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		    <div id="staff-profile"><h2>Neil Forster</h2><p class="breadcrumb"><a href="/investments/our-people/investments" title="Investments"><span class="hide">Department: </span>Investments</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/investments/our-people/investments/executive-team" title="Investments/Executive Team"><span class="hide">Sub Department: </span>Executive Team</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;CFO and COO</p><div class="profile-info"><img src="/team/Neil_Forster(1).jpg" alt="Neil Forster" /><p class="email"><strong>CFO and COO</strong></p><p class="telephone"><a href="mailto:neil.forster@ingeniousmedia.co.uk" title="Neil.Forster@ingeniousmedia.co.uk" style="font-size:0.833em;">neil.forster@ingeniousmedia.co.uk</a></p><p class="fax" style="border:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-bottom:0px;">020 7319 4002</p></div><p>Neil is CFO and COO of Ingenious responsible for all financial management, governance, operational and strategic implementation across the Ingenious business.</p>
<p>Prior to joining Ingenious, Neil was Group Finance Director at one of the UK&rsquo;s leading producers of comedy, entertainment and drama programming, Hat Trick Productions, in the period when the television producer was private-equity backed.&nbsp; Neil has also held various senior finance roles at Walt Disney in their television division including Head of Finance for their EMEA sales business.</p>
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