of 15, however, June was on her way to school when she was hit by a car - a moment which was to change her life. She suffered a fractured and dislocated spine and had to spend 18 months in various hospital beds including the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. The accident had a profound effect on her religious beliefs - "I always believed in God, coming from a spiritual family, but after the accident I really believed - he was there when I needed help."

When she had fully recovered, June's life seemed to take on a more driven quality - as if she were making up for lost time. She got a work experience position at the London radio station Kiss FM, much to the alarm of her family who couldn't understand why she should want to turn her back on her studies to work in media, she did so well that she was offered a full time position within months. This led to another post at Arista Records where she looked after artists including Whitney Houston and Puff Daddy (perhaps this early taste of working with celebrities gave June her "no nonsence but warm" approach), which her famous interviewees seem to love - many years later, June was warned that Robert De Niro wasn't in a good mood prior to her interview; she promptly won him over immediately with a vivacious

"Hi Bob, I'm June".

From Arista, June started presenting for MTV on programmes which included 'Dance Floor Chart', 'Weekend Edition' and 'Select'. While at MTV, June presented 'Planet Pop', a segment which was shown on Channel 4's T4 and this led, in 1999 to a regular role as front-woman and celebrity interviewer for T4, a role she continues to this day. T4 has become one of Channel 4's most successful and long-lasting home-grown series - a Sunday morning must see. The laid-back style of both June and the show, have been crucial to locking in some of the biggest guests in music and entertainment including: Sir Elton John, George Clooney, Halle Berry, Britney Spears, Will Smith and Nicole Kidman.

She has also interviewed and introduced some of the worlds biggest dignitaries and including: HRH Prince of Wales, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Nelson Mandela and Gordon Brown.

In recent years, June has also presented many other series including 'Your Face Or Mine?', a game show co-hosted with Jimmy Carr for C4; 'Dirty Laundry', a lively youth talk-show which was originally June's idea; 'Playing It Straight', a dating game-show filmed in Mexico. She also appeared in a series of Xmas adverts for Marks & Spencer along with an array of fellow British entertainment stars. June is a regular at the prestigious MOBO Awards and has presented three years in a row. She has also appeared on BBC Television's Question Time.

She has fronted many major fashions shows such as: "One Night Only with Georgio Armani", Channel 4's "Slave to Fashion" and ITV's runaway hit, "Wags Boutique".

June is an ambassador for the Prince's Trust and also campaigns for the Make Poverty History movement - in April 2005 she visited Ghana to make a film for Make Poverty History, an experience which profoundly moved her. She also hosted the major Make Poverty History event in London's Trafalgar Square which featured Nelson Mandela and Bob Geldof. She was awarded an MBE on the Queens 2007 new years honours list.

June works with Rockabox on developing new entertainment formats.

Sophia writes and produces for Rockabox. She has 10 years worth of experience as a journalist, entertainment news correspondent and TV producer.

She began her career at FHM magazine and the London News Network before turning to radio in 2001 as the traffic and travel presenter in the Flying Eye.

She later went on to present local breakfast news in Birmingham before moving back to London in 2003 where she became an entertainment journalist and music editor for the commercial radio network.

Four years later Sophia was asked by ITN to join their entertainment news team - where she helped to develop their online presence before becoming a freelance entertainment reporter and producer for several major news organisations.

Moe�s interest in the media and marketing world began age 17. However, prior to completely immersing himself in this world, he embarked upon a trip which would enable him to explore the world, which included spending 3 months building latrines in West Africa with Raleigh International. Moe returned from Africa to complete a BA degree in Broadcast Production for TV and Online. Here he honed his skills in producing, camera work, and editing.

Keeping abreast of the developments in the Broadcast and New Media sector, Moe has always been conscious of the need for producers to be able to create content that can play out on multi platforms, especially TV and Online, and thus was very excited when he first met James and was introduced to Tangozebra.

