team
twofour54 tadreeb is run by a team of professionals with extensive experience across both the media and education sectors internationally.
Head of Academy
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Phaedon Vass
head of academyPhaedon has been a media and entertainment practitioner in a diverse range of roles and environments for the last 20 years.
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Faculty
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Joseph Anthonysz
academic directorJoseph is an experienced manager of international education and development with over 12 years experience in the tertiary education sector.
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Eric MacInnes
faculty head Thomson FoundationEric is a former television broadcaster of two decades experience. He is a multi-award winning journalist who has worked as a network and regional correspondent for two of the UK’s top news brands. Over the past eight years Eric has also been teaching Post Graduate Broadcast Journalism students...
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Sami Aboudi
faculty head Thomson Reuters FoundationSami has worked for more than 20 years as a reporter and editor with Thomson Reuters in bureaus across the Middle East and in the UK. He joined the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the global media giant, in March 2009. Sami’s career began in the West Bank, where he spent more...
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Kate Drewitt
faculty head BBCKate has worked in the media industry for over twenty years. She has managed training for BBC, Sony and ITV, both in the UK and Worldwide.
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Graham Miller
Thomson Foundation instructor - "World Cup TV Production"During a distinguished career in television he was twice nominated by The Royal Television Society as Sports Presenter of the Year. He covered every major sporting event around the world for ITN on ITV1.
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Ziad Mansour
Thomson Foundation instructor - "World Cup TV Production"A key figure since 2007 in Showtime’s English Premier League coverage for both Arabic and English viewers he worked with the live studio teams, wrote and produced video features and interviewed many football stars.
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Linda Cockburn
BBC instructor - "Creativity courses"Linda Cockburn is a Creativity Consultant within the BBC Academy. She designs and runs a range of courses and workshops for teams and individuals across the BBC on various aspects of the creative process, including audience insight workshops for Radio 1, IXtra and Radio 4, idea generation...
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Christine Warwick
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Campaign Planning"Christine Warwick is a public relations and marketing professional with worldwide experience of advising the public, private and not-for-profit sectors on promotional campaigns.
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Tony Lawrence
Thomson Reuters Foundation instructor - "Sports Reporting for the World Cup"A multi-skilled freelance journalist and media instructor with almost 20 years of experience as a reporter or an editor for some of the world’s top news organisations, including Reuters, Agence France Press and Bloomberg.
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Ayman Abdel-Basset
Apple Certified Instructor, Final Cut ProAyman Abdel-Basset works as an online editor at twofour54 Intaj. His career commenced in 1999 as a linear and non-linear editor at Egyptian Radio TV Union.
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Malak Ghobrial
Thomson Reuters Foundation instructor - "Sports reporting for the World Cup"Malak has served as Editor in Charge of the Sports Service at Thomson Reuters’s Arabic desk in Cairo since 2006, where he had covered major games, including the World Cup, the Olympics and Formula 1 competitions.
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Balazs Gardi
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Photojournalism"Balazs Gardi is a Hungarian freelance photographer, who focuses on documenting the everyday life of marginalized communities facing humanitarian crises.
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Christopher Riley
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Introduction to Documentary Production"Writer, broadcaster and film maker Dr Christopher Riley has worked in the field of public engagement in science for over fifteen years.
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Tim Wallbank
BBC instructor - "Introduction to High Definition (HD)"During the 18 years with Training, Tim has worked with key worldwide media organisations, travelling to destinations as far afield as New York and Kuala Lumpur, while at home for the BBC Tim has worked in small BBC island sites as well as the many prestigious London premises.
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Zahera Harb
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Television Presenting courses"Zahera Harb is a Lebanese journalist and academic. She started as a news reporter and distinguished herself in particular in the coverage of war operations in the battle field in South Lebanon.
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Andy Wilson
BBC instructor - "Multiplatform Workshop"Andy has presented analysis of the UK Interactive Television Market for iTap 2003/2004 at Universidade Lusfona, to Taiwanese Broadcasters in Taipei, to MediaCorp in Singapore and to senior managers at South African Broadcasting Corporation. He has been a mentor and project manager on the European...
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Andrew Snell
BBC instructor - "Writing for Television"Andrew Snell is a specialist television production trainer, mentor and coach. For eight years he has run the BBC’s Writing for Television Course covering the craft skills of writing to picture and basic principles of good storytelling.
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Dan Mason
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Managing Convergence"Managing and leading training for journalists (and non-journalists) has been a key aspect of Dan Mason’s career and he is highly skilled in newspaper production and design, marketing, online convergence, and newsroom change management.
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Karol Cioma
Thomson Foundation instructor - "Video Journalism"A graduate in Film Studies, Karol worked for ITV and BBC Wales and BBC News for many years as one of the first multi-skilled ‘shoot-edit’ technicians.
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Derek Donohue
BBC instructor - "Television Production Management"Over the last ten years Derek has worked on a variety of mainstream television projects as a Production Accountant, Production Manager and Line Producer. He has worked mainly for BBC1 and BBC2 but more recently in the independent sector for ITV with Granada and Tiger Aspect Productions, and finally...
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Kevin King
BBC instructor - "DV Camera Shooting"Kevin King has worked in the media industry for many years, primarily in the BBC. He has worked in studios and on location on many high profile series and for the last seven years he has worked as a trainer and mentor in the UK and internationally.
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William MacInnes
William MacInnes - Thomson Foundation instructor - "Writing and Editing for the Web"William MacInnes has been writing about and for the digital press for over a decade.
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Zaid Al-Hilali
Adobe Certified Expert and InstructorZaid Al Hilali is a graduate of a well-known Art School in the field of Computer Graphics and Publishing from Auckland University of Technology - New Zealand.
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Sales and Business Development
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Jawad Squalli
sales directorJawad Squalli has over seven years experience in International sales & business development. Prior to joining twofour54 tadreeb Jawad was the Sales Director of Sage in the Middle East. Based in Bahrain, Jawad was responsible for managing all Sales channels throughout the MENA region. ...
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David Hardaker
business development managerIn a career spanning more than 25 years, David has worked as a senior reporter in television, newspapers and radio. In that time he has won a number of prestigious national and international awards.
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Adam Ragab
sales managerAdam’s career in sales and marketing spans 10 years, having worked extensively across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Maher Mahmoud
sales managerAs Sales Manager at twofour54 tadreeb, Maher Mahmoud overseas the regional territories of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Iraq and Iran.
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Operations
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Alex Gehrig
operations directorAlex has over 12 years experience in the vocational and higher education sector with academic qualifications in Music Education and Multimedia Production.
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