Our Team
Mark David – CEO & Founder iSports Limited
Mark has twenty years of global commercial television experience. Seeking to stay at the forefront of the changing needs of commercial television, he is adept in the mediums of both terrestrial and thematic television as well as Internet TV.
Mark started his career in 1989 at Television New Zealand, his last responsibilities at TVNZ included; Managing National Agency Sales, Internet sales & launching MTV New Zealand (on license by TVNZ).
Moving to UK in Dec 1998 he worked for MTV Europe creating growth opportunities throughout Eastern and Central Europe.
He joined Zone Vision the international thematic TV channel creator and distributor in Feb 2000. As SVP, he managed the Companies sales & marketing which grew to 19 offices, 140 plus staff worldwide. Increasing the Company's revenue's ten fold during his six-year tenure, Zone Vision was sold to Liberty Global International in Feb 2005.
He then joined an Internet start-up, Jump TV International in Feb 2006 as Managing Director. The Company distributed hundreds of live linear TV channels and sport content via the Internet on a subscription and advertising based model. Jump TV was successfully floated (TSX & AIM) in August 2006.
Sail TV is a channel brand of iSports Limited which was created in November 2008 by Mark to specialise in the formation, aggregation and distribution of IPTV niche sport channels.
Harry Collison – Channel Manager
Harry started out in broadcast production in 1995 before catching the travel bug and going to sea for 2 years.
150,000 sea miles later he returned to the UK to join a sports marketing agency working on key sailing accounts for Nautor's Swan and Rolex in a media liaison role.
In 2002 Harry moved back into production to cover events including The Fastnet, World Match Racing Tour, South China Sea Race and 32nd America's Cup.
Seeing the potential of internet television as the media's largest growth area, Harry jumped at the chance to help launch Sail TV in January 2006.
Harry oversees Sail TV's content acquisition, marketing and distribution efforts.
Isabel Amber – Senior Editor
Seven years of TV Production covering News and Sport.
Isabel started her career in Southampton working as a Television Researcher in May 2002, before embarking on a post-grad in Birmingham to learn Media Production.
After a short stint with an Independent Production Company, in April 2004 she moved into News, working and training as a Broadcast Journalist on NTL Channel 7 news, broadcast to North and North East Lincolnshire.
A short trip across the river Humber in October 2004 lead her to the BBC in Hull, where she worked as a Video Journalist on regional News programme 'Look North'
Returning to her roots on the South Coast late 2005, Isabel joined Sail TV where she worked for two years as Content Producer and Camera Op/Editor.
In Feb 2008 Isabel joined the New's Agency, Press Association moving to Glasgow to work as a Multimedia Journalist producing up to 4 news packages a day for online customers such as MSN, AOL and Newsquest.
Returning once again to her hometown of Southampton, Isabel is back with Sail TV producing and providing content for the new look channel.
