Meet the Team

After working as a volunteer teacher, press officer and newspaper reporter, Peter joined the BBC in 1981, working on Blue Peter, Newsnight, and produced Crimewatch UK. He was responsible for more than 40 environmental programmes for Bristol's Natural History Unit, BBC Two seasons like Last Days of Leningrad and War and Peace and was Executive Producer of Oscar-winning animation The Wrong Trousers for Aardman Animations.

He left the BBC in the early 90s and became Controller of Factual Programmes for Channel 4, where his teams won a record number of BAFTAs, RTS Awards and International Emmies. He went on to become Director of Programmes at Granada TV in Manchester, overseeing shows such as World in Action, Coronation Street and The Mrs Merton Show.

In 1997, he returned to the BBC as Controller of BBC One, commissioning projects like Clocking Off, dinnerladies, Holby City and Waking The Dead. As BBC Director of Sport he oversaw the Manchester Commonwealth Games, the Athens Olympics, the return of Match of the Day and where he co-created Sport Relief. After briefly running independent producer The Television Corporation, in October 2006 he was made Chief Creative Officer of BBC Vision Productions, overseeing the largest content creator in the world. Peter is now Director, BBC North where he is in charge of the BBC's newest and largest base outside London including BBC Children's, BBC Sport and Radio 5 live.

Colin joined city law firm Harbottle & Lewis in 1979, became a partner in 1984 and was managing partner from 1992 to 2000. As the leader of the firm's Corporate and Commercial Group, Colin deals with a wide range of corporate, commercial, aviation, charity and regulatory work.

Colin is a non-executive director of an engineering consultancy (Power Scientific International Limited); and of a theatre production company (Pola Jones Associates Limited). He is a trustee of ONE20, which focuses on campaigning and facilitating work to promote volunteering. Colin was educated at Ipswich School and Oriel College, Oxford and the College of Law.

Harry was appointed chief executive of the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence in August 2007. He was formerly National Director for Patients and the Public at the Department of Health. From 1992 to 2003 he was chief executive of the Alzheimer’s Society and from 1981 to 1992 he was the director of the National Deaf Children’s Society.

Harry has written widely on dementia and has co-authored a book for carers and people with dementia, which has been published in eight languages. He was awarded the OBE in 2001 for services to people with dementia.

Jim Hytner joined UM, the highly acclaimed global media agency, as president of its European, Middle East and African region, in 2009. Prior to this, Jim had been global marketing director of Barclays, from 2004 to 2009. In this role, Jim was responsible for the direction of the Barclays global brand, as well as the commercial performance of Barclays in the UK.

Before his foray into banking, Jim worked at ITV as commercial and marketing director and also held roles at Channel 5 and BSkyB, both times as marketing director. Jim studied at Wharton Business School, where he has subsequently lectured on marketing strategy. He is a proud trustee of Comic Relief and chairman of Logan Sports.

Mike has been proprietor of his own management consultancy company for 25 years. In addition to his role as Treasurer of Comic Relief he is a business advisor to the Prince's Youth Business Trust and a Trustee and Treasurer of BAFTA.

He is non-executive director of several media based companies. He is married to Wendy and they have three children and several dogs.

Richard is Co-founder of Comic Relief. He has co-produced all of Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day shows for the BBC which, along with Sport Relief, have so far raised over half a billion pounds.  

As a writer, his credits include Blackadder and the Vicar of Dibley and the films Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary.

Suzi began her career in magazine journalism and after four years transferred her skills to television. She is now a freelance television producer, working in comedy and entertainment embracing TV programmes and live events. To this day, Suzi considers producing TFI Friday, Channel 4's seminal music entertainment show of the 90s, to be one of the most exciting and rewarding jobs of her career. She considers herself incredibly lucky to have worked for some of the country's most outstanding talent: Paula Yates, Chris Evans, Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, James Corden, Jamie Oliver and many more. 

Suzi has worked as a producer on Red Nose Day for over a decade now, having first met Richard Curtis when producing a TFI Friday special for the campaign in 1999. When not working on the Red Nose Day TV campaign, she produces a number of different shows including The Jonathan Ross Show, The Brits and the British Comedy Awards.

Tristia is Executive Director of Commercial at the TalkTalk Group, where she has responsibility for delivering the commercial plan for the UK’s second largest internet service provider.

Prior to working for Talk Talk, Tristia worked at The Carphone Warehouse Group, the parent company from which Talk Talk demerged in March 2010. Her roles there included head of marketing, UK marketing director and group marketing director. Before joining The Carphone Warehouse in 2000, Tristia worked in corporate communications at Kingsfisher on a long-term secondment from corporate communications agency Charles Barker BSMG.

Tristia is a Trustee at the national autism charity Treehouse.