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"
Graham Haines
Graham joined the BBC from university and moved into BBC TV Outside Broadcasts in 1964, quickly establishing an…
More...Harold Kutscherauer
A sound supervisor in BBC Radio outside broadcasts. Always known as “Kutsch”, Harold was…
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...Robert Edwards
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...Ron Godwyn
After a long career in the recording industry Ron became the original editor of the Institute’s journal Line Up.
More...Mick Sawaguchi
Mick (Masaki) Sawaguchi graduated in 1971 in electronics from the Chiba Institute of Technology in Tokyo and joined NHK
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...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
More...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.
More...David Meares
David Meares graduated from Salford University and joined the BBC’s Research Department in 1968.
More...IPS Fellows RIP
We pay tribute to our deceased Fellows.
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...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.
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…
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