Tim has more than 35 years of experience in cinema exhibition and extensive international development and operational experience in all major international markets in Europe, South America and Asia Pacific. He is a well-known and highly respected industry commentator in print, radio and television and has passionately supported British and Independent film for the last 35 years.

Prior to entering the entertainment industry, Tim was a Wall Street lawyer engaged in international finance and cross-border mergers and acquisitions while based in London and New York. In 1990, Tim joined Paramount/Universal’s international exhibition and home entertainment joint ventures, UCI and CIC, where he was responsible for International Business Development in 44 international markets. In 1994, he joined Warner Bros as a Senior Vice President Business Development.

In 1999 Tim left Warner Bros. in L.A. and founded Vue with support from Boston Ventures and opened the company’s first cinema in late 2000 in Livingston, Scotland. In 2003, the company acquired Warner Village Theatres in the UK consisting of 36 state-of-the-art multiplex cinemas. The business became one of the world’s leading cinema operators and the largest privately held cinema operator in Europe through a series of strategic acquisitions and organic growth.

In February 2021, the British Prime Minister appointed Tim as Chair of the British Film Institute. In December 2020 and 2021, Variety magazine named Tim as one of the 500 most influential business leaders shaping the global $2 trillion entertainment industry. The Hollywood Reporter named Tim as one of the top five entertainment innovators of the year and The Independent named Tim as one of the "20 most influential people in film". In 2015 Tim was awarded the Variety International Children’s Fund Humanitarian Award for his charitable work.

Tim has held Board positions on a number of UK and European industry Boards including the BFI, BAFTA, the UK Cinema Association, Union Internationale de Cinemas (UNIC), the Global Cinema Federation, Film London, the British Screen Advisory Council and numerous government led industry task forces.

Alison has over 20 years experience in the entertainment industry spanning film, television and broadcasting.

Alison qualified as a chartered accountant in 1990 and spent 5 years in corporate finance before joining Disney’s International TV business where she was head of finance responsible for TV distribution, the Disney Channel and a portfolio of equity investments in all markets outside the USA. During her 10 year tenure Alison was a key player in the launch and management of 40 channels and oversaw the highly profitable expansion of Disney’s TV licensing business and investment portfolio. Alison was also a non-executive director of GMTV from 2002 to 2005.

In 2005 Alison was appointed CFO of a private equity backed international TV broadcasting business, Sparrowhawk Media, which was successfully sold to NBC Universal at the end of 2007. Following this Alison was appointed CFO of the international film distribution company Alliance Films. Alison led a number of significant corporate acquisitions and corporate and film financing projects alongside the exit process and sale of the business in 2013.

Alison joined Vue International in 2014 as CFO. Alison is a former Governor of the British Film Institute and is also a member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Matt Eyre has more than 35 years of extensive operational experience in the cinema industry, having started his career at Warner Bros where he stayed for 16 years overseeing operations across 237 locations and 10 countries before becoming co-CEO of the Mann Theatres chain in California. He then spent a further 19 years at Cineworld and most recently, oversaw operations for Regal across 500 sites across 50 states in the US.

Matt, who started out as a junior golf professional, was the president of the children’s charity Variety for East Tennessee and also the Regal Foundation. During his career overseeing global operations for some of the biggest operators in the industry, Matt oversaw the handprints for Christopher Walken, Adam Sandler and Quentin Tarantino at the Chinese Theatre in California and is also credited as being the first person to ‘pop’ corn in China and Japan.