Management Team

Mike Hodson - President

Mike graduated from Southampton University in 1981, and began his engineering career with Pye TVT in Cambridge. At TVT, Mike worked in the exciting new field of digital video effects, developing new techniques and procedures for processing television images. When TVT closed in 1986, Mike enjoyed an automotive sabbatical at Lotus Engineering in Norwich before returning to Cambridge and moving into electronics consultancy with GST on the famous Science Park. In 1991, Silicon Valley beckoned, and Mike emigrated to California to join Abekas Video Systems. At Abekas, Mike worked on many key projects and was the chief engineer and system architect of the renowned Dveous project. After returning to the UK, Mike created Image Processing Techniques in June 1998. Since then, Mike has helped the company grow into a well-respected design consultancy, with clients all over the world.

Roger Fawcett - Managing Director

Following completion of an Image Processing Doctorate at Oxford University in 1995, Roger joined Loughborough Sound Images implementing image processing algorithms on DSP processors and FPGAs. In 1997 he joined Questech where he progressed to become Director of Engineering. In this role Roger managed the hardware and software design of a number of broadcast electronic products, including digital video effects systems. In 2001 Roger moved to the IP Division at Mentor Graphics, where he worked in the rapidly growing market for reusable ASIC and FPGA Intellectual Property. This gave him valuable insight into the design of the complex and highly configurable IP cores that are essential to today's multi-million gate chip designs. Roger joined the OmniTek products division in 2004 to steer the direction of the product design and business development.

Steve Carpenter - Sales Director

Steve Carpenter has been involved in the sales and marketing of Broadcast, Digital Film and Post Production equipment for over 20 years, working for manufacturers such as Quantel and Sony. He has considerable international experience, developing markets in most corners of the world both via dealer networks and direct accounts. He has particular experience in the Middle East, Africa, India and Southern, Eastern and Central Europe.

At Quantel, Steve had major responsibility for their Rest of World sales development and had considerable success in the Digital Intermediate and Broadcast markets, opening key clients who adopted the new digital technology. The commercial and cultural skills Steve has learnt over 30 years in the international arena are now being directed towards the business of selling OmniTek products into both established and emerging markets, and in growing the OmniTek presence around the world.

Tony Benham - Chief Technologist

Following graduation from Cambridge University in 1978 with a degree in Natural Sciences, Tony joined Marconi Radar Systems as a graduate trainee. After completing the excellent Marconi training scheme in 1981, Tony left to join oscilloscope manufacturer Gould Instruments as a design engineer. He designed the first ASIC used by the company, which was used in the successful low-cost Digital Storage Oscilloscopes made by Gould. After promotion to Project Leader, Tony furthered the use of ASICs, introduced the use of Verilog HDL and logic synthesis into ASIC design methodology, as well as leading several successful product developments. After ten years at Gould, Tony joined Abekas Video Systems in 1991, where he worked on a number of disk-based video products such as Diskus, Hexus & Clipstore. On these products, Tony was able to extend his knowledge of digital design techniques to include complex CPU system designs, PCI interface techniques, and the use of large-scale FPGAs as an alternative to ASICs. Tony joined Mike Hodson at Image Processing Techniques in early 1999. Since then, Tony has employed his extensive digital and processor design skills on several successful board designs, mainly for clients in the USA and on the OmniTek product range.

Richard Davies - Software Manager

Richard Davies is a well known figure in the broadcast industry and has had a distinguished career in software development with companies including Aston Electronic Designs, Abekas Video Systems, and most recently Avid where he was engineering manager for the Thunder live production server system and worked on architecture development for the Deko and Mediastream product lines. Davies’ experience with complex file server architectures has played a major role in steering the OmniTek product range towards a new software-based monitoring and analysis framework.