Moe works on a number of corporate and broadcast productions ranging from internal communications videos to documentaries for terrestrial TV. These include work for the Media Trust, Centre Point, ITV and Channel Four.

Deric�s path to digital delights started in radio advertising with LBC Radio. Armed with his first email address he set about getting to grips with how the Internet might make life more interesting and then soon cultivated a passion for design while working on the re-launch of LBC. This interest took Deric from LBC and into their design agency where he worked on various re-branding projects. He left there to work with a small graphic design agency as Account Manager during which time he became increasingly absorbed in online advertising and the wide avenue of marketing potential of the Internet, soon focusing entirely on helping his clients move into the online space.

In 2006, Deric joined Tangozebra, Europe�s leading digital marketing solutions provider, where he was able to increase his knowledge of the online space and work closely with brands, media buyers and creative teams to deliver strong, effective campaigns for a wide range of clients and publishers. He successfully oversaw major European campaigns for amongst others: Budweiser, Swatch and delivered award winning creative for EMI.

Following the sale of Tangozebra to Doubleclick/Google Deric took a new consulting role helping a leading digital agency open and establish a London office. He then consulted for a leading TV advertising production company to evolve a digital offering and help their clients fully understand the importance of online advertising. While there Deric was able to learn the workings of TV advertising and so increase his knowledge base.

Deric is delighted to again team up with James Booth and be working with the team at Rockabox where he is able to utilise his understanding of brands, online and TV production.

Dr Ann Riley has been a health and lifestyle journalist for over 14 years. She has been the Editor of The Daily Mail's Good Health section and The Mirror's Health Zone as well as working for numerous magazines including Grazia, The Sunday Express S magazine, Zest, Cosmopolitan, She and NW.

She is also a broadcaster having presented The Zest Show and appearing on GMTV and This Morning. She has also co- presented a health show on LBC radio and is currently freelancing.

Annie works with Rockabox on developing new entertainment formats.

Gaby Roslin is an authority of live television and is one of the country's most popular television presenters. Born and brought up in London, Gaby graduated from the Guildford School of Acting and went on to make her TV debut presenting the children's programmes "Hippo" on Superchannel and "Motormouth" live on ITV. In September 1992 Gaby was invited to join Chris Evans as the co-presenter of Channel 4's ground breaking new daily programme "The Big Breakfast", and she went on to host the show for three and a half years. During that time she also explored Ecuador and the Galapogos Islands for "BBC Holiday" and travelled to Africa to film "Predators" with the award-winning Survival team.

From 1998 until 2002 Gaby worked exclusively for the BBC fronting a range of programmes both entertainment and factual including "Whatever You Want", "City Hospital", "A Question Of Television" and to bring in the New Year she presented 28 hours of live non-stop television for BBC1's Millennium celebration "2000 Today". In 2002 she made her West End acting debut playing the role of Mama Morton in "Chicago". She then co-presented "The Terry And Gaby Show" produced by Chris Evans and returned to the stage again for the National Theatre's production on "Dinner". She finished a number one tour of "When Harry Met Sally" and was recently seen judging on Sky One's "Cirque de Celebrite".

Her latest show "Celebrity Fantasy Homes" is currently going out on Home and she is developing an entertainment project.

Gaby works with Rockabox on developing new entertainment formats.

Kursty Groves studied Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College and Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art, London. She is currently an Innovation Consultant at ?What If!, and is known as the inventor of the Techno-Bra and as TV Presenter of BBC�s �That�s Genius!�.

Jessica has always been an incredibly creative individual, drawing on pretty much every surface her pen would work on from a very early age. Long before her 15th birthday, Jessica had self-taught herself Flash, Photoshop, HTML and was already setting up her own Record Label and website. Not long after this, she began illustrating on a freelance basis while studying Multimedia at Liverpool Community Arts College.

