Our Management Team

Les Gaw, Chief Executive

Les Gaw was appointed Chief Executive of Essential Viewing in May 2008.  Prior to this Les spent 2 years as Chief Operating Officer of Essential Viewing focused on developing the sales and marketing of the business and was responsible for developing the key partner relationships the business now has.

Prior to joining Essential Viewing Les spent 5 years as the Operations Director of a venture capital backed financial services company.  During this time the company grew revenues over 700% and moved into profitability by a combination of organic growth and acquisition.  Before this Les spent 4 years with a computer services company in a consultancy role managing the implementation of ERP and Financial software systems in a variety of different organisations within different industry sectors.Les began his career at British Steel plc as a graduate trainee and spent 6 years working in various departments before heading up the IT Department of the Seamless Tubes business in Scotland. Les graduated from the University of Strathclyde with an Honours Degree in Information Engineering in 1990.

Robert Lambert, Chief Technology Officer

Robert has been a key member of the development team since its earliest beginnings. He graduated in 1990 with an honours degree in Information Engineering and initially worked for Ferranti on the design and implementation of laser targeting systems.  Robert was appointed Research Fellow in 1996 and became a founder member of the Essential Viewing team.  His work on neural networks applied to visual object recognition has led to a patent on a novel architecture that has subsequently been used for generating video compression codebooks.