Our Team

Our highly experienced team draws on know-how from some of the largest media companies in the world. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional solutions for our business partners.

Ocean Group

Tim Bleakley
CEO

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Tim Bleakley
CEO

Tim specializes in Media Brand building and turnarounds, with experience of leading businesses through private equity consolidation and exit, he led the Ocean Group through an MBO backed by LDC and LDC’s equity sale in 2014 to Searchlight Capital and the subsequent bolt on acquisitions of Signature and MediaCo Outdoor.

Tim has held senior Director level leadership roles across commercial TV, Radio and Outdoor spanning some of the most high profile Media businesses in the UK including ITV, talkSPORT, Emap Advertising (now Bauer) and CBS & Viacom Outdoor.
Stephen Joseph
COO & CFO

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Stephen Joseph
COO & CFO

Stephen is responsible for the financial and commercial management of the group.

He takes the lead on structuring landlord deals, legal negotiations as well as ownership of procurement, HR and IT.

He helped lead the Ocean Group through an MBO backed by LDC, the acquisition of Signature Outdoor, MediaCo and LDC’s equity sale in 2014 to Searchlight Capital.

He is a chartered accountant and winner of a BDO ‘HOT20 FD’ and a regular speaker at the ICAEW’s ‘The Entrepreneurial FD’ conference.
Richard Malton
Chief Marketing Officer

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Richard Malton
Chief Marketing Officer

Richard has over 25 years experience of marketing experience, specialising in the media and advertising industry.

Richard is responsible for the Ocean brand position and brand story, a market leading brand with worldwide fame in the media industry.

Richard previously worked for a number of high profile advertising and media companies including Ogilvy and Mather, Scottish Television, ITV and JCDecaux.
Helen Haines
Head of Marketing & Events

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David Tait
Head of Design & Studio

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Billy Byam-Cook
Head of Finance

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Viraj Mithani
Systems Integration Accountant

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Charles Dessain
Finance Manager

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James Moss
Group Management Accountant
Charne Kotze
EA to CEO & COO/CFO

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UK Management Team

Phil Hall
Joint Managing Director, UK

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Steve George
Joint Managing Director, UK

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Steve George
Joint Managing Director, UK

Steve has over 30 years’ of entrepreneurial experience in building and selling successful, OOH businesses.

He has built and sold two independent regional OOH businesses, Vision Posters (sold to Scottish Radio Holdings PLC (SRH) in 1999) and Signature which he sold to Ocean in 2014. In 2011 Signature Outdoor won the Birmingham City Council OOH contract, the largest local authority in Europe.

During this period Steve was MD and headed up all development.
Marc Keenan
Managing Director, Ocean Scotland

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Marc Keenan
Managing Director, Ocean Scotland

Marc has over 30 years ‘OOH’ experience, having joined Trainer Advertising, a Glasgow-based Poster Advertising Company in 1985, becoming a Director in 1988.

The company expanded over the next decade to become the leading player in the Scottish Outdoor Advertising market.

In 1999 the ‘Trainer’ was acquired by Scottish Radio Holdings and Marc was appointed M.D. in Scotland of the newly formed Score Outdoor.

In 2002 Marc completed a Management Buyout of Score and together with Chris Trainer, formed Forrest Media, as part of the Forrest Group of companies.

Primarily focussing on Out of Home Advertising, the extended Forrest group has interests in Retail Property development, Hydro Power Generation and Hotels.

Credited with having built the UK’s first commercially available Digital Screen in the heart of Glasgow, Forrest Media was recognised as an innovator and a lead player in the UK DOOH sector, growing a network of Giant Roadside Digital Screens across Scotland and the North of England.

In June 2018 the media business was acquired by Ocean, with Marc becoming Managing Director of the newly formed Ocean Scotland.
Nick Shaw
Chief Revenue Officer

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Helen Haines
Head of Marketing & Events

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Catherine Morgan
Director of Ocean Labs

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John Kilfeather
Operations & Technology Director

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Kapil Kansara
Financial Controller UK

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Angela Muckle
Head of Commercial Systems

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Tom Ballantine
Head of Development

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