Improving her skill and creative experience, Jessica moved to a little place called London to study Animation and Illustration at University. Here she found herself working in various fields of work - as a Junior Graphic Designer, an Arts and Crafts Teacher and classically trained singer - before opting to freelance fulltime. Jessica took up a permanent place on the team at Rockabox Media in August 2010 and has loved every moment. She likes to spend her spare time watching sci-fi, and discussing pointless topics of conversation at great length.

David has a background in web based programming and interface design. After having graduated from Brighton University with a computer science degree in Digital Media he has been freelance consulting for various companies in Brighton and London, and is also part of a co-creation team developing a new intellectual property protection model.

David Joined Rockabox media in August 2010 as a Developer and is enjoying his role as a developer where he is able to work on all of the things he likes best, these include 3d graphics, design and animation, interface design, web based programming, technical maintenance & development and anything else he can try his hand at.

Sasha joined Rockabox in October 2009. Prior to becoming a Rockaboxer, she pursued interests within design, film and fashion; her passion for all things creative leading to a Graphic Design degree at the University of Brighton.

Following graduation, Sasha interned for a variety of companies including 'Microsoft MSN' and graphic design studios 'Bleach' and 'No Days Off.' Sasha is excited about working with Rockabox, particularly with its innovative approach to digital formats.

Sasha has also worked within the Film and Fashion industry. As an actress she has secured character roles in Stephen Poliakoff's 'Friends and Crocodiles,' (in which she was carried onto a bus by Damien Lewis), and has worked with Justin Edgar in 'Special People.' In her spare time, she enjoys taking to the stage and performing in musicals.

James founded Rockabox Media in 2008 with Torie Chilcott. Prior to this, he was co-founder and CEO of Tangozebra, the leading provider of digital marketing solutions in Europe, with a UK market share of 70% for its rich media solutions. Tangozebra was sold to DoubleClick/Google in 2007.

In 2003 James was nominated as the most influential person in new media, by New Media Age magazine; two years later Campaign Magazine placed him fourth in a survey of the greatest Internet pioneers. In 2006 he was nominated at the NMA awards for the greatest individual contribution to new media. Tangozebra won Supplier of the Year at the 2007 Revolution awards.

Throughout his time at Tangozebra James played an active role in the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) and was on the advisory board for the ad:tech conference. A regular contributor in the popular trade press and speaker at new media industry conferences James sits on the judging panels for a number of digital marketing and advertising industry awards.

Outside of Rockabox James is on the board of trustees for The Poetry Archive, an online collection of recorded poetry readings, founded by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion; he is non-exec Chairman of YourLocalLondon.com; is a non-exec Director of Hot Cherry, a new force in post-Web 2.0 PR; and is on the associate board of MIG, the leading mobile solutions provider. Over the last 2 years James has helped a number of start-ups off the ground through a combination of funding and advice. These businesses include: Rippll, a location-based mobile social networking platform; an ECO-centric community portal; Playfire.com, a social network for gamers; Glo, an LED light bulb company; and an antique memorabilia business.

Prior to Tangozebra, James headed up the French side of a multi-national foreign exchange operation, based in Paris and spent many years working in audio engineering and production, following a classical guitar training.

In her early career, Torie sat on death row for 3 months, was a celebrity booker; worked on the launch of Sky Sports; produced for Live TV, LWT Entertainment, GMTV, Prospect Pictures, CNN Travel, Sky News Specials, 2020 Television, Wall to Wall; created a new kids� format called �The Dangerous Boys� for Buena Vista that was distributed worldwide; developed a series called �The Working Visa� that was sold to Channel 9 in Australia; and created a pilot for Channel 4 Daytime called �Trust Me I�m Not A Doctor�.

However, it was with format creation that Torie found her vocation and after being headhunted to set up the factual and entertainment department of the now FremantleMedia, she began working directly with Alan Boyd and Peter Fincham and created and produced �The Farmer Wants A Wife� for ITV , which was nominated for a Bafta; �Minted� for Sky One; �Fearless� for Channel 5; and she co wrote �Pop Idol� for Simon Fuller and Simon Cowell. With the merger of Talkback Thames, Torie moved to the entertainment department with Richard Holloway and formatted two Simon Cowell shows for Fox and NBC in the US.

