Who's Who
Executive Committee
IPS Fellows
FELLOWSHIP of the Institute ('FIPS') can be awarded at the discretion of the Executive Committee following nominations from members (including existing Fellows).
To qualify for consideration for Fellowship of the Institute, a person must be:
"Operationally outstanding in their area and/or have performed a long, honourable and highly regarded service to the IPS and/or to Professional Sound"
Vivienne Dyer
Vivienne Dyer began working at Rycote in 1985 when the company was run by its founder, John Gozzard and a mere handful of employees.
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Robert is respected as the UK’s leading television sound supervisor and sound both for his work in the UK and around the world. He has been involved in television sound production for 45 years,
More...Pete Thomas
Peter Thomas was born in Ramsgate Kent in 1955. Fascinated as a child by his grandfather’s wind up gramophone, he began collecting 78rpm records, the start of his life-long passion in sound and his love of music.
More...Mick Sawaguchi
Mick (Masaki) Sawaguchi graduated in 1971 in electronics from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Tokyo and joined NHK
More...Bob Conduct
Bob Conduct was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, and attended Saltley School in Birmingham, where, alongside a basically scientific education, he acquired a working knowledge of stage lighting and sound. The latter, coupled with an interest in radio, led him to
More...Graham Haines
Graham joined the BBC from university and moved into BBC TV Outside Broadcasts in 1964, quickly establishing an…
More...Chris Woolf
Chris began as a Technical Operator with the BBC, when 600 ohm resistors were mandatory, and “digital” meant counting on your fingers.
More...David Meares
David Meares graduated from Salford University and joined the BBC’s Research Department in 1968.
More...Peter Rayner
“An engineer born and bred” The son of a garage (and later machine tools company) owner, Peter Rayner feels that he was predestined to become an engineer. Some of his earliest toys were tools, including a junior hacksaw
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We pay tribute to our deceased Fellows.
Harold Kutscherauer RIP
A sound supervisor in BBC Radio outside broadcasts. Always known as “Kutsch”, Harold was the IBS’s first Fellow, appointed in 1983. This is his own story. After being discharged from the RAF on medical grounds in February 1943, I returned to my pre-service employers (an insurance firm) for a while and then changed my occupation…
More...Adrian Kerridge RIP
When he retired as chairman of the Lansdowne group of studios in may 2010 Adrian told the IBS he had been 58 years in the business starting by sweeping up dog-ends at IBC studios. His connection with broadcasting began in the 1950s
More...Hugh Barker RIP
A BBC TV sound supervisor, renowned in the LE field, appointed in 1993. On leaving school Hugh Barker qualified at the British School of Wireless Telegraphy and then joined the International Marine Radio Company, serving for three years as a radio officer in the Merchant Navy. After completing his National Service in the RAF, where…
More...Ron Godwyn RIP
Ron was the original editor of the Institute’s journal Line Up After four years with Plessey on loudspeaker development, Ron started at Philips Records (Marble Arch) as technical assistant in 1958. Four years later he became Head of the Studio Technical Department – seeing the studio through the ’60s with two major refits and many equipment…
More...Louise Willcox RIP
1970: A couple of months after her twelfth birthday, Louise’s father was killed in an industrial accident, leaving her mum looking after four children. Life was a struggle, but with help from relatives, the family’s heads were kept above water. Singing, and playing either guitar or piano with the rest of the family kept Louise…
More...Ray Dolby RIP
Ray Dolby was mainly responsible for the development of the electronic aspects of the Ampex videotape recording system in the early 1950s.
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