Torie�s son was ill in 2003 so she took a sabbatical and during this period created two best-selling children�s books published by Dorling Kindersley to raise funds for St Georges Hospital, called �Stars At Bedtime� and �Star Cooks�; both have reached the children�s factual top 10 sellers on Amazon and raised over �150k for the hospital.

In 2004 Torie returned to working with content and formats with: Ant n Dec, June Sarpong, Andi Peters, Agilemedia, and James Grant Management. She joined 19 Management working on a range of projects including the re-launch of Gareth Gates with Universal Records, and she executive produced �Whatever Happened To Gareth Gates� for ITV1, along with developing further Simon Fullers ideas and formats.

She left 19 in 2007 and set up Rockabox with James Booth.

Will Knight is a Designer & Illustrator with 13 years experience with leading Advertising and Media Agencies, Design Consultancies, Animation and Film Studios. Founder partner of �brew�; a London and New York based Creative Collective.

John studied biochemistry at the University of East Anglia, shortly before working as a lab assistant in the chemical pathology unit of the nearby Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust hospital. However far from inspiring him to progress into further training to become a certified clinical biochemist, the experience prompted him to seek out a more creative and fulfilling career.

John has always had a natural talent for technology and computing, having been firmly glued behind a monitor since he was very small. He started making online Flash games in order to teach himself the basics of actionscript, and within 2 and a half years managed to produce a series of highly successful games, with a combined total of over 2 and a half million hits.

John joined Rockabox as a Flash developer in March 2009.

After working in academic and educational publishing, Simon co-founded Tangozebra, Europe's leading rich media specialist. During his time at Tangozebra, Simon was responsible for building and running the creative, technical and research teams and personally programmed many of the digital marketing technologies in global use today. He has a deep knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the online world, both technical and commercial.

Ed is a Producer and Cameraman with many years� experience operating at the highest level in TV and digital formats. Ed has worked with Rockabox since February 2008.

Having studied Spanish and Journalism at Bristol University, Beccy began her career in media at publishing house Incisive Media, before gaining her introduction to digital advertising at the agency Steak, and then the online exchange, AdJug. Working as an in-house marketer for these companies, she developed her skills and interests across a broad spectrum of media platforms.

Beccy joined Rockabox as Account Manager in April 2010. She enjoys the direct contact with clients large and small, on a day to day basis.

She enjoys running and all things fitness, and is a lover of writing and playing the piano.

Claire joined ITV Studios in August 2008 from independent producer talkback THAMES where she was Deputy Head of Entertainment. Having joined talkback THAMES in 2000 as a Series Producer, on shows including The Brian Conley Show and the sensational Pop Idol, Claire was appointed to Deputy Head of Entertainment in 2005 and Exec Produced shows including the ITV1 phenomenon The X Factor, All Star Family Fortunes, Pokerface, Take That For The Record, Grease Is The Word and All Star Family Fortunes.

Claire has been presented with three BAFTA Awards and her shows have awards including TRIC, Rose D�or, TVQuick, Broadcast Awards and British Comedy Awards.

As Controller of Entertainment at ITV her department was responsible for ITV shows including Ant & Dec�s Saturday Night Take Away, Krypton Factor, The Chase, Take That Come to Town and You�ve Been Framed. Most recently Claire has Exec Produced Living�s most popular show Four Weddings.

Following a highly successful career as a TV producer, Jessica made the choice five years ago to commit to a change in career, fulfilling a lifelong passion in nutrition and health. A qualified nutritionist, Jessica brings her communication and creative skills to her work as a consultant.

Jessica combines clinical practice with consultancy and media work, working with corporate clients, schools and families, most recently as the nutritionist on the successful series �Fat Families� for Sky1. With a background in catering, Jessica offers an inspiring and practical approach to healthy eating and nutrition.